1st Edition
Environment and Sustainable Development Perspectives and Issues
This volume provides a comprehensive account of the linkages between environment and sustainable development in society from an interdisciplinary perspective. With its case studies from across the world, including countries such as India, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the United States, Croatia, Italy, Brazil, Japan, and Kenya, it explores critical environmental issues concerning energy justice, queer ecology, mountain cultures, incarceration, energy strategies, mining tourism, pollution control mechanisms, social impacts of oil and gas production, contract farming, gender mainstreaming, climate change, and droughts and adaptation strategies along with literacy, leisure, well-being, development, sexuality, sustainability and environmental education. The book examines several dimensions within global environment of the adverse impact of developmental activities, discusses sustainable development activities undertaken in contemporary times, and underscores the importance of a just, people-centric policy framework in promoting sustainable development.
Lucid and topical, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of environmental studies, development studies, sustainable development, political studies, sociology, and political economy. It will also interest policymakers, development practitioners, NGOs and think tanks working on environment and sustainable development, climate issues and SDGs.
Introduction
Manish K. Verma
Part I: Perspectives on environment and sustainable development
1. Environmental education for sustainability: Environment literacy and action-oriented teaching
Siri Gamage
2. The trilemma of energy justice
Komali Yenneti
3. Heteronormative exclusions in environmental concerns: Queer ecology as critique
Pushpesh Kumar
4. Leisure, happiness and sustainable development: A global perspective
Francis Lobo
5. Indigenous people reclaiming their mountains: A cross-cultural perspective
Annapurna Devi Pandey
Part II: Environmental issues
6. Environmental injustice and incarceration: Notes from the United States
Jan Marie Fritz
7. Energy and sustainable development: Sustainability and the energy strategies and activities of Italy and Croatia with a focus on the Adriatic region
Jure Mudronja Pleša and Tijana Trako Poljak
8. Development alternatives: A plea for mining tourism
Ravi S. Singh and Payel Ghosh
9. Sustainability and public policies in Brazil
Edgard Leite Ferreira Neto
10. Environmental attitudes in a neighbourhood context: Multilevel analysis in the City of Split, Croatia
Ivan Puzek
11. ‘Not in my backyard?’: Challenges in the social impact assessment of the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link Project in South Africa
Tina Uys
12. Pollution control mechanisms: Approaches, extent and issues at the global level
Sanatan Nayak and Ekta Srivastava
13. Technology innovations for mitigating environmental and social impacts of oil and gas production in Kenya
Benson M. O. Agaya
Part III: Sustainable development and the people
14. Global environmental concerns of contract farming: Need for sustainable development in agricultural practices in India
Pranav Kumar Anand
15. Mainstreaming gender in climate change: Discourse and actions
Shweta Prasad
16. Working environment and childbirth: An exploration of sexual inactivity in contemporary Japan
Alice Pacher
17. Droughts and adaptation strategies: Challenges for small and marginal farmers
Venkatesh Dutta
Biography
Manish K. Verma is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India.
