Energy, development, environment and cooperation in the Mediterranean

Over the past forty years, industrial growth has been exceptionally strong around the Mediterranean. The area now hosts more than ten percent of the world's industrial production, for a little more than seven percent of the world's population. A few examples illustrate this situation. But what is striking too is that nearly all the Mediterranean countries have entered a period of great uncertainty in which the growth curves can no longer be extrapolated without undue risk. What will the Mediterranean be in the year 2000 or 2025. 7 tabs