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Demography, human development and economic conditions

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Title Demography, human development and economic conditions
 
Creator Buisson, Marie-Charlotte
Wardak, A.
Jan, I.
 
Subject demography
socioeconomic development
economic growth
transboundary waters
river basins
poverty
health
food security
employment
migration
population density
income
education
energy
Sustainable Development Goals
goal 6 clean water and sanitation
agriculture
industry
 
Description In Shah, Muhammad Azeem Ali; Lautze, Jonathan; Meelad, A. (Eds.). Afghanistan–Pakistan shared waters: state of the basins. Wallingford, UK: CABI
The Kabul, Kurram, and Gomal river basins are home to approximately 43 million (authors’ own calculation) people who experience a diverse set of human and economic development realities. This chapter draws profiles of the basins in terms of demography and human and economic development. In doing so, the authors illustrate the human realities that overlie the hydrological units. This chapter presents basin-level data by combining and rescaling data for specific administrative units in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The authors find disparities between and within the two countries in terms of population size, migration dynamics, economic indicators and production of power. Despite these differences, people share similar challenges in achieving food security, poverty alleviation, and mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Improved, co-ordinated strategies and policies have the potential to strengthen the governance of these transboundary river basins and deliver better outcomes for people and resource sustainability.
 
Date 2023-08-02
2023-08-31T21:27:02Z
2023-08-31T21:27:02Z
 
Type Book Chapter
 
Identifier Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Wardak, A.; Jan, I. 2023. Demography, human development and economic conditions. In Shah, Muhammad Azeem Ali; Lautze, Jonathan; Meelad, A. (Eds.). Afghanistan–Pakistan shared waters: state of the basins. Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp.20-42. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1079/9781800622371.0003]
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131711
https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/epdf/10.1079/9781800622371.0003
https://doi.org/10.1079/9781800622371.0003
H052169
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Open Access
 
Format pp.20-42.