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“sumit vij”

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  • Climate Change Governance and Adaptation

    Case Studies from South Asia

    Edited by Anamika Barua, Vishal Narain, Sumit Vij ...
    Climate change adaptation in South Asia is redefining the roles of different actors in the governance processes. The existing governance lack capacity, knowledge, and leadership skills to manage the uncertainties and challenges posed by climate change. This book aims to explain how the governance of climate change adaptation and mitigation is being shaped in the region and how climate change is ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

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  • Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia

    Flows across Boundaries

    Edited by Vishal Narain, Dik Roth ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the implications of urbanization in South Asia for water (in-) security in the peri-urban spaces of Dhaka and Khulna in Bangladesh, Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune in India, and Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The book looks into specifically peri-urban water security issues in a context of rapid urbanization and social-environmental changes, including ... Read more

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  • Climate Change and Community Resilience

    Insights from South Asia

    Edited by A. K. Enamul Haque, Pranab Mukhopadhyay, Mani Nepal, Md Rumi Shammin ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book documents myriads of ways community-based climate change adaptation and resilience programs are being implemented in South Asian countries. The narrative style of writing in this volume makes it accessible to a diverse audience from academics and researchers to practitioners in various governmental, non-governmental and international agencies. At a time when climate change ... Read more

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  • Leadership for Disaster Resilience

    Lessons from India

    by Jacquleen Joseph, Suchita Awasthi, Zubin R. Mulla ...
    This book comprehensively conceptualises disaster resilience leadership within the macro context of a risk society. Leadership for disaster resilience has gained prominence in the face of global environmental change, and the need for collaboration, integration, and synergy in addressing this crisis is starker than ever. Drawing on case studies from across India, the volume focuses on leaderships ... Read more

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  • Sustainability: Science, Policy, and Practice in India

    Challenges and Opportunities

    Edited by Venkatesh Dutta, Priyanka Ghosh ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Women and Disasters in South Asia

    Survival, security and development

    Edited by Swarna Rajagopalan, Linda Racioppi ...
    South Asia is one of the most vulnerable areas of an increasingly disaster-impacted world, with cyclones, earthquakes, floods and droughts causing several casualties and disrupting lives and livelihoods every year. Yet the impacts of disasters are not equally distributed across the peoples of the region.Women and men experience disaster differently, and their needs in the aftermath of disaster ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Resource Management, Sustainable Development and Governance

    Indian and International Perspectives

    Edited by Baleshwar Thakur, Rajiv R. Thakur, Srikumar Chattopadhyay, Rajesh K. Abhay ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book examines the relationship between natural resource management, sustainable development, and governance with case studies from India and other places covering disaster risk reduction, conflict resolution, capacity building, climate change adaptation and resilience, citizen engagement and ecological conservation. Though the studies focus mostly on cases in India, the volume discusses how ... Read more

    $218.99 CAD

  • Gender, Environment and Sustainable Development

    Challenges and Responses from India

    Edited by Shweta Prasad ...
    This book studies environment and sustainable development from the perspective of gender. It focuses on three major themes, including sustainability of development practices, policy perspectives on environmental management and climate change and its gendered impact. It includes contributions from academicians working across disciplines and practitioners working at the grassroots levels. The book ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Community Forestry in Nepal

    Adapting to a Changing World

    Edited by Richard Thwaites, Robert Fisher, Mohan Poudel ...
    Series series The Earthscan Forest Library
    Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation. It is widespread in Nepal, with a very high proportion of the rural population involved, and is widely recognized as one of the most successful examples of community forestry in Asia. Through a combination of literature reviews and original research, this volume ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Environment, Development and Sustainability in India: Perspectives, Issues and Alternatives

    Edited by Manish K. Verma ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Restoring Forests and Improving Livelihoods in Nepal

    Four Decades of Community Forestry

    Edited by Hemant Ojha, Krishna K. Shrestha, Naya S. Paudel, Rahul Karki, Dil Khatri, Sony Baral, Mani Ram Banjade, Ian Nuberg ...
    Series series The Earthscan Forest Library
    This book presents a comprehensive review of new research and practice-based insights from Nepal’s four decades of community forestry development, delving into when and how community-based management can lead to forest landscape restoration and equitable livelihoods.With over four decades of formal program history, Nepal’s community forestry is a rare case from the Global South showcasing the ... Read more

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  • Ganga Rejuvenation: Governance Challenges And Policy Options

    by Xun Wu, Robert James Wasson, Ora-orn Poocharoen ...
    This book focuses on governance and management issues in the much publicized 'Ganga Rejuvenation Project', led by the Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi. Attempts over the past three decades to clean up and rejuvenate one of the world's greatest rivers have proved futile. The major reasons for the lack of success are absence of long-term planning, poor co-ordination and failure to sustain ... Read more

    $151.99 CAD