Author
Farday, Eric
Author Original
فرداي إيريك
Publication Date
2014
Publication Place
Beirut, Lebanon: Presses de l’Ifpo, 2014. -
Press of the Ifpo
Subject
Geography., Area Studies., geopolitique., nation., territoire., diaspora., mondialisation., demographie., migration., population., economie., statistic., country of view., economy., planning, major cities in the Near East, Lebanon, geography, Beirut.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
1 online resource (202 p.)
Library
Penn Libraries
Record ID
9977044861203681
Library Location
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Date
2014
Notes
OpenEdition Books License https://www.openedition.org/12554 | Arabic
Sample Text
This atlas project presents a new vision of the Lebanese territories and highlights the transformations it has witnessed over the past thirty years. It is the result of French-Lebanese cooperation. This book is based on an extensive collection of fine-scale spatial information. His rich and unique maps allow insight into the complex dynamics at work in a country that often seems difficult to understand. It is a new reading of the Lebanese lands that we propose here, and it is inseparable from the reading of Lebanon's integration into globalization and the development of its role in the Middle East in general. Openness to the world, which is a haven and an economic gain for the country at the same time, especially thanks to the Lebanese expatriate networks, also represents a financial risk, with the burden of public debt. The unrest that has shaken Lebanon since 2005 is a new expression of its situation at the heart of regional tensions, and of the challenges facing building the nation and state in Lebanon. The period of civil war and reconstruction led to major regional changes: population movement, urbanization, environmental degradation, and economic reorganization. Beirut, divided and badly damaged by the civil war, has been significantly rebuilt, and its control over the economy has been strengthened. As a façade of modernity, the Greater Beirut area includes a very large proportion of the population, but regional divisions - a sign of socio-economic differentiation and sectarian divisions - still determine the mechanism of organization of the country, and constitute a continuing factor of political division, which the new emergence of local administrations has been unable to confront. The 2006 summer war, which this atlas provides a cartographic overview of, shows that the fragility of this country extends beyond its rulers and forces its people to rebuild ceaselessly. Eric Verdeil is a geographer, researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research in France (member of the Joint Unit for Research on City and Society in Lyon) and has worked for several years at the French Institute of the Near East in Beirut (Ifpo). Ghaleb Faour specializes in remote sensing techniques and geographic information systems at the National Center for Remote Sensing, affiliated with the National Council for Scientific Research in Lebanon. Sébastien Velut is a geographer and researcher at the French Higher Research Institute for Development (IRD) and specializes in the study of development in the countries of the South.
