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Summary:

"This volume outlines the specific conditions and responses to climate change in India. It discusses various aspects of the planetary crisis that have acquired widespread global urgency: global warming induced by anthropogenic emissions, largely owing to the fossil fuel-based economic growth model; severe environmental decline; and the catastrophic consequences that threaten the very foundations of modern life, which has been based on using nature as a 'resource' instead of as an ecosystem in which human life exists. The book brings together contributors with expertise in fields as varied as national security, public policy, environmental law, climate justice activism, anthropology, restoration ecology, conservation biology, wildlife ecology, the health sector and medicine, conservation science and sustainability, gender, humanities and the creative arts. It includes a new spectrum of responses--holistic or alternate, literary and the arts, dance and poetry--and their interface with climate change, which are often left out in science and policy circles, and an unusual ground-up approach with grassroots movements' perspectives along with theoretical practices and a Gandhian way of thinking in a global economy. Comprehensive, accessible and topical, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of environmental and sustainability studies, natural resources, environment and technology, sociology of development, development studies, public policy, energy and environment and urbanisation. It will also interest practitioners, policymakers, think tanks and NGOs working on climate change issues"--Page [i].

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Broad perspectives: New imperatives for international and domestic climate policy : rethinking India's approach / Navroz K. Dubash and Lavanya Rajmani
• India's moment to lead the world to sustainability is here / Wagaki Wischnewski, Barron Joseph Orr, Pradeep Kumar Monga
• Disaster management : institutionalising risk-informed planning / Janki Andharia
• Catch 22 and double whammy for South Asia in a warming world / Sagar Dhara
• Part II. Landscapes of change: Forests and climate change in the anthropocene / Ghazala Shahbuddin
• Adapting agriculture to climate turbulence / Suman Sahai
• Elephants on the move : implications for human-elephant interactions / Nishant M. Srinivasaiah, Srinivas Vaidyanathan, Raman Sukumar, Anindya Sinha
• Achieving gender equality in the face of a climate crisis / Nitya Rao
• The future of health in a climate crisis / Soumya Swaminathan and Poornima Prabhakaran
• Rethinking institutions for India's transitioning electricity sector / Kaveri K. Iychettira
• The coast is un-clear / Madhuri Ramesh
• Climate change and rural water security / K. J. Joy and Veena Srinivasan
• Dealing with India's plastic waste : why single-use plastic bans may not work / Aravindhan Nagarajan
• Climate change and security / Uttam Kumar Sinha
• Part III. New horizons: 'The air in her lungs is a destitute pigeon' / Nitoo Das
• Climate change and beyond : a holistic view / Bharat Dogra
• A transdisciplinary conceptualisation of climate change : an educator's journey / Vandana Singh
• Performativity and ecology / Navtej Singh Johar
• The possibility of acting in climate change : a Ghandian perspective / Paulina Lopez and Ravi Agarwal
• From 'climate change' to 'climate justice' : 'civil society' movement(s) / Soumya Dutta.

Contributors:

Agarwal, Ravi, 1958- , editor

Goyal, Omita , editor

India International Centre , contributor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Online version: The crisis of climate change (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 — ISBN 9781000456059; LCCN 2021762412)

Subjects:

Climatic changes — India

Climate change mitigation — India

Sustainable development — India

Climatic changes

Global warming

Sustainable development

India

Climate change mitigation

General Notes:

Contributed articles.
"Copyright: selection and editorial matter, India International Centre, New Delhi; individual chapters, the contributors"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

xx, 243 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Physical Characteristics:

monochrome; illustration; map

Call Numbers:

QC903.2.I4 C75 2022

ISBNs:

9781032052632 (hardcover)
1032052635 (hardcover)
9781032106953 (paperback)
1032106956 (paperback)
9781003216612 (electronic book) [Invalid]
9781000456080 (electronic publication) [Invalid]
9781000456059 (electronic book) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2022338780

OCLC Numbers:

1353290352