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Environment Technology and Development Critical and subversive

By: Publication details: New Delhi Orient Black Swan 2015Description: 394P ix PBISBN:
  • 9788125045069
DDC classification:
  • 338.927 DSO
Contents:
Table of Contents List of Tables, Figures and Maps Introduction Rohan D’Souza Section I Stories for Our Time: Technology as the Anti-Hero 1. Safety First? Kaiga and Other Nuclear Stories M. V. Ramana and Ashwin Kumar 2. A Biotechnology Story Notes from India Shiv Visvanathan and Chandrika Parmar 3. Overfishing along Kerala Coast Causes and Consequences John Kurien and T. R. Thankappan Achari Section II Development Solutions become Political Questions 4. Desalination in Chennai What About the Poor and the Environment? Gregor Meerganz von Medeazza 5. Eucalyptus Why? Mahasveta Devi 6. ‘Other Side’ of New Industrialisation G. Vijay Section III Rewiring Technology to Debate Justice and Equity 7. Sustainable Transport Systems Linkages between Environmental Issues, Public Transport, Non-Motorised Transport and Safety Dinesh Mohan and Geetam Tiwari 8. The Global Warming Regime after 2012 Towards a New Focus Philippe Cullet 9. Political Architecture of India’s Technology System for Solar Energy Barbara Harriss-White, Sunali Rohra and Nigel Singh Section IV Rethinking Agriculture as Ecological Relationships 10. Agricultural Development and Ecological Degradation An Analytical Framework C. H. Hanumantha Rao 11. Real Estate and Agricultural Wetlands in Kerala P. P. Nikhil Raj and P. A. Azeez 12. Peri-Urban Agriculture and Aquaculture Rahul Gupta and Sumita Gupta Gangopadhyay Section V Livelihoods versus Lifestyles 13. Big Dams, Big Floods On Predatory Development Hiren Gohain 14. Amusement Parks versus People’s Livelihood Arundhuti Roy Choudhury 15. Technological Alternatives and the Indian Energy Crisis Amulya Kumar N. Reddy and K. Krishna Prasad Section VI Space against Place: Eliminating Locality 16. Dwelling on Morichjhanpi When Tigers Became ‘Citizens’, Refugees ‘Tiger-Food’ Annu Jalais 17. Drinking Water Crisis in Kutch A Natural Phenomenon? Charul Bharwada and Vinay Mahajan 18. Emerging Cityscapes and Environmental Issues Sudha Srivastava and Dipti Mukherji 19. Mine Now, Mine Forever? Manshi Asher Section VII Environment, Technology and Development: Towards the Big Questions 20. Political Economy of Ecology Movements Jayanta Bandyopadhyay and Vandana Shiva 21. Energy Policy for Rural India Arjun Makhijani 22. Poverty, Environment, Development A View from Gandhi’s Window L. C. Jain List of Contributors
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BOOKs BOOKs National Law School MPP SECTIO MPP Section 338.927 DSO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 35506

Environmental Economics

Sustainable Development

Technology - Economic Aspects

Table of Contents
List of Tables, Figures and Maps
Introduction
Rohan D’Souza

Section I Stories for Our Time: Technology as the Anti-Hero
1. Safety First? Kaiga and Other Nuclear Stories M. V. Ramana and Ashwin Kumar
2. A Biotechnology Story Notes from India Shiv Visvanathan and Chandrika Parmar
3. Overfishing along Kerala Coast Causes and Consequences John Kurien and T. R. Thankappan Achari

Section II Development Solutions become Political Questions
4. Desalination in Chennai What About the Poor and the Environment? Gregor Meerganz von Medeazza
5. Eucalyptus Why? Mahasveta Devi
6. ‘Other Side’ of New Industrialisation G. Vijay

Section III Rewiring Technology to Debate Justice and Equity
7. Sustainable Transport Systems Linkages between Environmental Issues, Public Transport, Non-Motorised Transport and Safety Dinesh Mohan and Geetam Tiwari
8. The Global Warming Regime after 2012 Towards a New Focus Philippe Cullet
9. Political Architecture of India’s Technology System for Solar Energy Barbara Harriss-White, Sunali Rohra and Nigel Singh

Section IV Rethinking Agriculture as Ecological Relationships
10. Agricultural Development and Ecological Degradation An Analytical Framework C. H. Hanumantha Rao
11. Real Estate and Agricultural Wetlands in Kerala P. P. Nikhil Raj and P. A. Azeez
12. Peri-Urban Agriculture and Aquaculture Rahul Gupta and Sumita Gupta Gangopadhyay

Section V Livelihoods versus Lifestyles
13. Big Dams, Big Floods On Predatory Development Hiren Gohain
14. Amusement Parks versus People’s Livelihood Arundhuti Roy Choudhury
15. Technological Alternatives and the Indian Energy Crisis Amulya Kumar N. Reddy and K. Krishna Prasad

Section VI Space against Place: Eliminating Locality
16. Dwelling on Morichjhanpi When Tigers Became ‘Citizens’, Refugees ‘Tiger-Food’ Annu Jalais
17. Drinking Water Crisis in Kutch A Natural Phenomenon? Charul Bharwada and Vinay Mahajan
18. Emerging Cityscapes and Environmental Issues Sudha Srivastava and Dipti Mukherji
19. Mine Now, Mine Forever? Manshi Asher

Section VII Environment, Technology and Development: Towards the Big Questions
20. Political Economy of Ecology Movements Jayanta Bandyopadhyay and Vandana Shiva
21. Energy Policy for Rural India Arjun Makhijani
22. Poverty, Environment, Development A View from Gandhi’s Window L. C. Jain
List of Contributors

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