About the Book
This book provides a comprehensive account of asymmetric linkage in the trilogy of environment, development and sustainability and its impact on society. It examines varied perspectives and issues of development related to environmental destruction and sustainability challenges. By examining the recent trends of development and recording the dilemmas which are creating ecological imbalances, it explores some alternative ways of development to achieve sustainability. Divided into three parts, it has a broad canvass. The first section examines critically the 'perspectives' on ecology, practice and ethics, rural development and man-forest interaction in the metropolis. 'Issues' of dams, river, agricultural distress, environmental migration, eco-tourism, ecological conservation and land acquisition are assessed in part second. 'Alternative' means of development is explored in part third by incorporating chapters on the constructed wetland, biofuels, subsistence economy, water and traditional knowledge practice. This interdisciplinary book is of immense significance to academicians, researchers, postgraduate and graduate-level students of social sciences and environmental studies; policymakers, development practitioners and NGOs working in the area of environment and development.
Contents
1. Introduction / Manish K. Verma and Venkatesh Dutta
Part I Perspectives on Environment, Development and Sustainability
2. Ecology, Culture and Development / B. K. Nagla
3. On Development: Practice and Ethics / Vinay Kumar Srivastava
4. Sustainability: Revisiting Enduring Modern and Identified Tradition / Ashok Kaul and Chittaranjan Das Adhikary
5. Explaining Rural Development in Contemporary India: A Paradoxical Situation / K. L. Sharma
6. Man-Forest Interaction in a Metropolis: Perspectives from Hermeneutics / Tapan R. Mohanty
Part II Issues of Environment
7. Environmental Consequences of Dams: A Study of Select Hydroelectric Projects in India / Namita Gupta
8. Impact of Efforts on Ganga Restoration and Conservation / Ravindra Kumar
9. Locating Agricultural Distress in India: Realigning for Sustainability and Nutritional Security / Purba Chattopadhyay
10. Environmental Migration: A Challenge for Sustainable Development / Clare Lizamit Samling
11. Interface Between Tribes and Ecotourism: A Study on Sustainability and Development in Purulia, West Bengal / Biswajit Paul and Ramanuj Ganguly
12. People's Movement Against Ecological Conservation Policies in the Western Ghats: Reflections from Kerala, India / S. Gurusamy and P. V. Basil
13. Balancing Growth with Livelihood Sustainability: Social and Political Action Over Land Acquisition in India / Siddhartha Mukerji
Part III Alternatives for Environmental Sustainability
14 Constructed Wetland: A Sustainable Approach for Wastewater Treatment / R. R. Patil, Karuna N. Pohekar, and Neetu Rani
15. Biofuels for What? Environmental Sustainability and Discursive Flexibility of Jatropha in India / Rahul Shukla and Sambit Mallick
16. Alternative Approaches to Measure Sustainability in a Subsistence Economy: Empirical Insight from Shifting Cultivation in Odisha / Amalendu Jyotishi and M. Manjula
17. Tribal Health and Sustainable Development: Traditional Knowledge Practice and Medicinal Plant / Samita Manna and Aritra Ghosh
18. Indigenous Knowledge of Women: Alternative Methods of Water Conservation in Rajasthan / Ritu Sharma
About the Author / Editor
Manish K. Verma is Professor, Head and Deputy Coordinator of the UGCSpecial Assistance Programme in the Department of Sociology at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar (Central) University, Lucknow, India. Previously, he served in the Department of College Education, Rajasthan, as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Lecturer in Selection Grade for 10 years and briefly at NTPC, Corporate Office, New Delhi, as Sociologist. With a doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he has more than 22 years of teaching and research experience. He has published many books, including Globalisation, Social Justice and Sustainable Development in India (2017), Peri-urban Environment (2017), Globalization and Environment: Discourse, Policies and Practices (2015) and Development, Displacement and Resettlement (2004). Several of his research papers and chapters have been published in journals and edited volumes. He is a member of various professional bodies such as the International Sociological Association, Indian Sociological Society and Rajasthan Sociological Association. At present, he is a member of the Managing Committee of the Indian Sociological Society. His main research interests include environment and development, involuntary displacement, urban ecology, social justice and globalisation.
