Energy and environment in India: the politics of a chronic crisis
"Both the Indian economy and the Indian population are growing at a brisk pace-but almost three hundred million Indians do not have electricity and over eight hundred million still use traditional biomass for their daily cooking needs. In this book, Johannes Urpelainen argues that India's extreme inequality and institutional shortcomings have pushed Indians to find private solutions to energy issues, from private borewells to diesel generators to rooftop solar panels. Yet such solutions are beyond the means of India's vast rural population, who struggle not just with energy access but with climate disruption, groundwater depletion, and pollution. Urpelainen describes India's environment, demographics and economy; explores how rapid population growth and economic development have brought the country to its current state of environmental degradation and energy poverty; and discusses policy solutions and possible future scenarios"--