Another development : participation, empowerment and well-being in rural India / Runa Sarkar, Anup Sinha.
Publication details: New Delhi : Routledge, c2015.Description: xxiv, 288 p. : ill, maps. ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781138822412 (hbk.)
- 23 338.954 SAR 007587
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Book | Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | 338.954 SAR 007587 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 007587 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-283) and Index.
1. Development as transformation
2. Development as intervention
Part I: Water and well-being
3. Channeling prosperity and progress
4. The power of politics: self-reliance denied
5. Stillness and change: lives and landscapes
Part II: Empowerment and entrepreneurship
6. Control and creation: the worlds of two women
7. Between the moneylender and the deep blue sea: stories from fishing communities in Kerala
8. Packaging heritage to unpack ambitions: Himalayan homestays
Part III: People and participation
9. Natural resource management: the limits to conservation
10. Creating big organisations with small farmers
11. Choosing to change
12. Women, water and green energy
13. Sometime in the future, in someplace else: another development.
This book is an important intervention in the debate between economic and social development. It makes the case for understanding development in economic terms as well as in terms of well-being, empowerment and participation.
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