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Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management

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Water: Asia's New Battleground

Submit 12 months word: First released in 2011
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The battles of the previous day have been fought over land. these of this day are over power. however the battles of day after today might be over water. Nowhere is that risk more than in water-distressed Asia.

Water pressure is determined to develop into Asia's defining challenge of the twenty-first century, growing stumbling blocks to endured speedy financial development, stoking interstate tensions over shared assets, exacerbating long-time territorial disputes, and enforcing additional hardships at the negative. Asia is domestic to a few of the world's nice rivers and lakes, yet its large inhabitants and exploding monetary and agricultural call for for water make it the main water-scarce continent on a consistent with capita foundation. lots of Asia's water assets go nationwide limitations, and as much less and no more water is out there, overseas tensions will upward push. the possibility of clash is extra underscored by means of China's unmatched international prestige because the resource of transboundary river flows to the most important variety of international locations, starting from India and Vietnam to Russia and Kazakhstan; but a fast-rising China has declined to go into into water-sharing or cooperative treaties with those states, while it faucets the assets of overseas rivers.

Water: Asia's New Battleground is a pioneering research of Asia's murky water politics and the relationships among freshwater, peace, and protection. during this detailed and hugely readable booklet, Brahma Chellaney expertly paints a bigger photograph of water throughout Asia, highlights the safety implications of resource-linked territorial disputes, and proposes genuine thoughts to prevent clash and extra equitably proportion Asia's water

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