ABSTRACT

Papers presented at the Third Joint UAE-JAPAN Symposium on Sustainable GCC Environment and Water Resources, EWR2006, January 28-29, 2006, Abu Dhabi, UAE, was divided into two themes.

Theme A related to the environmental issues and published in “Reclaiming the Desert: Towards a Sustainable Environment in Arid Lands” In Developments in Arid Regions Research, DARE, Vol. 3, A.M.O. Mohamed (ed.), Taylor & Francis/Balkema, 2006. Theme B related to arid land hydrogeological issues and published in “Arid Land Hydrogeology: In Search of a Solution to a Threatened Resource” In Developments in Arid Regions Research, DARE, Vol. 4, A.M.O. Mohamed (ed.), Taylor & Francis/Balkema, 2006.