caa a22 4500 386370788 CHVBK 20180307111958.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0263718900006737 doi S0263718900006737 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0263718900006737 Allan J. A. Department of Geography, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Water Resource Evaluation and Development in Libya — 1969-1989 [Elektronische Daten] [J. A. Allan] Water is a familiar resource and one which is rarely properly valued, and worse, frequently treated as if it were a ‘free good'. In a country such as Libya, which has no perennial surface-runoff and where no permanently flowing stream reaches the Mediterranean Sea, the value of its available water is proportionately important. At the same time Libya has some deeply rooted attitudes to resources, often culturally based, which have militated against the optimum long term use of its none too abundant renewable and non-renewable water. In addition Libya has undergone some remarkable changes in economic circumstances in the past twenty years. These changes of circumstance have been of particular importance because they stimulated expectations and water demand much more effectively than they brought about changes of attitude at national and local levels to regulate water allocation and inform water utilisation policies. The changes have been especially powerful where they have resulted from the deployment of new technologies which have had significant environmental impacts. Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 1989 Libyan Studies Cambridge University Press 20(1989-01), 235-242 0263-7189 20<235 1989 20 LIS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263718900006737 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263718900006737 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Allan J. A. Department of Geography, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Libyan Studies Cambridge University Press 20(1989-01), 235-242 0263-7189 20<235 1989 20 LIS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge