scholarly journals Need for a Collaborative Natural Resource Management Strategy for the Marine Environment—The Case of Plastics in the Mediterranean

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Soto Chalhoub
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Marine Environment ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Collaborative Natural Resource Management

AN IRRIGATED EMPIRE: THE VIEW FROM OTTOMAN FAYYUM

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Mikhail
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Center Periphery

AbstractUsing both Ottoman Turkish and Arabic archival materials, this article narrates the history of irrigation in Fayyum during the first half of the 18th century. Its environmental perspective shows how a shared reliance on natural resource management bound together extremely rural regions of the Ottoman Empire like Fayyum with centers of power in Istanbul and Cairo. It seeks to make two historiographical interventions. First, its focus on irrigation reveals how the center–periphery model of early modern empires fails to capture the complexity of relationships that rural regions of the Ottoman Empire maintained with other provinces and towns both in the empire and beyond. Water in Fayyum grew food that forged connections of commodity movement with areas of the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Second, through an examination of such intraimperial and transregional ties, this article argues that Egyptian peasants held much of the power in these relationships.

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