Development and environmental policy in India : the last few decades /: the last few decades. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kanchan Chopra.
• Authors: Chopra, Kanchan Ratna
• Contents: Dedication; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Development and Environmental Policy; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Context of Development: The World View; 1.3 Responses and Policy Responses: The Conceptual Underpinnings; 1.4 Policy-Making and Linked Social-Ecological Systems; 1.5 The Backdrop in India up to the 1980s: Development, Equity and Poverty Alleviation; 1.6 The Decade of the 1980s: The Rise of Environmental Concerns Within the Government; 1.7 The Decades Since Then; 1.8 Drivers and Impacts: The Present Volume; References; Chapter 2: Land and Forest Policy: Resources for Development or Our Natural Resources?2.1 The Issue; 2.2 The Legacy: Centrally Governed Forest Land and Privileged Private Land; 2.3 India's Common Lands: An Un-understood and Neglected Category; 2.4 Taking Partial Cognisance of Field Reality: Change Through the JFM and Watershed Guidelines in the 1990s; 2.5 Forests as a Case Study: A Story of Policies, Acts, Rules and Judicial Intervention; 2.6 The Judiciary in Forest Policy; 2.7 And What of Institutional Change to Decentralised Community Management? 2.8 The Tilt Towards Growth: To€and€Fro Movement2.9 Conclusions: Stakeholders, Participation and€Complexities of€Public Policy; References; Chapter 3: Climate Change Policy in€India; 3.1 Climate Change Policy: Early Phases; 3.2 Climate Policy Within€India: The€Indian Position from€the€1980s; 3.3 India in€the€World: A€Self-Created Isolation (1997-2005); 3.4 Beginnings of€Change: Participation in€the€CDM and€Being a€Part of€the€Solution; 3.5 International Stance and€Domestic Imperatives: A€Contradiction of€Sorts; 3.6 The Changing International Scenario. 3.7 Future Directions for Climate Policy: Co-evolving InstitutionsReferences; Chapter 4: Rights-Based Approaches: Do Environmental Movements Make a Dent on Policy?; 4.1 Environmental Movements; 4.2 Successful Early Movements in India: The Silent Valley and the Chipko Movements; 4.3 Narmada Bachao Andolan: A Movement with Limited Immediate Success; 4.4 The Vedanta Case in Orissa: The Role of Political Economy; 4.5 Protests Around Water and Air Pollution; 4.6 Local Movements and the National Agenda in India: Did They Impact It?; 4.7 Expert Committees, Political Economy and Policy-­Making: The Western Ghats Case4.8 From Peoples' Movements to Elected Representatives: At Local and/or State Levels; 4.9 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: Does a Good Knowledge Base Influence Policy-Making; 5.1 Prologue; 5.2 The Natural and Social Science Anchor; 5.3 Concepts, Theories, Models and Environmental Policy; 5.4 Conceptual Frameworks; 5.5 Concepts in Environmental Policy Formulation: Sustainable Development, Sustainability and Resilience; 5.6 More Concepts: Vulnerable People and Vulnerable Places; 5.7 More Conceptual Approaches: 'De-growth' and 'Radical Ecological Democracy Green Growth'
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer Singapore
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (81 pages)
• Subjects: 330; Environmental law, International; Environmental law; Environmental policy; Development economics; Environmental economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference; Development economics; Environmental economics; Environmental law; Environmental law, International; Environmental policy; Economics; Environmental Economics; Environmental Policy; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; International Environmental Law; Development Economics; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811037610; 9811037612
• Related ISBNs: 9811037604; 9789811037603
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.; Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 13, 2017).
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