India in A Warming World : integrating climate change and development
Contributor(s): Dubash, Navroz K.
Publisher: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2019Description: xxvi,576p.ISBN: 9780199498734.Subject(s): Economics -- Economic development -- Environmental policy -- Climatic changes -- Mitigation -- IndiaDDC classification: 363.7387460954 Summary: The book is about Integrating Climate Change and Development and scientific uncertainty, contending interests, and competing interpretations, the problem of climate change poses an existential challenge. For India, such a challenge is compounded by the immediate concerns of eradicating poverty and accelerating development. Moreover, India has played a relatively limited role thus far in causing the problem. Despite these complicating factors, India has to engage in this challenge because a pathway to development innocent of climate change is no longer possible. The volume seeks to encourage public debate on climate change as part of India’s larger development discourse. This volume brings together leading researchers and practitioners—negotiators, activists, and policymakers—to layout the emergent debate on climate change in India. Through these chapters, the contributors hope to deepen clarity both on why India should engage with climate change and how it can best do so, even while appreciating and representing the challenges inherent in doing so.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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The book is about Integrating Climate Change and Development and scientific uncertainty, contending interests, and competing interpretations, the problem of climate change poses an existential challenge. For India, such a challenge is compounded by the immediate concerns of eradicating poverty and accelerating development. Moreover, India has played a relatively limited role thus far in causing the problem. Despite these complicating factors, India has to engage in this challenge because a pathway to development innocent of climate change is no longer possible. The volume seeks to encourage public debate on climate change as part of India’s larger development discourse.
This volume brings together leading researchers and practitioners—negotiators, activists, and policymakers—to layout the emergent debate on climate change in India. Through these chapters, the contributors hope to deepen clarity both on why India should engage with climate change and how it can best do so, even while appreciating and representing the challenges inherent in doing so.
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