| Development, Governance and Environment in South Asia: A Focus on Bangladesh 1999 Edition Contributor(s): Alauddin, Mohammad (Editor), Hasan, Samiul (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0312219970 ISBN-13: 9780312219970 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 1999 Annotation: While the problems of low level of economic development, grinding poverty and environmental degredation are widespread throughout the developing world, few regions have taken a more severe toll than South Asia. The absence of a plural and open political system compounds the problems of overall socio-economic development. This book uses case studies to analyze different aspects of the economics-environment nexus. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Economy - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Political Science | World - General |
| Dewey: 338.954 |
| LCCN: 98-30663 |
| Physical Information: 1.26" H x 5.78" W x 8.87" (1.58 lbs) 371 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - East Asian |
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| Publisher Description: The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Many millions elsewhere in South-East Asia and South America may soon suffer a similar fate. Venomous Earth is the story of this tragedy: the geology, the biology, the politics and the history. It starts in Ancient Greece, touches down in today's North America and takes in William Morris, alchemy, farming, medicine, mining and a cosmetic that killed two popes. |