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Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment - The Case of India (Paperback)
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Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment - The Case of India (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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Nuclear power is often characterized as a "green technology."
Technologies are rarely, if ever, socially isolated artefacts.
Instead, they materially represent an embodiment of values and
priorities. Nuclear power is no different. It is a product of a
particular political economy and the question is whether that
political economy can helpfully engage with the challenge of
addressing the environmental crisis on a finite, inequitable and
shared planet. For developing countries like India, who are
presently making infrastructure investments which will have long
legacies, it is imperative that these investments wrestle with such
questions and prove themselves capable of sufficiency, greater
equality and inclusiveness. This book offers a critique of civilian
nuclear power as a green energy strategy for India and develops and
proposes an alternative "synergy for sustainability." It situates
nuclear power as a socio-technical infrastructure embodying a
particular development discourse and practice of energy and
economic development. The book reveals the political economy of
this arrangement and examines the latter's ability to respond to
the environmental crisis. Manu V. Mathai argues that the existing
overwhelmingly growth-focused, highly technology-centric approach
for organizing economic activity is unsustainable and needs to be
reformed. Within this imperative for change, nuclear power in India
is found to be and is characterized as an "authoritarian
technology." Based on this political economy critique the book
proposes an alternative, a synergy of ideas from the fields of
development economics, energy planning and science, technology and
society studies.
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