Sustainability conflicts in Coastal India: Hazards, changing climate and development discourse in Indian Sundarbans
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1 Aufl. Germany: Springer, 2017. 245 S. (Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research).
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Sustainability conflicts in Coastal India
T2 - Hazards, changing climate and development discourse in Indian Sundarbans
AU - Ghosh, Aditya
PY - 2017/12
Y1 - 2017/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Sustainability Science
KW - Sustainable development in India, Climate change adaptation, Disaster risk reduction, Resilience, Indian Sundarbans
KW - Climate change adaptation
KW - Disaster risk reduction
KW - Resilience
KW - Indian Sundarbans
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-63892-8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-63892-8
M3 - Monographs
SN - 978-3-319-63891-1
T3 - Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
BT - Sustainability conflicts in Coastal India
PB - Springer
CY - Germany
ER -