Water ─ Asia's New Battleground

Chellaney (Center for Policy Research, New Delhi) highlights the long-term security implications of new political tensions surrounding transnational aquifers and international rivers in Asia, focusing in particular on the role of Tibet as Asia's water repository, water supplier, and rainmaker. The author employs an interdisciplinary perspective, blending ideas and research from geopolitics, sustainability science, and international law. The book includes a case study on international political and environmental implications of Chinese plans to build the world's largest dam on the Brahmaputra River. The author offers policy recommendations on preventing armed conflict over water and distributing water more equally. Appendices list water agreements and weblinks to Asian water treaties. Numerous b&w maps are included. The book's readership includes scholars, policymakers, scientists, and students. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Brahma Chellaney, one of India's leading strategic thinkers and analysts, is a professor at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. He has served as a member of the Policy Advisory Group headed by the foreign minister of India, and as an adviser to India's National Security Council. He has held appointments at Harvard University, the Brookings Institution, Johns Hopkins University, and the Australian National University. He is the author of five previous books, including Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India, and Japan.