India, Climate Change, and The Global Commons

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9780192899828

Publication date:

03/10/2023

Hardback

376 pages

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ISBN:

9780192899828

Publication date:

03/10/2023

Hardback

376 pages

A. Damodaran

This book explores the genesis of the concept of global commons against the backdrop of the global environmental problems of climate change, biodiversity conservation, desertification, and the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes.

 

Rights:  World Rights

A. Damodaran

Description

This book explores the genesis of the concept of global commons against the backdrop of the global environmental problems of climate change, biodiversity conservation, desertification, and the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes. It highlights blockchains and cryptocurrencies, and their role in transforming global institutions. It delves on the advent of COVID-19 as a global common and the way the pandemic has been handled by the world community. The book also explores the way the current geopolitics of the world is contributing to the resolution of the conservation problem associated with global commons.

About the author:

Professor A. Damodaran began his career as a policy maker with the Government of India and switched to academics in 2001. He worked as Professor at Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore, and switched to Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore as Professor in 2005. He has held academic assignments with the United Nations University Japan; the Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and the University of Bonn, Germany. He was an Obama - Singh Scholar in Residence at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. He has also taught at St. Petersburg University in Russia.

A. Damodaran

Table of contents

Chapter 1   The New International Environment: Changing the Unchanged

Chapter 2   Stereotypes on Development

Chapter 3   Challenges of Global Governance: Opinions and Formulations

Chapter 4   India: The Multi-Faceted Nation-State

Chapter 5   India's Rurality and Its Different Faces

Chapter 6   Adapting to Globalization or Fighting it?

Chapter 7   Environmentalism in the World

Chapter 8   Policies for the Environment: The Story of IndiaChapter 9   Leaders, Markets, and Values

Chapter 10   Compensating for Lost Resources: Does It work?Chapter 11   The Local Impacts of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: The UNFCCC, CBD, and The Basel Convention

Chapter 12   Environment and Trade: The Role of Stakeholders

Chapter 13   COVID-19 as Global Commons: Issues of Equity, Sustainability, and Instrumentalism

Chapter 14   Restructuring Regimes for Sustainable Development

Chapter 15   The Diversity Principle, Blockchains, and the Future of Global Commons

A. Damodaran

A. Damodaran

A. Damodaran

Description

This book explores the genesis of the concept of global commons against the backdrop of the global environmental problems of climate change, biodiversity conservation, desertification, and the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes. It highlights blockchains and cryptocurrencies, and their role in transforming global institutions. It delves on the advent of COVID-19 as a global common and the way the pandemic has been handled by the world community. The book also explores the way the current geopolitics of the world is contributing to the resolution of the conservation problem associated with global commons.

About the author:

Professor A. Damodaran began his career as a policy maker with the Government of India and switched to academics in 2001. He worked as Professor at Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore, and switched to Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore as Professor in 2005. He has held academic assignments with the United Nations University Japan; the Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and the University of Bonn, Germany. He was an Obama - Singh Scholar in Residence at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. He has also taught at St. Petersburg University in Russia.

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Table of contents

Chapter 1   The New International Environment: Changing the Unchanged

Chapter 2   Stereotypes on Development

Chapter 3   Challenges of Global Governance: Opinions and Formulations

Chapter 4   India: The Multi-Faceted Nation-State

Chapter 5   India's Rurality and Its Different Faces

Chapter 6   Adapting to Globalization or Fighting it?

Chapter 7   Environmentalism in the World

Chapter 8   Policies for the Environment: The Story of IndiaChapter 9   Leaders, Markets, and Values

Chapter 10   Compensating for Lost Resources: Does It work?Chapter 11   The Local Impacts of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: The UNFCCC, CBD, and The Basel Convention

Chapter 12   Environment and Trade: The Role of Stakeholders

Chapter 13   COVID-19 as Global Commons: Issues of Equity, Sustainability, and Instrumentalism

Chapter 14   Restructuring Regimes for Sustainable Development

Chapter 15   The Diversity Principle, Blockchains, and the Future of Global Commons

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