People as environment: local environmental concerns and urban marginality in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan region

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Tal Shamur ◽  
Nathan Marom
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Urban Marginality

scholarly journals Mismatches between extended urbanization and everyday socioenvironmental conflicts in Santarém, Pará, Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-97
Author(s):  
Ana Cláudia Duarte Cardoso ◽  
Kamila Diniz Oliveira ◽  
Taynara Do Vale Gomes Pinho
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Spatial Structures ◽  
Institutional Violence ◽  
Global North ◽  
North And South

This article discusses how Global North environmental concerns would be applicable to the contemporary Global South urbanization - a zone of overexploitation of natural resources and imposition of homogenizing spatial patterns. The brand-new Metropolitan Region of Santarém (MRS), located in the Brazilian Amazon, is taken as a case study to demonstrate that reeditions of power and social hierarchy result in institutional violence and creation of an extensive urban tissue, where original occupation and spatial structures linked to the production of commodities for export co-exist. MRS demands the understanding of Global North and South connections and also of city and rural linkages to allow the understanding of a new urban that encompasses it all.

Geoeconomic Leverage of Natural Gas Resources in the Mediterranean

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 141-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Mahdi
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Economic Influence ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Influence Attempts ◽  
Gas Fields

This article examines the claim that Israel’s natural gas exports from its Mediterranean gas fields will give geopolitical leverage to Tel Aviv over the importing countries. Using the geoeconomic tradition of Klaus Knorr and others who wrote about applying leverage using economic resources to gain geopolitical advantage, it is argued that certain criteria have to be satisfied for economic influence attempts, and that Israel’s gas exports do not satisfy these criteria. They include the importer’s supply vulnerability, the supplier’s demand vulnerability, and the salience of energy as an issue between both countries. Israeli gas exports to Egypt are used as a case study.

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