Atlas of Lebanon

After fifteen years of reconstruction in a relatively peaceful environment spanning the years 1990 to 2004, Lebanon has experienced successive violent political events resulting from complex entangled internal and external struggles. The Syrian crisis and its political, economic and demographic consequences on Lebanon have increased these tensions. This atlas sheds light on these new challenges and completes the analyzes already published in the Atlas of Lebanon. Territories and Society (Atlas of Lebanon, Territories and Society) released in 2007 by the same research team. Some of its components are included in this edition. Beyond the international regional crisis and the population movements, it takes into account Lebanon's socio-economic dimensions, the environmental issues related to uncontrolled urbanization and natural risks, and local territorial management. This atlas is the result of a collaborative endeavor between French and Lebanese researchers. It uses a geographical ap proach that puts in the foreground a spatial analysis of social and natural phenomena. Public sources are scarce in Lebanon, especially at the local scale. They are sometimes less reliable and difficult