Protecting the Gulf s Marine Ecosystems from Pollution

• Author : Abdulaziz H. Abuzinada,Hans-Jörg Barth,Friedhelm Krupp,Benno Böer,Thabit Zahran Al Abdessalaam
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 05 March 2008

This volume reviews present sources and levels of pollution in The Gulf, assesses their causes and effects on biota and ecosystems, and identifies preventive and remedial measures reducing levels of pollution and mitigating adverse impacts. It is supported by UNESCO, Doha.

• Author : Dina Esfandiary
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 29 December 2022

For over a decade now, thinking on regional relations in the Gulf has focused on the competition for regional hegemony between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Today, this perspective is outdated. The smaller Gulf Arab states, led by the United Arab Emirates, are calling for their own goals and interests to be considered and a new regional order has emerged. This book asesses the UAE's increasing power and the future challenges to security it poses. It is a contemporary history and

• Author : John W. Fox,Nada Mourtada-Sabbah,Mohammed Al Mutawa
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 27 September 2006

For centuries, the Arabian Gulf has been a crossroads where seafaring people and Bedouins alike travelled great distances transacting business. Events of the past few years, both good and bad, have directed the world’s attention to the Arabian Peninsula, where a rich cultural tradition is rapidly incorporating the latest innovations from around the world. This is the process of globalization. New economies create enormous potential, but it will require great care for the people of the region to steer

• Author : W. Abdallah
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 30 April 2016

This book focuses on how multinational companies can plan and manage their international business in the Gulf countries. Important issues of accounting, auditing, finance, taxation, marketing, and managerial issues are covered in each of the selected Gulf countries.

• Author : Robert J. Pawlowski
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 28 March 1978

• Author : M. Sadiq,J.C. McCain
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 06 December 2012

In 1962 Rachel Carson warned of the consequences of man's pollution in her book Silent Spring, a book that some feel marks the real beginning of our environmental awareness. Silent Spring told of the consequences of our increasing pesticide use to birds. Almost 30 years after her warning, the western Arabian Gulf experienced its "silent spring" when approximately 100,000 to 250,000 waterbirds died, along with millions of other organisms, due to the massive oil spill that resulted due to Gulf war. The magnitude of

• Author : Steffen Wippel,Katrin Bromber,Birgit Krawietz
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 17 February 2016

Interdisciplinary in approach, this volume explores and deciphers the symbolic value and iconicity of the built environment in the Arab Gulf Region, its aesthetics, language and performative characteristics. Bringing together a range of studies by artists, curators and scholars, it demonstrates how Dubai appeared - at least until the financial crisis - to be leading the construction race and has already completed a large number of its landmark architecture and strategic facilities. In contrast, cities like the Qatari capital Doha

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 28 March 1971

• Author : John W. Snedden,William E. Galloway
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 21 November 2019

A comprehensive and richly illustrated overview of the Gulf of Mexico Basin, including its reservoirs, source rocks, tectonics and evolution.

• Author : Patrick C. Livingood
• Publisher : University of Alabama Press
• Release : 28 March 2023

Using research at the Pevey (22Lw510) and Lowe-Steen (22Lw511) mound sites on the Pearl River in Lawrence County, Mississippi, this book explores the social and political mechanisms by which these polities may have interacted with each other and the geographic limit to the effects of inter-polity competition.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 28 March 2023

• Author : Michael Rice
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 11 March 2002

The archaeological remains in the Gulf area are astounding, and still relatively unexplored. Michael Rice has produced the first up-to-date book, which encompasses all the recent work in the area. He shows that the Gulf has been a major channel of commerce for millenia, and that its ancient culture was rich and complex, to be counted with its great contempororaries in Sumer, Egypt and south-west Persia.

• Author : Nabil Sultan,David Weir,Zeinab Karake-Shalhoub
• Publisher : Saqi
• Release : 16 January 2012

The sharp increase in oil revenues since 2002 has left the Arab Gulf States with billions of petro-dollars. But how will these countries fare in the post-oil era? The rulers of these states are taking serious measures to ensure the survival of their economies, and indeed their regimes, in a world with scarce mineral resources. This volume explores the extent to which these countries have been and will be able to prepare for the future by transforming themselves into serious international

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 28 March 2023

• Author : H. Askari
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 07 November 2013

This book analyzes the origins of conflicts and wars in the Persian Gulf, assesses the common factor(s) that have been their essential fuel, determines their fallout for the political, economic, and human development of the region, and provides insight into how they may be better contained.