ABOUT THIS BOOK

The Persian Gulf’s marine environment has suffered from a variety of perturbations, most resulting directly or indirectly from the extraction of oil and subsequent development projects—drilling, refining, dredging, and landfilling, as well as from worldwide maritime transportation. In addition, the environment and its people have suffered from the Iran-Iraq war in the early 1980s and from Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Since then the countries of the Gulf, in collaboration with regional and international organizations, have initiated extensive measures for the protection and conservation of the Gulf. One such initiative was the decision by the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research to publish a state-of-the-art monograph to address and document the complex subject of the health and sustainability of the gulf ecosystem.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

N. Y. Khan is retired from a prestigious career with the Sustainable Development Study Centre of Government College University, Pakistan, and the Environmental Sciences department of the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait.
M. Munawar is a research scientist for Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the series editor for the Ecovision World Monograph series, based out of Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
A. R. G. Price is a professorial fellow in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick and honorary professor at University of York, both in the United Kingdom.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial (M. Munawar)

Preface (A.H. Al-Otaibi)

Salutation (C.R.C. Sheppard)

Foreword (N.Y. Khan)

Acknowledgements

Section I The Gulf Ecosystem: Biogeophysical Setting
Physical and Human Geography (N.Y. Khan)
Geological Oceanography of the Arabian Gulf (A.N. Al-Ghadban )
Meteorology and Climate (R.M. Reynolds)
Oceanography (R.M. Reynolds)
Coastal and Marine Ecology (D.A. Jones)
Biodiversity (A.R.G. Price)

Section II Human Stressors
Oil and Petroleum Industry (P. Literathy)
Non-Oil Industry (S.W. Fowler)
Power and Desalination Plants (H. Khordagui)
Agrochemicals (S.W. Fowler)

Section III Habitat Degradation and Wider Impacts
Dredging and Infilling (A.N. Al-Ghadban)
Urban Wastes and Disposal (S. Al-Muzaini)
Changes in Riverine Input and Loss of Wetlands (F.Y. Al-Yamani)
Fishing and Mariculture (J.M. Bishop)
Impact of Wars; The Gulf War 1990-91 (O. Linden)
Atmospheric Fallout of Soot in the Arabian Gulf Region (T. Husain)

Section IV Ecosystem Health
Aquatic Ecosystem Health of the Arabian Gulf: Status and Research Needs (M. Munawar)
Seafood Contamination (M. Sadiq)
Human-Induced Global Climate Change: Predicted Effects and Implications for the Gulf (J.T. Hardy)
Framework for Ecological Risk Assessment: Deterministic and Probabilistic Analyses (T. Husain)

Section V Management
Legal and Institutional Frameworks (N.Y. Khan)
Integrated Coastal Zone Management (A.R.G. Price)
Marine Protected Areas (F. Krupp)
Integrated Regional Database Management Systems (A.R.G. Price)
Environmental Trends and Integrated Management of the Gulf (N.Y. Khan)

Subject Index

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