Invitation to Book Discussion
Environmental Politics at the Local Natural Resource Governance in India
Date : 30 August 2024
Time: 6:00 PM IST
Book
Environmental Politics at the Local: Natural Resource Governance in India edited by Satyajit Singh and Ajit Menon,
About the Volume Editors:
Satyajit Singh is Professor, University of California Santa Barbara, USA.
Ajit Menon is Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.
About the book:
The practice of decentralisation and devolution of power to the ‘local’ have become central to public policy discourse. Existing scholarship argues that decentralisation will not only allow local communities to better articulate their needs, but also ensure a move towards sustainable, accountable and equitable governance, since local bodies are closer to the people they represent. While agreeing with this broad consensus, Environmental Politics at the Local takes a critical look at the politics of the local that is central to the wider political economy of decentralisation.
