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Volume 14, No.138, September 2009
CONTENTS

5

Which priority: climate change or food, water and pollution? (editorial by Najib Saab)

10
Opportunities of knowledge (Farouk El-Baz)
18 Green architecture: applications in the Arab region ( cover story)

24

Eco-house in Aqaba

30

Desertec: Africa’s sun illuminates Europe

32
Organic farming boom
42
Plants of Arabia
48
Valuing Guyana’s rainforest
54 Drought displaces Syrian farmers
55 Will the Fertile Crescent disappear this century?
56 Electronic wastes: how China became the world dump
70

Corporate responsibility in Arab culture ( Odeh Al-Jayoussi)

Letters to the editor 9 - Environment in a month 12 -UNEP news 28 - New science 60 - Environment market 64 - Green library 66 - Calendar 68