Water: Asia's New Battleground

by Brahma Chellaney

Book Overview

Winner of the Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz 2012 Book Award The battles of yesterday were fought over land. Those of today are over energy. But the battles of tomorrow may be over water. Nowhere is that danger greater than in water-distressed Asia. Water stress is set to become Asia's defining crisis of the twenty-first century, creating obstacles to continued rapid economic growth, stoking interstate tensions over shared resources, exacerbating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589017714
• ISBN13: 9781589017719
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher