Democracy, sustainable development, and peace : new perspectives on South Asia
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Democracy, sustainable development, and peace : new perspectives on South Asia
Oxford University Press, 2014
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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"... based on the papers and presentations delivered at the World Conference on Recreating South Asia: Democracy, Social Justice and Sustainable Development, held at the India International Centre, New Delhi, during 24-26 February 2011. The conference was organized by South Asia Centre for Policy Studies (SACEPS) and Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS). "--Foreword
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines in the context of South Asia, four inter related dimensions that constitute the central policy challenges of our time: consolidating democracy, confronting violent extremism, overcoming mass poverty, and addressing the challenge of climate change. These dimensions are explored at the country-specific as well as the regional level, by some of the leading scholars and eminent public figures from the region, and interconnected by the editors through a new perspective.
Consolidating democracy in societies with varying degrees of hierarchical rigidity requires governments to give space to civil society and provide institutional access to the under-privileged strata of society over governance decisions that affect their life. Such empowerment requires rapid poverty reduction through inclusive growth and creation of high wage employment. Apart from currently exclusive institutional structures in the economies of South Asia, a major hurdle in achieving inclusive
growth is climate change, which has a relatively greater adverse effect on the poor. Mitigation and adaptation measures in the face of climate change require regional cooperation in South Asia for joint water shed management, improved efficiency of irrigation and water use, development of
heat-resistant varieties of food grains, and developing decentralized food stock silos to give quick access over food grain to the people in case of severe shortages. This requires cooperation and coordinated policy efforts among South Asian countries. The editors advocate that a prerequisite for such efforts is a new approach based on inter-state peace and cooperation that could facilitate the establishment within individual nation states of institutional links between democratic structures,
development initiatives, managing violence and conserving the environment.
Table of Contents
- SECTION I: DEMOCRACY
- SECTION II: INCLUSIVE GROWTH
- SECTION III: THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
- SECTION IV: PEACE
- SECTION V: SOUTH ASIA'S DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE
- SECTION VI: RECOVERING A SHARED SENSIBILITY FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: UNITY AND DIVERSITY IN THE SOUTH ASIAN CULTURAL TRADITIONS
- SECTION VII: PERSPECTIVE ON SOUTH ASIA
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