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Climate Change and the Bay of Bengal : Evolving Geographies of Fear and Hope

Climate Change and the Bay of Bengal argues that in the era of climate change radically different understandings of security and sovereignty are at work. It questions the geopolitics of fear and the manner in which metanarratives of climate change tend to privilege the "global" and "n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Chaturvedi, Sanjay
Otros Autores: Sakhuja, Vijay
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: SG : ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Climate Change and the Bay of Bengal argues that in the era of climate change radically different understandings of security and sovereignty are at work. It questions the geopolitics of fear and the manner in which metanarratives of climate change tend to privilege the "global" and "national" scales over other scales, especially the regional and the local. The authors argue in favour of a new imagination of the Bay of Bengal space as a semi-enclosed sea, embedded in a large marine ecosystem, under the relevant provisions of the UNCLOS that impose various obligations upon its signatories to coo.
Descripción Física:1 online resource.
ISBN:9789814517935