Climate Change Governance and Adaptation: Case Studies from South Asia

ISBN-13: 9781138054509 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 188 str.

Anamika Barua; Vishal Narain; Sumit Vij

Opis

Climate change in this book is seen not only as an environmental problem but as a societal challenge too and as such discusses the governance issues from an interdisciplinary approach and across different scales: local, state, and national.

Spis treści

1. Governance of Climate Change: Issues and Challenges in South Asia 2. "A Disappearing" or a Resilient Ganga? Climate Change Perspectives from the Himalaya 3. Deliberative Governance on Vulnerability to Climate Change: Voices from Madhesi Farmers 4. Waste or Savior? Two Cases of Emerging Wastewater Irrigation in Urbanizing Kathmandu Valley 5. Climate Migration and Flood Related Disasters 6. Changing Social Capital in the Mountains and the Implications for Adaptation Interventions: An Exploratory Analysis with Case Studies from the Hindu Kush Himalaya 7. Enhancing Adaptive Capacity through Education: A Case Study of Rural Mountain Communities, Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya India 8. Governing National Actions for Global Climate Change Stabilization: Examples from India 9. Bridges and Barriers for Governance of Water Resources in South Asia—Insights from Brahmaputra Basin in India