Author: Roderic W Dutton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136174982
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
First Published in 1999. Oman in the decades prior to the 1960s was largely isolated from the rest of the world and its changing economies and societies. With a limited education, little international links, small health systems and government under the then Sultan Said bin Taimur. Rural communities in northern Oman had very little contact with the Sultan's government, which was based in the southern province of Dhofar. In a world in which people in most countries, including the Gulf States, gained at least some benefit from modem education and health services, Omani villagers and pastoralists had recourse only to Koranic schools and traditional healers. On the other hand, however, they retained full responsibility for the management of their rural resources on which they depended for their livelihoods and for life itself and had evolved effective communal systems for their development and conservation. These were exemplified by regulations governing the protection of trees and by the work of the committees which controlled the traditional falaj water supply network. People worked interdependently, responding to the contributions made by other members of the rural communities in a system of mutual self-reliance. They also lived ~n harmony with their environment in a manner which time had proven to be truly sustainable. This volume looks at the changes that occurred after Sultan Qaboos came to power in 1970.
Changing Rural Systems In Oman
Author: Roderic W Dutton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136174982
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
First Published in 1999. Oman in the decades prior to the 1960s was largely isolated from the rest of the world and its changing economies and societies. With a limited education, little international links, small health systems and government under the then Sultan Said bin Taimur. Rural communities in northern Oman had very little contact with the Sultan's government, which was based in the southern province of Dhofar. In a world in which people in most countries, including the Gulf States, gained at least some benefit from modem education and health services, Omani villagers and pastoralists had recourse only to Koranic schools and traditional healers. On the other hand, however, they retained full responsibility for the management of their rural resources on which they depended for their livelihoods and for life itself and had evolved effective communal systems for their development and conservation. These were exemplified by regulations governing the protection of trees and by the work of the committees which controlled the traditional falaj water supply network. People worked interdependently, responding to the contributions made by other members of the rural communities in a system of mutual self-reliance. They also lived ~n harmony with their environment in a manner which time had proven to be truly sustainable. This volume looks at the changes that occurred after Sultan Qaboos came to power in 1970.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136174982
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
First Published in 1999. Oman in the decades prior to the 1960s was largely isolated from the rest of the world and its changing economies and societies. With a limited education, little international links, small health systems and government under the then Sultan Said bin Taimur. Rural communities in northern Oman had very little contact with the Sultan's government, which was based in the southern province of Dhofar. In a world in which people in most countries, including the Gulf States, gained at least some benefit from modem education and health services, Omani villagers and pastoralists had recourse only to Koranic schools and traditional healers. On the other hand, however, they retained full responsibility for the management of their rural resources on which they depended for their livelihoods and for life itself and had evolved effective communal systems for their development and conservation. These were exemplified by regulations governing the protection of trees and by the work of the committees which controlled the traditional falaj water supply network. People worked interdependently, responding to the contributions made by other members of the rural communities in a system of mutual self-reliance. They also lived ~n harmony with their environment in a manner which time had proven to be truly sustainable. This volume looks at the changes that occurred after Sultan Qaboos came to power in 1970.
Rural Development in Oman
Author: Sulaiman Nasser al - Azri
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Languages : en
Pages : 139
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Languages : en
Pages : 139
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Rural Development in Oman
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Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 5
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Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 5
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Urban Oman
Author: Sonja Nebel
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643907141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The book traces urbanisation patterns in Oman looking at the coastal strip of Muscat Capital Area. This metropolitan region emerged within the last 50 years almost out of nowhere and is now home of the majority of the national and expatriate population of Oman. Urbanisation, and the socio-political, economic and environmental aspects attached to it, become an index of the radical spatial transformation of the Sultanate. This process, if managed well, also holds the key to sustainable urban development. Urban Oman invites geographers, planners, urban designers, architects, decision-makers and scholars of Gulf Studies to rethink the emergence of Muscat Capital Area and to embrace the urban Oman. Sonja Nebel, architect and urban planner, is researcher and consultant with focus on international urban development, rehabilitation and urban management, affiliated to TU Berlin and GUtech, Oman. Aurel von Richthofen, architect and urbanist, is working on urban renewal and spatial planning strategies, and is currently researcher at the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore affiliated to the ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643907141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The book traces urbanisation patterns in Oman looking at the coastal strip of Muscat Capital Area. This metropolitan region emerged within the last 50 years almost out of nowhere and is now home of the majority of the national and expatriate population of Oman. Urbanisation, and the socio-political, economic and environmental aspects attached to it, become an index of the radical spatial transformation of the Sultanate. This process, if managed well, also holds the key to sustainable urban development. Urban Oman invites geographers, planners, urban designers, architects, decision-makers and scholars of Gulf Studies to rethink the emergence of Muscat Capital Area and to embrace the urban Oman. Sonja Nebel, architect and urban planner, is researcher and consultant with focus on international urban development, rehabilitation and urban management, affiliated to TU Berlin and GUtech, Oman. Aurel von Richthofen, architect and urbanist, is working on urban renewal and spatial planning strategies, and is currently researcher at the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore affiliated to the ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Current Problems and Prospects for Agricultural Development in the Sultanate of Oman
Author: FAO/UNDP Preparatory Assistance Mission
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Category : Agricultural development projects
Languages : en
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Category : Agricultural development projects
Languages : en
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Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2016
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
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Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 1606
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Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 1606
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Bedouins, Wealth, and Change
Author: Rainer Cordes
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Agricultural Development in Oman
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Rural Community Development in Oman
Author: Roderic Dutton
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Mobile Pastoralists
Author: Dawn Chatty
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231105491
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Anthropological study of the nomadic Harasis.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231105491
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Anthropological study of the nomadic Harasis.