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Environmental Challenges for Maldives

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  • T.C. Karthikheyan

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This article looks into the environmental challenges that Maldives, an island country in the South Asian region, is facing. It studies all possible sources of environmental challenges with inherent vulnerabilities of the country in terms of its geographic and environmental conditions, and analyses important contributing factors such as global warming, sea level rise, tourism and environmental degradation and, more importantly, the 2004 tsunami. The article particularly examines the effects of global warming on Maldives on the basis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) report on climate change. The impact of the tsunami and its repercussions on the Maldives’s ecological fragility are also discussed. Towards the conclusion, this article focuses on the need of the Maldivian government to formulate appropriate policies and also, at the same time, the difficulties in realising those policies.

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  • T.C. Karthikheyan, 2010. "Environmental Challenges for Maldives," South Asian Survey, , vol. 17(2), pages 343-351, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:soasur:v:17:y:2010:i:2:p:343-351
    DOI: 10.1177/097152311201700210
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