Dec 10,2018 AMMAN — The “Green Amman 2020” project committee on Sunday launched a campaign to plant a total of 3,000 trees on the University of Jordan’s (UJ) campus. The tree planting campaign will be implemented in cooperation with the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), the Ministry of Agriculture, the Royal Society for the Conservation of […]

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By Johanne Kalsaas – Dec 04,2018 AMMAN — Dozens gathered at the NOFA Creative Space on Saturday, on the occasion of the Open Source Circular Economy Days (OSCEdays). The event takes place in over 100 cities worldwide with the aim of promoting a global ecosystem of circular economies through open-source practices. Circular economy is a […]

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The new plant channels more highly purified waste water into the river, causing an improvement in water quality and a renewal of animal life Zafrir Rinat | Nov. 28, 2018 Contamination levels in the Yarkon River are finally in decline after four years of steadily increasing pollution thanks to the channeling of more highly purified […]

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In recent years, students from the nearby Kfar Hayarok School have been working to preserve and care for the daffodil field. Now, the northern edge of the field has become a regular dump site for construction materials Zafrir Rinat | Nov. 22, 2018 A field of daffodils near the Pi Glilot Junction north of Tel […]

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29 November 2018 Plastic bottles, soft drink cans and blue garbage bags. An old television, discarded vegetables and coffee cups. These are some of the random things that can be seen floating in the sea along Lebanon’s coastline. Once a source of pride, the country’s Mediterranean coastline has become a source of shame for many […]

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Dec 09,2018 AMMAN — The sixth Arab Union of Electricity (AUE) Conference recommended that more efforts be exerted towards realisng a joint Arab electricity market on a commercial basis. The Amman-based AUE, in its sixth conference which concluded last Thursday, also called for completing the Arab electricity grids interconnection projects, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, […]

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Dec 06,2018 AMMAN — The contribution of renewable energy to the national power grid will reach 10 per cent by the end of 2018 and is expected to increase to 20 per cent in 2020, Energy Minister Hala Zawati said on Wednesday. Opening the sixth conference of the Amman-based Arab Union of Electricity, Zawati said […]

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By Maram Kayed – Dec 10,2018 AMMAN — Energy sector stakeholders have recently gathered in Amman for an Arab Renewable Energy Commission (AREC) conference to discuss the future of the sector, electric cars and smart cities in Jordan. During the conference, titled the “Fifth International Forum on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency”, participants discussed “the […]

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28 November 2018 Economy Ministry inspectors on Wednesday confiscated a neighborhood power generator in Sin el-Fil after its owner refused to install meters for subscribers, a day after a violating generator was seized in Hadath. The inspectors were accompanied by State Security agents. Caretaker Economy Minister Raed Khoury had revealed in an interview with al-Joumhouria […]

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Dec 06,2018 AMMAN — The Energy and Minerals Regulatory Commission (EMRC) on Wednesday announced the detection of 18,014 electricity theft cases in the first 11 months of 2018, an official statement carried by the Jordan News Agency, Petra. Law enforcement and EMRC detected 9,370 cases of the theft, while Public Security and Gendarmerie department personnel […]

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A recent study based on analyzed satellite data shows that the Iranian capital is sinking at a rate of 10 inches per year Asaf Ronel | Dec. 6, 2018 Tehran is sinking. This is not a metaphor connected to American sanctions or the drop in oil prices, but the conclusions of a recent study that […]

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The postings today update academic references to environmental peacebuilding, with particular attention to cooperation over water. A blog post by By Adrien Detges & Tobias Ide from the Environmental Change and Security project of the Wilson Center presents a brief review of current approaches. Six postings, which represent different and sometimes contrasting approaches, contain references […]

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the blog of the Environmental change and Security Program, Wilson Center November 27, 2018 By Adrien Detges & Tobias Ide Although water is an essential input for agriculture and industrial production, it is also scarce in many regions. When it crosses international borders via shared rivers, lakes and aquifers, it can become a source of […]

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Kyra Reynolds In the last few decades, a growing number of theorists have suggested that the natural environment can be a platform for promoting cooperation between former adversaries and can perhaps contribute to peacebuilding. However, environmental cooperation has not lived up to these claims. In many cases, such cooperation has largely been ineffective and/or inequitable. […]

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Tobias Ide The concept of environmental peacebuilding is becoming increasingly prominent among peacebuilding scholars and practitioners. This study provides a brief overview about the various discussions contributing to our understanding of environmental peacebuilding and concludes that questions of space have hardly been explicitly considered in these debates. Drawing on discourse-analytic spatial theory, I discuss how […]

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Karin Aggestam, Anna Sundell This article analyses the nexus of technocracy-peacebuilding and its implications on water conflicts and hydropolitics. It is a conceptual exploration, which advances an interdisciplinary approach by combining theories from two distinct research fields: peacebuilding and transboundary water management. It probes the argument that synergies between water management, development and peacebuilding frequently […]

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Jan Selby Do there exist instances of international (water) policy coordination which are so unequal that they should not even be considered ‘cooperation’? This article argues, on both theoretical and empirical grounds, that this is indeed so. Theoretically, it posits that ‘cooperation’ should be distinguished from ‘policy coordination’, and that situations of policy coordination without […]

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Munther J. Haddadin Abstract: This paper reveals the role of the good offices of the United States to facilitate understanding between two enemies, Jordan and Israel, prior to the conclusion of a peace treaty between them in October 1994. It further addresses the basis of agreement on water-related matters between the two states, and the […]

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Ferragina, Eugenia The article analyses the interaction between security and environment in the Mediterranean, focusing on the paradigmatic example of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over water resources in the Jordan River basin. Control of water can hardly be considered the main cause of conflict between Israel and Palestine, but it certainly has increased the potential for […]

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Tobias Ide, Adrien Detges. 2018. International Water Cooperation and Environmental Peacemaking. Global Environmental Politics. October 2018 DOI: 10.1162/glep_a_00478 Proponents of the environmental peacemaking approach argue that environmental cooperation has the potential to improve relations between states. This is because such cooperation facilitates common problem solving, cultivates interdependence, and helps to build trust and understanding. But […]

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