Natural Resource Management in South Asia

Preface

Concerned civil society organizations dreamt of a New South Asia—free from want, fear, oppression, poverty, hunger, injustice, conflict and environmental disasters. This initiative called ‘Imagine a New South Asia’ aimed at carrying out well-informed and well-researched policy advocacy around four major challenges facing South Asia—peace and justice, governance and democracy, economic issues, and natural resource management. The idea was to put together a citizens’ perspective on these challenges so that governments and people in the region may be sensitized towards a combined struggle against common threats to people of South Asia.

It was in this context that we started to compile a consolidated write-up from citizen’s perspective ...