Water Resources in the Arabian Peninsula, 1921-1960: Kuwait
Title | Water Resources in the Arabian Peninsula, 1921-1960: Kuwait PDF eBook |
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Release | 1998 |
Genre | Hydrology |
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Water Resources in the Arabian Peninsula 1921-1960 2 Volume Hardback Set
Title | Water Resources in the Arabian Peninsula 1921-1960 2 Volume Hardback Set PDF eBook |
Author | Anita L. P. Burdett |
Publisher | Cambridge Archive Editions |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781852077952 |
A collection of the surviving historical records on the water resources of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the Trucial States and Oman.
Water Resources in the Arabian Peninsula, 1921-1960
Title | Water Resources in the Arabian Peninsula, 1921-1960 PDF eBook |
Author | Anita L. P. Burdett |
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Pages | |
Release | 1998 |
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ISBN | 9781139965057 |
Water Resources in the Arabian Peninsula, 1921-1960: Bahrain, Qatar, Trucial States, Muscat and Oman, Saudi Arabia
Title | Water Resources in the Arabian Peninsula, 1921-1960: Bahrain, Qatar, Trucial States, Muscat and Oman, Saudi Arabia PDF eBook |
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Release | 1998 |
Genre | Water resources development |
ISBN | 9781852077952 |
Kuwait
Title | Kuwait PDF eBook |
Author | Anita L. P. Burdett |
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Pages | 631 |
Release | 1998 |
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Oil Spaces
Title | Oil Spaces PDF eBook |
Author | Carola Hein |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2021-08-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1000449491 |
Oil Spaces traces petroleum’s impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized. Over the past century and a half, industrially drilled petroleum has powered factories, built cities, and sustained nation-states. It has fueled ways of life and visions of progress, modernity, and disaster. In detailed international case studies, the contributors consider petroleum’s role in the built environment and the imagination. They study how petroleum and its infrastructure have served as a source of military conflict and political and economic power, inspiring efforts to create territories and reshape geographies and national boundaries. The authors trace ruptures and continuities between colonial and postcolonial frameworks, in locations as diverse as Sumatra, northeast China, Brazil, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Kuwait as well as heritage sites including former power stations in Italy and the port of Dunkirk, once a prime gateway through which petroleum entered Europe. By revealing petroleum’s role in organizing and imagining space globally, this book takes up a key task in imagining the possibilities of a post-oil future. It will be invaluable reading to scholars and students of architectural and urban history, planning, and geography of sustainable urban environments.
Water in the Arabian Peninsula
Title | Water in the Arabian Peninsula PDF eBook |
Author | Kamil A. Mahdi |
Publisher | ISBS |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780863722462 |
Water scarcity in this dry region limits development possibilities and reduces the scope for economic diversification. The rapid economic growth of recent decades has increased water requirements beyond naturally sustainable levels. Inappropriate policies and technological solutions have placed the emphasis on meeting demand, instead of harnessing resources and managing water use. Depletion of groundwater is now common to most parts of this region, and there is also a high reliance on costly non-conventional alternatives. The 17 papers contained in this book address different aspects of this acute problem, with emphasis on policy issues and the need for structural change. The papers review policy experiences in several of the countries and analyse supply and resources constraints as well as water-using sectors. The social and economic ramifications of current water policies are considered and issues of policies reform are explored. Water resources planning and policy, environmental considerations, food security issues state subsdidies for argriculture and water, urban supply, regulatory institutions, demand management and development policy abjectives are all themes that run through this multi-disciplinary book. The papers in this book indicate that without a coherent and integrated set of institutional and policy measures, further investment and new technologies may offer more problems than solutions.