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  • Urbanization in South India

    Processes and Policies

    by Anil Kumar Vaddiraju, K C Smitha ...
    This book offers a comprehensive exploration of urbanization across South India, examining the distinct trajectories and policy frameworks shaping cities in Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala. It highlights the dominance of primate cities in Karnataka and Telangana, alongside the rapid growth of secondary urban centres. In contrast, Tamil Nadu and Kerala exhibit more dispersed and ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Between Economy and Ecology

    Policies and Practices of Sustainable Development

    by Anil Kumar Vaddiraju, K C Smitha, D Jeevan Kumar ...
    This book consists of rigorous studies that explore various dimensions of sustainable development from the perspective of developing countries. The chapters address topics such as sustainable agriculture, sustainable cities, and alternative visions for sustainable development. The book examines both the policies and practices shaping sustainability efforts across the developing world, with a ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Urban Environmental Governance in India

    Browsing Bengaluru

    by K.V. Raju, A. Ravindra, S. Manasi, K.C. Smitha, Ravindra Srinivas ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book aims to identify the challenges presented by current urban environmental governance practices in fast growing Indian cities, to propose changes to the current governance implementation strategies, and to explore the best practices to achieve sustainable urban models through Indian and global perspectives. With a focus on the city of Bengaluru, the book draws on extensive reviews of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    The Lessons from Nepal

    Edited by Dipak Gyawali, Michael Thompson, Marco Verweij ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    Over the last 50 years, Nepal has been considered an experiential model in determining the effectiveness and success of global human development strategies, both in theory and in practice. As such, it provides a rich array of in-depth case studies in both development success and failure. This edited collection examines these in order to propose a novel perspective on how human development occurs ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Secession of the Successful

    The Flight Out of New India | Why Indians Are Moving Abroad | NRI Exodus, Brain Drain, Intolerance & the Question of India’s Democratic Future

    by Sanjaya Baru ...
    Why are so many of our fellow citizens disentangling from the political and economic future of India to invest in the destiny of other nations? Are Non-Resident Indians turning irreversibly into Non-Returning Indians? Is enhancing soft power a fair trade off for losing priceless human capital? And, perhaps most pertinently, is India becoming, after Russia and China, the constricting land of ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

  • Making Peace with the Earth

    by Vandana Shiva ...
    'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists', Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of profit and power, revealing the devastating environmental impact of corporate capitalism.Shiva argues that consumerism lubricates the war against the earth and that corporate control violates all ethical and ecological limits. She takes the reader on a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indian Agriculture Towards 2030

    Pathways for Enhancing Farmers’ Income, Nutritional Security and Sustainable Food and Farm Systems

    Edited by Ramesh Chand, Pramod Joshi, Shyam Khadka ...
    Series series India Studies in Business and Economics
    This open access book brings together varying perspectives for transformational change needed in India’s agriculture and allied sectors. Stressing the need of thinking for a post-Green Revolution future, the book promotes approaching this change through eight broad areas, indicating the policy shifts needed to meet the challenges for the coming decade (2021-2030).The book comprises of ten ... Read more

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  • Employment, Poverty and Rights in India

    by Dayabati Roy ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is rarely concerned with identifying possible causes.Employment, Poverty and Rights in India analyses ... Read more

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  • Ecology and Equity

    The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India

    by Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha ...
    Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem.Ecology and Equity explores the most ecologically complex country in the world. India's peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The bookanalyses the use and abuse of nature on the sub-continent to reveal the interconnections of social and ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • When Crime Pays

    Money and Muscle in Indian Politics

    by Milan Vaishnav ...
    The first thorough study of the co-existence of crime and democratic processes in Indian politics   In India, the world’s largest democracy, the symbiotic relationship between crime and politics raises complex questions. For instance, how can free and fair democratic processes exist alongside rampant criminality? Why do political parties recruit candidates with reputations for wrongdoing? Why are ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Poor But Spritied In Karimnagar

    Field Notes Of A Civil Servant

    by Sumita Dawra ...
    The difficulty of finding solutions After six decades of policy-making and planning that appear perfect on paper, vast pockets of poverty persist across the country, accompanied by low human development indices. In Poor but Spirited in Karimnagar, Sumita Dawra recounts her experiences as collector in the district of Karimnagar in Andhra Pradesh, and grapples with the question of why even with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Durable Slum

    Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai

    by Liza Weinstein ...
    Series series Globalization and Community
    In the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the notorious Dharavi district, best known from the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In recent years, cities from Delhi to Rio de Janeiro have demolished similar ... Read more

    $17.99 USD