Environmental Sustainability from the Himalayas to the Oceans: Struggles and Innovations in China and India

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The book is written in the backdrop of the environmental impacts of and future requirements from the natural environment for rapid economic growth that has characterized contemporary economic history of China and India, especially over the past few decades. The environmental impacts of such rapid economic changes have been, more regularly than in a different way, degrading in character. Environmental impacts of economic activities create degraded natural ecosystems by over utilization of nature’s provisioning ecosystem products and services (from Himalaya to the Ocean), as well, by way of the natural environment as sink for dumping of unmarketable products or unused inputs of economic activities. Such processes impact wide range of ecosystem processes on which the natural environment including human population depend on.

Critical perspectives cast by more than a few chapters in this book draw attention to the more than a few ways in which space and power interact to produce diverse geographies of sustainability in a globalizing world. They also address the questions such as who decides what sort of a spatial arrangement of political power is needed for sustaining the environment. Who stands to gain (or lose) what, when, where, and why from certain geographical areas being demarcated as ecologically unique, fragile and vulnerable environments? Whose needs and values are being catered to by a given ecosystem service? What’s the scope for critical inquiry into the ways in which the environment is imagined, represented and resisted in both geopolitical struggles and on a regular basis life? The book provides insights to both academics from diverse disciplines and policy makers, civil society actors interested in mutual exchange of knowledge between China and India.

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