Karak Resources Project

Acknowledgment: Portions of this paper have appeared previously as

G. W. Burnett and Ingrid Schneider.

1999. “A Private Affair, Nature Reserves in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.” THE GEORGE WRIGHT FORUM 19: 75-87.

Clarke, J.

1979. “A Proposal for Wild Reserves in Jordan.” IUCN Project 1591. Amman: Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature.

Mountfort, G.

1974. SO SMALL A WORLD. London: Hutchinson.

Mountfort, G.

1965. PORTRAIT OF A DESERT. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Nelson, B.

1974. AZRAQ: DESERT OASIS. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press.

The Classics:

Mountfort, Guy.

1965. PORTRAIT OF A DESERT. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Report of the survey called for by King Hussein. Mountfort, a successful businessman and a founder of the WWF, Mountfort conducted 8 such surveys resulting in the establishments of scores of protected areas.

Nelson, Bryan.

1974. AZRAQ; DESERT OASIS. Athens: Ohio University Press. This beautiful book is the foundational study of the Azraq Oasis.

Clarke, J. E.

1979. “A Proposal for Wild Reserves in Jordan.” IUCN Project 1591. Unpublished manuscript. Amman, Jordan: Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature. This analysis is policy to this day though revisions are underway. A more accessible version my be found in J. E. Clarke, 1981, “A Model Wildlife Program for Developing Countries,” unpublished dissertation, University of Georgia, Athens.

Natural Resources Background:

Atkinson, K. and Beaumont, P.

1971. “The Forests of Jordan.” ECONOMIC BOTANY 25: 305-211.

al-Eisawi, Dawud M.

1985. “Vegetation in Jordan.” STUDIES IN THE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF JORDAN 2: 45-57.

Feinburn, Naomi and Zohary, M.

1955. “A Geobotanical Survey of Transjordan.” BULLETIN OF THE RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ISRAEL 50(1): 5-35.

Hadid, Adnan.

1985. “The Nature of Environment, With Special Relation to the Country of Jordan, STUDIES IN THE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF JORDAN 2: 19-24.

Hatough, Alia M. A.; al-Eisawi, Dawud and Disi, Ahmad.

1986. “The Effect of Conservation on Wildlife in Jordan,” ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION 13: 331-335.

Hatough-Bouran, Alia and Disi, Ahmad.

1991. “History, Distribution and Conservation of Large Mammals and Their Habitats in Jordan,” ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION 18: 19-32.

Contemporary Descriptions:

Burnett, G. W. and Schneider, Ingrid.

1999. “A Private Affair: Nature Reserves in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.” THE GEORGE WRIGHT FORUM 16 (2):75-87.

Schneider, Ingrid and Burnett, G. W.

Ingrid Schneider and G. W. Burnett. 2000. “Protected Area Management in Jordan.” ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 25: 241-246.

Material about Conservation and Islam:

Bagader, Ahmed Abubakr; el-Sabbagh, A. T.; al-Glayand, Mohamed and Llewellyn, Othman.

1994. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN ISLAM. 2nd Edition. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.

Forward, Martin and Mohamed, Alam.

1994. “Islam,” pp. 79-100 in ATTITUDES TO NATURE ed. by Jean Hom and John Bowker (London: Painter).

Khalid, Fazlun M. and O’Brien, Joanne, eds.

1992. ISLAM AND ECOLOGY (London: Cassell).