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

By Aditya Ghosh

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319638912
• ISBN13: 9783319638911
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"