Egypt
- Egyptian National Action Program To Combat Desertification
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification I stumbled across this whilst looking for something else and thought that it might be of interest to some visitors. Egyptian National Action Program To Combat Desertification June, 2005 Here's an...
- Conference: Climate And Ancient Societies
http://climate.ku.dk/cas/ (the link is currently broken but it's the only one I have and I expect that they will fix it, so if you're interested give it a whirl in a few days time) Climate and Ancient Societies - Causes and human responses The...
- Interview With Student Doing Internship At Student, Is Currently Doing An Internship At Netherlands-flemish Institute In Cairo
NVIC Daniel Soliman, a 23 year old Egyptology student, is currently doing an internship at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo for three months. The NVIC was looking for someone to assist in the organization of the Conference on “Intercultural...
- Conference: The History Of The Peoples Of The Eastern Desert
archbase.org Thanks to Kim Duistermaat for forwarding the following details to me. I don't usually publish calls for conference papers, because EEF are so much more efficient at collating and publishing that type of material, but the Eastern Desert...
- Voting For An Arid Environment In The Eden Project
The Edge This item is only really relevant to you if you are interested in livelihoods in the semi-arid zones of Egypt, but might be of interest to those looking at the impacts of past climate change on, for example, livelihoods of prehistoric people...
Egypt
Sad News: Egypt mourns environmentalist Mohamed Kassas
Egypt Independent (Louise Sarant)
The environmental and scientific communities in Egypt are mourning the death of one of its most renowned colleagues and friends, Mohamed Kassas.
The 91-year-old, considered “the father of Egypt’s environment,” died this morning after spending more than a week in Manal Hospital.
The botany professor at Cairo University was the first to dub the term “desertification” and to warn the global community of its threats in 1969 at an international conference on arid lands in Virginia.
Born in 1921 in a fishermen’s village nestled between Lake Burullos and the Mediterranean, Kassas developed an early and acute interest for biodiversity and nature.
His early fascination for plants and animals of the lake’s shores led him to enroll in a scientific program at Cairo University in 1940, where he chose to major in botany.
The deserts surrounding Cairo encouraged him to study plant ecology in arid environments, which subsequently aroused his curiosity for what he would later call the “desertification” process.
- Egyptian National Action Program To Combat Desertification
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification I stumbled across this whilst looking for something else and thought that it might be of interest to some visitors. Egyptian National Action Program To Combat Desertification June, 2005 Here's an...
- Conference: Climate And Ancient Societies
http://climate.ku.dk/cas/ (the link is currently broken but it's the only one I have and I expect that they will fix it, so if you're interested give it a whirl in a few days time) Climate and Ancient Societies - Causes and human responses The...
- Interview With Student Doing Internship At Student, Is Currently Doing An Internship At Netherlands-flemish Institute In Cairo
NVIC Daniel Soliman, a 23 year old Egyptology student, is currently doing an internship at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo for three months. The NVIC was looking for someone to assist in the organization of the Conference on “Intercultural...
- Conference: The History Of The Peoples Of The Eastern Desert
archbase.org Thanks to Kim Duistermaat for forwarding the following details to me. I don't usually publish calls for conference papers, because EEF are so much more efficient at collating and publishing that type of material, but the Eastern Desert...
- Voting For An Arid Environment In The Eden Project
The Edge This item is only really relevant to you if you are interested in livelihoods in the semi-arid zones of Egypt, but might be of interest to those looking at the impacts of past climate change on, for example, livelihoods of prehistoric people...