Climate, sea level rise and the coastal zone : management and planning for global changes
1990
The documentary portrays linkages between environmental degradation and poverty in the Indus Delta. It attempts to document as to how environmental degradation caused by sea intrusion in the coastal and deltaic tracts of southern parts of Pakistan has been instrumental in impacting and destroying the livelihoods of the local population, thereby exacerbating their poverty.
This series presents the results of an investigation by IUCNs Global Change Programme into the possible implications of predicted global change for natural systems and their management. This publication examines issues specific to marine ecosystems.