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Environment and Sustainable Development: Perspectives and Issues book cover

1st Edition

Environment and Sustainable Development Perspectives and Issues

Edited By Manish K. Verma Copyright 2022
384 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

384 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

384 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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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... Read more

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.

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