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Informationen zum Autor Paul Sillitoe FBA is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University and former Shell Chair in Sustainable Development at Qatar University. His research interests focus on natural resources management, appropriate technology, and sustainable development, and he seeks to further the incorporation of local knowledge in development, having experience with several international development agencies. His recent books include ‘Grass-Clearing Man’: A Factional Ethnography of Life in the New Guinea Highlands (2009 with J. Sillitoe, Waveland Press) and From land to mouth: the agricultural ‘economy’ of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands (2010 ,Yale University Press). Klappentext With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world's resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century. This volume gives a wide ranging introduction focusing on the arid Gulf region, where the challenges of sustainable development are starkly evident. The Gulf relies on non-renewable oil and gas exports to supply the world's insatiable CO2 emitting energy demands, and has built unsustainable conurbations with water supplies dependent on energy hungry desalination plants and deep aquifers pumped beyond natural replenishment rates. Sustainable Development has an interdisciplinary focus, bringing together university faculty and government personnel from the Gulf, Europe, and North America -- including social and natural scientists, environmentalists and economists, architects and planners -- to discuss topics such as sustainable natural resource use and urbanization, industrial and technological development, economy and politics, history and geography. Zusammenfassung With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world's resources! such as hydrocarbon reserves! and related environmental pollution! as in alarming climate change predictions! sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Tables Forward Shaikha Al-Misnad Introduction: Sustainable Development in the Gulf: Some Introductory Remarks Paul Sillitoe Chapter 1. Societal Change and Sustainability within the Central Plateau of Iran: An Archaeological Viewpoint Mark Manuel, Robin Coningham, Gavin Gillmore and Hassan Fazeli PART I: PLANNING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Chapter 2. Qatar National Vision 2030: Advancing Sustainable Development Trudy Tan, Aziza Al-Khalaqi and Najla Al-Khulaifi Chapter 3. The Qatar National Master Plan Khondker Rahman Chapter 4. The State of Qatar: Along the Way to Sustainable Development Bahaa Darwish Chapter 5. Charting the Emergence of Environmental Legislation in Qatar: A Step in the Right Direction or Too Little Too Late? Wesam Al Othman and Sarah F. Clarke PART II: ENERGY AND ECONOMIC ISSUES Chapter 6. Sustainable Energy: What Futures for Qatar? Thomas Henfrey Chapter 7. Money Rain: The Resource Curse in Two Oil and Gas Economies Emma Gilberthorpe, Sarah F. Clarke and Paul Sillitoe Chapter 8. Islam and Sustainable Economic Development Rodney Wilson PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES Chapter 9. Linking Local and Global in the Sustainable Development of Biodiversity Conservation Ben Campbell Chapter 10. Conservation and Sustainable Development: the Qatari and Gulf Region Experience Paul Sillitoe with Ali Alshawi Chapter 11. Promoting Sustainable Development in Marine Regions James Howard Chapter 12. Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainability: Friends or Enemies? Nobuyuki Yamaguchi PART IV: U...
