Overview
- Provides diverse empirical evidence on disaster risks, climate change adaptation, policy discourses and sustainability governance to deconstruct them. Analyses over 900 media reports, three-decade long socio-economic data and presents over 50 visuals from actual disaster situations
- Simulates actual socio-ecological scenarios of sustainable development and climate change adaptation, unpacking the entire breadth of entanglements spread across spatial scales, probably for the first time
- Identifies knowledge gaps, knowledge-actions gaps, barriers and synergies to sustainable development in the Global South. Constructs a framework to facilitate co-production of knowledge and reflexivity by hybridising the socio-cultural with the techno-scientific
Part of the book series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research (AAHER)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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‘Devil’ in the Deep Blue Sea?
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Digging Deep: Evidence and Empiricism
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Joining the Isles
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Book Title: Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India
Book Subtitle: Hazards, Changing Climate and Development Discourses in the Sundarbans
Authors: Aditya Ghosh
Series Title: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63892-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63891-1Published: 14 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87664-1Published: 05 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63892-8Published: 01 December 2017
Series ISSN: 1879-7180
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7199
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 245
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
Topics: World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Regional Development, Sustainable Development, Human Geography, Climate Change