Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India : Hazards, Changing Climate and Dev...

by Aditya Ghosh

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Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India : Hazards, Changing Climate and Development Discourses in the Sundarbans, Hardcover by Ghosh, Aditya, ISBN 3319638912, ISBN-13 9783319638911, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
• Year: 2017
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9783319638911
• Condition: Fine

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