Environmental Sustainability from the Himalayas to the Oceans Struggles and Innovations in China and India /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dong, Shikui (Editor), Bandyopadhyay, Jayanta (Editor), Chaturvedi, Sanjay (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Environment.; Environmental geography.; Climate change.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Environmental management.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Sustainable development.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Geography.; Climate Change.; Environmental Management.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.

The book is written in the backdrop of the environmental impacts of and future requirements from the natural environment for rapid economic growth that has characterized recent economic history of China and India, especially over the past few decades. The environmental impacts of such rapid economic...

Table of Contents:

• CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 2: Environmental Struggles and Innovations in China: A Historical Perspective
• CHAPTER 3: Environmental Struggles and Innovations in India: A Historical Perspective
• CHAPTER 4: Himalayan Rivers: Struggles and Policy Innovation
• CHAPTER 5: Himalayan Grasslands: Indigenous Knowledge and Institutions for Social Innovation
• CHAPTER 6: Environmental Grassroots: Partnerships for Social Innovation
• CHAPTER 7: Coastal Mangrove Forests: Geopolitics and Social Innovation
• CHAPTER 8: Designing Delta Interactions for Social Innovation
• CHAPTER 9: Conclusion.