Political power and environmental sustainability in Gulf monarchies / Tobias Zumbraegel.
2022
HC415.3.Z9 E5 2022
Linked e-resources
Linked Resource
Online Access
Concurrent users
Unlimited
Authorized users
Authorized users
Document Delivery Supplied
Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks
Details
Title
Political power and environmental sustainability in Gulf monarchies / Tobias Zumbraegel.
Author
Zumbraegel, Tobias, author.
ISBN
9789811944314 (electronic bk.)
9811944318 (electronic bk.)
9789811944307
9811944318 (electronic bk.)
9789811944307
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 278 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-19-4431-4 doi
Call Number
HC415.3.Z9 E5 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.9536
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 3, 2022).
Series
Contemporary Gulf studies. 2662-3218
Available in Other Form
Print version : 9789811944307
Linked Resources
Online Access
Record Appears in
Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
All Resources
Table of 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.
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.