عنوان

Save the Water, Save the State: The Politics of Population Pressures and Water Awareness in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Number

TL49340

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Save the Water, Save the State: The Politics of Population Pressures and Water Awareness in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Skylar  Benedict

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Daoudy, Marwa

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Georgetown University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

132

Text of Note

Committee members: Adely, Fida

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-75729-3

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Discipline of degree

Arab Studies

Body granting the degree

Georgetown University

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

In recent years, Jordan's water sector has increasingly become the focus of national and international concern because of the intersection of two particularly intense challenges: resource depletion resulting from the long-term over extraction of the Kingdom's renewable and non-renewable water reserves, and the influxes of Syrian refugees, which have drastically increased demographic pressure on the Kingdom's water resources since the beginnings of the Syrian conflict in 2011. Jordan's Ministry of Water and Irrigation (MWI) projects that by 2030 the Kingdom's available water resources will fall 15% short of expected need. Rather than continuing to solely focus on the acquisition of additional water resources though, Jordan's government has continued to focus increasingly on water conservation awareness programs. As the outcomes of water conservation awareness programs are neither as tangible and quantifiable, nor as stable as large-scale infrastructure projects, why has the Jordanian government continued to focus on them? This study argues that since Jordan fully tapped out the use of its available natural water resources in the 1990s, the Kingdom has increasingly turned to water conservation programs as a way of mediating myriad security threats that it perceives to arise directly from the behaviors of its own population, and as a result seeks to increasingly control and shape these behaviors.

Cultural anthropology; Middle Eastern Studies; Water Resource Management

Subject Term

Social sciences;Earth sciences;Authoritarianism;Awareness;Jordan;NGO;Water

Oberlander, Brian Scott

Daoudy, Marwa

Subdivision

Arab Studies

Georgetown University

Call Number

1899468935; 10273848

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[Thesis]

276903

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