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Political Power and Environmental Sustainability in Gulf Monarchies
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Political Power and Environmental Sustainability in Gulf Monarchies [electronic resource] / by Tobias Zumbraegel.
ISBN
9789811944314
Edition
1st ed. 2022.
Publication
Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XXIII, 278 p.) 5 illus.
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Summary
This book offers a new perspective about the Gulf Arab states entering a post-oil era by looking at the political factors behind the green transformation. It discusses the recent 'environmental enthusiasm' in the oil- and gas-rich Gulf monarchies by asking how political power can be constituted through advocating environmental sustainability. While hydrocarbon-wealthy Gulf monarchies have been viewed as the globe's 'hydrocarbon powerhouse' with an immense ecological footprint, efforts towards sustainability and environmental protection measures are increasingly monitored. Climate Change, environmental, degradation and the global pressure towards a low-carbon development are threatening the very basis of economic and political power of the oil- and gas-exporting Gulf monarchies. So far, discussions about this fundamental transformation have barely elaborated how it affects and reorganizes political power games in the region. This book attempts to overcome the dominant focus of techno economic drivers of change and uncovers how environmental sustainability impacts state-society and state-elite relationships as well as shaping regional and even global geopolitics. Dr. Tobias Zumbraegel is a postdoctoral researcher at the cluster of excellence "Climate, Climatic Change, and Society" (CLICCS) of the University of Hamburg and a researcher at the Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO). He studied History, Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies in Cologne, Tuebingen and Cairo and holds a Ph.D. from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, which was awarded with the dissertation prize of the German Middle East Association.
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Language
English
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October 06, 2022
Series
Contemporary Gulf Studies,
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Bringing Political Ecology back in
Chapter 2 Unsustainable Development in the Gulf: Under Pressure
Chapter 3 A short Environmental History in the Gulf: The Emergence of a Green Thought
Chapter 4 Inside the Green State Organization: Accommodating state interests
Chapter 5 Green business is good business: Environmental sustainability and adaptative state capitalism
Chapter 6 The Externalization of environmental sustainability: Environmental cooperation, competition and hedging
Chapter 7 Conclusion: The green delusion.
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