Water Asia's New Battleground

Name: Water Asia's New Battleground
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ISBN: 9781626160125

ISBN-10: 1626160120

ISBN-13: 9781626160125

Edition: 2011

Authors: Brahma Chellaney

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Winner of the Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz 2012 Book AwardThe battles of yesterday were fought over land. Those of today are over energy. But the battles of tomorrow may be over water. Nowhere is that danger greater than in water-distressed Asia.Water stress is set to become Asia's defining crisis of the twenty-first century, creating obstacles to continued rapid economic growth, stoking interstate tensions over shared resources, exacerbating long-time territorial disputes, and imposing further hardships on the poor. Asia is home to many of the world's great rivers and lakes, but its huge population and exploding economic and agricultural demand for water make it the most water-scarce…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Publication date: 7/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English