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Environment, development, and human security : perspectives from South Asia / edited by Adil Najam.
Lippincott Library HC430.6.Z9 E542 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable development--South Asia.
- Sustainable development.
- Environmental policy--Social aspects--South Asia.
- Environmental policy.
- Basic needs--South Asia.
- Basic needs.
- Quality of life--South Asia.
- Quality of life.
- Environmental policy--Social aspects.
- South Asia--Environmental conditions.
- South Asia.
- Environmental conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 286 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2003]
- Summary:
- This collected volume of essays provides a set of fresh and pertinent perspectives on environment and security coming from the leading South Asian scholars on the subject.
- Contents:
- 1 Environment & Security: Exploring the Links / Adil Najam 1
- 2 Sustainable Development as a New Security Paradigm for India / Vandana Asthana, Ashok C. Shukla 25
- 3 Environmental Security in Pakistan: Are their Grounds for Optimism? / Shaheen Rafi Khan 67
- 4 Environment & Security in Bangladesh / A. Atiq Rahman, Zahid H. Chowdhury, Ahsan U. Ahmed 103
- 5 Exploring the Environment & Security Nexus in Sri Lanka / Sarath W. Kotagama 129
- 6 A Cultural Theory Perspective on Environment & Security in Nepal / Ajaya Dixit, Dipak Gyawali 155
- 7 Energy and Security in South Asia: A Multiple Frameworks Analysis / Kumudu Gunasekera, Adil Najam 171
- 8 Land-use & Food Security: The Green Revolution & Beyond / Khalid Saeed 201
- 9 Water & Security: A Reexamination / Ramaswamy R. Iyer 225
- 10 Environment & Security in South Asia: Lessons & Conclusions / Adil Najam 245.
- Notes:
- This book is the result of a Regional Centre for Strategic Studies project on Non-Traditional Security Issues in South Asia, comprised of workshops and a two-year long study. To develop the program a planning conference was held at Rajendrapur in Dhaka, October 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761825711
- OCLC:
- 52334856
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