Environment, Technology and Development: Critical and Subversive Essays - Softcover

Environment Technology and Development : Critical and Subversive Essays

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Contents  IntroductionRohan D?Souza Section I Stories for Our Time Technology as the Anti-Hero 1 Safety First Kaiga and Other Nuclear StoriesM V Ramana and Ashwin Kumar 2 A Biotechnology Story Notes from IndiaShiv Visvanathan and Chandrika Parmar 3 Overfishing along Kerala Coast Causes and Consequences John Kurien and T R Thankappan Achari Section II Development Solutions become Political Questions  4 Desalination in Chennai What About the Poor and the EnvironmentGregor Meerganz von Medeazza 5 Eucalyptus WhyMahasveta Devi 6 Other Side of New IndustrialisationG Vijay  Section III Rewiring Technology to Debate Justice and Equity 7 Sustainable Transport Systems Linkages between Environmental Issues Public Transport Non-Motorised Transport and SafetyDinesh Mohan and Geetam Tiwari 8 The Global Warming Regime after 2012 Towards a New FocusPhilippe Cullet 9 Political Architecture of India?s Technology System for Solar EnergyBarbara Harriss-White Sunali Rohra and Nigel Singh Section IV Rethinking Agriculture as Ecological Relationships 10 Agricultural Development and Ecological Degradation; An Analytical FrameworkC H Hanumantha Rao 11 Real Estate and Agricultural Wetlands in KeralaP P Nikhil Raj and P A Azeez 12 Peri-Urban Agriculture and AquacultureRahul Gupta and Sumita Gupta Gangopadhyay Section V Livelihoods versus Lifestyles 13 Big Dams Big Floods On Predatory DevelopmentHiren Gohain 14 Amusement Parks versus People?s LivelihoodArundhuti Roy Choudhury 15 Technological Alternatives and the Indian Energy CrisisAmulya Kumar N Reddy and K Krishna Prasad Section VI Space against Place Eliminating Locality 16 Dwelling on Morichjhanpi When Tigers Became ?Citizens? Refugees Tiger-FoodAnnu Jalais 17 Drinking Water Crisis in Kutch A Natural PhenomenonCharul Bharwada and Vinay Mahajan 18 Emerging Cityscapes and Environmental IssuesSudha Srivastava and Dipti Mukherji 19 Mine Now Mine ForeverManshi Asher Section VII Environment Technology and Development Towards the Big Questions 20 Political Economy of Ecology MovementsJayanta Bandyopadhyay and Vandana Shiva 21 Energy Policy for Rural IndiaArjun Makhijani 22 Poverty Environment DevelopmentA View from Gandhi?s Window L C JainDrawn from the  rich archival holdings of the Economic and Political Weekly the essays in this volume capture the intense discussions in India that were debated as problems and questions over the environment technology and development As a collection this volume proposes a fresh and new analytical coherence for these essays by resituating  them with an engaging  introduction under the broader themes of criticality and subversion Consequently these writings will speak not only to several contemporary academic and policy concerns but are also meant to provide a meaningful sense of how ideas on the environment technology and development were interrelated and shaped in various types of political discourses in India most notably from the 1970s onwardsThis volume is intended to address the needs of a rapidly growing interest in interdisciplinary programmes and will also carry appeal amongst development and policy practitioners and those who wish to pursue interdisciplinary research questions 404 pp. Artikel-Nr. 102516

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