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First edition. |
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1 online resource (208 pages). |
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Pathways to sustainability
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| Contents |
Chapter 1: Climate Change and Uncertainty:Politics andPerspectives, Shilpi Srivastava, Lyla Mehta and Hans Nicolai Adam Chapter 2: UncertaintyfromAbove:DiverseUnderstandings, Politicsand Implications, Lyla Mehta, Hans Nicolai Adam, Mihir R. Bhatt, Synne Movik, Lars Otto Naess and Shilpi Srivastava Chapter 3: Uncertainty and Environmental ChangeKutch and the Sundarbans as Environmental Histories of Change, Vinita Damodaran, Rohan D́⁰₉Souza and Subir Dey Chapter 4: Between theMarket and Climate Change:Uncertainty andTransformation inKutch, Shilpi Srivastava, Lyla Mehta, Lars Otto Naess, Mihir R. Bhatt and V. Vijay Kumar Chapter 5: The Certainty of Uncertainty: Climate Change Realities oftheIndian Sundarbans, Upasona Ghosh, Darley Jose Kjosavik and Shibaji Bose Chapter 6: Climate ChangeandUncertainty inIndiaС́⁰₉s Maximum City,Mumbai, Hans Nicolai Adam, Synne Movik, D. Parthasarathy, Alankar, NC Narayanan and Lyla Mehta Chapter 7: Bridging Gaps in Understandings of Climate Change and Uncertainty, Synne Movik, Mihir Bhatt, Lyla Mehta, HansNicolaiAdam, Shilpi Srivastava,D. Parthasarathy,Espen Sjaastad,Shibaji Bose, Upasona Ghosh andLars OttoNaess Chapter 8: Conclusion |
| Summary |
This book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. Uncertainty is a key factor shaping climate and environmental policy at international, national, and local levels. Climate change and events such as cyclones, floods, droughts and changing rainfall patterns create uncertainties that planners, resource managers and local populations are regularly confronted with. In this context, uncertainty has emerged as a "wicked problem" for scientists and policymakers, resulting in highly debated and disputed decision-making. The book focuses on India, one of the most climatically vulnerable countries in the world, where there are stark socio-economic inequalities in addition to diverse geographic and climatic settings. Based on empirical research, it covers case studies from coastal Mumbai to dryland Kutch and the Sundarbans delta in West Bengal. These localities offer ecological contrasts, rural-urban diversity, varied exposure to different climate events and diverse state and official responses. The book unpacks the diverse discourses, practices and politics of uncertainty and demonstrates profound differences through which the "above", "middle" and "below" understand and experience climate change and uncertainty and makes a case for bringing together diverse knowledges and approaches to understand and embrace climate-related uncertainties in order to facilitate transformative change. Appealing to a broad professional and student audience, the book draws on wide-ranging theoretical and conceptual approaches from climate science, historical analysis, science technology and society studies, development studies and environmental studies. By looking at the intersection between local and diverse understandings of climate change and uncertainty with politics, culture, history, and ecology, the book argues for plural and socially just ways to tackle climate change in India and beyond |
| Biography |
Lyla Mehta is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK and a Visiting Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Hans Nicolai Adam is a Research Scientist at the Section for Water and Society, at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) in Oslo, Norway. Shilpi Srivastava is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. |
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Vendor-supplied metadata. |
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- India.
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Climatic changes -- Government policy -- India.
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Environmental policy -- India.
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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NATURE -- Lakes & Ponds.
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NATURE -- Natural Disasters.
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Climatic changes -- Government policy.
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
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Environmental policy. (OCoLC)fst00913250
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India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
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| Added Author |
Mehta, Lyla, editor.
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Adam, Hans Nicolai, editor.
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Srivastava, Shilpi, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Politics of climate change and uncertainty in India. First edition. [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2021 1032190787 9781032190785 (OCoLC)1263340652 |
| ISBN |
9781003257585 (electronic book) |
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1003257585 (electronic book) |
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9781000531503 (electronic book ; PDF) |
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1000531503 (electronic book ; PDF) |
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9781000531534 (electronic book ; EPUB) |
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1000531538 (electronic book ; EPUB) |
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