Environment Archives

Non-Traditional Security Challenges in Asia: Approaches and Responses

Publisher: Pentagon Press

Asia is challenged by a number of non-traditional security issues including the food–energy–water nexus, climate change, transnational crime, terrorism, disaster relief and economic performance. This volume categorizes and clarifies some key emerging issues in the area and looks at their interconnectedness and implications.

ISBN 978-11-3889-253-8,
Price: $110.00/-

Belt and Road Initiative and Environmental Challenges

Several Belt and Road Initiative projects pass through ecologically sensitive areas and in countries with weak environmental laws and governance.

India’s Environment Impact Assessment Draft 2020: Issues and Challenges

As and when the draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) 2020 is finalised, it is expected to incorporate the perspectives of multiple stakeholders in a balanced manner.

Opangmeren Jamir
February 08, 2021
Issue Brief

Coping with Environmental Challenges: The Importance of Evolving a Balance between Artha, Kama and Dharma

Only by making the concept of dharma central can a balance be evolved between the trivarga of artha, kama and dharma and lifestyle changes introduced to cope with climate change.

P. K. Gautam
March 23, 2016
IDSA Comments

Beijing is choking (and can’t hide it anymore)

Beijing’s smog, while recurrent, has been at its worst this winter and is an example of what is wrong with China’s political economy.

Avinash Godbole
January 15, 2013
IDSA Comments

Environmental and Cultural Degradation

The current growth trajectory is leading to serious environmental and cultural degradation—an issue that needs to be placed on priority and a holistic environmental impact assessment needs to be made public.

Climate Change and Environmental Degradation in Tibet: Implications for Environmental Security in South Asia

Both the Chinese government and the Tibetans are in agreement over the impending issues relating to the adverse impact of climate change on Tibet while the India-specific data on glacier melt is as yet inconclusive. There is, however, a difference of perception in Sino-Tibetan discourse over the capitalist model of economic development being undertaken by China which is at variance with the cultural practices of Tibetans, informed and regulated as they are with the Buddhist values of oneness with nature. Nomadism is also fundamental to the preservation of the ecology of Tibet.

Industrial and Environmental Disasters inside the Global Giant: Is something wrong with the Chinese development model?

The present reality of industrial and environmental disasters in China calls for a reality check about India blindly copying the Chinese development model.

Avinash Godbole
August 20, 2010
IDSA Comments

Extreme weather events in Ladakh of August 2010

The cloudburst in the high altitude cold desert region of Ladakh of the first week of August 2010 is not the usual but an extreme weather event.

P. K. Gautam
August 11, 2010
IDSA Comments

Global Warming, Environmentalism and Related Issues: The Other View

The sloppy work of the IPCC in noting that Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035 has raised many questions, with even the credibility of scientific opinion coming under doubt.

P. K. Gautam
February 11, 2010
IDSA Comments