Sustainability conflicts in Coastal India: Hazards, changing climate and development discourse in Indian Sundarbans

Publikation: Bücher und AnthologienMonografienForschung

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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.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
ErscheinungsortGermany
VerlagSpringer
Auflage1
Anzahl der Seiten245
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-63891-1
ISBN (elektronisch)978-3-319-63892-8
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PublikationsstatusErschienen - 12.2017

Publikationsreihe

NameAdvances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
ISSN (Print)1879-7180
ISSN (elektronisch)1879-7199

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