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.
