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Intro -- Preface -- About This Book -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- Sustainability as the New Paradigm of Development -- The Concept of 'Environmentalism' in the Development Context -- Operationalizing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- Structure of the Volume -- Policy Implications and Way Forward -- References -- Part IPerspectives on Environment, Development and Sustainability -- 2 Ecology, Culture and Development -- Concept of Ecology -- The Pattern Theory of Culture -- Phases of Development -- Ecology and Development -- Perspectives and Imperatives -- Perspectives -- Development Dichotomies -- Imperatives -- Policy Implications -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 On Development: Practice and Ethics -- Development: An Angel, an Ideal -- Development: A Polysemic Concept -- Meanings of Development -- Development: Ensuring Good Life -- What Is Good Life? -- Development: A Conundrum, an Ominous Djinn -- Development: A Pursuit of Economics and Engineering -- Simple and Complex Societies -- Think Ethically: From Some to All, from Pain to Gain -- Policy Implications -- References -- 4 Sustainability: Revisiting Enduring Modern and Identified Tradition -- Introduction -- The Age of European Centrality, Colonialism and Objectification -- Enlightenment Crisis, Materiality and Strategic Silence on Ecology -- Uneven Development and Exclusion as a Problematic -- The Journey from the Global to the Local in Search of Sustainability -- The Unfinished Project of Modernity -- Sustainability as a Policy and Planning Issue -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Explaining Rural Development in Contemporary India: A Paradoxical Situation -- Introduction -- Defining Rural India -- Onslaught on Traditional Institutional Social Arrangements -- Rural Development as a Process.

Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- List of figures Page -- List of tables Page -- List of contributors Page -- Preface Page -- Introduction -- Part I Perspectives on environment and sustainable development -- 1 Environmental education for sustainability: environment literacy and action-oriented teaching -- 2 The trilemma of energy justice -- 3 Heteronormative exclusions in environmental concerns: queer ecology as critique -- 4 Leisure, happiness and sustainable development: a global perspective -- 5 Indigenous people reclaiming their mountains: a cross-cultural perspective -- Part II Environmental issues -- 6 Environmental injustice and incarceration: notes from the United States -- 7 Energy and sustainable development: sustainability and the energy strategies and activities of Italy and Croatia with a focus on the Adriatic region -- 8 Development alternatives: a plea for mining tourism -- 9 Sustainability and public policies in Brazil -- 10 Environmental attitudes in a neighbourhood context: multilevel analysis in the city of Split, Croatia -- 11 'Not in my backyard?': challenges in the social impact assessment of the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link Project in South Africa -- 12 Pollution control mechanisms: approaches, extent and issues at the global level -- 13 Technology innovations for mitigating environmental and social impacts of oil and gas production in Kenya -- Part III Sustainable development and the people -- 14 Global environmental concerns of contract farming: need for sustainable development in agricultural practices in India -- 15 Mainstreaming gender in climate change: discourse and actions -- 16 Working environment and childbirth: an exploration of sexual inactivity in contemporary Japan -- 17 Droughts and adaptation strategies: challenges for small and marginal farmers.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Globalisation, environmental sustainability and social justice: perspectives and issues -- 1 Globalisation, environment and social justice: a theoretical insight -- 2 A comparative assessment of climate policies of top global emitters and evolution of an effective climate regime: issues of environmental effectiveness, economic efficiency, equity and political feasibility -- 3 Politics of environment: Green parties in Europe as a model for India -- 4 Globalisation and political economy of protected areas -- 5 Environmental challenges in Brazil, local and global -- 6 Globalisation, environment and sustainable development: challenges and opportunities in the conservation of water catchments in south-eastern Kenya -- 7 The glocal paradox: waste production in Patna -- 8 Neo-liberal development, environmental sustainability and social justice: contextualising the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme -- Part II Globalisation, marginalised sections and social justice: problems and challenges -- 9 Institutional challenges of common pool resource management: insights from Tawa Reservoir Fisheries Cooperative -- 10 Social justice for women and girls: global pacts, unmet goals, environmental issues -- 11 Globalisation, environmental degradation and tribal identity: with particular reference to Central India -- 12 Sacred landscape, modes of subsistence and Adivasi rights in the globalised world -- 13 Re(caste-ing) justice: globalisation and Dalits in India -- Part III Globalisation and questions of equity and social justice: issues from various sectors -- 14 Service-level benchmarking: some emerging global lessons for Indian water governance

Lalta Prasad, Betwixt Development and Discontent: Dalit Adivasis on the South-Eastern Margins of Uttar Pradesh. Delhi: Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd., 2017, XVI+168 pp., ₹650 (hardback). ISBN 93-5125-220-5.