Water Resource Distribution and Security in the Jordan-Israel-Palestinian Peace Process

摘要

This chapter addresses the questions of control and management of water resources in the Middle East as a problem of unequal ecological exchange and of environmental (in) security. The term ecologial distribution refers to the noncomodity environemtn as a source of human well-being. It turns the focus of political economy to the social, spatial, and temporal asymmetries or inequalities in the nonmarketed use by humans of environemtnal resources and services (energy, water, wild and agricultural biodiversity, and so on), and to the burdens suffered, such as pollution. The opportunity costs of water resource degradation are now being discussed as one of the key axes of geopolitical conflict and environmental degradation ofr the 21~st century, and nowhere are these tensions as plainly expressed as in Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian Territories.