Water - Asia''s New Battleground

Informationen zum Autor Brahma Chellaney! one of India's leading strategic thinkers and analysts! is a professor at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. He has served as a member of the Policy Advisory Group headed by the foreign minister of India! and as an adviser to India's National Security Council. He has held appointments at Harvard University! the Brookings Institution! Johns Hopkins University! and the Australian National University. He is the author of five previous books! including Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China! India! and Japan. Klappentext Water stress is set to become Asia's defining crisis of the twenty-first century! creating obstacles to continued rapid economic growth! stoking interstate tensions over shared resources! exacerbating long-time territorial disputes! and imposing further hardships on the poor. This title deals with this topic. Zusammenfassung Water stress is set to become Asia's defining crisis of the twenty-first century! creating obstacles to continued rapid economic growth! stoking interstate tensions over shared resources! exacerbating long-time territorial disputes! and imposing further hardships on the poor. This title deals with this topic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Asia: Global Water Crisis Hub 2. Murky Hydropolitics 3. The Tibetan Plateau: The World's Most Unique Water Repository 4. Exploiting the Riparian Advantage: A Key Test Case 5. Managing Intrastate Water Conflicts 6. Mitigating Intercountry Water Disputes or Discord 7. Asia's Challenge: Forestalling Bloodletting over Water AppendicesA: Interstate Freshwater Agreements in Asia since the Start of the Decolonization ProcessB: Web Links to Key Asian Water Treaties Notes About the Author Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Brahma Chellaney, Chellaney Brahma
• Verlag: Georgetown University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 25.07.2013
• EAN: 9781626160125
• ISBN: 978-1-62616-012-5
• Seiten: 384
• Serien: Water; Water
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Vergleichende und internationale Politikwissenschaft; NATURE / Natural Resources, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, International Relations, Science / Environmental Science, Drought & Water Supply, Drought and water supply, Asia;security;;freshwater agreements;hydropolitics