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Books:

Amery, H. A., & Wolf, A. T. (2000). Water in the Middle East: A geography of peace. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.

Delli Priscoli, J., & Wolf, A. T. (2009). Managing and transforming water conflicts. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Frisch, S. A., & Kelly, S. Q. (2008). Jimmy Carter and the water wars: Presidential influence and the politics of pork. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press.

Milazzo, P. C. (2006). Unlikely environmentalists: Congress and clean water, 1945-1972. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.

Pirages, D., & Cousins, K.,. (2005). From resource scarcity to ecological security: Exploring new limits to growth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Simpson, J. W. (2005). Dam!: Water, power, politics, and preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park. New York, NY: Pantheon Books.

Sofer, A. (1999). Rivers of fire: The conflict over water in the Middle East. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Zeitoun, M. (2008). Power and water in the Middle East: The hidden politics of the Palestinian-Israeli water conflict. London: I.B. Tauris.

Media:

Bozzo, S. (Director). (2009). Blue gold: World water wars [DVD]. United States: PBS Home Video.

Thompson, J. (Director). (2002). Captured rain: Northern water, southern drought [DVD]. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences.

Articles:

Jacobs, T. (2009). The man who bridges troubled waters. Miller-McCune, 2(1), 14-19.

Lein, Y. (2000). Disputed waters: Israel's responsibility for the water shortage in the occupied territories. Ecotheology: Journal of Religion, Nature & the Environment, 5(9), 68-83.

Medzini, A., & Wolf, A. (2004). Towards a Middle East at peace: Hidden issues in Arab-Israeli hydropolitics. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 20(2), 193-204.

Postel, S. L., & Wolf, A. T. (2001). Dehydrating conflict. Foreign Policy, (126), 60-67.

Uitto, J. I., & Wolf, A. T. (2002). Water wars? geographical perspectives: Introduction. Geographical Journal, 168(4), 289-292.

 
 

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