ABSTRACT This article scrutinizes the limitations of environmental citizenship among citizens and non-citizens in the Arab Gulf states, with a focus on the United Arab Emirates (UAE). There are particularly heightened concerns about water scarcity, food security, marine pollution, and dependence on oil and gas industries and how states can address these challenges in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Yet environmental citizenship in the Indian Ocean’s Arabian littoral remains poorly understood both in terms of theoretical and grounded questions. This article considers how labor relations and discourses relating to citizenship, environment and sustainability enable or foreclose environmental reform in GCC countries. It shifts the technological and economic focus predominant in literature on sustainability in the GCC to take a more social perspective and examine distinctions between citizens and non-citizens and the depoliticising of environmental claims and national industrial legacies.

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阿拉伯沿海公民权与环境政治的矛盾

摘要 本文详细审查了阿拉伯海湾国家公民和非公民的环境公民身份的局限性，重点是阿拉伯联合酋长国 (UAE)。人们对水资源短缺、粮食安全、海洋污染、对石油和天然气工业的依赖以及各国如何在海湾合作委员会 (GCC) 应对这些挑战的担忧尤为严重。然而，印度洋阿拉伯沿岸的环境公民在理论和基础问题方面仍然知之甚少。本文考虑了与公民、环境和可持续性相关的劳资关系和话语如何促成或阻止海湾合作委员会国家的环境改革。