Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment

Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment
Author: Manu V. Mathai
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136229914

Nuclear power is often characterized as a "green technology." Technologies are rarely, if ever, socially isolated artefacts. Instead, they materially represent an embodiment of values and priorities. Nuclear power is no different. It is a product of a particular political economy and the question is whether that political economy can helpfully engage with the challenge of addressing the environmental crisis on a finite, inequitable and shared planet. For developing countries like India, who are presently making infrastructure investments which will have long legacies, it is imperative that these investments wrestle with such questions and prove themselves capable of sufficiency, greater equality and inclusiveness. This book offers a critique of civilian nuclear power as a green energy strategy for India and develops and proposes an alternative "synergy for sustainability." It situates nuclear power as a socio-technical infrastructure embodying a particular development discourse and practice of energy and economic development. The book reveals the political economy of this arrangement and examines the latter’s ability to respond to the environmental crisis. Manu V. Mathai argues that the existing overwhelmingly growth-focused, highly technology-centric approach for organizing economic activity is unsustainable and needs to be reformed. Within this imperative for change, nuclear power in India is found to be and is characterized as an "authoritarian technology." Based on this political economy critique the book proposes an alternative, a synergy of ideas from the fields of development economics, energy planning and science, technology and society studies.

Poverty

Poverty
Author: Suggett
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1982
Genre: Australia
ISBN:

Contains periodical articles on the topic of poverty.

The Nehru-Era Economic History and Thought & Their Lasting Impact

The Nehru-Era Economic History and Thought & Their Lasting Impact
Author: Arvind Panagariya
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2024
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019777461X

"Economists and policy analysts can influence economic-policy outcomes at various levels. Those directly employed in the government can influence their other bureaucratic colleagues and politicians. They serve on important committees appointed to recommend solutions to specific policy problems. Reports of these committees can effectively strengthen the existing regime or inject new ideas for change. Economists and policy analysts outside the government can influence the thinking of politicians and bureaucrats through their writings, speeches, and media interviews. But they also influence broader public opinion. As educators in academic institutions, they shape the thinking of future generations"--

Notable Modern Indian Mathematicians and Statisticians

Notable Modern Indian Mathematicians and Statisticians
Author: Purabi Mukherji
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2022-10-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9811961328

This book provides a comprehensive portrayal of the history of Indian mathematicians and statisticians and uncovers many missing parts of the scientific representation of mathematical and statistical research during the 19th and 20th centuries of Bengal (now West Bengal), India. This book gives a brief historical account about the establishment of the first-two departments in an Indian university, where graduate teaching and research were initiated. This was a unique distinction for the University of Calcutta which was established in 1857. The creation of the world famous Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Calcutta (now Kolkata) is also briefly described. The lives and works of the 16 pioneer mathematical scientists who adorned the above mentioned institutions and the first Indian Institute Technology (IIT) of India have been elaborated in lucid language. Some outstanding scholars who were trained at the ISI but left India permanently have also been discussed briefly in a separate chapter. This book fulfils a long-standing gap in the history of modern Indian mathematics, which will make the book very useful to researchers in the history of science and mathematics. Written in very lucid English with little mathematical or statistical jargon makes the book immensely readable even to general readers with interest in scientific history even from non-mathematical, non-statistical background. This book is a clear portrayal of the struggle and success of researchers in mathematical sciences in Bengal (an important part of the colonial India), unveils before the international community of mathematical scientists. The real connoisseurs will appreciate the value of the book, as it will clear up many prevailing misconceptions.

Planning Process in Indian Polity

Planning Process in Indian Polity
Author: V. D. Divekar
Publisher: Bombay : Popular Prakashan
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1978
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Analysis of the planning process as it evolved through the working of the first four plans.

Papers

Papers
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 540
Release: 1967
Genre: Agricultural education
ISBN: