The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India

ISBN-13: 9781032190785 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 196 str.

Lyla Mehta; Hans Nicolai Adam; Shilpi Srivastava

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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