Disasters, Climate Change and Sustainability in South Asia: Challenges and the Way Forward
暫譯: 南亞的災難、氣候變遷與可持續性：挑戰與前進之道
Haque, Mahfuzul, Begum, Marzina, Nawaz, Faraha
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商品描述
South Asia is the most densely populated region in Asia, while Asia is the most populous region globally. These regions are at the forefront of the climate disaster. Rising sea levels, changing coastlines, increasing frequency of extreme weather events, and increased temperatures are among the most catastrophic events generated by climate change. All these factors threaten the regional and global community and present challenges to the policy framework. Specifically, vulnerable and marginalized populations are significantly impacted by these disasters. As these regions confront the complex effects of climate change, a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and sustainable approach is essential. This book offers an extensive examination of disasters, climate change, and sustainability issues with special reference to South Asia.
This edited volume offers new insightful knowledge to support policymakers and researchers to create a resilient future in South Asia, in the face of disasters, climate change, and sustainable development challenges. The book begins by delineating theoretical approaches for reducing climate change-induced disasters from a South Asian perspective. The subsequent chapters analyze many phenomena, including heat waves, riverbank erosion, climate-induced migration, policy challenges related to climate change, and the relationship between them. Providing a survey of the contemporary challenges and strategies for disaster response and climate change mitigation in the South Asian context, this volume offers a comprehensive resource for a diverse audience of academics, development practitioners, legislators and policymakers interested in disaster management, climate change, and sustainability studies in South Asia and beyond.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
南亞是亞洲人口最稠密的地區，而亞洲則是全球人口最多的地區。這些地區正處於氣候災難的最前線。海平面上升、海岸線變化、極端天氣事件頻率增加以及氣溫上升，都是氣候變化所引發的最具災難性的事件。所有這些因素威脅著區域和全球社會，並對政策框架提出挑戰。特別是，脆弱和邊緣化的人口受到這些災難的重大影響。隨著這些地區面對氣候變化的複雜影響，採取全面的、跨學科的和可持續的方法至關重要。本書對災難、氣候變化和可持續性問題進行了廣泛的探討，特別針對南亞地區。
這本編輯的著作提供了新的深刻見解，以支持政策制定者和研究人員在面對災難、氣候變化和可持續發展挑戰時，創造南亞的韌性未來。本書首先從南亞的角度勾勒出減少氣候變化引發的災難的理論方法。隨後的章節分析了許多現象，包括熱浪、河岸侵蝕、氣候引發的移民、與氣候變化相關的政策挑戰及其之間的關係。本書提供了當前挑戰和災難應對及氣候變化緩解策略的調查，針對南亞的背景，為學術界、發展實踐者、立法者和政策制定者提供了一個全面的資源，這些人對南亞及其他地區的災難管理、氣候變化和可持續性研究感興趣。
作者簡介
Dr Mahfuzul Haque, on retirement as the Secretary of the Government of Bangladesh, has been teaching for a decade and half as an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Development Studies, Bangladesh Institute of Governance and Management, Dhaka University and Department of Sociology at Bangladesh University of Professionals, Dhaka. His areas of interest are sustainable development; natural resource management; combating climate change; biodiversity conservation; natural disaster management; dams and development; development-induced displacement; development disaster; indigenous knowledge and practices, environmental laws and enforcement etc. He is a prolific writer and extensively contributed book chapters in edited books published by Springer-Nature, Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan. His contribution on "Environmental Governance" has appeared in The Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. He has far consulted for the Government of Bangladesh in collaboration with many development partners, like, UNDP, UNICEF, FAO, ILO, DFID, JETI, OXFAM, European Union etc.
Dr Mst. Marzina Begum is a Professor of Public Administration at the University of Rajshahi in Bangladesh. She received her Bachelor of Social Science (BSS) and Master of Social Science (MSS) degrees from the University of Rajshahi (Bangladesh) and she was the Institute of Environmental Science (IES) fellow at Rajshahi University before her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree awarded from the University of Pavia (Italy) on Institution, Administration and Regional Policies (IAPR) with Italian Government scholarship. Her primary research interests include Disaster Management, Disaster Risk Reduction, Environmental Policy and Governance, and Global Climate Change. She has published more than 30 research articles in international renowned journals, as well as chapters in books published with Taylor & Francis Group, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, and Routledge. She has received prestigious Gro Brundtland award by the Tang Prize Foundation, Taiwan in 2016 and another award from Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gujarat, India in 2023.
Dr. Faraha Nawaz is a Professor of the department of the Public Administration at University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. As an academic, she has devoted herself in undertaking wide-ranging research in social sciences in general and gender issues in particular, and has published more than 30 articles in peer reviewed international journals, chapters in edited books, and three books published with Springer and Palgrave Macmillan. Dr. Nawaz is an active member of a number of international professional groups and networks and has presented scholarly papers in various international conferences. She is a recipient of various prestigious awards including the Charles Wallace award, Dev net Research award, Malaysian scholarly award, and an Australian Government scholarship. She was an international fellow of Brown University, USA and a research fellow of Contemporary South Asian Studies program, University of Oxford, UK.
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馬哈夫祖爾·哈克博士在退休後擔任孟加拉國政府秘書，已在達卡大學的發展研究系及孟加拉專業大學的社會學系擔任兼任教職達十五年。他的研究興趣包括可持續發展、自然資源管理、應對氣候變遷、生物多樣性保護、自然災害管理、水壩與發展、發展引起的移民、發展災難、原住民知識與實踐、環境法律及執行等。他是一位多產的作家，並在Springer-Nature、Routledge和Palgrave Macmillan出版的編輯書籍中貢獻了多個章節。他在《全球公共行政、公共政策與治理百科全書》中發表了有關「環境治理」的貢獻。他曾與多個發展夥伴（如UNDP、UNICEF、FAO、ILO、DFID、JETI、OXFAM、歐盟等）合作，為孟加拉國政府提供諮詢服務。
馬爾齊娜·貝古姆博士是孟加拉國拉傑沙希大學的公共行政教授。她在拉傑沙希大學獲得社會科學學士（BSS）和社會科學碩士（MSS）學位，並在獲得意大利帕維亞大學的哲學博士（PhD）學位之前，曾是拉傑沙希大學環境科學研究所（IES）的研究員。她的主要研究興趣包括災害管理、災害風險減少、環境政策與治理以及全球氣候變遷。她在國際知名期刊上發表了超過30篇研究文章，並在Taylor & Francis Group、Springer、Palgrave Macmillan和Routledge出版的書籍中撰寫了章節。她於2016年獲得台灣唐獎基金會頒發的格羅·布倫特蘭獎，並於2023年獲得印度古吉拉特邦的潘迪特·丁達爾能源大學頒發的另一獎項。
法拉哈·納瓦茲博士是孟加拉國拉傑沙希大學公共行政系的教授。作為一名學者，她致力於進行社會科學的廣泛研究，特別是性別議題，並在同行評審的國際期刊上發表了超過30篇文章、編輯書籍中的章節，以及與Springer和Palgrave Macmillan出版的三本書。納瓦茲博士是多個國際專業團體和網絡的活躍成員，並在各種國際會議上發表學術論文。她獲得了包括查爾斯·華萊士獎、Dev net研究獎、馬來西亞學術獎和澳大利亞政府獎學金等多項榮譽。她曾是美國布朗大學的國際研究員，以及英國牛津大學當代南亞研究計劃的研究員。
