India, Climate Change, and The Global Commons

Description

This book explores the genesis of the concept of global commons against the backdrop of the global environmental problems of climate change, biodiversity conservation, desertification, and the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes. It highlights blockchains and cryptocurrencies, and their role in transforming global institutions. It delves on the advent of COVID-19 as a global common and the way the pandemic has been handled by the world community. The book also explores the way the current geopolitics of the world is contributing to the resolution of the conservation problem associated with global commons.

Professor A. Damodaran began his career as a policy maker with the Government of India and switched to academics in 2001. He worked as Professor at Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore, and switched to Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore as Professor in 2005. He has held academic assignments with the United Nations University Japan; the Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and the University of Bonn, Germany. He was an Obama - Singh Scholar in Residence at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. He has also taught at St. Petersburg University in Russia.

Table of contents

1. The New International Environment: Changing the Unchanged
2. Stereotypes on Development
3. Challenges of Global Governance: Opinions and Formulations
4. India: The Multi-Faceted Nation-State
5. India's Rurality and Its Different Faces
6. Adapting to Globalization or Fighting it?
7. Environmentalism in the World
8. Policies for the Environment: The Story of India
9. Leaders, Markets, and Values
10. Compensating for Lost Resources: Does It work?
11. The Local Impacts of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: The UNFCCC, CBD, and The Basel Convention
12. Environment and Trade: The Role of Stakeholders
13. COVID-19 as Global Commons: Issues of Equity, Sustainability, and Instrumentalism
14. Restructuring Regimes for Sustainable Development
15. The Diversity Principle, Blockchains, and the Future of Global Commons