Sustainable Development
An Appraisal from the Gulf Region
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Word Count
139,000 words, Guess
Page Count
556 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesustainabledevel0019unse
- ISBN-139781782383710
- ISBN-101782383719
- Library of Congress Control Number2014000990
- OCLC Control Number885470209
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number881385659
- Better World Books9781782383710
- Open LibraryOL36206727M
Classifications
- LCCHC415.3.Z9E578 2014
- LCCHC415.3.Z9 E578 2014
Description
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.
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