What is it about?
Develops a draft integrated framework and evaluates the remarkable development of Dubai. The Emirate has transformed itself beyond recognition from a sleepy pearling station to a global trading hub. Dubai acts as regional safe-haven for neighboring extractive economies or failed states. The boom and bust of Emirati real estate markets re-cycles surplus regional liquidity derived from oil, trade, ill-conceived military interventions or development aid. Despite impressive place transformation, concerns linger around the institutional and environmental trajectory.
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Why is it important?
The UAE remains a safe haven in a turbulent Middle East but needs to continuously adapt to become more sustainable. Alerts policy-makers about the need for balanced development models.
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I have a strong emotional attachment to the Middle East, having lived in UAE, Saudi and Oman. I first visited Dubai in 1996 and have returned regularly over the past couple of decades to witness its remarkable transformation.
Dr Simon Hugh Huston
Coventry University
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This page is a summary of: Disease in Eldorado, Middle Eastern Studies, January 2011, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00263200903432886.
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