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The Routledge Atlas of South Asian affairs /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bradnock, Robert W. (Author)
Other Authors: Lawrence, Catherine (Cartographer)
Format: Map
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
Subjects:
South Asia > Economic conditions > Maps.
South Asia > Politics and government > Maps.
South Asia > Foreign relations > Maps.
South Asia > Maps.
Table of Contents:
  • South Asia and the world powers
  • South Asia and its neighbours
  • South Asia and the Muslim world
  • South Asia: the cultural fabric
  • Plate tectonics and South Asia's contemporary environments
  • Mountains, valleys and plains: the relief of South Asia
  • South Asian climates
  • Water resources
  • Natural vegetation and the challenge to biodiversity
  • Energy resources
  • Non-energy mineral resources
  • The settlement history of South Asia
  • British and Princely India at independence
  • Partition and the newly independent states of South Asia
  • Independent South Asia: contrasting experiences of governance
  • South Asia: the Cold War era
  • Population issues: density and growth
  • Fertility and mortality
  • Urbanisation
  • Health and morbidity
  • Literacy in South Asia
  • South Asia's external borders: the legacies of an imperial past
  • New borders and unresolved disputes: the post-colonial legacy
  • South Asia's water resources: reaching the limits?
  • The geopolitics of cross-boundary water resource use
  • Natural disasters and environmental risk
  • Environmental security: air and water pollution and soil degradation
  • Climate change in South Asia
  • The economies of South Asia
  • Defence and security in South Asia
  • South Asia: entering an era of co-operative development?