ISBN:
9789353289416
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (265 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
4243 Erscheint auch als Baviskar, Amita, 1965 - Uncivil city
DDC:
363.70095400000002
Keywords:
Environmental policy-India-Delhi
;
Umweltschutz
;
Umweltpolitik
;
Wirkung
;
Auswirkung
;
Lebensbedingungen
;
Zivilgesellschaft
;
Wirtschaft
;
Ökologie
;
Umwelt
;
Gut
;
Environmental policy-India-Delhi
;
Electronic books
;
Indien
;
Delhi
;
Lebensraum
;
Lebensbedingungen
;
Umweltschutz
;
Umweltpolitik
Abstract:
This book looks at two decades of environmental politics in Delhi and argues that 'bourgeois environmentalists' who claim to speak for nature and society have perversely worsened the quality of life for most citizens.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Publisher's Acknowledgements -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: An uncivil city -- Remaking Landscapes and Lives -- 2 Making plans and places -- 3 Sealing factories and fates -- 4 Playing games -- Contesting the Commons -- 5 Cows, cars and cycle-rickshaws -- 6 The River -- 7 The Ridge -- Conclusion and Coda -- 8 City limits and beyond -- 9 Climate change, uncertainty and the city -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index.
Note:
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