Bedouins, wealth, and change
Subtitle: a study of rural development in the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman
By: Rainer Cordes and Fred Scholz.
Contributors: Scholz, Fred.
Publisher: United Nations University
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Tokyo, Japan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Rural development -- United Arab Emirates.; Agriculture -- United Arab Emirates.; Bedouins -- United Arab Emirates -- Sedentarisation.; Rural development -- Oman.; Bedouins -- Oman -- Sedentarisation.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 64-65.
"NRTS-7/UNUP-143."
Table of contents: title: PART 1. General introduction; title: 1. Changes in the bedouin/nomad regions of the islamic orient; title: 2. Physical characteristics of the bedouin area in southeastern Arabia-physical and cultural divisions; title: 3. A survey of the geographical setting and nomadic habits of the bedouin and nomad population groups in southeastern Arabia; title: PART II. Case study: The United Arab Emirates; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The rural farming areas; title: 3. The rural Bedouin regions; title: PART III. Case study: The sultanate of Oman; title: 1. An introduction to the new developments in the sultanate of Oman with reference to mobile population groups; title: 2. Changes in the nomad region of Oman; title: 3. Settlement projects in inner Oman, and other measures to develop the rural/nomad region; title: 4. Summary and evaluation of results in the rural/nomad region; title: References and bibliography