LEADER 04820oam 2200673I 450 001 9910462860703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-203-10014-X 010 $a1-283-97334-0 010 $a1-136-22991-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203100141 035 $a(CKB)2670000000325611 035 $a(EBL)1114705 035 $a(OCoLC)827208905 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000822302 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12348736 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000822302 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10756492 035 $a(PQKB)10561722 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1114705 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1114705 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10650240 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL428584 035 $a(OCoLC)826813018 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000325611 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNuclear power, economic development discourse and the environment $ethe case of India /$fManu V. Mathai 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (247 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge explorations in environmental studies ;$v2 225 0$aRoutledge explorations in environmental studies ;$v2 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-62916-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront 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 environmentalism 327 $a2.6 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 throughput 327 $a5. 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" framework 327 $a7.3 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; Index 330 $aNuclear power is often characterized as a ""green technology."" Technologies are rarely, if ever, socially isolated artefacts. Instead, they materially represent an embodiment of values and priorities. Nuclear power is no different. It is a product of a particular political economy and the question is whether that political economy can helpfully engage with the challenge of addressing the environmental crisis on a finite, inequitable and shared planet. For developing countries like India, who are presently making infrastructure investments which will have long legacies, it is imperative tha 410 0$aRoutledge Explorations in Environmental Studies 606 $aNuclear energy$zIndia 606 $aSustainable development$zIndia 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNuclear energy 615 0$aSustainable development 676 $a333.792/40954 700 $aMathai$b Manu V.$f1976-,$0944018 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462860703321 996 $aNuclear power, economic development discourse and the environment$92130896 997 $aUNINA