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Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India: Hazards, Changing Climate and Development Discourses in the Sundarbans

Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India: Hazards, Changing Climate and Development Discourses in the Sundarbans

Ghosh, Aditya

Hardcover

Series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research

Environmental StudiesGeneral SociologyGeography

ISBN10: 3319638912
ISBN13: 9783319638911
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 14 2017
Pages: 245
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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