Human Security in South Asia: Concept, Environment and Development

✍ Scribed by Adluri Subramanyam Raju

Publisher: Routledge India
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 217
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book delves into the theory and praxis of human security in South Asia. Home to almost a quarter of the world’s population and fast emerging markets, South Asia holds social, geopolitical and economic significance in the current global context.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Human security in South Asia: conceptual issues
1 Human security: a conceptual framework
2 Measurements of human security: a conceptual analysis
3 Human security and beyond
4 Human security in South Asia: the locus of a cooperative context
5 Is the region ready? Can the state deliver? Essay from India
6 Is the region ready? Can the state deliver? Essay from Pakistan
Part II Environmental issues and human security
7 Water insecurity in South Asia: challenges of human development
8 Climate change and human security: a case study of the Maldives
9 Dangers of electronic waste in India: a concern for human security
Part III State, development and displacement in South Asia
10 Correcting anomalies of a dysfunctional state through civil society: initiatives to complement global attempts for human security
11 Human development vis-à-vis Gross National Happiness in Bhutan: challenges and achievements
12 Linkages between migration and poverty in Nepal
13 Sustainable development model: experience from India
14 Reintegrating India’s Maoists: surrender and rehabilitation
15 Development-induced displacement: case studies from India
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