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Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment : the Case of India.
This book offers a critique of civilian nuclear power as a green energy strategy for India. The author argues that the existing growth-based, highly technology-centric model of organizing economic activity is unsustainable and urgently needs reform. Categorizing nuclear power in India as an "&q...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge explorations in environmental studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover; Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Passions of power and the "tryst with destiny"; 1.1 Modernizing India, nuclear power and the environment; 1.2 A short history of nuclear power; 1.3 Approach and tools; 2. Modernity, Cornucopianism and the megamachine; 2.1 Introducing modernity; 2.2 The Cornucopian predisposition; 2.3 Cornucopianism as the development discourse; 2.4 Environmental crisis and modern environmentalisms; 2.5 Managed Cornucopia as environmentalism. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2.6 Emergence of the megamachine2.7 Elements of the megamachine organization of society; 2.8 The megamachine organization of society and the limits of human-centered agency; 3. The evolution of India's economic development discourse; 3.1 Two competing visions for India's future; 3.2 Building a megamachine organization of society; 3.3 Despite the evidence; 4. The embrace of nuclear power and the development-energy treadmill in India; 4.1 Embrace of nuclear power; 4.2 Cornucopianism and the development-energy treadmill; 4.3 Entrenched high-energy throughput. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 5. The advance of economic liberalization in India5.1 Building a modern megamachine organization of society; 5.2 Managed Cornucopia; 5.3 Geopolitics, Cornucopianism and nuclear power; 6. Political economy of nuclear power in India; 6.1 Modernity's unexamined privilege; 6.2 Nuclear power and modern technique; 6.3 Reinterpreting modernity's commodification impulse; 6.4 Sustaining power sans politics; 7. Beyond Cornucopianism and the megamachine organization; 7.1 Toward a human-centered development, energy and environment discourse; 7.2 End-use energy planning: the "DEFENDUS" framework. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 7.3 The human development and capability approach7.4 Ideas for sustainable structures of living together: the Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) as a template; 8. Epilogue; 8.1 India: considered through Cornucopianism and the megamachine organization; 8.2 Alternatives to Cornucopianism and the megamachine organization; 8.3 Situating strategies of resistance; 8.4 Unaddressed questions and pressing realities; Notes; Bibliography; Index. | |
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