Workshop Director: Employment, Tourism, and the State Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Doha, December 8 & 9, 2013 

Organization & Chair of the First International Symposium on Saudi Arabia’s Heritage, forthcoming at the University of York, UK, 2014 (in preparation) 

Spiess, A., Al-Mubarak, F., Weber, A., (eds): Sustainable Tourism Development in the Gulf: Reconciling Economic Growth, Conservation and Sustainable Development, NY: Springer, 2013
 

Spiess, A.: Environmental Degradation, Climate Uncertainties and Human Vulnerabilities - Realm of Possible Actions toward a Shifting Security Paradigm in the Arab Gulf Monarchies, in: Scheffran, J., et al. : Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict - Challenges to Societal Stability. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace. Berlin: Springer, 2012, p. 387 – p. 408.