Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India : Hazards, Changing Climate and Development Discourses in the Sundarbans (Advances in Asian Human-environmental Research)

Ghosh, Aditya

Springer International Publishing AG（2017/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 245 p.
• 商品コード 9783319638911

Full Description

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.

Contents

Part I. 'Devil' in the deep blue sea?: 1. Warming world, threatened poor.- 2. Recipe of a disaster: Peripheral lives in the epicentre of changing climate.- Part II. Digging deep: Evidence and Empiricism: 3. Dusting the layers: Evolution of vulnerabilities.- 4. Is Science Sacred?.- 5. Discursive dissonance in socio-ecological theatre.- 6. Are comments free? Where consents manufacture.- Part III. Joining the Isles: 7. For the comfortably numb: Conclusion summary.- Postscript.- Reference.