Overview
- Explains the political dynamics behind the sustainable transformation in the oil and gas-rich Gulf
- Findings and insights are based on extensive field research
- Highlights the importance of soft policy fields in the decision-making and policymaking processes
Part of the book series: Contemporary Gulf Studies (CGS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 thedominant 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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Power and Environmental Sustainability in Gulf Monarchies
Authors: Tobias Zumbraegel
Series Title: Contemporary Gulf Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4431-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-4430-7Published: 24 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-4500-7Published: 25 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-4431-4Published: 23 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-320X
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3218
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 278
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Policy, Middle Eastern Politics, Natural Resource and Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Public Policy