ABSTRACT

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the connections between globalisation, environment and social justice. It examines varied dimensions of environmental sustainability; the adverse impact of globalisation on environment and its consequences for poverty, unemployment and displacement; the impacts on marginalised sections such as scheduled castes and tribes and women; and policy frameworks for ensuring environmental sustainability and social justice.

The chapters build on detailed case studies from different parts of the world and deal with critical environmental issues such as global emissions, climate change, sustainable development, green politics, species protection, water governance, waste management, food production and governance besides education, inclusivity and human rights.

Presenting a range of topics alongside new perspectives and discourses, this interdisciplinary book will be useful to students and researchers of political studies, sociology and environmental studies as well as policymakers and those working in the government and civil society organisations.

chapter |34 pages

Introduction

part I|164 pages

Globalisation, environmental sustainability and social justice

chapter 1|21 pages

Globalisation, environment and social justice

A theoretical insight

chapter 2|32 pages

A comparative assessment of climate policies of top global emitters and evolution of an effective climate regime

Issues of environmental effectiveness, economic efficiency, equity and political feasibility

chapter 3|19 pages

Politics of environment

Green parties in Europe as a model for India

chapter 6|16 pages

Globalisation, environment and sustainable development

Challenges and opportunities in the conservation of water catchments in south-eastern Kenya

chapter 7|20 pages

The glocal paradox

Waste production in Patna

chapter 8|16 pages

Neo-liberal development, environmental sustainability and social justice

Contextualising the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

part II|118 pages

Globalisation, marginalised sections and social justice

chapter 9|24 pages

Institutional challenges of common pool resource management

Insights from Tawa Reservoir Fisheries Cooperative

chapter 11|20 pages

Globalisation, environmental degradation and tribal identity

With particular reference to Central India

chapter 13|16 pages

Re(caste-ing) justice

Globalisation and Dalits in India

part III|106 pages

Globalisation and questions of equity and social justice

chapter 14|19 pages

Service-level benchmarking

Some emerging global lessons for Indian water governance

chapter 15|21 pages

Shifting food production and consumption patterns in globalised India

Issues of sustainability, security and justice

chapter 16|27 pages

Transnational higher education (TNHE) trends in India and China

Comparison of Euro-American and Chinese models

chapter 17|16 pages

Globalisation, IT and governance

Implications for social justice and inclusivity

chapter 18|21 pages

Risk and vulnerability in the neo-liberal order

Assessing social security in India