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Introduction
This introductory chapter outlines the thematical approach with an overview of how Gulf Arab states with the highest ecological footprint per capita have gradually focused on sustainability as an integral part...
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A Short Environmental History of the Gulf
This chapter aims to sketch out the emergence of environmental sustainability on the Arabian Peninsula. It sheds light on how climatic conditions, natural calamities, availability of resources and geography ha...
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Green Business Is Good Business: Environmental Sustainability and ‘Adaptative State Capitalism’
Over the last few decades, Arab Gulf monarchies have undertaken efforts to diversify their economy away from oil. Privatization and environmental sustainability play a leading role in these diversification att...
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Conclusion and Outlook: The Green Delusion
The concluding chapter seeks to summarize the political dynamics that accompany the recent ‘environmental enthusiasm’ of the hydrocarbon-wealthy Arab Gulf monarchies. It first of all elucidates the ‘green delu...
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Unsustainable Development in the Gulf: Under Pressure
This chapter discusses patterns of continuity and change of regime resilience in the region. It describes a threefold division of driving forces and pressing issues that have led to a crossroads in the Gulf Ar...
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Inside the Green State: Institutional Organization, Agency and Governance
This chapter dives deeper into the state organization that has been profoundly shaped by the growing interest in green policymaking towards the end of the 2000s. It shows how the state apparatus has further ex...
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Accommodating the Regional and International Ecosystems: Transnational Sustainability Governance
This chapter unveils the various strategies of environmental sustainability at the regional and international levels. It first looks at the regional geopolitical setting, in which the exploitation of a strateg...
