Drought, Policy and Politics in India: The Need for a Long-Term Perspective

By Niraja Gopal Jayal and Kuldeep Mathur

Adopting and ecological perspective, this book is a study of public policy on drought management in India. The authors argue that policy-makers have assumed drought to be a consequence of exclusively natural factors and, because of this, the planning process has been short-sighted and concerned with drought mitigation through relief, rather than with longer-term measures of drought-proofing. The book details the administrative and financial arrangements for drought mitigation in India and highlights the politics of policy-making, showing how the sanctioning of relief expenditure is often politically motivated.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803991223
• ISBN13: 9780803991224
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 5.8"