Sustainable Water Solutions in the Western Desert, Egypt: Dakhla Oasis
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This book is a multidisciplinary manuscript bringing together contributions on water issues from natural and social scientists focused on water management and structures in a challenging environmental situation such as Dakhla Oasis in Egypt's western desert. The authors of this book are relevant scientists in hydrology, geology, remote sensing, agriculture, history, and sociology. It is devoted to various critical environmental topics such as geological and hydraulic structure, climate influence, underground water management, irrigation management, and human settlement. The book provides a…mehr

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This book is a multidisciplinary manuscript bringing together contributions on water issues from natural and social scientists focused on water management and structures in a challenging environmental situation such as Dakhla Oasis in Egypt's western desert. The authors of this book are relevant scientists in hydrology, geology, remote sensing, agriculture, history, and sociology. It is devoted to various critical environmental topics such as geological and hydraulic structure, climate influence, underground water management, irrigation management, and human settlement. The book provides a range of new perspectives on solving different environmental problems in arid zones toward the region's sustainable development, based on the case studies and fieldwork in the Dakhla Oasis (Western Desert, Egypt).

Autorenporträt
Erina Iwasaki is a Professor in the Department of French Studies, of the Faculty of Foreign Studies of Sophia University. She specializes in Middle East and North African studies, in particular Egyptian and Tunisian socioeconomy, with a special focus on development, urban-rural relations. She has written extensively on these subjects, both in Japanese and English. Her current research includes the research on water and irrigation, and communal behaviors, demographic behaviors in rural Egypt and Tunisia. Abdelazim M. Negm is a Professor of Hydraulics (and Water Resources) at the Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt, since 2004. He got his Ph.D. in 1992 from Zagazig University (ZU) and his M.sc. from Ain shams University in the year 1990. He was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of ZU from 12/2008 to 12/2011 and was Head of the Environmental Engineering Department at Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), Egypt, 10/2013 to 9/2015. He published 25 edited volumes during the period from 2017-2020. He is an editor in several international journals. His research interest is water resources management and sustainability studies. He is listed in several international directories due to his great achievements in his field. Salwa F. Elbeih is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the Engineering Applications and Water Division, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt, since May 2014. She has obtained her Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Ain Shams University in 2007 and 2002 respectively She is the Acting Head of the engineering applications department at NARSS. She is the director of the publishing office of the Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (EJRS) since April 2019. She is a member in the scientific committee of the Egyptian Engineers Syndicate since September 2020.Her research interests comprise applications of remote sensing and GIS in civil engineering, environmental and geotechnical engineering, and the relation between archaeological and water resources conditions.