International boundaries and the change of landscape The Israel-Egypt boundary as a case study

Authors

  • Gideon Biger Department of Geography and Human Environment, Tel Aviv University, P.O.B 39040, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel image/svg+xml

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2300-0562.04.03

Keywords:

international boundaries, natural landscape, political systems, changing of landscape

Abstract

International boundaries, their history, location, disputes concerning their exact delimitation, their strategically importance, and other facts led many scholars to deal with that important subject. International lawyers, geographers, historians, political scientists, researchers of international relations, cartographers, military people, all are concerned with the location of a boundary, its legal status, its history, its defensible ability and so on. However, the influence of the international boundaries upon the landscape where they run has not received the attention to its merits. This article will present some areas of this kind, where a political boundary brought changes to the landscape on both sides of it. The boundary between Israel and Egypt will be the case study, although some other areas will be presented. 

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Published

2015-01-01

How to Cite

Biger, G. (2015). International boundaries and the change of landscape The Israel-Egypt boundary as a case study. Studies in Political and Historical Geography, 4, 55–64. https://doi.org/10.18778/2300-0562.04.03