
Environment, Development and Human Security
Perspectives from South Asia
Adil Najam(Editor)
University Press of America
Published on 5. May 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
294 pages
978-0-7618-2571-5 (ISBN)
Description
The purpose of this collected volume of essays is to build on and contribute to the larger conceptual literature on environment and security. In particular, the book seeks to fill one of the glaring gaps within this stream of scholarship- the inadequate number of existing case studies for South Asia and its component territories. Written entirely by the leading scholars from South Asia, the book examines a region that is the setting for some of the most important environmental security challenges of our time.
Reviews / Votes
Environment, Development and Human Society is a worthy contribution to...environment-security scholarship. The book's empirical focus...reminds academics to stay grounded instead of drifting away from practitioners' concerns. * Environmental Change and Security Project * This work provides strong support for the relevance and prescience of human security. By moving beyond the often narrow academic debate, the authors show that a change in security thinking is needed and wanted on the ground, remarkably doing so in a region typically hostile to any questioning of national authority. -- Taylor Owen * Journal of Peace Research * This work provides strong support for the relevance and prescience of human security. By moving beyond the often narrow academic debate, the authors show that a change in security thinking is needed and wanted on the ground, remarkably doing so in a region typically hostile to any questioning of national authority. -- Taylor Owen * Journal of Peace Research * Environment, Development and Human Society is a worthy contribution to...environment-security scholarship. The book's empirical focus...reminds academics to stay grounded instead of drifting away from practitioners' concerns. * Environmental Change and Security Project *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
420 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-2571-5 (9780761825715)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Adil Najam is Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Boston University.
Content
Chapter 1 Boxes, Tables & Figures; Foreword; Environment & Security: Exploring the Links; Sustainable Development as a New Security Paradigm for India; Environmental Security in Pakistan: Are their Grounds for Optimism?; Environment & Security in Bangladesh; Explor