Imagining Industan Overcoming Water Insecurity in the Indus Basin
This volume calls upon over a dozen Indus observers to imagine a scenario for the Indus basin in which transboundary cooperation over water resources overcomes the insecurity arising from water dependence and scarcity. From diverse perspectives, its essay
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Zafar Adeel Robert G. Wirsing Editors
Imagining Industan Overcoming Water Insecurity in the Indus Basin
Water Security in a New World Series editor Zafar Adeel, Pacific Water Research Centre, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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Zafar Adeel • Robert G. Wirsing Editors
Imagining Industan Overcoming Water Insecurity in the Indus Basin
Editors Zafar Adeel United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health Hamilton, ON, Canada
Robert G. Wirsing Formerly, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar
Doha, Qatar
Water Security in a New World ISBN 978-3-319-32843-0 ISBN 978-3-319-32845-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32845-4
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Preface
The world is encountering an era in which new threats and opportunities abound. Terrorism threatens peace and harmony far and wide, but equally challenging are a host of threats stemming from what many consider as even more menacing developments such as overpopulation, climate change, loss of species diversity, failures of governance, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, spread of epidemic disease, and mounting resource scarcities, to name only some of them. Whatever their disciplinary leanings, practically all serious observers of world affairs characterize the present era as one unusually beset with a myriad of deeply disturbing trends and, as well, with more than the usual turbulence and unpredictability. Some of these observers determinedly busy themselves nevertheless trying to tease from the chaos at least the broad outlines of the future, and they do not infrequently offer up alarming and conflict-laden scenar
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