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245	0	4	_aPolitics of climate change and uncertainty in India / _cedited by Lyla Mehta, Hans Nicolai Adam and Shilpi Srivastava.
260			_aLondon: _bRouyledge, _c2022.
300			_axix, 196 pages : _billustrations, map ; _c24 cm.
490	0		_aPathways to sustainability series.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"This book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. Uncertainty is a key factor shaping climate and environmental policy at international, national, and local levels. Climate change and events such as cyclones, floods, droughts and changing rainfall patterns create uncertainties that planners, resource managers and local populations are regularly confronted with. In this context, uncertainty has emerged as a "wicked problem" for scientists and policymakers, resulting in highly debated and disputed decision-making. The book focuses on India, one of the most climatically vulnerable countries in the world, where there are stark socio-economic inequalities in addition to diverse geographic and climatic settings. Based on empirical research, it covers case studies from coastal Mumbai to dryland Kutch and the Sundarbans delta in West Bengal. These localities offer ecological contrasts, rural-urban diversity, varied exposure to different climate events and diverse state and official responses. The book unpacks the diverse discourses, practices and politics of uncertainty and demonstrates profound differences through which the "above", "middle" and "below" understand and experience climate change and uncertainty and makes a case for bringing together diverse knowledges and approaches to understand and embrace climate-related uncertainties in order to facilitate transformative change. Appealing to a broad professional and student audience, the book draws on wide-ranging theoretical and conceptual approaches from climate science, historical analysis, science technology and society studies, development studies and environmental studies. By looking at the intersection between local and diverse understandings of climate change and uncertainty with politics, culture, history, and ecology, the book argues for plural and socially just ways to tackle climate change in India and beyond"--
650		0	_aEconomic development _xEnvironmental aspects _zIndia. _933123
650		0	_aClimatic changes _xGovernment policy _zIndia. _933124
650		0	_aEnvironmental policy _zIndia. _933125
700	1		_aMehta, Lyla, _eeditor. _933126
700	1		_aAdam, Hans Nicolai, _eeditor. _933127
700	1		_aSrivastava, Shilpi, _eeditor. _933128
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _tPolitics of climate change and uncertainty in India _dNew York, NY : Routledge, 2022 _z9781003257585 _w(DLC) 2021039124
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