Guides: South Asian Studies: Environment and Sustainability

General

Climate Adaptation in South Asia (The Salata Institute at Harvard University)
Climate and Development in South Asia | World Bank
Environmental Science Library Research Guide
South Asia Climate Roadmap | World Bank
South Asian Seas | UN Environment Programme
UN Environment Programme Asia and Pacific Office UNEP’s Asia and the Pacific Office works to promote a green and just transition that delivers inclusive solutions to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste.

Scholarly Resources

Earth Science Pakistan
Hydro Nepal: Journal of Water, Energy and Environment
Indian Journal of Sustainable Development
Law, Environment and Development (LEAD) Journal The LEAD Journal publishes articles, case notes and documents of interest to professionals, practitioners, researchers, students and policy-makers in the field of international and regional environmental law and domestic environmental laws of developing countries. LEAD Journal emphasises a comparative approach to the study of environmental law and is the only journal in the field to carry a North-South focus. It is unique in providing perspectives from both developed and developing countries.
Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences: B. Life and Environmental Sciences

Himalayan Studies

Digital Himalaya
Digital Himalaya is a project to develop digital collection, storage and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region.
Himalaya: the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Himalayan Research Bulletin of the Nepal Studies Association

The Third Pole

Arctic - Third Pole - Himalaya: at the Frontlines of Climate Change (YouTube)
The Himalaya Third Pole Glaciers: Consequences for Weather and Seasons in Japan (YouTube)
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is an intergovernmental knowledge and learning centre working on behalf of the people of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH). We are based in Kathmandu, Nepal and work in and for our eight regional member countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan.
Pahar: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD)
This Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD) consists of a collection of books, journals and maps related broadly to the Himalayas and its outlying attached ranges including the Hindu Kush, the Karakorams, the Pamirs, the Tian Shan and the Kuen Lun as well as the Tibetan highlands and the Tarim basin. These materials are housed in this site, and are freely available for personal non-commercial use and downloading.
The Third Pole Platform
The Third Pole is a multilingual platform dedicated to promoting information and discussion about the Himalayan watershed and the rivers that originate there.

Environmental Justice

The Adivasi Struggle Against Environmental Injustice
The Burden of Climate Injustice: The Catastrophic Floods in Pakistan
Dalits and Indian Environmental Politics In India, glorifying the past overshadows the reality of caste oppression within environmental issues. Dalit voices, often ignored, offer crucial critiques and reshape key concepts like development and community. This article delves into their perspectives, urging a deeper understanding of environmental politics through the lens of caste.
Decolonise Science – Time to End Another Imperial Era
Disaster in Conflict Zone, Conflict over Disaster This article discusses how the September 2014 floods in Jammu and Kashmir exposed the special problems of disaster relief in a conflict zone.
Fluid landscapes, sovereign nature: Conservation and counterinsurgency in Indian-controlled Kashmir This article analyzes how environmentalism reinscribed violent forms of state sovereignty in the disputed region of Kashmir in the aftermath of a decade-long uprising against Indian rule. After the return of an elected government, six years after its suspension in 1990, environmental restoration legitimized new forms of state and nature making in Kashmir. Nature rather than territory emerged as an arena of citizen activism, which further strengthened the state's ability to regulate the use and management of Kashmir's water resources. State and civic bodies deployed discourses of history and restoration to create new and imagined ecologies based on visions of nostalgia, commerce, and esthetics. By undermining place-based understandings of nature and ecology, discourses of environmental stewardship and conservation ended up fostering violent mechanisms of social and political control.
India’s Environmental Justice Movements (Center for the Advanced Study of India at UPenn)
Invisibility of Caste in Environmental Studies
When Land Is Lost, Do We Eat Coal?: Coal Mining and Violations of Adivasi Rights in India