Beschreibung:
This book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. Uncertainty is a key factor shaping climate and environmental policy at international, national and local levels. Climate change and events such as cyclones, floods, droughts and changing rainfall patterns create uncertainties that planners, resource managers and local populations are regularly confronted with. In this context, uncertainty has emerged as a "wicked problem" for scientists and policymakers, resulting in highly debated and disputed decision-making.
1 Climate change and uncertainty: politics and perspectives; 2 Uncertainty from "above": diverse understandings, politics and implications; 3 Uncertainty and environmental change: kutch and the Sundarbans as environmental histories of climate change; 4 Between the market and climate change: uncertainty and transformation in kutch; 5 The certainty of uncertainty: climate change realities of the Indian sundarbans; 6 Climate change and uncertainty in India's maximum city, Mumbai; 7 Bridging gaps in understandings of climate change and uncertainty; 8 Conclusion