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  • Environment, Climate Change and Migration in South Asia

    Edited by Amit Ranjan, Rajesh Kharat, Pallavi Deka ...
    Series series Migrations in South Asia
    Climate change has been fueling migration, and, according to some policy reports, there could more than one billion climate migrants/refugees across the world by 2050. In South Asia, disasters, environmental degradation, and climate change are increasing the number of migrants every year. In South Asia, like other parts of the world, migrants and displaced people mainly move within their ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber

    Communities, Conservation, and the State in Community-Based Forest Management

    by Nicholas Menzies ...
    Community-based forest management (CBFM) is a model of forest management in which a community takes part in decision making and implementation, and monitoring of activities affecting the natural resources around them. CBFM provides a framework for a community members to secure access to the products and services that flow from the landscape in which they live and has become an essential component ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Struggle Against the State

    Social Network and Protest Mobilization in India

    by Ashok Swain ...
    Many developing countries pursue policies of rapid industrialization in order to achieve faster economic growth. Some policies cause displacement forcing many individuals to take up a fight against the state. Interestingly some of these dissenting individuals are more successful in organizing their protests than others. In this book, Ashok Swain demonstrates how displaced people mobilize to ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Industrialising Rural India

    Land, policy and resistance

    Edited by Patrik Oskarsson, Kenneth Nielsen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    Rapid industrialisation is promoted by many as the most feasible way of rejuvenating the Indian economy, and as a way of generating employment on a large scale. At the same time, the transfer of land from rural communities and indigenous groups for industrial parks, mining, or Special Economic Zones has emerged as perhaps the most explosive issue in India over the past decade. Industrialising ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia

    Flows across Boundaries

    Edited by Vishal Narain, Dik Roth ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the implications of urbanization in South Asia for water (in-) security in the peri-urban spaces of Dhaka and Khulna in Bangladesh, Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune in India, and Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The book looks into specifically peri-urban water security issues in a context of rapid urbanization and social-environmental changes, including ... Read more

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  • Subaltern Movements in India

    Gendered Geographies of Struggle Against Neoliberal Development

    by Manisha Desai ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Social struggles in India target both the state and private corporations. Three subaltern struggles against development in Gujarat, India, succeeded, to varying degrees, due to legalism from below and translocal solidarity, but that success has been compromised by its gendered geographies.Based on extensive field research, this book examines the reasons for the three social movements succeess. It ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Women and Disasters in South Asia

    Survival, security and development

    Edited by Swarna Rajagopalan ...
    South Asia is one of the most vulnerable areas of an increasingly disaster-impacted world, with cyclones, earthquakes, floods and droughts causing several casualties and disrupting lives and livelihoods every year. Yet the impacts of disasters are not equally distributed across the peoples of the region.Women and men experience disaster differently, and their needs in the aftermath of disaster ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Threatening Dystopias

    The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh

    by Kasia Paprocki ...
    Series series Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment
    Bangladesh is currently ranked as one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world. In Threatening Dystopias, Kasia Paprocki investigates the politics of climate change adaptation throughout the South Asian nation. Drawing on ethnographic and archival fieldwork, she engages with developers, policy makers, scientists, farmers, and rural migrants to show how Bangladeshi and global elites ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Transboundary Water Management and the Climate Change Debate

    by Anton Earle, Ana Elisa Cascao, Stina Hansson, Anders Jägerskog, Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates. The starting point for this book is that actors within transboundary water management institutions develop responses to the climate change debate, as distinct from the physical phenomenon of climate change. Actors respond to this debate broadly in three distinct ways ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Migration in South Asia

    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edited by S. Irudaya Rajan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access Regional Reader provides a contemporary look at the emerging challenges and issues facing South Asian migration amidst covid-19 and discusses a framework for a sustainable and cooperative migration from and within the region, which will impact both the economic and regional development of South Asia.The book draws a focus on this area through an interdisciplinary and holistic lens ... Read more

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  • Environmental Governance for Sustainable Development

    South Asian Perspectives

    by Uma Nabhi ...
    This book studies the role of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as an advocate for greater environmental responsibility and analyses the major achievements and outcomes of two landmark conferences – Stockholm (1972) and Rio (1992) – which set the agenda for the future role of the UNEP. It discusses the UNEP’s evolution, objectives and the problems of differing perspectives within, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Building Back Better in India

    Development, NGOs, and Artisanal Fishers after the 2004 Tsunami

    by Dr. Raja Swamy ...
    Series series NGOgraphies: Ethnographic Reflections on NGOs
    Critically examines the role of humanitarian aid and disaster reconstructionBuilding Back Better in India: Development, NGOs, and Artisanal Fishers after the 2004 Tsunami addresses the ways in which natural disasters impact the strategies and priorities of neoliberalizing states in the contemporary era. In the light of growing scholarly and public concern over “disaster capitalism” and the ... Read more

    $39.59 USD