Human Development and Globalisation : Challenges to Sustainable Development
Contents: Foreword. 1. Sustaining the development of our fragile world: dilemma and challenges/O.P. Dwivedi. 2. Sustainable development: the problems and the principles/R.G. Chaturvedi. 3. Law, morality and pollution/Inakshi Chaturvedi. 4. Globalization, underdevelopment and human insecurity: some theoretical and ethical reflections/J. Nef. 5. Technological and environmental values conflict and cooperation: an Indian assessment/Inakshi Chaturvedi. 6. The road from Rio (1992) to Johannesburg (2002)/Dhirendra Vajpeyi. 7. Sustainable development and globalisation: an Indian eco-feminist approach/Inakshi Chaturvedi. 8. The gender perspective of environmental management/Manju Singh and Sucheta Gupta. 9. Political resonance of techno-economic changes in the Rajasthan aridlands ecology (an academic prospectus for resonance research)/P.C. Mathur. 10. Sustainable human development: relevance and challenges/Smita Gupta and Roopa Manglani. 11. Eco-justice cosmic ethics in relation to creatures/R.G. Chaturvedi. 12. Gender politics and human rights in a globalised world: a feminist perspective/Abhishek Sharma. 13. Peace and development: the Gandhian perspective/Navina Bhartiya. Index.
"The book is a bunch of thoughtful essays. Some of the articles are those contributed by the learned authors in the International Mid Term Seminar under the auspices of Research Committee-35 of International Political Science Association and Department of Political Science on Sustainable Human Development; challenges for technology democracy and justice.
The compilation promises to have covered the sustainable development in all its thematic intricacies in a global perspective. The volume encompasses the problems, principles, dilemmas and challenges of sustainable development. Important summits about sustainable development such as earth summit of Rio (1992) and Johannesburg summit (2002) are elaborately discussed.
Certain guiding principles of ecological sustainable resource management have been deduced in the edition. The only way appealing to resolve the challenges posed on sustainable development is to fall back to Indian tradition, which emphasizes a holistic approach to nature and life. Each article represents a thoughtful essay as well as thought provoking assay, and less said be taken to be more leaving the quality and the content thereof to be evidenced by themselves with the hope that the literature collected herein would be welcome by the environmental scientists, jurists and courts preaching sustainable development to also muster machinery for its implementation and enforcement so as to counter and answer the challenges faced by technology, democracy and justice." (jacket)
