scholarly journals AgTech in Arabia: 'spectacular forgetting' and the technopolitics of greening the desert

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Koch
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Controlled Environment ◽  
Extreme Temperatures ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Start Ups

<p>'AgTech' is the latest discourse about introducing new technologies to agricultural production. Researchers, corporations, and governments around the world are investing heavily in supporting its development. Abu Dhabi, the largest and wealthiest emirate in the UAE, has been among these supporters, recently announcing a massive scheme to support AgTech companies. Given the extreme temperatures and aridity of the Arabian Peninsula, several new start-ups have focused on 'controlled environment' facilities – hydroponics and aeroponics in various kinds of greenhouses. Despite the narrative of novelty touted by these companies, this is not the UAE's first foray with bringing ultra-modern or 'scientific' greenhouses to the Arabian Peninsula – a large University of Arizona project did so in Abu Dhabi from 1969-1974. Yet that project is largely forgotten today, including among today's new AgTech entrepreneurs. This article investigates why this is the case and, more generally, why the systematic failures of high-modernist, spectacular projects like those to green the desert are so routinely forgotten. In analyzing the story linking AgTech in Arabia 50 years ago and today, I show how 'spectacular forgetting' is related to the technopolitics of spectacle, but also rooted in geopolitical discourses and spatial imaginaries particular to each historical moment.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> spectacle; desert greening; AgTech; agriculture; Arabian Peninsula; United Arab Emirates</p>

Educating Ms. Fatima

1970 ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Tim Walters ◽  
Susan Swan ◽  
Ron Wolfe ◽  
John Whiteoak ◽  
Jack Barwind
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Free Trade Zones ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
K 12

The United Arab Emirates is a smallish Arabic/Islamic country about the size of Maine located at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Though currently oil dependent, the country is moving rapidly from a petrocarbon to a people-based economy. As that economy modernizes and diversifies, the country’s underlying social ecology is being buffeted. The most significant of the winds of change that are blowing include a compulsory, free K-12 education system; an economy shifting from extractive to knowledge-based resources; and movement from the almost mythic Bedouin-inspired lifestyle to that of a sedentary highly urbanized society. Led by resource-rich Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the federal government has invested heavily in tourism, aviation, re-export commerce, free trade zones, and telecommunications. The Emirate of Dubai, in particular, also has invested billions of dirhams in high technology. The great dream is that educated and trained Emiratis will replace the thousands of foreign professionals now running the newly emerging technology and knowledge-driven economy.

scholarly journals The Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Regional Conference

1970 ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
The Third ◽  
Regional Conference

The third «Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Conference» was convened in Abu-Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates under the spondorship of H.R.H. the ruler of U.A.E.; and was hosted by the General Federation of  the United Arab Emirates Women.

New Technology Yields High-Resolution 3D Modeling for Fracture Analyses

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (11) ◽  
pp. 70-71
Author(s):  
Chris Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Bedding Plane ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Foot Wall ◽  
Shelf Area ◽  
Carbonate Sediments ◽  
Artificial Lake

This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper SPE 203108, “High-Resolution Fracture Analyses and 3D DMX DFN Modeling of Triassic Dolomites, Wadi Bih, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE,” by Janpieter van Dijk and Raffik Lazzar, GeoModl, prepared for the 2020 Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference, Abu Dhabi, held virtually 9–12 November. The paper has not been peer reviewed. The complete paper outlines a high-resolution 3D fracture modeling exercise using the DMX protocol applied to Triassic dolomites of the United Arab Emirates. The outcropping rocks show a low primary porosity, are well bedded, and are highly fractured (jointed) up to centimeter scale. The exercise shows the relevance of applying new technologies to outcrop observations and shows several elements and related technologies that, to the authors’ knowledge, have not been presented previously. Introduction The focus area of the complete paper is a small outcrop situated in Wadi Bih in the territory of Ras Al Khaimah (Fig. 1) along a small road near a recently constructed artificial lake. This outcrop, which is approximately 150 m2 in size, shows well-bedded, highly fractured Triassic dolomites. Both section views and bedding-plane views can be observed. The outcrop was selected because it represents an analog of the Triassic Khuff formation, an important hydrocarbon-producing reservoir in the region. The outcrop is easily accessible and displays a clearly defined fracture (joint) network with recognizable sets, also showing truncation relationships between fractures, joints, and bedding that can be examined. Geological Context The area shows a complete series of Permian to Cretaceous, mostly carbonate sediments, outcropping in a series of north/south to north-northeast/south-southwest anticlines and synclines bounded by mostly west-vergent thrust faults. The Wadi Bih outcrop is situated on the moderately east-dipping flank of the north/south-trending Hagab Anticline, also called the Hagil Window after the area of the nearby Wadi Hagil, where the deepest Permian series are outcropping in the core of the anticline. This anticline is situated on the foot-wall of a major north/south-trending thrust fault. The geological history of the area is connected to the initial Mesozoic deposition of the series on the shelf area along the northeast flank of the Arabian shield. In the outcrop study, the focus is on the joint network. The authors write that this network is tilted together with the bedding as part of the flank of the anticline. No relation can be detected between the joint network sets and the fault and anticline axis pattern dominating the area. The joint network, therefore, most probably was formed in the early stages after lithification and dolomitization of the rock.

Examining the significance of market research in the case of start-ups

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-190
Author(s):  
A. Matkó ◽  
E. Szűcs ◽  
T. Takács ◽  
S. Kovács
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Market Research ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
A Company

Today, companies have to face new challanges because of the globalization, new technologies, globalization of markets and increasing competition. In this accelerated world, it is essential that the companies adapt to the market, which is only available through the necessary information. The importance of market research is undoubted. In our study we would like to prove that in case of a beginner company — in this case a confectionery — it is important to perform a market research like for a company in any other segment. To perform it, the qualitative market research methods were used. Our questionnaire examines several aspects in order to provide an indication of the company’s founding.

Biostratigraphic Constraints on the Shuaiba Formation, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Gombos ◽  
Christian J. Strohmenger ◽  
T.C. Huang
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Abu Dhabi

The United Arab Emirates: Statehood and Nation-Building in a Traditional Society

2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frauke Heard-Bey
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Traditional Society ◽  
National State ◽  
Gulf Countries ◽  
The Individual

Nationals represent barely 20% of the population in the United Arab Emirates, but form the economically and socially privileged group of UAE citizens. The Rulers of the seven emirates were able to retain the historical loyalty of the “Emiratis” by advancing the economic development of the individual states, while Abu Dhabi-financed federal development helped to create a viable national state. Democratization is not of the same urgency as in some neighboring Gulf countries.

scholarly journals Investigating Relationships Between Learning Environment Perceptions, Motivation and Self-Regulation for Female Science Students in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill M Aldridge ◽  
Kate Rowntree
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Science Classroom ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Psychosocial Learning Environment ◽  
And Gender

AbstractThe global lack of student motivation towards learning science and gender imbalance in STEM careers provided the impetus for this study, which had two key aims: (1) to examine the influence of female students’ perceptions of the psychosocial learning environment on their motivation towards and self-regulation in science learning,; and (2) to investigate the influence of their reported motivation on their self-regulation of effort. Data were collected from 338 female students in grades 6 to 9 science classes across 16 government schools in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. Structural equation modelling was used to explore the hypothesised relationships, which indicated that there were statistically significant relationships between learning environment perceptions, motivation and self-regulation. The results provide exigent information to both teachers, policy-makers and researchers with regard to the influences of the psychosocial learning environment on female students’ motivation towards science, as well as the influence of motivation towards science on their self-regulatory behaviour within science classroom settings.

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