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Overview
For decades, India has vigorously and openly pursued the goal of economic development. In recent years, however, the propriety of this goal has been challenged by the global environmental crisis. Nevertheless, development is a necessity for India due to its escalating population and the overwhelming poverty its population faces. This book examines the process of environmental decision-making and implementation in India. Contrary to the general perception that politics plays a passive or secondary role in the making of environmental policy, this study demonstrates that the role of politics is both aggressive and goal-oriented. Contents: Environmental Crisis; Making of an Environmental Policy; Functioning of an Environmental Bureaucracy; Environmental Bureaucracy and Its Non-Regulatory Functions; Response From the People; Environmental Politics In a Broader Perspective.
Editorials
Journal Of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
Not the least of the many attractive features of Renu Khator's study is the integration of politics and administration. Renu Khator has useful things to say about environment and development being inseparable and about problems of implementation and state capacity, and to that extent her book is of more general interest beyond the details of the particular period she studied.— QUOTE AFFILIATION:
Political Studies Review
The empirical data and discussion are useful and interesting.Jaas
...this book provides a fine source of information as well as addressing a timely issue so vital to many developing countries. Environment, Development and Politics in India, is a work well done by Renu Khator. It will serve the students and scholars of India as well a setting the wheels in motion for analysis of a timely issue which is vitally important for other third world countries.— Dr. R.B. Jain, University of Delhi, India
Policy Currents
...filled with supportive historical details and quantitative data....deserve[s] careful study.— Dr. R.B. Jain, University of Delhi, India