Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India
Author | : Aditya Ghosh |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2017-12-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783319638928 |
ISBN-13 | : 3319638920 |
Rating | : 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Download or read book Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India written by Aditya Ghosh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.