International Conflict over Water Resources in Himalayan Asia [electronic resource] /
Wirsing, R.author.
Jasparro, C.author.
Stoll, D.author.
The authors explore the fresh water crisis of Himalayan Asia. While the region hosts some of the world's mightiest rivers, it is also home to rapidly modernizing, increasingly affluent, and demographically multiplying societies, ensuring the rapid depletion of water resources and of disputes over ownership of transboundary waters.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Fundamentals of river rivalry in Himalayan Asia -- pt. II. Sources of transboundary river disputes -- pt. III. Alternatives to water conflict -- pt. IV. The future of Himalayan Asia's rivers.
The authors explore the fresh water crisis of Himalayan Asia. While the region hosts some of the world's mightiest rivers, it is also home to rapidly modernizing, increasingly affluent, and demographically multiplying societies, ensuring the rapid depletion of water resources and of disputes over ownership of transboundary waters.
Political economy.
Economic policy.
Asia—Politics and government.
Ethnology—Asia.
Physical geography.
Environmental policy.
International Political Economy.
Development Policy.
Asian Politics.
Asian Culture.
World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions).
Environmental Politics.