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About the Book

There is an inseparable relationship between human rights and sustainable development and this relationship can be seen in many different ways, yet just as the environment and development are closely bound to each other, they are also bound to human rights. If human rights are threatened then their ability to participate in sustainable development is hindered. Environmental degradation that is a result of irresponsible practices by governments, industry, and transnational corporations fundamentally infringe on the right of all people to a healthy environment, yet when these powers are challenged, there is a risk involved for those who dare to challenge them. In many South Asian countries, there is a history of silencing which prevents popular participation in building of a social movement which addresses sustainability and challenges the existing development models. This book presents critical examination of sustainable development models and its link with human rights, international jurisprudence and environmental protection in eleven chapters.

About the Author

Ravi Malhotra is research associate of Geophysics at Stanford University, Stanford. He graduated from Punjabi University, Patiala in 1984 and received an M.S. (1988) in geophysics from Stanford. He has made contributions to several aspects of seismic imaging, ranging from velocity estimation to parallel algorithms for seismic migration. Since the early nineties he has been at the forefront of the development of wave-equation 3-D restack migration methods. He has contributed more than 20 research papers in national and international journals.