The document discusses population patterns and settlement in Southwest Asia and North Africa. It describes how less than two-thirds of the overall population lives in urban areas, with better watered coastal districts attracting more people. It also examines the role of water resources like rivers in supporting domestication and pastoral nomadism, and how cities originally developed as centers of political, religious, and trade authority. The document analyzes factors like colonialism, conflicts, economies, poverty levels, and women's roles that influence populations across the region.

1. Southwest
Asia/North
Africa
Natalia Dávila
Diana Martínez
Lorena Elizondo
Andrés López

2. Introduction
Climate Culture
Oil Religion
Adaptation
Politics Petroleum
Extremists
Water

3. Environmental Geography:
Life in a Fragile World

4. Hydro politics in
the Jordan River
Basin
“water resources and politics”

7. Population and Settlement:
Patterns in an Arid Land

8. Geography of Population
 Less than two-thirds of the overall
population urban.

9. Maghreb Mediterranean
Israel
Lebanon
Syria
Turkey
Better-watered
coastal districts

10. Water and Life
 Domestication
 Pastoral nomadism
 Exotic rivers:
 Nile
 Tigris
 Euphrates

11. The Urban Imprint
 Centers Political Religious Authority
 Focal point-trade.

12.  Beirut
 Tyre
 Sidon
 Damascus in
nearby Syria

13. Saudi Arabian population more
urban than many industrialized
nations, including United States.

14. Colonial Legacy

15. Arab-Israeli conflict

16. Iraq

17. Economy

18. Regional Economic
Patterns.

19. Higher-Income Oil Exporters.

20. Lower-Income Oil Exporters.
North Africa
Algeria Libya

21. Prospering without Oil.

22. Regional Patterns of Poverty.
A Woman’s Changing World.

23. Global Economic
Relationships
- OPEC’s Changing Fortunes.
- Regional and International Linkages