Human Security in South Asia Concept, Environment and Development

This book delves into the theory and praxis of human security in South Asia. Home to almost a quarter of the world?s population and fast emerging markets, South Asia holds social, geopolitical and economic significance in the current global context.

The chapters in the volume:

• examine the challenges to human security through an exploration of environmental issues including water availability, electric waste, environmental governance and climate change;
• explore key themes such as development, displacement and migration, the role of civil society, sustainable development and poverty; and
• discuss developmental issues in South Asia and provide a holistic picture of non-military security issues.

Bringing together scholars from varied disciplines, this comprehensive volume will be useful for researchers, teachers and students of international relations, human rights, political science, development studies, human geography and demography, defense and strategic studies, migration and diaspora studies, and South Asian studies.

Introduction Part I: Human Security in South Asia: Conceptual Issues 1. Human Security: A Conceptual Framework 2. Measurements of Human Security: A Conceptual Analysis 3. Human Security and Beyond 4. Human Security in South Asia: The Locus of a Cooperative Context 5. Is the Region Ready? Can the State Deliver? Essay from India 6. Is the Region Ready? Can the State Deliver? Essay from Pakistan Part II: Environmental Issues and Human Security 7. Water Insecurity in South Asia: Challenges of Human Development 8. Climate Change and Human Security: A Case Study of Maldives 9. Dangers of Electronic Waste in India: A Concern for Human Security Part III: State, Development & Displacement in South Asia 10. Correcting Anomalies of a Dysfunctional State through Civil Society: Initiatives to Complement Global Attempts for Human Security 11. Human Development vis-a-vis Gross National Happiness in Bhutan: Challenges and Achievements 12. Linkages between Migration and Poverty in Nepal 13. Sustainable Development Model: Experience from India 14. Reintegrating India’s Maoists: Surrender and Rehabilitation 15. Development Induced Displacement: Case Studies from India

Adluri Subramanyam Raju isProfessor and former Head of UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute of South Asia Regional Cooperation (UMISARC) and Centre for South Asian Studies, and Coordinator of the UGC Centre for Maritime Studies, Pondicherry University, India. He is the recipient of the Mahbub Ul Haq Award (Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Colombo, 2003); Scholar of Peace Award (WISCOMP, New Delhi, 2002) and Kodikara Award (RCSS, Colombo, 1998). He was Salzburg Seminar Fellow (2006). He received the National Best Teacher Award (C.V.S. Krishnamurthy Theja Charities, Tirupati, 2017) and Best Teacher Award twice (Pondicherry University, 2013 & 2018). He was a visiting fellow at the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies, Colombo, May 2012. He is on the editorial board of five journals.