TY  - BOOK
AU  - Verma,Manish Kumar
AU  - 
TI  - Environment, development and sustainability in India: perspectives, issues and alternatives 
SN  - 9789813362482
U1  - 338.954 23
PY  - 2021///
PB  - Springer
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - India
N1  - Ganga Basin Water Plan: Managing Demand and Supply of Water; Includes bibliographic references; Intro -- Preface -- About This Book -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- Sustainability as the New Paradigm of Development -- The Concept of 'Environmentalism' in the Development Context -- Operationalizing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- Structure of the Volume -- Policy Implications and Way Forward -- References -- Part IPerspectives on Environment, Development and Sustainability -- 2 Ecology, Culture and Development -- Concept of Ecology -- The Pattern Theory of Culture -- Phases of Development; Ecology and Development -- Perspectives and Imperatives -- Perspectives -- Development Dichotomies -- Imperatives -- Policy Implications -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 On Development: Practice and Ethics -- Development: An Angel, an Ideal -- Development: A Polysemic Concept -- Meanings of Development -- Development: Ensuring Good Life -- What Is Good Life? -- Development: A Conundrum, an Ominous Djinn -- Development: A Pursuit of Economics and Engineering -- Simple and Complex Societies -- Think Ethically: From Some to All, from Pain to Gain -- Policy Implications -- References; 4 Sustainability: Revisiting Enduring Modern and Identified Tradition -- Introduction -- The Age of European Centrality, Colonialism and Objectification -- Enlightenment Crisis, Materiality and Strategic Silence on Ecology -- Uneven Development and Exclusion as a Problematic -- The Journey from the Global to the Local in Search of Sustainability -- The Unfinished Project of Modernity -- Sustainability as a Policy and Planning Issue -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Explaining Rural Development in Contemporary India: A Paradoxical Situation -- Introduction -- Defining Rural India; Onslaught on Traditional Institutional Social Arrangements -- Rural Development as a Process -- Inclusive Rural Development -- A Revisit to the Six Villages in Rajasthan After Half a Century1 -- The Six Villages in the 1960s4 -- The Six Villages in the 1960s and in the 2020s -- Policy Implications -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 6 Man-Forest Interaction in a Metropolis: Perspectives from Hermeneutics -- Introduction -- Theoretical Issues -- Discussion and Analysis -- Policy Implications -- References -- Part IIIssues of Environment; 7 Environmental Consequences of Dams: A Study of Select Hydroelectric Projects in India -- Dam, Development and Environment -- Bhakra Dam Project: An Untold Story -- Narmada Valley Development Project: A Vision or an Ecological Disaster -- Policy Implications -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Impact of Efforts on Ganga Restoration and Conservation -- Introduction -- River Health -- Study Area for Strategic Initiatives Under Ganga River Basin Management Plan in Uttar Pradesh -- Ganga Canal Capacities on Increase -- River Behaviour: Loosing and Gaining Stretches of Ganga River in Uttar Pradesh; Access restricted to subsscribing institutions
N2  - This book provides a comprehensive account of asymmetric linkage in the trilogy of environment, development and sustainability and its impact on society. It examines varied perspectives and issues of development related to environmental destruction and sustainability challenges. By examining the recent trends of development and recording the dilemmas which are creating ecological imbalances, it explores some alternative ways of development to achieve sustainability. Divided into three parts, it has a broad canvass. The first section examines critically the perspectives on ecology, practice and ethics, rural development and manforest interaction in the metropolis. Issues of dams, river, agricultural distress, environmental migration, eco-tourism, ecological conservation and land acquisition are assessed in part second. Alternative means of development is explored in part third by incorporating chapters on the constructed wetland, biofuels, subsistence economy, water and traditional knowledge practice. This interdisciplinary book is of immense significance to academicians, researchers, postgraduate and graduate-level students of social sciences and environmental studies; policymakers, development practitioners and NGOs working in the area of environment and development.
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