Geographical Magazine November 2019 Retour à l'édition précédente

DOSSIER: THE FUTURE OF OIL STATES
The concept of renewable energy in the Middle East sounds incongruous, for this is a region that is home to more than half of the world’s crude oil and more than a third of its natural gas reserves. However, local attention is slowly turning to both the sun and the region’s desert winds. In time, this shift in emphasis could play as key a role in limiting damaging effects of the climate crisis as any other. Can the Middle East go green?

REGENERATION: EASTBOUND AND UP
The story of Margate is one of early success, severe downturn, and now revival, through a conscious strategy of ‘culture-led regeneration’ which has seen thousands of Londoners flock to the east coast. But can the injection of culture and a splash of new blood really change lives for the better, and if so, for whom?

GUINEA-BISSAU: HOW RESTLESS CAN A NATION BE?
Guinea-Bissau, where slave-hunting on an industrial scale began, is a world leader in instability. But is the real picture one of downward-spiralling destitution, or is this a nation ready to pull itself back to its feet?