About the Book

This book is an interdisciplinary work that reveals the contemporary sustainability narratives in India within the context of various SDGs. Several case studies are presented, each of which sheds light on the challenges and constraints that are impeding the process of achieving SDGs and investigates potential long-term answers to socio-economic and environmental issues. Through empirical case studies from different parts of India, the book explores the current status of achieving sustainable development goals in India. The volume immensely benefits scientists, researchers, policymakers and practitioners as it offers a thematic and comprehensive understanding of challenges associated with mainstreaming SDGs at national, sub-national, and micro scales in India. 

Contents

Sustainability as the Development Paradigm: Evolving Frames and Interpretations

Venkatesh Dutta, Priyanka Ghosh

Poverty Alleviation with Sustainable Development in India

Ravi Patni

Summary Measures of Population Health: Healthy Life Expectancy in India in the Context of Sustainable Development

Shewli Shabnam, Nandita Saikia

Quality Education: Foundation for 16 SDGs

Apoorva Bhatnagar, Triguna Singh

Mapping the Provisions for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education in the Indian Education Policy Documents: NEP 1968 to NEP 2020

Chasul Phogat

Impact of the Language of Instruction for STEM Subjects on Student Engagement, Motivation, and Further Learning: A Case Study in Maharashtra, India

Darshan Gaikwad, Jyotsna Akurathi, Mukund Nagarajan Rao

Clean Water and Universal Sanitation in an Era of Sustainable Development: Understanding the Challenges and Prospects for SDG 6 in the Ganga River Basin

Sya Buryn Kedzior

India’s Journey Toward Cleaner and Affordable Energy for Achieving SDG 7: Progress and Prospects

Anurag Piyamrao Wasnik

Fuelling Women Lives with LPG: A Sociological Study of Fuel Use Pattern Amidst Policy Intervention in Peri-Urban Areas of Uttar Pradesh

Manish K. Verma, Moni Chandra

Decent Work and Inclusion: Migrant Women Domestic Worker’s Search for a Better Life

Anindya Basu, Diotima Chattoraj

The Impact of SDG-11 on Building Sustainable Cities: PPP Project Scenarios for Urban Infrastructure Development in India

Nimisha Jha

Water-Sensitive Urban Design as a Driver for Accelerating Sustainable Urban Development in India

Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, Jyoti Verma, Manju Rajeev Kanchan

SDG 13 and Climate Change in India

Tania Chakravarty, Priyanka Ghosh

Unsustainable, Imperial Dreams: What India’s Blue Economy Portends for “Life Below Water”

Adam Jadhav

Reinventing Methods of Preserving and Protecting Forests of India with Particular Reference to Odisha

Swetaparna Ankita

Green Diplomacy: A Way to Achieve SDG-17

S. Venkata Krishnan

Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Way Forward

Priyanka Ghosh, Tania Chakravarty

About the Author / Editor

Priyanka Ghosh is a Senior Assistant Professor of Geography at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)-AP, India. Her areas of interests are political ecology, biodiversity conservation, protected area management, and sustainable development. She has extensively worked in the Indian Sundarbans during her Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky and later extended her research by investigating the rural land use of Fayette County, Kentucky. She has served as an educational advisor at the IEC Kumamoto International College, Japan for five months. Dr Ghosh has published high-ranking peer-reviewed international and national journals such as Geographical Review, GeoJournal as well as contributed book chapters on several issues such as water shortage and water crisis in large cities of India, street and place name changes in Kolkata, and subsistence and biodiversity conservation in the Indian Sundarbans.

Venkatesh Dutta is Professor of Environmental Sciences in a Central University (Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow). He is trained as Environmental Management Specialist with specialization in Water Resources Management. His main research interests include River Restoration, Land-use planning along with zoning regulations, Environmental Impact Assessment, Urban Policies and Sustainable Cities. He is also interested in spatial patterns, process, cause and consequence of urban sprawl vis-a-vis environmental impacts.