Manu V Mathai

Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment

The Case of India

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a critique of civilian nuclear power as a green energy strategy for India. The author argues that the existing growth-based, highly technology-centric model of organizing economic activity is unsustainable and urgently needs reform. Categorizing nuclear power in India as an "authoritarian technology," the book proposes an alternative arrangement, a synergy of ideas from the fields of economic development, energy planning, science, technology and society studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780415629164
• ISBN-10: 0415629160
• Artikelnr.: 36143253

Autorenporträt

Manu V. Mathai is a Research Fellow with the Science and Technology for Sustainable Societies Program at the United Nations University Institute for Advanced Studies, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Passions of Power and the "Tryst with Destiny" 2. Modernity,
Cornucopianism and the Megamachine 3. The Evolution of India's Economic
Development Discourse: Independence to 1985 4. The Embrace of Nuclear Power
and The Development-Energy Treadmill In India 5. The Advance of Economic
Liberalization in India: 1985 to Present 6. Political Economy of Nuclear
Power in India 7. Beyond Cornucopianism and the Megamachine Organization 8.
Epilogue