| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 329 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour); digital file(s)) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I Perspectives on Environment, Development and Sustainability -- Ecology, Culture and Development -- On Development: Practice and Ethics -- Sustainability: Revisiting Enduring Modern and Identified Tradition -- Explaining Rural Development in Contemporary India: A Paradoxical Situation -- Man-Forest Interaction in a Metropolis: Perspectives from Hermeneutics -- Part II Issues of environment -- Environmental Consequences of Dams: A Study of Select Hydroelectric Projects in India -- Impact of Efforts on Ganga Restoration and Conservation -- Interface between tribes and ecotourism: a study on sustainability and development in Purulia, West Bengal -- People's movement against ecological conservation policies in the Western ghats: relections from Kerala, India -- Balancing growth with livelihood sustainability: social and political action over land acquisition in India -- Part III. Alternatives for Environmental Sustainability -- Constructed wetland: a sustainable approach for wastewater treatment -- Biofuels for what? Environmental sustainability and discursive flexibility of Jatropha in India -- Alternative approaches to measure sustainability in a subsistence economy: empirical insight from shifting cultivation in Odisha -- Tribal health and sustainable development: traditional knowledge practice and medicinal plant -- Indigenous knowledge of women: alternate methods of water conservation in Rajasthan |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Ganga Basin Water Plan: Managing Demand and Supply of Water |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Springer Nature eBook |
| Subject |
Sustainable development -- India
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Environmental policy.
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Sociology.
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environmental policy.
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sociology.
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sustainable development.
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Sustainable development
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Verma, Manish Kumar, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789813362482 |
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9813362480 |
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