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Preliminary Material -- Introduction – The Dynamics of Climate and the Dynamics of Culture /Barbara Schuler -- 1 Cosmos, Commodity, and Care: Three Layers in Hindu Environmental Awareness /Albertina Nugteren -- 2 Ideas and Images of Nature in Thai Buddhism: Continuity and Change /Martin Seeger -- 3 Shifting Notions of Nature and Environmentalism in Indonesian Islam /Monika Arnez -- 4 Irrigation in South Thailand as a Coping Strategy against Climate Change: Past and Present /Janice Stargardt -- 5 The Emergence of the Cryoscape: Contested Narratives of Himalayan Glacier Dynamics and Climate Change /Marcus Nüsser and Ravi Baghel -- 6 A Shift in India's Domestic and International Climate Policy? /Joachim Betz -- 7 New Politics, Old Paradigms: Urban Environmentalism and the Reshaping of New Delhi /Somnath Batabyal -- 8 Environmental Justice in Thailand in the Age of Climate Change /Susan M. Darlington -- 9 Mitigating Climate Change: An Additional Role for Technology and Policy in India as well as International Arenas /Rüdiger Haum -- 10 Institutional Dynamics of Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia: The Role of ASEAN /Dennis Eucker -- Bibliography /Barbara Schuler -- Index /Barbara Schuler.

Introduction : why South Asia? why the future? / Adil Najam and Moeed Yusuf -- Prisoners or masters of destiny? / Ramesh Thakur -- South Asian futures : three scenarios / Stephen P. Cohen and Jacob Friedman -- Federalism on the road : region and regionalism / Kanak Dixit -- Diversity in South Asia / John Thomson -- Future's past / Manan Ahmed Asif -- The future of democracy / Jalal Alamgir -- Conflict and reconciliation : three scenarios / Amitabh Mattoo -- Religion and state formation / Najeeb Jung -- Will South Asia still be terrorism's center of gravity? / William Milam -- Speculations on nuclear South Asia / Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia Mian -- Nuclear risk : overstated or underrated? / Hilary Synnott -- The shadow of the India-Pakistan stalemate / Maleeha Lodhi -- Regional integration / Lhaba Tshering -- The future of integration / Nihal Rodrigo -- The giant neighbor : why is China important? / Manu Bhaskaran -- South Asian economy in 2060 / Ishrat Husain -- Economic futures : challenges ahead / A.K. Enamul Haque -- South Asia in the Asian economy : struggling to overcome history / Amitendu Palit -- Globalization and South Asia / Sanjoy Chakravorty -- Trade relations : some predictions and lessons / Pradeep S. Mehta and Niru Yadav -- Urbanization, environment and well-being / Madhav G. Badami and Murtaza Haider -- Urban futures, urban challenges / Syed Abu Hasnath -- Water security : risks and responses / John Briscoe -- Agriculture and food security / M.E. Tusneem -- Meeting electric power demand in South Asia / Rajan Gupta and Harihar Shankar -- E-South Asia : a social science fiction / Rohan Samarajiva

This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed in the ongoing TAPESTRY project which is part of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme. We debate how the notion of transformation may be conceptualized from 'below' in marginal environments that are especially marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties. We propose the notion of transformation as praxis — where the focus is on bottom-up change, identities, wellbeing and the recovery of agency by marginalized people and explore how 'patches' and the 'marginal' offer critical conceptual templates to examine whether and how systemic transformative changes are being assembled and effected on the ground by hybrid and transformative alliances. The article concludes by discussing potential challenges of such engagements, alongside pursuing a normative and political approach to T2S.

Introduction -- Climate and climate change of southern Africa -- Perspectives for approaching climate resource and change in tourism -- Methods for tourism and climate change research in southern Africa -- Climate change risks to southern African tourism -- Destination resilience, vulnerabilities, and climate change threats -- Adaptation to climate change by the southern African tourism sector -- The role of tourism in contributing to climate change -- Governance and policy needs in tourism and climate change relations -- Conclusions and a way forward.

Global warming over the past several decades is now large enough that regional climate change is emerging above the noise of natural variability, especially in the summer at middle latitudes and year-round at low latitudes. Despite the small magnitude of warming relative to weather fluctuations, effects of the warming already have notable social and economic impacts. Global warming of 2 °C relative to preindustrial would shift the 'bell curve' defining temperature anomalies a factor of three larger than observed changes since the middle of the 20th century, with highly deleterious consequences. There is striking incongruity between the global distribution of nations principally responsible for fossil fuel CO2 emissions, known to be the main cause of climate change, and the regions suffering the greatest consequences from the warming, a fact with substantial implications for global energy and climate policies.

Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly "green" activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites to promote their own political and economic interests. Highlighting fatal flaws in presently exclusive economic and ecological approaches, the authors stress that neither the quest for sustainable development nor the process of environmental change itself can be understood without reference to political processes.

Part 1. Governance and Mobility: Retrospect and Prospect -- 1. Migration in South Asia: Old and New Mobilities (S Irudaya Rajan) -- 2. Internal and Forced Migration and Economic Development in South Asia (Mehdi Chowdhury and Syed Naimul Wadood) -- 3. Non-traditional Migration in South Asia (AKM Ahsan Ullah, Mallik Akram Hossain and Ahmed Shafiqul Huque) -- 4. International Migration in Bangladesh: A Political Economic Overview (Hasan Mahmud) -- 5. Labour Migration from Nepal: Trends and Explanations (Jagannath Adhikari, Mahendra Kumar Rai, Chiranjivi Baral and Mahendra Subedi) -- 6. Navigating between Nation and Civilization: Regimes of Citizenship and Migration under Bharatiya Janata Party (Samir Kumar Das) -- 7. Understanding Temporary Labour Migration through the Lens of Caste: India Case Study (S IrudayaRajan, Kunal Keshri and Priya Deshingkar) -- 8. Attraction and Detraction: Migration Drivers in Bhutan (Mayur A Gosai and Leanne Sulewski) -- Part 2: Family, Health and Demographics -- 9. An Analysis of the Impact of International Remittances on Child Education: Evidence from Pakistan (Hisaya Oda) -- 10. Female Migration and Stay-Behind Children in Bangladesh (Sabnam Sarmin Luna) -- Part 3: Forced Migration -- 11. A Threat or an Opportunity? Internal Migration in the Context of Climate Extremes in Pakistan (Kashif Majeed Salik, Maryum Shabbir, Khansa Naeem and Junaid Zahid) -- 12. Local Expert Perceptions of Creeping Environmental Changes and Responses in Maldives (Robert Stojanov and Ilan Kelman) -- 13. From Muhājir to āwāra: Figures of Migration and Exile among Afghans (Khadija Abbasi and Alessandro Monsutti) -- 14. Health beyond Borders: Migration and Precarity in South Asia (Anuj Kapilashrami and Ekatha Ann John) -- 15. Migration, Development within the SAARC Framework: Towards a Migration Governance Model of the Future (S. Irudaya Rajan and Ashwin Kumar).

This open access book explores climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation in Central Asia and discusses policy options for the Central Asian governments. To address the urgent need for local scholarship on climate change in Central Asia, and in particular the need for more research by social scientists, this book features a wide range of contributions on climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation in the region. Each chapter makes an important contribution to social science scholarship on climate change and decarbonization in Central Asia. Topics include decarbonization opportunities, carbon pricing instruments, the geo-economics of the energy transition, the relationship between human mobility and climate change. The book thus offers valuable insights for both academics and policymakers.