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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Manu Mathai (Azim Premji University, India)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.620kg ISBN: 9780415629164ISBN 10: 0415629160 Pages: 230 Publication Date: 04 January 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Preface 1. Passions of Power and the ""Tryst with Destiny"" 2. Modernity, Cornucopianism and the Megamachine 3. The Evolution of India's Economic Development Discourse: Independence to 1985 4. The Embrace of Nuclear Power and The Development-Energy Treadmill In India 5. The Advance of Economic Liberalization in India: 1985 to Present 6. Political Economy of Nuclear Power in India 7. Beyond Cornucopianism and the Megamachine Organization 8. Epilogue"ReviewsThe book focuses on India's electricity services as it calls into question whether nuclear energy and its logical offshoots are fundamentally compatible with 'addressing the environmental crisis on a finite, inequitable and shared planet'. - Joel Krupa, Energy Policy The book focuses on India's electricity services as it calls into question whether nuclear energy and its logical offshoots are fundamentally compatible with 'addressing the environmental crisis on a finite, inequitable and shared planet'. - Joel Krupa, Energy Policy This is a thoughtful book that deserves to be read carefully and its insights and warnings taken to heart. - Growth and Sustainability, Itty Abraham, National University of Singapore, Singapore If Dr. Mathai is correct in his assessment of the Indian people and their deeply shared commitment to diversity, democracy and social innovation, an optimistic outcome of his research will be that the general population of India will soon awaken to the energy alternatives available to them and catalyze the needed changes from the bottom-up for themselves. - Journal of Cleaner Production, Carole Beckham, CSU Dominguez Hills, USA """The book focuses on India's electricity services as it calls into question whether nuclear energy and its logical offshoots are fundamentally compatible with ‘addressing the environmental crisis on a finite, inequitable and shared planet’."" – Joel Krupa, Energy Policy ""This is a thoughtful book that deserves to be read carefully and its insights and warnings taken to heart."" – Growth and Sustainability, Itty Abraham, National University of Singapore, Singapore ""If Dr. Mathai is correct in his assessment of the Indian people and their deeply shared commitment to diversity, democracy and social innovation, an optimistic outcome of his research will be that the general population of India will soon awaken to the energy alternatives available to them and catalyze the needed changes from the bottom-up for themselves."" – Journal of Cleaner Production, Carole Beckham, CSU Dominguez Hills, USA" Author InformationManu V. Mathai is a Research Fellow with the Science and Technology for Sustainable Societies Program at the United Nations University Institute for Advanced Studies, Japan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |