Friday, November 1, 2019

New Book | India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development

India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development
Edited by Navroz K. Dubash, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, ISBN: 9780199098392
 

About the Book
As science is increasingly making clear, the problem of climate change poses an existential challenge for humanity. For India, this challenge is compounded by immediate concerns of eradicating poverty and accelerating development, and complicated by its relatively limited role thus far in causing the problem. India in a Warming World explores this complex context for India's engagement with climate change. But, in addition, it argues that India, like other countries, can no longer ignore the problem, because a pathway to development innocent of climate change is no longer available. Bringing together leading researchers, activists, and policymakers, this volume lays out the emergent debate on climate change in India. Collectively, the chapters deepen clarity on why India should engage with climate change and how it can best do so.

Table of Contents
1. An Introduction to India's Evolving Climate Change Debate: From Diplomatic Insulation to Policy Integration | Navroz K. Dubash
SECTION I CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS
2. Impact of Climate Change on India | J. Srinivasan
3. Changing Climate and Weather: Evidence from Attribution Science | Krishna AchutaRao and Friederike Otto
4. Impacts of Global Warming in India: Narratives from Below | Nagraj Adve
SECTION II INTERNATIONAL DEBATES AND NEGOTIATIONS
5. Global Warming in an Unequal World: A Case of Environmental Colonialism | Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain
6. Equity in Long-Term Mitigation | Tejal Kanitkar and T. Jayaraman
7. India's Engagement in Global Climate Negotiations from Rio to Paris | Sandeep Sengupta
8. Present at the Creation: Th e Making of the Framework Convention on Climate Change | Chandrashekhar Dasgupta
9. One Long Day in Copenhagen | Shyam Saran
10. Reaching Agreement in Paris: A Negotiator's Perspective | Ashok Lavasa
11. India in International Climate Negotiations: Chequered Trajectory | D. Raghunandan
12. Understanding the 2015 Paris Agreement | Lavanya Rajamani
13. India and Paris: A Pragmatic Way Forward | Ajay Mathur
14. Making Sense on Its Own Terms: India in the HFC and Aviation Negotiations | Arunabha Ghosh
SECTION III POLITICS
15. Climate Change, Civil Society, and Social Movement in India | Pradip Swarnakar
16. Business Action on Climate Change: A Perspective from the Private Sector | Shankar Venkateswaran and Mukund Rajan
17. Energy and Climate Change: A Just Transition for Indian Labour | Ashim Roy , Benny Kuruvilla , and Ankit Bhardwaj
18. Looking Out, Looking In: Th e Shifting Discourse on Climate Change in the Indian Print Media | Anu Jogesh
SECTION IV POLICY
19. National Climate Policies and Institutions | Navroz K. Dubash and Shibani Ghosh
20. From Margins to Mainstream?: State Climate Change Planning in India | Navroz K. Dubash and Anu Jogesh
21. State Climate Change Planning: Has It Reached the Mainstream? | Elizabeth Gogoi
22. Climate Finance | Koyel Kumar Mandal
23. Managing the Climate Technology Transition | Ambuj Sagar
SECTION V CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT
24. Aligning Energy, Development, and Mitigation | Ashok Sreenivas and Ashwin Gambhir
25. Urban India and Climate Change | Radhika Khosla and Ankit Bhardwaj
26. Climate Change and India's Forests | Sharachchandra Lele and Jagdish Krishnaswamy
27. Climate Adaptation in the Water Sector in India | Veena Srinivasan
28. Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation: Agriculture | K.S. Kavi Kumar and Brinda Viswanathan
29. Shoring Up: Climate Change and the Indian Coasts and Islands | Rohan Arthur



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