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centers to mitigate population pressures and climatic changes. We should open the education sector
as an investment zone to Pakistani Diaspora.
Coherent Policy for Donor Assistance. In the sphere of climate change Donors have reasonable
understanding of Pakistan’s vulnerabilities. It is time that we make an endeavour to reach the
international climate change policy forums and seek the due financial support available to high risk
countries. The need is to benefit the potential resource channels through a coherent policy.
Role of Leadership. The leaders of Pakistan whether national or provincial have to decide to
empower the local authorities to play their part in future developmental plans for the citizens of
Pakistan who have been granted the right in the Constitution of Pakistan to prosper and seek the
dividend (article 18) and to live safely (article 4) in their chosen environment.
Migration, industrialization and urbanization all play significant role on the climate of the planet
earth. The major demographic and climatic changes in the coming century will have direct bearings and
serious consequences on country’s political, ecological and social policy formulation and all sections of the
society must rise to this national security challenge with a sense of collective responsibility.
Researchers:
Supervisor:
Ms Sarwat, Cdre Zubair, Lt Col Kayani and Lt Col Akif
Brig Inam Haider Malik
Endnotes
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2 Adam Smith, “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd), ed. Edwin
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3 Zareen Abbasi and Muhammad Buksh Burday, The Changing Paradigms of Human Resources in the Economic Development of
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4 Statistic Book of Pakistan, 2010-11.
5 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs - Population Division, Population Estimates and Projections Section
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6 In 1975, of course, Russia was embedded in the larger construct of the Soviet Union. Correspondingly, comparing population
totals for Russia and Pakistan for that particular year is an exercise fraught with implicitly ahistorical assumptions. Nevertheless,
and in just a quarter of a century, these projections suggest that Russia’s population total, which slightly exceeded Pakistan’s as
recently as 2000, will come to be only half as great as Pakistan’s own.
7 http://www.ensaa.eu/index.php/climate-change/97-defining-climate-change.html (accessed 15 September 2012).
8 http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2012/10 accessed 15 Nov 2012.
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20 http://www.pmd.gov.pk/journal/historyworstdrought2001report.htm accessed 25 November 2012.
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22 http://ccafs.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Climate_Change__Crop_Production_INTRO_1.pdf
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24 http://www.pakistangeographic.com/forests.html accessed 15 October 2012.
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