Dubai, Architecture and Environment

If there is anything that the United Arab Emirates has proven that it does well, it is business. Jitendra (1) described the general business environment in the UAE as follows:

Before 1984, each emirate, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Umm Al Quwain and Fujairah, followed its own procedures governing the operations of foreign business interests. In 1984, Federal Law No.8 of 1984, its amendment by Federal Law No.13 of 1988 - the 'commercial Companies Law' and its by-laws have been issued. The law makes it conditional that nationals must wholly own the companies or that nationals must own at least 51% of its share capital, while the remaining 49% may belong to foreigners.

Dubai and the UAE are the largest market in the Middle East, second only to Saudi Arabia in terms of total trade (O'Sullivan 64).

To attract foreign businesses, Dubai, said John William Fenn (36), has made moves to create a commercial and leisure environment that will lead to the diversification of the economy and end reliance on oil reserves. The Dubai Marina is just one part of this effort, which also includes the provision of advanced home networking communications systems. The man-made marina is located on the Arabian Gulf in close proximity to the world's first six-star hotel, the Burg Al Arab, the Dubai Internet City, and the Dubai Media City.

Beginning in about 2000, the government of Dubai created a massive development

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of being depleted in the foreseeable future) and by environmentalists and other scientists who contend that "habitat degradation such as coastal building had helped cause major declines of local fish populations by exacerbating other environmental problems (Carrell 2). Abu Dhabi's own Environmental Research and Wildlife Development Agency (ERWDA) revealed that total stocks of 20 local species such as the twobar seabream and silver pomfret had been reduced by more than 80 percent since 1976 and that local hawksbill and green sea turtles are being endangered by this and other Dubai developments. The local concerns are also reflected in statements by Greenpeace, an international environmentalist organization that Carrell (2) states has joined in criticizing this development. Stive (2) noted that to accomplish the development of island with a natural look and feel that are environmentally sound and able to remain stable in the face of an astronomical tidal range of 1.2 meters and regular winter attacks by the so-called Shamal waves, the builders of this set of islands elected to use natural materials to the greatest extent possible. These materials include coarse sand, quarry run, and rocks up to about five or six tons. Pro

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