Encircling the Seamless India, Climate Change, and the Global Commons

by A. Damodaran

This book explores global environmental negotiations against the backdrop of complex political relations, the climate change conventions and multilateral environmental assessments and their effect on special interest groups. It weaves in the story of India’s emergent economy, its sustainable development, and the multifaceted nationhood, the diversity of its rural scene, and the challenges of seamlessness brought in by the power of its information technology.

Viewing global environmental movements, the book discusses the pattern of global negotiations from the environmental summit capitals of the world-Rio, Kyoto, Cartagena, Bonn, Stockholm, Montreal, Geneva, Basel, and Copenhagen among others to graphically portray the plight of a post-modern world that grapples with the problems of climate, land degradation, chemical transfers, and biodiversity.

Table of Contents:

1. The New International Environment: Changing the Unchanged
2. Stereotypes on Development
3. How Statesmen and International Organizations View the Challenges of Globalization
4. India: The Multi Faced Nation State
5. The Facets of India's Rurality
6. Adapting to Globalization or Fighting it? The Politics of the Local and ICT
7. Environmentalism in the World
8. Policies for the Environment-The Story of India
9. Leaders, Markets and Values: Neo-Malthusian Discourses
10. Compensating For Lost Resources. Do They Work?
11. Multilateral Environmental Agreements: The Scourge of Instrumentalism
12. Civil Society, Non-civil Society, Non-governmental Organizations, and Environment and Trade
13. Restructuring International Regimes for Global Sustainable Development
14. Diversity as the Lodestar of Global Environmental Governance.

About the Author:

A. Damodaran is Professor, Economics & Social Sciences Area, and MHRD Chair Professor on IPRs, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.