Edited rajeswari raina (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction: values matter/Rajeswari S. Raina. Section I: 1. From retrogression to rescue: policy gaps in rural and agricultural development/A. R. Vasavi. 2. Academic ethics, Indian scientific academic and the Bt-Brinjal controversy/Gautam I. Menon and Rahul Siddharthan. 3. Regulation, legislation and moral contestations: case of Indian microfinance/Tara S. Nair. Section II: 4. Water policy and science: disciplines, perspectives, values/Ramaswamy R. Iyer. 5. Transformations in the world of higher learning: changing norms and values of universities and research institutes in India/Dhruv Raina. 6. Science, technology in agricultural development: need for a new paradigm/P. S. Vijay Shankar. Section III: 7. Techno-scientific practices and ethics/Prajit Basu. 8. A unique identity and technology/Usha Ramanathan. 9. Between life-creation and policy formulation: assisted reproductive technologies in India/Tista Bagchi. Section IV: 10. The ethical implications of sea-level rise due to climate change/Sujatha Byravan and Sudhir Chella Rajan. 11. Ethics and science in climate change/D. Raghunandan. 12. Climate science, agriculture and the policy jukebox/Rajeswari S. Raina. Conclusion: engaging with the value problem/Rajeswari S. Raina. There are multiple development problems in India that demand S&T solutions. Sound science is crucial for development policy formulation. Though many debates on technologies and development outcomes assume they are value-neutral, the S&T and development policy realms and the dynamic historically-conditioned interface between them are value-laden and normative. This book argues that to ensure ethical development outcomes, it is important to acknowledge these values and enable public engagement and dialogues to get them right. The essays in this volume-organised into four sections based on the values that inform the relationship between S&T and development policy-discuss and analyse how these values and norms govern India s S&T and development choices.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction/Julien-Francois Gerber and Rajeswari S. Raina. Part I: Why Growth is not the Answer. 1. Growth Creates Poverty/Vandana Shiva. 2. Beyond Productivism: Socialism, Waste, Obsolescence/Aditya Nigam. 3. Energetics: The Energy Principles that Define Growth/Mansoor Khan. 4. Energy and Sustainability: Why Green Capitalism is an Oxymoron/Sagar Dhara. Part II: Conceptual Concerns and Contexts. 5. Degrowth and All That: Insights from Economic Analysis/Vinod Vyasulu. 6. Technology, Growth and Environmental Justice/Sukumar Muralidharan. 7. Developmental Context: People, state and contested arenas/Ajay Dandekar. 8. On Consumption and Violence: An Idea of India/Shiv Visvanathan. Part III: Elements of a Post-Growth Programme. 9. GDP and its Discontents: A Note on Ideas of Economic Progress and their Relevance for India/Jayati Ghosh. 10. Articulating Green Growth and Degrowth: Approaches, Practice and Enabling Institutions/Kanchan Chopra. 11. Radical Ecological Democracy: An Orchestration of Alternatives for a Post-Growth India/Ashish Kothari. 12. Degrowth as Economy of Permanence/Rajni Bakshi. 13. Universal Human Values for a Post-Industrial Economy/Ganesh Prasad Bagaria and Rajul Asthana. 14. Localisation: The Post-Growth Path to Genuine Prosperity/Helena Norberg-Hodge. Epilogue/Joan Martínez-Alier. Notes on the Editors and Contributors. Index. The Indian sub-continent has long been involved in global capitalism. While some parts of India are like the Global North in terms of lifestyle and wealth, the majority is clearly part of the poor and exploited Global South. As the state and the market became key actors in the economy, GDP growth has emerged as the central policy goal. Presently, as a rapidly growing economy with widening inequality and huge environmental problems, India needs to rethink its social ecological transitions. Post-Growth Thinking in India discusses the relevance of prosperity without growth , or post-growth for India, at a time when grassroots alternatives confront and question the consequences of growth. Post-growth calls for a resizing and reorganisation of the social metabolism that would allow societies to live within their ecological means, and within democratic, equitable, and localised economies. This book presents diverse alternatives to the current growth-driven model of development. The chapters in this book, some of which are Indian contributions to knowledge and policy, seek diverse alternatives to the current growth-driven model of development.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 292 pages. 9.25x6.10x2.95 inches. In Stock.