India's Risks: Democratizing the Management of Threats to Environment, Health, and Values - Couverture rigide

Moor, Raphaelle; Gowda, M.V. Rajeev

 
9780199450459: India's Risks: Democratizing the Management of Threats to Environment, Health, and Values
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0199450455 ISBN 13 : 9780199450459
Editeur : OUP India, 2014

Synopsis

A prospective superpower, India is still grappling with a host of risks that threaten to hamper its progress. These range from environmental threats caused by GM crops and pollution; dangers to health from HIV/AIDS and maternal mortality; safety concerns about natural hazards, nuclear power, and industrial disasters; and challenges to livelihoods and values.

Some of the issues that this volume explores are: what counts as an 'acceptable' risk, and who decides? How should divergent perceptions of risks be reconciled? And, where is the line between science and politics? Advocating a more multidimensional approach to managing risks, the authors challenge many of the dominant perspectives in India.

The field of risk research, which has emerged over the last 40 years in the West, has been relatively unexplored in India. In an effort to bridge this gap, this volume brings together Indian and Western scholars and practitioners across the fields of psychology, anthropology, law, politics, sociology, public health, philosophy, science, and architecture, who offer insights on the theory of risk, lessons from the West, and the realities of risk in India.

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À propos de l?auteur

Raphaelle Moor is a consultant in the area of disaster risk management and climate change adaptation, based in London. She managed the UKIERI's (UK-India Education and Research Initiative) 'India at Risk' project at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore for over two-and-a-half years.

M.V. Rajeev Gowda is Professor of Economics and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He serves as a Director on the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India and is a Carnegie Council Global Ethics Fellow. He is also active in Indian politics.

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Éditeur
OUP India
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199450455
ISBN 13 
9780199450459
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
368
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