Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India
Autor: | Ghosh, Aditya |
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EAN: | 9783319876641 |
Sachgruppe: | Geowissenschaften |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 268 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 05.09.2018 |
Untertitel: | Hazards, Changing Climate and Development Discourses in the Sundarbans |
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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.