Oman, an emerging renewable energy Indian Ocean State has a rich Tarikh or a history to note. Mandvi in Kutch is 600 miles from Sur where the Sea of Oman becomes the Arabian Sea. An understanding of history will enable the post oil transitions which the climate era entails.

I grew up in Muscat and am involved in the intellectual life of the Khaleej in an engaged manner having worked on almost every leading infrastructure planning project as a social specialist in the past decade.

Happy to see the new HREDD regulations calling for an intersectional lens to transnational non financial risk in global value chains, as an engineer and ethnographer, the sociotechnical approach is rich in nuance as single issue topics give an incomplete perspective in an Uber Risk Society of climate, human rights and digital vectors.