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Title: | MILITARIZATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE; CASE STUDY OF HIMALAYAN REGION |
Authors: | Jugnoo Aijaz |
Keywords: | Defence and Strategic Studies |
Issue Date: | 2022 |
Publisher: | Quaid I Azam university Islamabad |
Abstract: | The study explores how militarization had contributed to climate change in the Himalayan region. The Himalayan states had conducted extensive militarization in the region in order to hold their claims over the territory. Simultaneously, the data relives that the Himalayan region had lost significant of its glacier ice. Therefore, this study proposes few questions; why the states are militarizing the region, what are the implications of militarization over the climate, and how the climate change issue will accelerate the resource competition among states? To look for the answers to these questions, reliable sources of information were studies by using the qualitative method. The study further analyzed the states behavior in the Himalayan region through international relations theory offensive realism. This theory also evaluated states reluctance towards climate change cooperation, rather prefer to use cheap fossil fuels to maximize power. The study, therefore establishes a link between militarization in the region resulting in melting of the glacier. The melted water will flow into the tributaries of three major rivers in the region; Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra that flows through the Asian countries. Hence increase water flow will lead to climatic disasters like floods, more rainfall, and glacier lake outburst floods. This will damage the agriculture and livestock sector leading to food insecurity in the region. The study also provides recommendations in order to prioritize the issue of climate change in the Himalayan region in order to reduce the catastrophic impacts from climate change |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/26967 |
Appears in Collections: | M.Phil |
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