Abstract
Pakistan has been facing diverse kind of environmental
challenges. These challenges mainly include recurring
droughts, floods, dengue, coastal erosion and
desertification. Drought has been a recurrent phenomenon
in the sandy district of Tharparkar of Sind province.
Recently this spell of drought that started in 2013 turned
into deadly famine that invoked a grave humanitarian crisis
for the local communities. With the help of intensive
literature review, the present study examines the
underlying social, economic, political and infrastructural
vulnerabilities that interact with a natural phenomenon like
drought and transform into human catastrophe. Policy
options are given at the end of the paper.
Dr. Siddique Akbar, Dr. Bushra Yasmeen. (2017) Famine in Tharparkar: An Examination of Risk, Vulnerabilities and Social Crisis, Paradigms , Vol 11, Issue 2 .
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