Sustainable Development

Paul Sillitoe FBA is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University and former Shell Chair in Sustainable Development at Qatar University.  His research interests focus on natural resources management, appropriate technology, and sustainable development, and he seeks to further the incorporation of local knowledge in development, having experience with several international development agencies.  His recent books include ‘Grass-Clearing Man’: A Factional Ethnography of Life in the New Guinea Highlands(2009 with J. Sillitoe, Waveland Press) and From land to mouth: the agricultural ‘economy’ of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands (2010 ,Yale University Press).

• List of FiguresList of TablesForwardShaikha Al-MisnadIntroduction: Sustainable Development in the Gulf: Some Introductory RemarksPaul SillitoeChapter 1. Societal Change and Sustainability within the Central Plateau of Iran: An Archaeological ViewpointMark Manuel, Robin Coningham, Gavin Gillmore and Hassan FazeliPART I: PLANNING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTChapter 2. Qatar National Vision 2030: Advancing Sustainable DevelopmentTrudy Tan, Aziza Al-Khalaqi and Najla Al-KhulaifiChapter 3. The Qatar National Master PlanKhondker RahmanChapter 4. The State of Qatar: Along the Way to Sustainable DevelopmentBahaa DarwishChapter 5. Charting the Emergence of Environmental Legislation in Qatar:  A Step in the Right Direction or Too Little Too Late?Wesam Al Othman and Sarah F. ClarkePART II: ENERGY AND ECONOMIC ISSUESChapter 6. Sustainable Energy: What Futures for Qatar?Thomas HenfreyChapter 7. Money Rain: The Resource Curse in Two Oil and Gas EconomiesEmma Gilberthorpe, Sarah F. Clarke and Paul SillitoeChapter 8. Islam and Sustainable Economic DevelopmentRodney WilsonPART III: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUESChapter 9. Linking Local and Global in the Sustainable Development of Biodiversity ConservationBen CampbellChapter 10. Conservation and Sustainable Development: the Qatari and Gulf Region ExperiencePaul Sillitoe with Ali AlshawiChapter 11. Promoting Sustainable Development in Marine RegionsJames HowardChapter 12. Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainability: Friends or Enemies?Nobuyuki YamaguchiPART IV: URBAN AND HEALTH ISSUESChapter 13. From Pearling to Skyscrapers: The Predicament of Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism in Contemporary Gulf Cities.Ali A. Alraouf and Sarah F. ClarkeChapter 14. How the City Grows: Urban Growth and Challenges to Sustainable Development in Doha, QatarAndrew M. GardnerChapter 15. Sustainable Waste Management in Qatar: Charting the Emergence of an Integrated Approach to Solid Waste ManagementSarah Clarke with Salah AlmannaiChapter 16. Sustainable Development and Health: From Global to Local AgendaMylène Riva, Catherine Panter-Brick and Mark EggermanPART V: CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISSUESChapter 17. Exploring Collaborative Research Methodologies in the Pursuit of Sustainable FuturesGina PorterChapter 18. On the Importance of Culture in Sustainable DevelopmentSerena HecklerChapter 19. People, Social Groups, Cultural Practices: From Venn Diagrams to Alternative Paradigms for Sustainable DevelopmentFadwa El GuindiChapter 20. Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Values: Environmental Contradictions in Qatari SocietyKaltham Al-GhanimConclusion: A Doha Undeclaration, Puzzling over Sustainable Development with Indigenous KnowledgePaul SillitoeList of ContributorsIndex

“This is clearly the most comprehensive overview of sustainable development in the Gulf, a strategic region within the global economy…What is particularly innovative is the last section on cultural issues, ranging from collaborative research methods to indigenous knowledge… the inclusion of health issues, together with a discussion of the ‘cultural turn’ in sustainability, including participatory approaches, make this book an exemplar of the next generation of thought and knowledge development in the area of sustainable development.”  ·  Carl Maida, University of California, Los Angeles“[This volume] amounts to a well edited, comprehensive, collection of sustainable development papers, strongly introduced and concluded by the editor, on a region that surely no one could doubt can only gain from the salutary environmental analysis time after time it offers… While a regional study, it is fully alert to current theoretical issues in the general sustainable development literature at large while at the same contributing to them. It is… certainly deserving to become required reading for all tertiary education institutions.”  ·  Raymond Apthorpe, SOAS University of London