Human and Environment Interactions

·· Jordan has small agriculture, but it grows citrus fruits, bananas, tomatoes, and cucumbers

· Fishing is large activity

· forestry wood is used mainly for fuel

· potash and phosphates are the 2^nd most exported good in the country (aka: lots of mining of minerals)

· cement and clothes are also big products

· heavily dependent on oil imports

· banking is a large source of jobs

· Jordan has a large labor force

· areas of greatest population density are the cities because this is where business takes place

· clothing is either traditional Arab costume or modern-day Western outfit…environment is warm so clothes are light and airy
(Library of Congress Federal Research Division)

*How Humans have modified the environment

· lack of sewage treatmentàsurface water is contaminated

· mining potash, phosphate, and cementàDUSTàpollutes air and water

· small towns have little to no garbage collection, so in the whole country is an estimated 13,000 tons of hazardous waste
(South 53-57)