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Sustainable Development. Cover.

Sustainable Development. Cover.

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Sillitoe, Paul, ed. Sustainable Development: An Appraisal from the Gulf Region. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014.   

The film examines the social and ecological consequences of the Turkey’s South-East-Anatolia-Project (GAP), designed to enable energy production and irrigation on a huge scale.

Presents Mesopotamian civilization “from the ground up,” including with reference to a range of climatic and environmental factors.