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Nuclear power, economic development discourse and the environment : the case of India / / Manu V. Mathai
| Nuclear power, economic development discourse and the environment : the case of India / / Manu V. Mathai |
| Autore | Mathai Manu V. <1976-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.792/40954 |
| Collana | Routledge explorations in environmental studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Nuclear energy - India
Sustainable development - India |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-203-10014-X
1-283-97334-0 1-136-22991-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 environmentalism
2.6 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 5. 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 7.3 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462860703321 |
Mathai Manu V. <1976-, >
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Nuclear power, economic development discourse and the environment : the case of India / / Manu V. Mathai
| Nuclear power, economic development discourse and the environment : the case of India / / Manu V. Mathai |
| Autore | Mathai Manu V. <1976-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.792/40954 |
| Collana | Routledge explorations in environmental studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Nuclear energy - India
Sustainable development - India |
| ISBN |
0-203-10014-X
1-283-97334-0 1-136-22991-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 environmentalism
2.6 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 5. 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 7.3 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786052503321 |
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Mathai Manu V. <1976-, >
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Nuclear power, economic development discourse and the environment : the case of India / / Manu V. Mathai
| Nuclear power, economic development discourse and the environment : the case of India / / Manu V. Mathai |
| Autore | Mathai Manu V. <1976-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.792/40954 |
| Collana | Routledge explorations in environmental studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Nuclear energy - India
Sustainable development - India |
| ISBN |
0-203-10014-X
1-283-97334-0 1-136-22991-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 environmentalism
2.6 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 5. 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 7.3 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817609403321 |
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Mathai Manu V. <1976-, >
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ploughshares and Swords : India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War / / Jayita Sarkar
| Ploughshares and Swords : India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War / / Jayita Sarkar |
| Autore | Sarkar Jayita <1986-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 online resource) |
| Disciplina | 333.792/40954 |
| Soggetto topico |
Technology and state
Nuclear weapons - Government policy Nuclear weapons Nuclear energy - Government policy Nuclear energy Diplomatic relations Politique scientifique et technique - Inde - Histoire - 20e siecle Armes nucleaires - Politique gouvernementale - Inde - Histoire - 20e siecle Armes nucleaires - Inde - Histoire - 20e siecle Énergie nucleaire - Politique gouvernementale - Inde - Histoire - 20e siecle Énergie nucleaire - Inde - Histoire - 20e siecle Technology and state - India - History - 20th century Nuclear weapons - Government policy - India - History - 20th century Nuclear weapons - India - History - 20th century Nuclear energy - Government policy - India - History - 20th century Nuclear energy - India - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | History |
| Soggetto non controllato | ploughshare loophole, anti-dissent machine, pokhran sikkim, reagan administration nuclear weapons, India's space program, india nuclear weapons |
| ISBN |
1-5017-6440-3
1-5017-6501-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : Freedom of Action -- Atomic Earths and State-Making, 1940s-48 -- Radium to Reactors, 1948-53 -- Nuclear Marketplace Opens for Business, 1953-62 -- Plutonium, Power Reactors, and Space Projects, 1962-64 -- The Plowshare Loophole, 1964-70 -- Fractured Worlds, 1970-74 -- Explosion and Fallout, 1974-80s -- Epilogue : The Anti-Dissent Machine. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910574867103321 |
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Sarkar Jayita <1986->
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| Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ploughshares and Swords : India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War / / Jayita Sarkar
| Ploughshares and Swords : India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War / / Jayita Sarkar |
| Autore | Sarkar Jayita <1986-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 online resource) |
| Disciplina | 333.792/40954 |
| Soggetto topico |
Technology and state
Nuclear weapons - Government policy Nuclear weapons Nuclear energy - Government policy Nuclear energy Diplomatic relations Politique scientifique et technique - Inde - Histoire - 20e siecle Armes nucleaires - Politique gouvernementale - Inde - Histoire - 20e siecle Armes nucleaires - Inde - Histoire - 20e siecle Énergie nucleaire - Politique gouvernementale - Inde - Histoire - 20e siecle Énergie nucleaire - Inde - Histoire - 20e siecle Technology and state - India - History - 20th century Nuclear weapons - Government policy - India - History - 20th century Nuclear weapons - India - History - 20th century Nuclear energy - Government policy - India - History - 20th century Nuclear energy - India - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | History |
| Soggetto non controllato | ploughshare loophole, anti-dissent machine, pokhran sikkim, reagan administration nuclear weapons, India's space program, india nuclear weapons |
| ISBN |
1-5017-6440-3
1-5017-6501-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : Freedom of Action -- Atomic Earths and State-Making, 1940s-48 -- Radium to Reactors, 1948-53 -- Nuclear Marketplace Opens for Business, 1953-62 -- Plutonium, Power Reactors, and Space Projects, 1962-64 -- The Plowshare Loophole, 1964-70 -- Fractured Worlds, 1970-74 -- Explosion and Fallout, 1974-80s -- Epilogue : The Anti-Dissent Machine. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996496563703316 |
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Sarkar Jayita <1986->
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| Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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