Global Environmentalism and Local Politics: Transnational Advocacy Networks in Brazil, Ecuador, and India (Suny Series in Global Environmental Policy)

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Examines the internal politics of transnational environmental advocacy networks.

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Sen at his best

India: Development and Participation
Jean Dreze , and Amartya Sen
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0199257485

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This book explores the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India. The analysis is based on a broad and integrated view of development, which focuses on well-being and freedom rather than the standard indicators of economic growth. The authors place
human agency at the centerstage, and stress the complementary roles of different institutions (economic, social, and political) in enhancing effective freedoms.

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Incisive Analysis.......2007-03-30

The chain is as strong as its weakest link. A nation as rich as its poorest person. Sen understands that no nation can be genuinely proud unless it takes care of basic things like education and offers genuine opportunities to the marginalized. The book is a must read for everyone who are on the 'India Shining' bandwagon. True that the middle class in India is growing, but so is the Maoist threat. Great social engineering by noble souls like Anna Hazare, Bindeshwar Pathak, Baba AMte is the answer. Unfortunately Sen misses that. The book doesnt deal with such solutions. Nevertheless it does deserve 5 stars because it astutely analyzes the existing problem. We need more people like Sen to bring forth the truth.

Splendid book.......2005-03-08

This is possibly THE book you want to read if you want to read ONE book on economic development (or lack thereof) in India. Prof. Sen and Dreze are among the best scholars when it comes to the problems of the Indian subcontinent. Another reviewer seems to completely disregard the fact that this book is not by Sen alone, but it is a result of a joint effort with Jean Dreze. Whoever cares about India and know a bit about the Economics literature on this country will KNOW that Dreze is a first rate scholar who has *literally* devoted his life (professional AND personal) to this country, and disregarding his contribution to this volume is not only wrong but also very disrespectful.

This is a deep, extremely informed, very well written book that anyone who cares about Indian economic, political, and social development should read. Even if both Sen and Dreze are economists (Sen is also a Nobel prize winner), the book is accessible to anyone, as it contains virtually no math or statistics. An outstanding list of references will provide an excellent guide to the reader interested in knowing more about the topics covered here.

Here is the table of content. I particularly recommend Chapter 7, on gender inequality:

1 Introduction and Approach
2 Economic Development and Social Opportunity
3 India in Comparative Perspective
4 India and China
5 Basic Education as a Political Issue
6 Population, Health, and the Environment
7 Gender Inequality and Women's Agency
8 Security and Democracy in a Nuclear India
9 Well Beyond Liberalization
10 The Practice of Democracy

An excellent book by two outstanding authors who not only know what they are talking about, but they also deeply care about India. Highly recommended.

Sen at his best.......2004-06-30

This book is Sen at his best. The current 2002 edition is an update of a 1995 edition entitled "India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity." The modification of the title reflects a move to make the notion at the center of Sen's thinking more precise. For those not involved in the public policy debate in India itself, this is the central notion and the real value of Sen's work and finds its best exposition in this broad-ranging, political-economic commentary on development in Sen's native land. By contrast, the exposition it has Sen's more "theoretical" works such as the recent "Rationality and Freedom" is desperately inadequate.
Sen is very much not someone inclined towards a single solution to social problems, or a single rule-of-thumb for such solutions, but there is nevertheless a strong, unitary theme to Sen's commentary.
The discussion (in Chapter 7) of "Gender Equality and Women's Agency" is paradigmatic. It is not only paradigmatic though, for Sen believes that the eradication of the anti-female bias which pervades much of Indian society is itself central to the solution of all the social problems in India in its own right.
Still, in large measure what Sen has to say about how women's oppression in India can be overcome, applies also to what he has to say about the plight of low caste people, people living in poor areas of the country and poverty and oppression in general.
Sen's notion could be summarised by means of a series of five concepts, each of which in turn takes a step closer to the essential notion of what is needed to lead a good life in society: (1) commodities, wealth and value, (2) functioning, (3) capability, (4) voice and finally (5) critical voice.
The problem is that the notion of "critical voice" (subjectivity) cannot be developed within the framework of utilitarian economics and social-choice theory as Sen seems determined to do.

Citizen participation in rural development

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Citizen participation in rural development
M Seetharam
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Community Action for Family Planning: A Comparison of Six Project Experiences (Development Centre Studies)

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Community Action for Family Planning: A Comparison of Six Project Experiences (Development Centre Studies)
Margaret Wolfson , and Nuray Fincancioglu
Manufacturer: Organization for Economic
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Community Participation and Slum Housing: A Study of Bombay

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Community Participation and Slum Housing: A Study of Bombay
Vandana Desai
Manufacturer: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
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Vandana Desai's research¼ discovers the intricacy of the social fabric and political dynamics in three slums of Bombay." --The Book Review "Through a comprehensive presentation of the findings of a study of three slum pockets in the city of Bombay, the author highlights dimensions of community participation in the context of slum housing.... The review of literature on the issue is commendable. It is comprehensive and makes for interesting perusal as the questions emerging from it lay the ground for the subsequent discussion that is based on the study.... The author's portrayal of the slums is descriptive and creates a vivid picture of the physical environment and the lives of people.... Various questions reflected in the book are thought-provoking for social activists, students and academicians, and persons new to the analysis of slum life and concerns would also find this a very informative volume." --Economic and Political Weekly "Desai gives enough evidence to prove her thesis.... It is a book for people who have responsibility or some desire to do something for their less fortunate brethren in slums." --Deccan Herald This study is concerned with community participation in the slums of Bombay and deals with the slum-dwellers' needs for housing and basic services. Vandana Desai focuses on two issues: What impact does community mobilization have on the process of slum upgrading and, second, what is the extent of participation and how does it affect the services provided? More specifically, this study seeks to understand how the needs of the urban poor, with respect to housing and basic services, are articulated and fulfilled; their involvement in community organizations; and the role that the community and its leaders play in influencing state action. Apart from professionals in the fields of sociology, urban studies, and development studies, Community Participation and Slum Housing will be of interest to policymakers, voluntary organizations, and international agencies.

Cultural pattern and economic participation of women

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Cultural pattern and economic participation of women
Santosh
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Culture and Rationality: The Politics of Social Change in Post-colonial India

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Culture and Rationality: The Politics of Social Change in Post-colonial India
Subrata K. Mitra
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Examining the politics of social change in India after independence and using the post-colonial state as the backdrop, this book addresses the theoretical issues of transformation in a multicultural and hierarchical society coping with the twin challenges of democratization and development.

Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa: Participation, Accountability and Performance

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Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa: Participation, Accountability and Performance
Richard C. Crook , and James Manor
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This is a study of whether setting up democratic local councils in four developing countries (Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Bangladesh and India) actually makes any difference to the popularity, responsiveness and effectiveness of local government and administration. The authors make an important contribution to current debates about "good governance" and whether decentralization can provide better services for the mass of the population--the poor and the disadvantaged in rural areas. The book is comparative, and based on detailed local fieldwork and popular surveys.

Education, participation, and empowerment: Studies in human development (Motivation and human development series)

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Education, participation, and empowerment: Studies in human development (Motivation and human development series)
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Environment, Development and Politics in India

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Environment, Development and Politics in India
Renu Khator
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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.

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Large multinational corporations shape our lives to an enormous extent. How is the growth, power, and significance of big business to be explained and understood? Focusing on the issues of ownership, control, and class formation, Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes explores the implications of changes in the nature of big business, which affect both the businesses themselves, and the economic and political milieu in which these multinationals operate. Up-to-date empirical evidence is reviewed in a wide-ranging comparative framework that covers Britain and the United States, Germany, France, Japan, and many other societies, including emerging forms of capitalism in China and Russia. Unlike other specialist texts in the area, Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes relates its concerns to issues of social stratification and class structure. The first and second editions of the book (under the title Corportations, Classes and Capitalism) were enthusiastically received, and the present edition reviews new theoretical ideas and empirical evidence that has emerged in the ten years since the second edition appeared. The text has been completely re-written and re-structured, and it relates its concerns to contemporary debates over `disorganized capitalism' and post-industrialism.

Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894-1928 (History of American Thought and Culture)

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Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894-1928 (History of American Thought and Culture)
Clyde W. Barrow
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The Rise of American Research Universities: Elites and Challengers in the Postwar Era

ASIN: 0299124045

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One of the best books I've ever read........1999-03-31

This book is an examination of the efforts of the corporate class to reconstruct the university system. Although written in a Marxist perspective, this book doesn't merely theorize, but presents a detailed fact-based account of the actual decisions and strategies implemented to centralize the university system and to coordinate it to the interests of business. This book is essential for anyone who seeks to understand how the American state ideology is perpetuated through the education system.

Capitalist Networks And Social Power in Australia And New Zealand (Corporate Social Responsibility Series) (Corporate Social Responsibility Series)

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Capitalist Networks And Social Power in Australia And New Zealand (Corporate Social Responsibility Series) (Corporate Social Responsibility Series)
Georgina Murray
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Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes.
John Scott
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Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes
John Scott
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Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes
John Scott
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Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes.
John Scott
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Evaluating traditional and recent analytical methods according to speed, sensitivity, and cost-efficiency, this reference supports specialists in the selection of effective analytical techniques and equipment for the study of soils, soil contaminants, and environmental samples. Updated and revised, this Third Edition illustrates the advantages, limitations, range, and challenges of the major analytical approaches utilized in modern research laboratories. It includes new chapters and expanded discussions of the measurement of organic pollutants in the environment and gas fluxes between the land surface and atmosphere, and an extensive range of environmental materials.

Soil and Environmental Analysis: Modern Instrumental Techniques, Third Edition (Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment)

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Soil and Environmental Analysis: Modern Instrumental Techniques, Third Edition (Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment)
Keith A. Smith
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How did everything around us-the air, the land, the sea, and the stars-originate? What is the source of order, form, and structure characterizing all material things? These are just some of the grand scientific questions Eric J. Chaisson, author of the classic work Cosmic Dawn, explores in his enthralling and illuminating history of the universe. Explaining new discoveries and a range of cutting-edge ideas and theories, Chaisson provides a creative and coherent synthesis of current scientific thinking on the universe's beginnings. He takes us on a tour of the seven ages of the cosmos, from the formless era of radiation through the origins of human culture. Along the way he examines the development of the most microscopic and the most immense aspects of our universe and the complex ways in which they interact.

Drawing on recent breakthroughs in astrophysics and biochemistry, Chaisson discusses the contemporary scientific view that all objects-from quarks and quasars to microbes and the human mind-are interrelated. Researchers in all the natural sciences are beginning to identify an underlying pattern penetrating the fabric of existence-a sweepingly encompassing view of the formation, structure, and function of all objects in our multitudinous universe. Moreover, as Chaisson demonstrates, by deciphering the scenario of cosmic evolution, scientists can also determine how living organisms managed to inhabit the land, generate language, and create culture.

Epic of Evolution offers a stunning view of how various changes, operating across almost incomprehensible domains of space and nearly inconceivable stretches of time and through the evolutionary combination of necessity and chance, have given rise to our galaxy, our star, our planet, and ourselves.

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Creation Story Told with Care.......2006-10-07

If the sciences haven't been natural for you, if you can appreciate but not calculate complex math, Prof. Chaisson gives the story of the universe. The marvels of physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, biology and anthropology are told here without dumbing it down. You get a sense of the humility and thorough observation that show Chaisson to be a great scientist. His clarity and tight narrative show he's a great writer.

The extraordinary scales of distance and time are almost disorienting as he skillfully relates them. Throughout, he gives the wondrous sense of how chance has always been a part of the story.

I am fascinated by his explanation of the working of thermodynamics: how flows of energy are structured and systemized to achieve ever greater energy densities in ordered complexity. He shows how these principles relate to the creativity and power of all phenomena, from stars to ideas.

While Chaisson provides access to scientific insights into all levels of reality, he leaves us with a profoundly humanistic care for the destiny of life, especially how human culture may influence reality, offering the hope for an "Ethical Epoch."

Outstanding Book About Cosmic Evolution.......2006-06-22

This book is an updated version of the author's 1981 book Cosmic Dawn. Chaisson uses considerable poetic license in projecting emotions on inanimate objects such as stars and planets as well as on scientists. This is one of the rare academic science books that is difficult to put down once you start reading it.

This is an unusually good science book.

The Best Understanding that We Have.......2005-12-11

This book is an updated look, using the most recent theories of the history of the Cosmos. It takes about half the book to get to the formation of the earth, made out of heavier elements that were cooked in the atmospheres of stars, and to the point where chemistry could begin. After that he looks at the evidence of the smallest and earliest ancient cells left in the fossil record.

After the transition has been made to where life exists he describes the growth from the very beginnings to the changes that have made mankind.

Through the whole book he describes and illustrates the basic scientific method where a theory is established, it is tested by experinent and observation and finally modified as needed to meet the changed data. To be valid, the theory must also predict unknown things. As you examine the theory, you move along to get to the next step, and if evidence is found to support the prediction the theory is considered better and better. This description alone sets this book apart from many others.

As best we can possibly tell, this is how we and everything else came about.

Epic Of Evolution: Seven Ages Of The Cosmos

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Epic Of Evolution: Seven Ages Of The Cosmos
Eric J Chaisson
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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ASIN: B000OPJ5KM

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