The geopolitics of melting mountains : an international political ecology of the Himalaya / Alexander E. Davis.
Davis, Alexander E., author.
2023
JA75.8 .D38 2023
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Title The geopolitics of melting mountains : an international political ecology of the Himalaya / Alexander E. Davis.
Author Davis, Alexander E., author.
ISBN 9789819916818 (electronic bk.)
981991681X (electronic bk.)
9789819916801
9819916801
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1681-8
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 200 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-99-1681-8 doi
Call Number JA75.8 .D38 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 304.2095496
Summary The book addresses the urgent need for rethinking the geopolitics and ecology in the Himalaya, by emphasising the entanglements between these two factors. Most international relations analyses of the Himalaya emphasize the central role of the region's states and their great power struggles. By reducing the region to its state actors, however, we miss the intense more-than-human diversity of the region, and the crucial role that the mountains play in the global environment. In doing so, the book makes a major contribution to international relations theory by drawing on insights from international political ecology. It first theorises international political ecology and examines the Himalaya as a global region, before moving looking at the international aspects of political ecology in the Himalaya through key areas of the mountains where international politics and ecology are deeply, inextricably linked. It presents three detailed case studies of different environmental and political issues in the Himalaya: icecaps (the India-China-Pakistan boundary dispute in the western Himalaya), foothills and forests (the Nepal-Bhutan-Sikkim borderlands), and rivers (the India-China Bangladesh dispute over the Brahmaputra River basin). Each case study draws on a mix of source materials including fieldwork, government sources, foreign policy discourse, Himalayan ethnographies, and environmental and ecological sciences scholarship. Alexander E. Davis is a lecturer in International Relations at The University of Western Australia. His research focuses on South Asia's foreign relations, from historical, postcolonial and environmental perspectives.
Note Includes index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 18, 2023).
Series Critical studies of the Asia Pacific series, 2662-2238
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Politics and Ecology in the Himalaya
Chapter 2: Bridging International Relations and Political Ecology
Chapter 3: The Himalaya as an International Region
Chapter 4: Militaries on Melting Ice: The Ladakh-Gilgit-Western Tibet Ice caps
Chapter 5: Foothills, Forests and Fortresses: The Sikkim-Bhutan-Nepal Borderlands
Chapter 6: Competitive dam building in the Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra River basin
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Greening the Himalaya.

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