Upstream, Downstream, China, India: The Politics of Environment in the Himalayan Region

摘要: Abstract There is a long history of debate about the changing Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) environment, but with important disjunctures between research, international environmental agendas and institutions, various different domestic policies at national level. Within academe, retreat from Theory Himalayan Environmental Degradation (THED) since late 1980s has not been reflected to any degree in policy India China. Here, we make comparative analysis “upstream downstream” debates (which claim that resource use practices upstream users have serious detrimental costs those downstream) two most powerful populous countries HKH region: We find rejection THED is, on whole, contradicted sometimes appropriated by players within political arenas, this sense it becomes discursive pawn “games state.” Parts are simply ignored, an...