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Cookie akzeptierenAditya Ghosh
Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India
- Springer International Publishing
- 2017
- Gebunden
- 268 Seiten
- ISBN 9783319638911
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
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