Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India - Hazards, Changing Climate and Development Discourses in the Sundarbans (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

This multidisciplinary work analyses challenges to sustainable development amidst rapidly changing climate in the world's largest delta - the Sundarbans. Empirical evidence unpacks grounded vulnerabilities and reveals their temporal socio-economic impacts. A novel concept of 'everyday disasters' is proposed - supported by data and photographic evidence - that contests institutional disaster definition. Then it uncovers how the geopolitics of ecological governance and its hegemonic discourse dominate local policies, which in turn fail to address local socio-ecological concerns, adaptation needs and development aspirations. Absence of local vocabularies, cognitive values and socio-cultural contexts along with spatially constricted, exclusionary, top-down techno-science approaches further escalate knowledge-action gaps. Deconstruction of multiscalar conflicts between the global rhetoric and transformative postcolonial geographies offers an ethical, Southern perspective of sustainability.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
Release date:	December 2017
First published:	2018
Authors:	Aditya Ghosh
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	245
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-63891-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Regional geography Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability
LSN:	3-319-63891-2
Barcode:	9783319638911

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