The politics of climate change and uncertainty in India / edited by Lyla Mehta, Hans Nicolai Adam and Shilpi Srivastava.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mehta, Lyla, editor.

Adam, Hans Nicolai, editor.

Srivastava, Shilpi, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Pathways to sustainability series

Pathways to sustainability

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Environmental aspects--India.

Economic development.

Climatic changes--Government policy--India.

Climatic changes.

Environmental policy--India.

Environmental policy.

Climatic changes--Government policy.

Economic development--Environmental aspects.

India.

Physical Description:

xix, 196 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Summary:

"This book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. Uncertainty is a key factor shaping climate and environmental policy at international, national, and local levels. Climate change and events such as cyclones, floods, droughts and changing rainfall patterns create uncertainties that planners, resource managers and local populations are regularly confronted with. In this context, uncertainty has emerged as a "wicked problem" for scientists and policymakers, resulting in highly debated and disputed decision-making. The book focuses on India, one of the most climatically vulnerable countries in the world, where there are stark socio-economic inequalities in addition to diverse geographic and climatic settings. Based on empirical research, it covers case studies from coastal Mumbai to dryland Kutch and the Sundarbans delta in West Bengal. These localities offer ecological contrasts, rural-urban diversity, varied exposure to different climate events and diverse state and official responses. The book unpacks the diverse discourses, practices and politics of uncertainty and demonstrates profound differences through which the "above", "middle" and "below" understand and experience climate change and uncertainty and makes a case for bringing together diverse knowledges and approaches to understand and embrace climate-related uncertainties in order to facilitate transformative change. Appealing to a broad professional and student audience, the book draws on wide-ranging theoretical and conceptual approaches from climate science, historical analysis, science technology and society studies, development studies and environmental studies. By looking at the intersection between local and diverse understandings of climate change and uncertainty with politics, culture, history, and ecology, the book argues for plural and socially just ways to tackle climate change in India and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Climate change and uncertainty: politics and perspectives / Hans Nicolai Adam

2. Uncertainty from "above": diverse understandings, politics and implications / Shilpi Srivastava

3. Uncertainty and environmental change: Kutch and the Sundarbans as environmental histories of climate change / Subir Dey

4. Between the market and climate change: uncertainty and transformation in Kutch / V. Vijay Kumar

5. The certainty of uncertainty: climate change realities of the Indian Sundarbans / Shihaji Bose

6. Climate change and uncertainty in India's maximum city, Mumbai / Lyla Mehta

7. Bridging gaps in understandings of climate change and uncertainty / Lars Otto Naess

8. Conclusion / Shilpi Srivastava.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Politics of climate change and uncertainty in India

ISBN:

9781032190785

1032190787

9781032190792

1032190795

OCLC:

1274229037