TY - BOOK ID - 32076707 TI - Transitioning Towards a Knowledge Society : Qatar as a Case Study AU - Gremm, Julia. AU - Barth, Julia. AU - Fietkiewicz, Kaja J. AU - Stock, Wolfgang G. PY - 2018 SN - 3319711954 3319711946 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Information society. KW - Information science KW - Sociological aspects. KW - Sociology of information science KW - Sociology KW - Information superhighway KW - Human Geography. KW - Geography. KW - Middle East-Politics and governm. KW - Economic Geography. KW - Middle Eastern Politics. KW - World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions). KW - Cosmography KW - Earth sciences KW - World history KW - Anthropo-geography KW - Anthropogeography KW - Geographical distribution of humans KW - Social geography KW - Anthropology KW - Geography KW - Human ecology KW - Human geography. KW - Economic geography. KW - Middle East—Politics and government. KW - Physical geography. KW - Geography, Economic KW - World economics KW - Commercial geography UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32076707 AB - The book offers a critical evaluation of Qatar’s path from oil- and gas-based industries to a knowledge-based economy. This book gives basic information about the region and the country, including the geographic and demographic data, the culture, the politics and the economy, the health care conditions and the education system. It introduces the concepts of knowledge society and knowledge-based development and adds factual details about Qatar by interpreting indicators of the development status. Subsequently, the research methods that underlie the study are described, which offers information on the eGovernment study analyzing the government-citizen relationship, higher education institutions and systems, its students and the students’ way into the labor market. This book has an audience with economists, sociologists, political scientists, geographers, information scientists and other researchers on the knowledge society, but also all researchers and practitioners interested in the Arab Oil States and their future. ER -