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Flood controlling mechanisms are key actions and survival strategies for resilience building in fragile rural communities with weak soils, poor drainage systems and waterways. During the current rainy ...

Land reform and rural development are implemented within functional economic regions rather than reinforcing marginal settlement patterns.

AMMAN — During 200 years of Crusades in the Levant, many fortifications were built as the first landscapes of that historical period. However, European settlers lived in smaller communities in the ...