Socio-economic Development in Formerly Isolated Rural Contexts
Al-Alkhalaf Village, Southwestern Saudi Arabia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11401825 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mohammed Abdullah Eben Saleh (0009-0000-4786-3784, King Saud University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 221-258 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d études du développement (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0225-5189 • E-ISSN: 2158-9100 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02255189.1998.9669750 |
| OpenAlex | W1963683664 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
Despite a crucial need of a sustainable natural resource management program in isolated rural areas of Saudi Arabia, current government approaches have not been successful to develop a level of local participation. This paper offers a detailed case study of Al-Alkhalaf, a village in the southwestern highlands of Asir, as an example of the difficulties planners face. Economic change and central-government policies of the last thirty years have transformed the traditional socio-economic structures of the village once, based on the reclamation of land for agriculture and the sustained development of local forests to meet subsistence needs, to the presently based on migration—in search for education and job opportunities and heavily dependent on government support. Today, Al-Alkhalaf is caught between the past and the present competing socio-economic hierarchies. To gain local cooperation in developing new patterns of sustainable resource use, innovative steps must be taken to facilitate local participation in development program design, implementation and evaluation and ways must be found to connect present mechanisms of central-government control of land to traditional local systems of land control
Agriculture · Business · Central government · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Government (linguistics · Local economic development · Local government · Natural resource · Political science · Resource (disambiguation · Subsistence agriculture · Sustainable development · Socioeconomic Development in MENA · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |