04820oam 2200673I 450 991046286070332120200520144314.00-203-10014-X1-283-97334-01-136-22991-410.4324/9780203100141 (CKB)2670000000325611(EBL)1114705(OCoLC)827208905(SSID)ssj0000822302(PQKBManifestationID)12348736(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000822302(PQKBWorkID)10756492(PQKB)10561722(MiAaPQ)EBC1114705(Au-PeEL)EBL1114705(CaPaEBR)ebr10650240(CaONFJC)MIL428584(OCoLC)826813018(EXLCZ)99267000000032561120180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNuclear power, economic development discourse and the environment the case of India /Manu V. MathaiLondon ;New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (247 p.)Routledge explorations in environmental studies ;2Routledge explorations in environmental studies ;2Description based upon print version of record.0-415-62916-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Cover; Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Passions of power and the "tryst with destiny"; 1.1 Modernizing India, nuclear power and the environment; 1.2 A short history of nuclear power; 1.3 Approach and tools; 2. Modernity, Cornucopianism and the megamachine; 2.1 Introducing modernity; 2.2 The Cornucopian predisposition; 2.3 Cornucopianism as the development discourse; 2.4 Environmental crisis and modern environmentalisms; 2.5 Managed Cornucopia as environmentalism2.6 Emergence of the megamachine2.7 Elements of the megamachine organization of society; 2.8 The megamachine organization of society and the limits of human-centered agency; 3. The evolution of India's economic development discourse; 3.1 Two competing visions for India's future; 3.2 Building a megamachine organization of society; 3.3 Despite the evidence; 4. The embrace of nuclear power and the development-energy treadmill in India; 4.1 Embrace of nuclear power; 4.2 Cornucopianism and the development-energy treadmill; 4.3 Entrenched high-energy throughput5. The advance of economic liberalization in India5.1 Building a modern megamachine organization of society; 5.2 Managed Cornucopia; 5.3 Geopolitics, Cornucopianism and nuclear power; 6. Political economy of nuclear power in India; 6.1 Modernity's unexamined privilege; 6.2 Nuclear power and modern technique; 6.3 Reinterpreting modernity's commodification impulse; 6.4 Sustaining power sans politics; 7. Beyond Cornucopianism and the megamachine organization; 7.1 Toward a human-centered development, energy and environment discourse; 7.2 End-use energy planning: the "DEFENDUS" framework7.3 The human development and capability approach7.4 Ideas for sustainable structures of living together: the Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) as a template; 8. Epilogue; 8.1 India: considered through Cornucopianism and the megamachine organization; 8.2 Alternatives to Cornucopianism and the megamachine organization; 8.3 Situating strategies of resistance; 8.4 Unaddressed questions and pressing realities; Notes; Bibliography; IndexNuclear 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 thaRoutledge Explorations in Environmental StudiesNuclear energyIndiaSustainable developmentIndiaElectronic books.Nuclear energySustainable development333.792/40954Mathai Manu V.1976-,944018MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462860703321Nuclear power, economic development discourse and the environment2130896UNINA