Walter Leal Filho & Evangelos Manolas 
Climate Change in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Region 

This book serves the purpose of showcasing some of the works in respect of applied research, field projects, and best practice to foster climate change adaptation across the region.

Climate change is having a much greater impact in the Mediterranean than the global average. In the Paris Climate Agreement, the UN member states pledged to stop global warming at well below two degrees, if possible at 1.5 degrees. This mark, which is expected elsewhere only for 2030 to 2050, has already been reached in the region. The situation could worsen in the coming years if the global community does not limit its emissions.

The above state of affairs illustrates the need for a better and more holistic understanding of how climate change affects countries in the Mediterranean region on the one hand, but also on the many problems it faces on the other, which prevent adaptation efforts. There is also a perceived need to showcase successful examples of how to duly address and manage the many social, economic, and political problems posed by climate change in the region, in order to replicate and even upscale the successful approaches used.

It is against this background that the book ‘Climate Change in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Region’ has been produced. It contains papers prepared by scholars, practitioners, and members of governmental agencies, undertaking research and/or executing climate change projects, and working across the region.

Table of Content

Climate Change Models and Impacts.- Assessment of Future Climate Trend Based on Multi-RCMs Models and Its Impact on Groundwater Recharge of the Mediterranean Coastal Aquifer of Ghis-Nekkor (Morocco).- Species distribution based-modelling under climate change: the case of two native wild 
Olea europaea subspecies in Morocco,  
O. e. subsp. 
europaea var. 
sylvestris and 
O. e. subsp.
 maroccana.- The frequency of rare Cyclones in the Eastern Mediterranean and Northeastern Africa as a sign of climate change Using satellite Imagery, Climate data models and GIS-Based Analysis.- Climate Change Impacts on Hydrology in the Mediterranean Part of Slovenia.- Climate change impacts and the role of forestry: Insights from the Mediterranean region.- Energy Impacts on Climate Change: Issues, challenges and solutions with clean Conversion Technology.- Montenegro and World: Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation.- Portrayals of Climate Change and Drought in the Politically Oriented Turkish Press: Socialist, Islamist, and Nationalist Accounts of Extreme Weather in 2007 and 2014.- Climate changes and insolation in the Mediterranean basin: the case of Montenegro.- The conservation challenge of traditional agroecosystems in Morocco: the case study of six oases agroecosystems.- Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Initiatives.- Enhancing the Resilience of Oasis Agrosystems to Climate Change in Morocco.- Climate Change and Agricultural production in Algeria.- Ready for climate change? An assessment of measures adopted by 45 Mediterranean coastal cities to face climate change.- Climate change or climate crisis? Investigating the views of forestry students on the causes, consequences and tools for the mitigation of climate change.- Development of a water security index incorporating future challenges.