Achieving Sustainable Cities in Saudi Arabia

2018 ◽  
pp. 234-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismaila Rimi Abubakar ◽  
Yusuf Adedoyin Aina
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
Sustainability Initiatives ◽  
The Third World

This chapter highlights the challenges of rapid urbanization in Saudi Arabia and the implications of its burgeoning urban population on urban sustainability. The first section of the chapter reviews the trend of urbanization in the Third World, and Saudi Arabia in particular, and the factors responsible for rapid urban growth. The second section critically analyzes major urbanization challenges in Saudi Arabia and their impacts on the people and the environment. The final section assesses the extent to which some sustainability initiatives being implemented by the government are meeting the competing and sometimes conflicting urbanization challenges. The chapter concludes with some policy implications.

Achieving Sustainable Cities in Saudi Arabia

2016 ◽  
pp. 42-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismaila Rimi Abubakar ◽  
Yusuf Adedoyin Aina
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
Sustainability Initiatives ◽  
The Third World

This chapter highlights the challenges of rapid urbanization in Saudi Arabia and the implications of its burgeoning urban population on urban sustainability. The first section of the chapter reviews the trend of urbanization in the Third World, and Saudi Arabia in particular, and the factors responsible for rapid urban growth. The second section critically analyzes major urbanization challenges in Saudi Arabia and their impacts on the people and the environment. The final section assesses the extent to which some sustainability initiatives being implemented by the government are meeting the competing and sometimes conflicting urbanization challenges. The chapter concludes with some policy implications.

Some Dimensions of Vulnerability: A Study of the Urban Poor in Kolkata

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saswati Chaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Third World ◽  
Vulnerability Index ◽  
World Cities ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Third World ◽  
High Chance

More than one billion people worldwide are mired in extreme and inescapable poverty, while millions of others are on the brink of poverty. They face risks which are further exacerbated by natural hazards and ill-health. However, those who are poor today may not necessarily be poor tomorrow. Again, many of those who are non-poor today face a high chance of becoming poor after experiencing an adverse shock. Thus, a better understanding of the vulnerability concept is pressing, particularly in the context of the Third World cities like Kolkata. This article attempts an analysis of the vulnerability, and its impact on the livelihoods of the people living in slums in Kolkata. A simple bifurcation of the sampled households in terms of poor and non-poor is examined in terms of a constructed vulnerability index. As many of our surveyed slum households are found to be “vulnerable” (although they may not necessarily be “poor”), the government should assess the levels of vulnerability of households and use that as a yardstick (instead of income alone) at the time of distribution of various benefits so as to avoid “targeting error.”

scholarly journals Ensuring Sustainable Urban Transformation in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-224
Author(s):  
B. Setiawan ◽  
Tri Mulyani Sunarharum
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Third World ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Third World

Of the many important events that occurred in the two decades of the 21st century, the process of accelerating urbanization—especially in third-world countries—became something quite phenomenal. It's never even happened before. In the early 2000s, only about 45 percent of the population in the third world lived in urban areas, by 2020 the number had reached about 55 percent. Between now and 2035 the percentage of the population living in urban areas will reach about 85 percent in developed countries. Meanwhile, in developing countries will reach about 65 percent. By 2035, it is also projected that about 80 percent of the world's urban population will live in developing countries' cities.

scholarly journals The Production and Consumption of Cultural Villages in South Africa: A Decolonial Epistemic Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan Ndlovu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Epistemic Perspective

While many of the peoples who exist in the ‘spatio-temporal’ construct known as the postcolonial world today are convinced that they have succeeded – through anticolonial and anti-imperial struggles – to defeat colonial domination, the majority of the people of the same part of the world have not yet reaped the freedoms which they aimed to achieve. The question that emerges out of the failure to realise the objectives of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggles by the people of the Third World after a number of years of absence of juridical-administrative colonial and apartheid systems is to what extent did the people who sought to dethrone colonial domination understand the complexity of the colonial system? And to what end did the ability and/or inability to master the complexity of the colonial system affect the process of decolonization? Through the case study of the production and consumption of cultural villages in South Africa, this article deploys a de-colonial epistemic perspective to reveal, within the context of tourism studies, the complexity of the colonial system and why a truly decolonized postcolonial world has so far eluded the people of the developing world.

scholarly journals The Educative Conversation of Imam Khomeini in Islamic Republic Victory

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Amir Farahzadi
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Sensitive Conditions

One of the most efficient weapons of dominators, was anonymity of dominated societies to continue to rule. In recent decades, there were high trying to make the third world societies in dream and make the people understood that they are dependent to other people and other societies. In Reza Khan Era, England country was idea maker in his rule in all dimensions of the country. So, his ruling method was formed based on England thought and idea and in hid son Era, some American policies were replaced. Mohammad Reza Shah, tried to advertise about the western culture, and he founded the country constructional system, on the basis of western structure. Imam Khomeini as the leader of Islamic Republic was informed about the policies of shah along changes at the aim of American purposes, therefore, he noted that the only way to challenge with Shah is rehabilitation of Islamic culture and removing the western culture and he has tried to get the people informed about the sensitive conditions and to rehabilitate the sense of confidence and independence as the Islamic value. This research aim is to present the idea of arrogance and anti-colonialism in orientation of public thoughts against Pahlavi Government.

Cultural Survival Reports on Drugs and Health in the Third World

1982 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-11
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Whooping Cough ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Cultural Survival ◽  
Major Health ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Care Costs ◽  
Children Under 5

Excessive and irrational use of western drugs presents the potential for major health problems in the Third World, as surveyed in Cultural Survival's fall newsletter. Drugs and vaccines are the most frequently used remedies, with average Third World expenditures representing 40 to 60% of total health care costs. Inexpensive measures to control diarrhea, respiratory infections, diptheria, measles, and whooping cough—major causes of death for children under 5 years old—are neglected in favor of the purchase of "expensive drugs often of dubious utility for the majority of the people."

Finnish humanity and independence The breadth of Bawa's oeuvre

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-103
Author(s):  
DAVID ROBSON
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Third World ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
The Third ◽  
Population Explosion ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Catholic Church

I would like to respond to one of the points raised by Richard Murphy in his perceptive review of my book on Geoffrey Bawa (arq 7/1, pp86–88). His description of Bawa as an architect ‘in the Third World but decidedly not of it’ exercised by the fact that Bawa, like Luis Barragán, failed to address ‘pressing problems of population explosion and rapid urbanization’ in his work and that ‘with the exception of some work for the Catholic Church, Bawa's opus was built exclusively for the country's elite’.

REFUGEES AND CONFLICT SITUATIONS

1988 ◽  
Vol 28 (265) ◽  
pp. 321-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
The Review
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Third World ◽  
Population Movements ◽  
The Third ◽  
Humanitarian Organizations ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
The One ◽  
The Third World

The protection of refugees and displaced persons is guaranteed by many universal and regional instruments of international law. The rules are there, but for several years the humanitarian organizations charged with implementing them have constantly had to face new situations brought about by the scale and frequency of mass population movements, especially in the Third World, and new types of violence which affect both the status and the possibilities for protection of the people concerned. Very often, the solutions arrived at by these bodies have taken the form of assistance rather than protection, the one not always easily distinguishable from the other.

scholarly journals Scenario of hill cuttings in and around the Chittagong City of Bangladesh

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 183-188
Author(s):  
Asib Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Industrial Growth ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Asian Region ◽  
Green Vegetation ◽  
Land Surfaces ◽  
The City ◽  
South Asian Region

This paper reveals that the Chittagong City is dotted with numerous hills and hillocks, and has gained a peculiar and typical landscape because of these hills. Moreover, it has given the city some environmental advantages with its green vegetation clad slopes and fertile valleys. It also reveals that the city is growing very rapidly and the urban population also increasing alarmingly in the recent years. The rapid urbanization and industrial growth have turned the Chittagong to a most densely city in the South Asian region. In order to facilitate this urban growth tremendous pressure has been exerted on the limited land surfaces in and around the city. These have led into an increasing spree of excavations and cuttings of hillocks and hills in Chittagong City areas. In the present paper, the ca uses, nature and effects of these unwise human interferences in nature have been examined and analyzed.

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