Water Insecurity in the Indus Basin: The Costs of Noncooperation
Publisher: United Nations University - Institute for Water, Environment and Health
Author(s): Ashok Swain
Date: 2017
Topics: Cooperation, Renewable Resources
Countries: Afghanistan, China, India, Pakistan
The world is encountering an era in which new threats and opportunities abound. Terrorism threatens peace and harmony far and wide, but equally challenging are a host of threats stemming from what many consider as even more menacing developments such as overpopulation, climate change, loss of species diversity, failures of governance, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, spread of epidemic disease, and mounting resource scarcities, to name only some of them. Whatever their disciplinary leanings, practically all serious observers of world affairs characterize the present era as one unusually beset with a myriad of deeply disturbing trends and, as well, with more than the usual turbulence and unpredictability. Some of these observers determinedly busy themselves nevertheless trying to tease from the chaos at least the broad outlines of the future, and they do not infrequently offer up alarming and conflict-laden scenarios under the ominous label of the “coming global disorder.”