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This open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar requires engagement with diverse areas of social-political, human, and environmental development. On the environmental aspects, the contributors address climate change, food security, water reuse and desalination, energy, and biodiversity. The socio-political section examines state strategy and regulation, the place of environmental law and geopolitics and sustainability innovators and catalysts. The human section considers economics, sustainability education, the knowledge economy, and waste management. In doing so, the book demarcates the ways in which the country encounters and grapples with significant challenges and delves into the range of options for future pathways to sustainability in Qatar. Relevant to policymakers and scholars in energy and environment, urban and developmental studies, as well as the arenas of politics, climate change and policy, this book is a landmark collection on environmental policy in the Gulf and beyond.

Political planning. --- Sustainability. --- Economic development. --- Middle East—Politics and government. --- Policy Formulation. --- Development Studies. --- Middle Eastern Politics. --- Public Policy. --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Sustainability science --- Human ecology --- Social ecology --- Planning in politics --- Public policy --- Planning --- Policy sciences --- Politics, Practical --- Public administration --- Sustainability --- Qatar --- Middle East --- Gulf Studies --- Food Security --- Water Security --- Energy --- Development --- Politics and government.

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"This is an exemplary political economy analysis of what has happened across Africa since the contemporary global land grabbing occurred more than a decade ago. While the topic and questions addressed may sound familiar to many readers who have been tracking the issue over the last decade, this volume provides a much needed up to date information, critical insights and nuanced analysis, which place it among the best in Africa's land rush scholarship and beyond." - Tsegaye Moreda, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam "While the stories have faded from the headlines in the decade or so since the trend first emerged, discussions about the implications of large-scale land investments have persisted among academics and development practitioners. This volume manages to both highlight emerging trends and provide an analysis that is rich in contextual detail, while making. an important and timely contribution to discourses on the nexus between law, power and economic development in Africa." -David Deng, Human Rights Lawyer and Researcher, Detcro LLC This volume provides up-to-date information on what has happened in the African 'land rush', providing national case studies for countries that were heavily impacted. The research will be a critical resource for students, researchers, advocates and policy makers as it provides detailed, long-term assessments of a broad range of national contexts. In addition to the specific questions of land and investment, this book sheds light on the broader international political economy of development in different African countries. Logan Cochrane is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at Carleton University, Canada. Nathan Andrews is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.

International relations. Foreign policy --- Economic order --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Economic conditions. Economic development --- Foreign trade. International trade --- Development aid. Development cooperation --- Afrikaans --- ontwikkelingsbeleid --- politiek --- ontwikkelingssamenwerking --- wereldeconomie --- economische ontwikkelingen --- internationale economie --- ontwikkelingspolitiek --- North Africa --- Africa

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International relations. Foreign policy --- Economic order --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Economic conditions. Economic development --- Foreign trade. International trade --- Development aid. Development cooperation --- Afrikaans --- ontwikkelingsbeleid --- politiek --- ontwikkelingssamenwerking --- wereldeconomie --- economische ontwikkelingen --- internationale economie --- ontwikkelingspolitiek --- North Africa --- Africa