ABOUT THE BOOK
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Climate Change and the
Bay of Bengal argues
that in the era of climate change radically different understandings of
security and sovereignty are at work. It questions the geopolitics of fear and
the manner in which metanarratives of climate change tend to privilege the
“global” and “national” scales over other scales, especially the regional and
the local. The authors argue in favour of a new imagination of the Bay of
Bengal space as a semi-enclosed sea, embedded in a large marine ecosystem,
under the relevant provisions of the UNCLOS that impose various obligations
upon its signatories to cooperate at a regional level. Such an imagination,
anchored in geographies of hope, should not remain confined to official domains
and discourses but become a part of popular socio- spatial consciousness
through a regional public diplomacy reaching out to the grassroots level. A Bay
of Bengal regional seas programme, under the auspices of UNEP, should be
conceptualized and operationalized in a manner that explicitly factors in
climate change consequences into the existing understandings and approaches to
environmental-human security in the region.
ABOUT Author
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Dr Sanjay Chaturvedi is Professor of Political Science at
the Center for the Study of Geopolitics, and Honorary Director, Centre for the
Study of Mid-West and Central Asia, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. He specializes
in the theory and practices of Geopolitics; with special reference to Polar
Regions and the Indian Ocean Region. His current area of research is
geopolitics of climate change. He is the founding Vice-Chairman of Indian Ocean
Research Group (IORG) and co-editor of its flagship journal, Journal of Indian
Ocean Region (Routledge). He is also the Regional Editor of the Polar Journal (Routledge) and a member
of the international advisory board of the Journal
of Borderland Studies
(Routledge).
Dr Vijay Sakhuja is the Director of National Maritime
Foundation, New Delhi. He is also
Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute (formerly Institute
of Southeast Asian Studies), Singapore since 2006.
Sakhuja has been on the research faculty of various
think-tanks in India. Sakhuja,s research areas include politico-strategic
developments in the Indo-Pacific region, climate change, Arctic security , and
maritime and naval developments.
Sakhuja is the editor
of Maritime Affairs (Taylor and
Francis), on the international editorial board of Journal of Indian Ocean
Region and member of the Executive Council of the Centre for Ocean and
Environmental Studies, New Delhi.