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Towards Management of Environmental Problems in Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Peter M. Haas
Peter M. Haas
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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA.
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As a poor, developing country, Egypt faces a wide variety of pollution and other environmental problems associated with poverty. In this essay are reviewed the most severe environmental problems currently facing Egypt, as well as the range of policies which the government has assayed in order to manage them. Some of the widespread environmental problems are growing acute. Water pollution is seen as serious, and many new factories are being built without sufficient pollution control. There are real threats to agricultural productivity and public health. While many new institutional and legal steps have been undertaken in the last 7 years, most have failed to curb effectively mounting environmental stresses in the country. A rare counter-example is Mediterranean water quality, which is being helped by activation of UNEP's Mediterranean Action Plan.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , Spring 1990 , pp. 45 - 50
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1990

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