TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mehta,Lyla
AU  - Adam,Hans Nicolai
AU  - Srivastava,Shilpi
TI  - The politics of climate change and uncertainty in India
T2  - Pathways to sustainability
SN  - 9781032190785
U1  - 338.954 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - India
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Environmental policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. Uncertainty is a key factor shaping climate and environmental policy at international, national, and local levels. Climate change and events such as cyclones, floods, droughts and changing rainfall patterns create uncertainties that planners, resource managers and local populations are regularly confronted with. In this context, uncertainty has emerged as a "wicked problem" for scientists and policymakers, resulting in highly debated and disputed decision-making. The book focuses on India, one of the most climatically vulnerable countries in the world, where there are stark socio-economic inequalities in addition to diverse geographic and climatic settings. Based on empirical research, it covers case studies from coastal Mumbai to dryland Kutch and the Sundarbans delta in West Bengal. These localities offer ecological contrasts, rural-urban diversity, varied exposure to different climate events and diverse state and official responses. The book unpacks the diverse discourses, practices and politics of uncertainty and demonstrates profound differences through which the "above", "middle" and "below" understand and experience climate change and uncertainty and makes a case for bringing together diverse knowledges and approaches to understand and embrace climate-related uncertainties in order to facilitate transformative change. Appealing to a broad professional and student audience, the book draws on wide-ranging theoretical and conceptual approaches from climate science, historical analysis, science technology and society studies, development studies and environmental studies. By looking at the intersection between local and diverse understandings of climate change and uncertainty with politics, culture, history, and ecology, the book argues for plural and socially just ways to tackle climate change in India and beyond"--
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52014
ER  -