Encircling the Seamless: India, Climate Change, and the Global Commons

by A. Damodaran

Overview

This book explores global environmental negotiations against the backdrop of complex political relations, the climate change conventions, and multilateral environmental assessments and their effect on special interest groups. It weaves in the story of India's emergent economy, its sustainable development, and the multifaceted nationhood, the diversity of its rural scene, and the challenges of seamlessness brought in by the power of its information technology. Viewing global environmental movements, the book discusses the pattern of global negotiations from the environmental summit capitals of the world—Rio, Kyoto, Cartagena, Bonn, Stockholm, Montreal, Geneva, Basel, and Copenhagen among others to graphically portray the plight of a postmodern world that grapples with the problems of climate, land degradation, chemical transfers, and biodiversity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199088218
Publisher:	OUP India
Publication date:	07/19/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	485 KB

About the Author

A. Damodaran is Professor and Chairperson PGPPM, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

Table of Contents

1. The New International Environment: Changing the Unchanged;
2. Stereotypes on Development;
3. . How Statesmen and International Organizations View the Challenges of Globalization;
4. India: The Multi Faced Nation State;
5. The Facets of India's Rurality;
6. Adapting to Globalization or Fighting it? The Politics of the Local and ICT;
7. Environmentalism in the World;
8. Policies for the Environment-The Story of India;
9. Leaders, Markets and Values: Neo-Malthusian Discourses;
10. Compensating For Lost Resources. Do They Work?;
11. Multilateral Environmental Agreements: The Scourge of Instrumentalism;
12. Civil Society, Non-civil Society, Non-governmental Organizations, and Environment and Trade;
13. Restructuring International Regimes for Global Sustainable Development;
14. Diversity as the Lodestar of Global Environmental Governance.