The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mehta, Lyla; Srivastava, Shilpi; Adam, Hans Nicolai

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India, one of the most climatically vulnerable countries in the world. Based on empirical research, it covers case studies from coastal Mumbai to dryland Kutch and the Sundarbans delta in West Bengal.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000531534
• Artikelnr.: 63128926

Autorenporträt

Lyla Mehta is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK, and a Visiting Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Hans Nicolai Adam is a Research Scientist at the Section for Water and Society at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) in Oslo, Norway. Shilpi Srivastava is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Climate change and uncertainty: politics and perspectives
2 Uncertainty from "above": diverse understandings, politics and implications
3 Uncertainty and environmental change: kutch and the Sundarbans as environmental histories of climate change
4 Between the market and climate change: uncertainty and transformation in kutch
5 The certainty of uncertainty: climate change realities of the Indian sundarbans
6 Climate change and uncertainty in India's maximum city, Mumbai
7 Bridging gaps in understandings of climate change and uncertainty
8 Conclusion