The agrarian crisis has pushed many to the cities in search of other work. But India’s economic growth, focused largely at the top, is not expanding employment opportunities. And much of the urban work is outdoor labor, which this year’s extreme heat has made dangerous. 农业危机将许多人...
IndiaDroughtIn this paper, we analyze a major controversy regarding the allocation of water for Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket matches during a period of extreme drought in the state of Maharashtra in India. We use a discursive approach to public policy to understand water policy production ...
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In Southeast Asia, UNHCR senior advisor on migration and human rights Pia Oberoi told CNBC thatmany people are already moving in the face of climate change and environmental degradation. watch now VIDEO04:05 Climate crisis: Price of inaction exceeds price of action, WEF president says However, ...
Politicization of environment is a unique feature of international politics in the twenty-first century. In the game of environmental politics, rising powers, like India, are playing a very decisive role as they are indispensable factors in achieving a solution of climate crisis. Since the beginnin...
This chapter discusses the prevailing paradigm governing agricultural land and water management in the rainfed drylands of India. It aims to nuance an existing narrative that tightly intertwines agrarian distress in these landscapes with primarily climatic factors鈥攕pecifically low or diminishing ...
highest rate of youth unemployment in the world, it makes me feel confident that with the right conditions we can have that conversation in Indonesia, in India, in other parts of Africa and in Latin America where the unemployment crisis may not be as acute as it is in South Africa,” he...
People who directly depend on the natural world for their livelihoods, like farmers and fishers, will be among the greatest victims of the climate crisis. In vulnerable hotspots, such as the arid lands of Kenya and Ethiopia, farming communities are already struggling with droughts and water scarci...
Climate Crisis: Himalaya Glacier Melt Feeds India’s and Pakistan’s Rivers, but 80% of Lower Level Glacier Mass could be gone this Century Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A newreport on icein the Himalayas issued byThe International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)finds that...
Electricity prices are two to three times more expensive than they are in the United States (and about three to four times more expensive than they are in India and China). At the risk of sounding alarmist, this is a slow-motion form of economic suicide. ...