Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India : Hazards, Changing Climate and Development Discourses in the Sundarbans / by Aditya Ghosh

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Ghosh, Aditya [aut]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research | Springer eBook Collection | SpringerLink BücherPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018Description: Online-Ressource (XIX, 245 p. 53 illus., 49 illus. in color, online resource)ISBN:

9783319638928

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Additional physical formats: 9783319638911 | Erscheint auch als: 9783319638911 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: 9783319638935 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: 9783319876641 Druck-AusgabeLOC classification:

G113-138.5

DOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-63892-8Online resources:

Summary: 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 multiscalar conflicts between the global rhetoric and transformative postcolonial geographies offers an ethical, Southern perspective of sustainability.PPN: PPN: 1658622936Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-SXEE | ZDB-2-EES

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