About this ebook
Purpose of the book is to develop, contribute, and disseminate scientific knowledge pertaining to the issues related to sustainable development. The chapters are developed so that the contents can facilitate comprehension of the major constraints in achieving sustainability including but not limited to environmental, social, economic, and governance-related issues from local, regional, to national level. Resource management, climate change, agriculture, population, education, women, poverty, infrastructure, crime, corruption, governance, are the other relevant topics that have been both identified and suitably discussed. Constraints in Achieving Sustainability of India can be utilized as a guiding tool for realizing sustainability in development, especially, in the Indian context.
The book covers environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainability in Indian context with ample case studies from local communities to highlight impact of various dimensions.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Contributors
1. Introduction and Overview
2. Sustainable Development: concept, components and history
3. Environment, Culture, and Sustainable Development: a historical perspective
4. Management and Rural Livelihood Sustainability in High Mountain Villages of Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand
5. Evaluating the Role of Agro-forestry in Combating and Adapting to Impacts of Climate Change in the West Sikkim District, Sikkim
6. Water Resource Issues and its Sustainable Management in Urban Villages of South Delhi
7. Population Dynamics and Sustainability Issues in the Indian Himalayan Region
8. Gendered Occupations or Occupational Genders: a study of Kolkata metropolis
9. Urban Rurality, In-betweenness of Place and Urban Planning Process of Khora Colony, Uttar Pradesh
10. Critical Role of Higher Education Institutions in Achieving Sustainable Development in India
11. Perspectives on Public Health Policy and Sustainable Development Goals in India
12. Sway of Indian Cinema in Diffusing Environmental Sentience
13. Poverty Lines and Poor in India: a trend analysis from 1983-84 to 2004-05
14. Sanitation Workers and Associated Problems for the Sustainability of Religious Events: a case study of Magh Mela, Prayagraj
15. Assessment of Basic Infrastructure Development and Associated Issues in India
16. Assessing Urban Basic Services, Crime and Well-being in Low-income Housing of Shiv Vihar, JJ Colony, Delhi and Way to Sustainability
17. Corruption in India and Sustainable Development Goals: mapping the role of law and good governance
18. Principles and Challenges of Good Governance in Achieving Sustainability of India
Index
About the Editors
About the author
Dr Rajesh Kumar Abhay is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi. His research interests include Resource Management, Regional Planning and Development, and Sustainability Studies. He is the recipient of Young Geographer Award of the National Association of Geographers, India (2014).
Dr Deep Narayan Pandey is Assistant Professor in the Special Centre for Disaster Research, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is specialized in the field of Community-Based Disaster Management, Disaster Economics, Remote Sensing and GIS and Geopolitics. He has previously taught at Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi.
Dr Shweta Rani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi. Her keen research interests include Urbanization and Development, Statistical Methods in Spatial Analysis, Geoinformatics and Sustainable and Regional Development. She is recipient of Gold Medal from University of Delhi (2008) and was awarded fellowship for meritorious student’s in Science by UGC (2012).
