Part 1 Green Economy and the Gulf 1. Introduction, Mohamed Abdelraouf and Mari Luomi Part 2 Energy and Water 2. Barriers to Greening the Energy Sector in the Gulf Cooperation Council, Ibrahim Abdel Gelil 3. Energy Pricing Reform and the Green Economy in the Gulf Region, Tom S. H. Moerenhout 4. Spanish Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Lessons for Bahrain Reforms? Ghada Abdulla 5. Promoting an Effective Energy Efficiency Programme in Saudi Arabia: Challenges and Opportunities, Bandar Alhoweish and Chingiz Orujov 6. Green Challenges and Some Technological Solutions in the Water Sector of the GCC Countries, Mushtaque Ahmed, Salem Ali Al-Jabri and B. S. Choudri Part 3 The Urban Environment 7. Green Buildings in the Arabian Gulf, Christopher Silva 8. Greening Urban Transport in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: Localised Approaches to Modal Integration as Key Success Factors, Arnd Bätzner Part 4 Cross-cutting Issues: Labour, Law and International Cooperation 9. Workers and the Green Economy in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, Amit A. Pandya and Kristin Sparding 10. Agricultural Sustainability and Intellectual Property Rights in the Era of a Green Economy: A Case Study of the United Arab Emirates, Nihaya Khalaf 11. Green Economy Pathways in the Arab Gulf: Global Perspectives and Opportunities, Kishan Khoday, Leisa Perch and Tim Scott
Biography
Mohamed Abdel Raouf is Research Fellow of the Environmental Research Programme at the Gulf Research Center, Saudi Arabia/Egypt.
Mari Luomi is Research Associate at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, UK.
This book is packed full of facts relating to efforts to green the ecomomies of the gulf.Gulf greening efforts have been speeding up lately and the book expalins what the pressures are to bring this about and why it did not happen before.
Harifiyah Abdel Haleem, The Muslim World Book Review Volume 36 Issue 4 Summer 2017
