Water : Asia's new battleground / Brahma Chellaney
Imprint
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2011
Edition
1st ed
Descript
ix, 386p. : ill, maps ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Introduction. -- Asia: global water crisis hub. -- Murky hydropolitics. -- The Tibetan Plateau: the world's most unique water repository. -- Exploiting the Riparian advantage: a key test case. -- Managing intrastate water conflicts. -- Mitigating intercountry water disputes or discord. -- Asia's challenge: forestalling bloodletting over water -- Interstate freshwater agreements in Asia since the state of the decolonization process. -- Web links to key Asian water treaties.