Browsing by Author "Al-Saidi, Mohammad"
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From scenario to mounting risks: COVID-19’s perils for development and supply security in the Sahel
Al-Saidi, Mohammad; Saad, Suhair A.Gayoum; Elagib, Nadir Ahmed ( Springer , 2022 , Article)The African Sahel countries are inherently fragile, environmentally insecure and economically weak. This paper underscores the compounded impacts brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic on resource supply security and, ... -
Green Climate Fund (GCF): Role, Capacity Building, and Directions as a Catalyst for Climate Finance
Al-Saidi, Mohammad ( Springer, Cham , 2019 , Book chapter)The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is one of the several special climate change funds that have been established under Article 11 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These funds aim to finance ... -
Institutional arrangements for beneficial regional cooperation on water, energy and food priority issues in the Eastern Nile Basin
Al-Saidi, Mohammad; Hefny, Amr ( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)Research on water cooperation in the Eastern Nile Basin has focused on expanding policy and diplomacy tools for a better allocation of transboundary water resources confined to the river. Regional cooperation on water and ... -
Institutional Change and Sustainable Development
Al-Saidi, Mohammad ( Springer, Cham , 2019 , Book chapter)The study field of institutions and institutionalism is quite complex, encompassing theories, concepts, and tools that can be applied in various ways related to sustainable development. At the same time, sustainable ... -
Instruments of energy subsidy reforms in Arab countries — The case of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries
Al-Saidi, Mohammad ( Elsevier , 2020 , Conference Paper)© 2019 Energy subsidies can account for a large share of government expenditures in some GCC countries. In light of fiscal imbalances since 2014, these countries have reiterated their intention to decrease subsidies and ... -
Marine health of the Arabian Gulf: Drivers of pollution and assessment approaches focusing on desalination activities
Hoda, Hosseini; Saadaoui, Imen; Moheimani, Navid; Al Saidi, Mohammad; Al Jamali, Fahad; Al Jabri, Hareb; Hamadou, Radhouane Ben... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2021 , Article Review)The Arabian Gulf is one of the most adversely affected marine environments worldwide, which results from combined pollution drivers including climate change, oil and gas activities, and coastal anthropogenic disturbances. ... -
Participation modes and diplomacy of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries towards the global sustainability agenda
Al-Saidi, Mohammad; Zaidan, Esmat; Hammad, Suzanne ( Routledge , 2019 , Article)After decades of reluctance, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are now more engaged within the global sustainability agenda. Though they historically sought to coordinate strategies, differences in environmental ... -
Participation modes and influence strategies of large environmental NGOs
Al-Saidi, Mohammad ( Taylor & Francis , 2019 , Book chapter)International, large-scale conferences on environment and sustainable development have shaped the public face of the global environmental governance. United Nations-led Earth Summits in Stockholm, Johannesburg, and Rio ... -
A quest for the Arabian atom? Geopolitics, security, and national identity in the nuclear energy programs in the Middle East
Al-Saidi, Mohammad; Haghirian, Mehran ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Nuclear energy programs are currently under formalization in countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), with the first power plants in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) due to be operational in 2020, and Saudi Arabia's ... -
Regulation reform process and perception in the Palestinian water sector
Nour, Raya; Al-Saidi, Mohammad ( Taylor & Francis , 2018 , Article)The study analyzes the regulation reform process of the Palestinian urban water sector. It introduces the holistic reform agenda and examines the water supply sector’s performance and regulation challenges. The study also ... -
Saudi Arabia and the Emirates' Quest for Alternative Energy: Geopolitics of the Nuclear Option
Haghirian, Mehran; Al-Saidi, Mohammad ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2019 , Conference Paper)Nuclear energy programs are under formalization in countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), with the UAE's first power plants due to be operational in 2020, and Saudi Arabia's program under development. A ... -
Solar energy farming as a development innovation for vulnerable water basins
Al-Saidi, Mohammad; Lahham, Nisreen ( Routledge , 2019 , Article)In vulnerable water basins, unregulated access to solar energy and groundwater can threaten water security through increased abstractions. Public and development agencies are therefore exploring options to provide farmers ... -
Sustainable agriculture in the Arabian/Persian Gulf region utilizing marginal water resources: Making the best of a bad situation
Brown, J. Jed; Das, Probir; Al-Saidi, Mohammad ( MDPI AG , 2018 , Article Review)One way to encourage agricultural self-sufficiency in arid regions is to increase the productivity of conventional freshwater agriculture. Another way is to develop and implement novel strategies and technologies that do ... -
Sustainable development in the Arab world–is the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region fit for the challenge?
Zaidan, Esmat; Al-Saidi, Mohammad; Hammad, Suzanne H. ( Routledge , 2019 , Article)The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region and the wider Arab world are faced with multiple interconnected dilemmas embedded in the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable development. The question of how ... -
Too big to handle, too important to abandon: Reforming Sudan's Gezira scheme
Goelnitz, Anna; Al-Saidi, Mohammad ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)© 2020 The Authors Participatory irrigation management (PIM) has been broadly promoted by public administrators and donor organizations. The reasons for this push include performance failures of state-controlled irrigation ... -
Understanding and Enabling “Communities” Within Smart Cities: A Literature Review
Al-Saidi, Mohammad; Zaidan, Esmat ( SAGE Publications Ltd , 2023 , Article)Community-level interventions through technological updates and connectedness are quite popular within smart city visions. These interventions, under the collective label of smart and connected communities (SCC), promise ... -
Urban Climate Change Vulnerability, Responses, and Policies in Qatar: An Assessment
Al-Saidi, Mohammad; Mohammad, Sara Abdelhakim; Awartani, Amina Nihad ( Springer Nature , 2018 , Book chapter)Urban climate change policies are critical for reducing carbon emissions and increasing societal resilience to future risks. This is especially true for the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) which are arid ... -
Water, energy and food supply security in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries-A risk perspective
Al-Saidi, Mohammad; Saliba, Sally ( MDPI AG , 2019 , Article Review)Supply systems for water, energy and food in the Gulf region are becoming highly interlinked. In the last decades, interdependence was evident in the increase of coproduction plants and the cross-sectoral resource use ... -
Water‐Energy‐Food Security Nexus in the Eastern Nile Basin: Assessing the Potential of Transboundary Regional Cooperation
Al‐Saidi, Mohammad; Elagib, Nadir Ahmed; Ribbe, Lars; Schellenberg, Tatjana; Roach, Emma; Oezhan, Deniz... more authors ... less authors ( John Wiley & Sons, Inc , 2017 , Book chapter)With increasing demands and pressures on energy, food, and water resources in the region of the Eastern Nile basin, development projects and also potential for conflict along the Nile waters have increased. This study ... -
A world polity view on reorganization and institutional change in natural resources management
Al-Saidi, Mohammad ( Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc , 2022 , Book chapter)World polity theory as a part of sociological neo-institutionalism provides interesting insights into institutional change and similarities between national organizations. These organizations depend on rules and actor ...