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Cambridge University Press Displacement by Development
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Cambridge University Press Politics and Change in Developing Countries
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Cambridge University Press Anthropology and Development Culture Morality and Politics in a Globalised World
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Cambridge University Press Displacement by Development
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Cambridge University Press Development Economics on Trial
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Cambridge University Press The Economics of Sustainable Development
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Cambridge University Press World Cities beyond the West Globalization Development and Inequality
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Cambridge University Press Connecting Knowledge and Performance in Public Services From Knowing to Doing
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Cambridge University Press StateDirected Development Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery
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Cambridge University Press A History of Nigeria
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Cambridge University Press The United Nations Development Programme
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Cambridge University Press Patrons Clients and Policies
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Cambridge University Press Paths to Development in Asia
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Cambridge University Press Distant Strangers
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Cambridge University Press Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer
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Cambridge University Press A Theory of Economic Growth
Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth treatment of the overlapping generations model in economics incorporating production. Methodological emphasis is put on using general preferences and technologies, on the global study of dynamic aspects of the model, and on furnishing adequate tools to analyze policies involving inter-generational transfers.Trade Review'A comprehensive, up-to-date primer on the dynamics of growth theory and fiscal policy, written by two recognized experts in the field. For graduate students, researchers and policy-makers, this book illustrates how to harness solid economic theory in the service of cutting-edge debates about education, social security reform, and public debt management.' Costas Azariadis, University of California, Los Angeles'The overlapping generations model and the infinitely lived or dynastic model are the two workhorses of modern macroeconomics. De La Croix and Michel have written a wonderfully accessible graduate textbook on the overlapping generations model. They carefully take students through essentially every variant of the model, prove a large number of known results, and offer a few new ones as well. This book is an essential addition as a teaching tool and an invaluable reference on every economist's shelf.' V. V. Chari, University of Minnesota'In recent decades overlapping generation models have become a central framework of analysis in the research of economic growth. The authors present a comprehensive and lucid exposition of the dynamic structure of the basic overlapping generation features with production. Highly recommended for researchers and graduate students in the fields of growth theory and dynamic macroeconomics.' Oded Galor, Brown University'Some of the most hotly debated government policies are those that involve redistribution across generations, such as social security and public education. De la Croix and Michel provide a manual of economic tools for evaluating these sorts of policies based on simple overlapping generations models. Their presentation of these models strives to combine applicability for policy analysis with a solid foundation in dynamic general equilibrium theory. Their book should be of use to economists from the level of advanced undergraduate students to researchers and teachers.' Timothy J. Kehoe, University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis'David de la Croix and Philippe Michel have written the definitive what's what study of economic growth and policy in the life-cycle growth model. Their book is a treasure for serious economists, both young and old.' Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University'The overlapping generations model is a cornerstone of contemporary economic theory. De la Croix and Michel provide the first comprehensive textbook devoted to the analysis of these models. The book will be of considerable use to economists studying demographical economics, intergenerational fiscal policies, or more generally any issue related to long-run growth.' Gilles Saint-Paul, Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse'… an excellent introduction to an essential tool in economics …' Journal of EconomicsTable of ContentsIntroduction; Acknowledgements; Part I. Competitive Equilibria: 1. The model; 2. Main assumptions; 3. The behavior of the agents at period t; 4. The temporary equilibrium; 5. The inter-temporal equilibrium with perfect foresight; 6. Capital dynamics at a rational inter-temporal equilibrium; 7. Comparison of myopic and perfect foresight; 8. Applications and extensions; 9. Conclusion; Part II. Optimality: 10. Optimality of stationary paths; 11. Optimality of the dynamics; 12. The planning problem; 13. Marginal analysis of optimal solutions; 14. Unbounded optimal growth; 15. Applications and extensions; 16. Conclusion; Part III. Policy: 17. Lump-sum transfers and the second welfare theorem; 18. Pensions; 19. Public spending; 20. Study of the second-best problem; 21. Applications and extensions; 22. Conclusion; Part IV. Debt: 23. Diamond's model with debt; 24. The inter-temporal budget constraint of the government; 25. Constant deficit policies; 26. Constant debt policies; 27. Applications and extensions; 28. Conclusion; Part V. Further Issues: 29. Dynastic altruism; 30. Human capital and education; 31. Inter-generational externalities; 32. Macro-economics and general equilibrium; Technical appendices; List of definitions; List of propositions; List of assumptions; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index.
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Cambridge University Press Liberalism Democracy and Development
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Cambridge University Press Biodiversity Sustainability and Human Communities
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Cambridge University Press Allosteric Enzymes Kinetic Behaviour
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Cambridge University Press WTO Law and Developing Countries
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Cambridge University Press A History of Nigeria
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Cambridge University Press The United Nations Development Programme
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Cambridge University Press Patrons Clients and Policies
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Cambridge University Press Biodiversity Sustainability and Human Communities
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Cambridge University Press Globalization and the Poor
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Cambridge University Press The Problem of Private Health Insurance
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Cambridge University Press Comparing Capitalisms for an Unknown Future
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Cambridge University Press Development Subjectivities Governmentality and
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Cambridge University Press Defending Community Territory and Indigenous Environmental Relations
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Cambridge University Press Development Subjectivities Governmentality and Migration Management in the Pacific
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Cambridge University Press Making India Work
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Cambridge University Press The Problem of Private Health Insurance
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Cambridge University Press Private Equity and the Demise of the Local
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Cambridge University Press Sustaining Development in Small Islands
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Cambridge University Press Indigenous Rights to Land Versus Extractivism
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Cambridge University Press Shocks and Politics
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Cambridge University Press A Bit Too Simple
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Cambridge University Press Sustaining High Growth in India
Book SynopsisThe growth rate of the Indian economy has plummeted sharply from 9 per cent in 2010 to below 5 per cent over 2012-14. It is essential to sustain a growth rate of 8 per cent or more over the next 20 years to eliminate poverty and reach a decent standard of living. There is an urgent need for research on the challenges facing India in reviving and sustaining high rates of economic growth, some of which are related to industrial policy, trade policy, infrastructure bottlenecks, inflation and macroeconomic issues, governance issues, demography and human capital. There is also a need for better industrial and human resource policies, higher investment and savings rates, higher exports and foreign investment inflows. This book studies the importance of growth, the role of industrial policy in sustaining it, and other critical issues regarding ways to revive and sustain higher growth in India across various sectors of the economy.Table of ContentsPreface Pravakar Sahoo; Introduction Pradeep Agrawal; Part I. Ensuring Macroeconomic Stability for Sustaining High Growth Rates: 1. Propagation mechanisms of inflation in India: an empirical investigation Ashima Goyal; 2. Managing food price inflation in India: demand projections and supply considerations Pradeep Agrawal; Part II. Promoting Industrial Development for Sustaining High Growth Rates: 3. Economic complexity as a determinant of industrialization of countries: the case of India Emanuele Pugliese, Guido L. Chiarotti, Andrea Zaccaria and Luciano Pietronero; 4. China's manufacturing success: lessons for India Pravakar Sahoo and Abhirup Bhunia; 5. Sustaining India's manufacturing sector growth in the face of increasing competition from Chinese imports Bishwanath Goldar and Yashobanta Parida; Part III. The International Economic Issues and Sustaining High Growth: 6. Global recession and Eurozone debt crisis: impact on exports of India and China Pami Dua and Divya Tuteja; 7. Changing global trade regime and emergence of mega FTAs: strategy for India's external sector sustainability Geethanjali Natraj, Abhirup Bhunia and Garima Sahdev; 8. Economic impact of foreign capital inflows in emerging Asia Pradeep Agrawal and Durairaj Kumarasamy; 9. FDI outflows from the BRIC countries: impact on domestic capital formation Nandita Dasgupta; Part IV. Infrastructure Bottlenecks to Sustaining High Growth: 10. Infrastructure, human capital and growth: a quantitative analysis for India Pradeep Agrawal; 11. Elementary education in India: a study of accessibility and quality Indrajit Bairagya and Radhika Saraf; 12. Education and economic growth – a comparative study of China and India Lakshmi K. Raut; Part V. Some Socio–Political Issues in Sustaining High Growth: 13. Demographic dividend and economic growth in India William Joe, Atish Kumar Dash and Pradeep Agrawal; 14. Social cohesion and uncertainties in economic growth: a pre- and post-reform analysis of India Tapas Mishra, Sushanta Mallick, Mamata Parhi and Prashant Gupta; 15. Does openness and democracy reduce corruption: results for South Asian nations and India Rukmani Gounder and Shrabani Saha; 16. Regional dynamics of rural credit and growth in India: exploring nonlinearity and convergence in growth patterns Sushanta Mallick, Banikanta Mishra and Tapas Mishra.
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Cambridge University Press The Idea of Development in Africa
Book SynopsisThe Idea of Development in Africa challenges prevailing international development discourses about the continent, by tracing the history of ideas, practices, and ''problems'' of development used in Africa. In doing so, it offers an innovative approach to examining the history and culture of development through the lens of the development episteme, which has been foundational to the ''idea of Africa'' in western discourses since the early 1800s. The study weaves together an historical narrative of how the idea of development emerged with an account of the policies and practices of development in colonial and postcolonial Africa. The book highlights four enduring themes in African development, including their present-day ramifications: domesticity, education, health, and industrialization. Offering a balance between historical overview and analysis of past and present case studies, Elisabeth McMahon and Corrie Decker demonstrate that Africans have always co-opted, challenged, and reformeTrade Review'A smart, sweeping history that explores how colonial ideas about Africa and Africans - including moral imperatives, the inventions of 'tribes,' and scientific racism - shaped development paradigms and projects across the continent. The Idea of Development in Africa is a 'must-teach' book for courses on Africa and in development studies.' Dorothy Hodgson, Brandeis University'This refreshing and innovative study packs a double punch. First, it offers a bracing critique of the development industry, locating its roots deep within the colonial mind-set. Then it follows through with a brighter vision of Africa, one that emerges from the continent's own artists, thinkers, and leaders. A feast to which all are invited.' Gregory Mann, Columbia University'At last, an accessible book that explains the history of development as an idea - critical background for any students or practitioners interested in engaging with Africa's development today. The authors lay out the ways developmental thinking emerged globally alongside empire and colonialism, and how this way of thinking continues to impact the practice of development today. Smart and sophisticated, with helpful resources for additional reading and sidebars that delve more deeply into specific topics.' Jamie Monson, Michigan State University'Decker and McMahon's co-authored volume is the latest and most comprehensive compilation of the development concept or episteme in African history made accessible to students and practitioners alike.' Leslie Anne Hadfield, International Journal of African Historical Studies'… the book is thought provoking as it discusses known material in a new light … Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.' J. E. Weaver, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Origins of the Development Episteme: 1. From Progress to Development; 2. Knowledge and the Development Episteme; 3. Eugenics and Racism in the Development Episteme; 4. Decolonizing the Idea of Development; Part II. Implementation of the Development Episteme: 5. The Salvation of Science; 6. Challenges to Development; 7. From Modernization to Structural Adjustment; 8. The New Missionaries; Part III. Development 'Problems': 9. Reshaping Huts and Homes; 10. Lessons in Separate Development; 11. Capitalizing on Dis-Ease; 12. Manufacturing Modernization; 13. African Critiques of the Development Episteme.
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Cambridge University Press SocioEconomic Development An Introduction
Book SynopsisWhy are poor countries poor and rich countries rich? How are wealth and poverty related to changes in health, life expectancy, education, population growth and politics? This non-technical introduction to development studies explores the dynamics of socio-economic development and stagnation in developing countries. Thoroughly updated and revised, this second edition includes new material on the effects of the 2008 financial crisis, the emergence of the BRICS economies, the role of institutions in development and the accelerated growth of economies in Africa and Asia. Taking a comparative approach, Szirmai places contemporary debates within their broader contexts and combines insights and theories from economics, economic history, political science, anthropology and sociology. Each chapter includes comparative statistics and time series for thirty-one developing countries. Assuming no prior knowledge of economics, this book is well-suited for students in interdisciplinary development stTrade Review'Professor Szirmai's fully revised edition of Socio-Economic Development is a tour de force. Grounded in economic history, it elegantly combines and integrates the modern development economics literature, careful empirical analysis, and illuminating country studies. Any serious student of long-run economic development, from the first-timer to those with decades of immersion in the subject, will want to have a copy of this encyclopedic yet accessible volume.' Hal Hill, H. W. Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies, Australian National University'This is a scholarly and comprehensive treatment of development economics that is accessible to a wide range of social science and development studies students. Its treatment of health issues, education policy, and rural development, and its comprehensive data tables, are unsurpassed in the development economics field.' Kenneth A. Reinert, George Mason University, Virginia'The second edition of Adam Szirmai's book extends the author's ambitious effort to provide a nontechnical but comprehensive exposition of contemporary development thought and experience. The book deftly weaves together economic history, the history of thought, statistical data, country experiences, and contemporary economic analysis to provide a guide to the most important development questions … Through this work, the author has performed a signal service to all serious students of development, whether veteran or just starting.' Emmanuel S. de Dios, Asian Pacific Economic LiteratureReview of previous edition: This textbook … succeeds in achieving this aim in a comprehensive and masterly fashion. … The book is written in a lucid non-technical style and is attractively laid out. Szirmai's text is the best that I have read on this subject and should be extensively used as a core text on development courses in all universities.' The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and abbreviations; 1. Developing countries and the concept of development; 2. Development of the international economic order, 1450–2015; 3. Growth and stagnation: theories and experiences; 4. Technology and development; 5. Population and development; 6. Health, healthcare and development; 7. Education and development; 8. Economic development, structural change and industrialisation; 9. Industrial development; 10. Agricultural development and rural development; 11. State formation and political aspects of development; 12. Cultural and institutional dimensions of development; 13. The international economic and political order since 1945; 14. Foreign aid and development; References; Author index; Subject index.
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Cambridge University Press Business Model Innovation
Book SynopsisThis Element approaches the topic of business model innovation from the perspective of the established firm and examines the unique strategic and organizational issues that big, established companies face when a new business model enters their markets.Table of Contents1. What is business model innovation?; 2. Discovering new business models; 3. Responding to BMI; 4. Competing with two business models; 5. The uniqueness of BMI; References.
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The University of Chicago Press Rural Development in China Paper Prospect and
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays written from 1947-1986 by Fei Hsiao-tung, China's most distinguished sociologist and anthropologist, presents a rich and representative sampling of the research that has characterized his long career. In 1936, Fei conducted field work in Kaixian'gong, a village in Jiangsu province in east China. This village became the subject of his now classic study Peasant Life in China, in which he argued that, because of China's huge population and the scarcity of cultivable land, household industries such as production of raw silk were vital to the peasants' economic survival. His conclusions, long rejected by China's policymakers, have recently been embraced by the government under the political leadership of Deng Xiaopeng. Returning to Kaixian'gong in 1957 and again in the 1980s, Fei examined the changes that had occurred since his initial research. Three essays that resulted from these follow-up studies are included in this collection, providing a rare summary and ana
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MIT Press Ltd On the Brink of Utopia
Book SynopsisA new and coherent framework for fostering the breakthrough innovations that we urgently need to confront our collective future.We live in less innovative times than we think. Despite having made major technological advancements in a few areas, we are still left with enormous unsolved challenges. A radical shift in the culture of innovation is needed. On the Brink of Utopia, by authors Thomas Ramge and Rafael Laguna de la Vera, and with a foreword written by Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell, offers just that—a new and coherent framework for fostering breakthrough innovations for human progress. In their “Innovation Leap Paradigm,” they present seven steps in seven chapters and answer three simple questions: What great challenges need to be tackled? Who makes tech leaps? And finally, what political, economic, and cultural environments foster radical innovation? The authors sketch out a future in which technology will solve real
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The University of Michigan Press Untying the Knot of War
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Pluto Press From the Local to the Global
Book SynopsisA completely revised third edition of a classic development studies textbookTrade Review'An ideal lift off point for anyone interested in the issues that underpin poverty and injustice at local and global levels. It combines accessible, informative writing on the most essential international development issues' -- Marina Sitrin, author of They Can't Represent Us: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (with Dario Azzellini, Verso, 2014) and Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (Zed Books, 2012).'Of global value to a radically changing world. It is essentially a survey of all the issues that affect the global South and shape the global North' -- Hector Maldonado Felix, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru, and founder of the NGO Asociacion Gestion Salud y Poblacion.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Creating New Paradigms for Development - Stephen McCloskey Part I: Development Discourse and Definitions 1. Measuring Human Development - Andy Storey 2. A Human Rights Based Approach to Development - Máire Braniff and Paul Hainsworth Part II: The Economics of Development 3. Overseas Development Aid: Is It Working? - Patrick Marren 4. Trade, Development and Inequality - Denis O’Hearn 5. Debt Injustice in the Global North and South - Nessa Ni Chasaide Part III: Development Policy 6. Climate Change: Reorienting the Development Agenda - David Selby 7. Europe, Development and the Colonial Legacy - Gerard McCann 8. Post-2015 Development Assessment: Proposed Goals and Indicators - Walden Bello 9. Women Contributing to Gender-Just, Equitable and Sustainable Development - Patricia Muñoz-Cabrera 10. The Complexity of Migration - Michal Cenker Part IV: Regional Development 11. Rethinking Latin America: Back to the Future? - Ronaldo Munck 12. The Arab Spring: Trading Development for Stability - Heba M. Khalil 13. China: The New Face of Development - Russell Duncan 14. Meaningful Development Goals and Sub-Saharan Africa - Chrispin R. Matenga Part V: Human Development 15. Children, Childhood and Work: Perceptions and Practices - Madeleine Leonard 16. Development Education as an Agent of Social Change - Stephen McCloskey Conclusion: Neoliberal Decline and International Development Post-2015 - Gerard McCann Notes on Contributors Index
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Pluto Press Development Against Democracy New Edition
Book SynopsisA classic, radical study of development via US foreign policy from the post-war periodTrade Review'Pathbreaking ... a major contribution' -- Marilyn B. Young'A landmark book' -- Zachary LockmanTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword by Thomas Ferguson Introduction by Robert Vitalis 1. The 'New Look' in Development Studies 2. Making Connections 3. Discourse on Development 4. Transparent Boundaries: From Policies to Studies of Political Development 5. Defining the Parameters of Discourse 6. The Academic Translation: Liberal Democratic Theory and Interpretations of Political Development 7. The Impossible Task of Theories of Political Development Epilogue Notes Index
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Pluto Press Ground Down by Growth
Book SynopsisHow do India’s ‘untouchables’ and 'tribals' fit into the global economy?Trade Review'An exceptional book coming from researchers who lived with the most marginalised people to present the India of dislocation and despair' -- Anand Teltumbde, writer, civil rights activist and Senior Professor of Business Management, IIIT Hyderabad'Explodes the myth of the modernising power of capitalism. This sensitive and acute analysis shows that, far from doing away with inherited inequalities of power, Indian capitalism uses and intensifies them' -- Jayati Ghosh, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi'A kaleidoscopic view of how established social forms morph and realign to produce deepening inequality and persistent, patterned disadvantage. Super-rich material and compelling analysis' -- Tania Murray Li, Anthropology, University of Toronto'Highly recommended for its careful attention to ethnographic detail, its systematically comparative approach and its grasp of political economy' -- Journal of Contemporary Asia'Undoubtedly a high quality contribution to the field of anthropological research' -- International Labour ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Preface Preface by Alpa Shah and Jens Lerche 1. Tribe, Caste and Class - New Mechanisms of Exploitation and Oppression - Alpa Shah and Jens Lerche 2. Macro-economic Aspects of Inequality and Poverty in India - K.P. Kannan 3. Tea Belts of the Western Ghats, Kerala - Jayaseelan Raj 4. Cuddalore, Chemical Industrial Estate, Tamil Nadu - Brendan Donegan 5. Bhadrachalam Scheduled Area, Telangana - Dalel Benbabaali 6. Chamba Valley, Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh - Richard Axelby 7. Narmada Valley and Adjoining Plains, Maharashtra - Vikramaditya Thakur 8. The Struggles Ahead - Alpa Shah and Jens Lerche Appendix: Tables and Figures Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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Henry Holt & Company We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky
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