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The seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals set out a blueprint for addressing global challenges facing humanity, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. This is a bold envisioning, but envisioning requires on-the-ground fulfilment. Developing countries, of course, face many structural constraints in achieving the SDGs, and working practical ways around these roadblocks is critical to the goal of sustainable development. This volume looks at case studies from across India that show both victories and perils of work undertaken to achieve the SDGs. The book's editors and most of its chapter authors are geographers, but the cases here are interdisciplinary. The book's remit is broad and features cases on topics as diverse as gender equality, human health, urban development, and explicit policymaking. Though the problems and solutions described here all take place in the context of India, the lessons here are certainly transferable to other countries and contexts.
List of contents
Introduction and Overview: Policy Framework for Sustainable Development Goals in India.- Cancer Prevention in North-East India: Multi-Stakeholder Strategies for Sustainable Development.- Agro-Ecological Approaches to Enhance Resilience and Sustainability in Indian Agriculture: A Pathway to Achieving Sustainable Development Goals.- Conceptualizing Economic Spaces in Mithila: Analysis of Economic Transformation and Sustainability through Madhubani Paintings.- Impact of Rural Livelihood Vulnerability on its Diversification and Poverty in Bishnupur Plains, India: Case Study of Selected Villages.- Forest Cover Change and Sustainability in the Kumaun Himalaya Region.- Decoding Anthropogenic Perturbations: Probing the Nexus of Human Influence on Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics of Lower Gangetic Plains; An Approach to Meet SDGs.- Socio-Ecological Analysis of Fuelwood Consumption Patterns in Kirtinagar Block, Tehri Garhwal: Insights for Achieving Sustainable Energy Solutions.- Dynamics of Land Use Land Cover Change and Built-up Expansion in Shimla city, Himachal Pradesh: Exploring Challenges to Sustainable Urban Development.- An Assessment of Plastic Pollution for the Sustainable Future of Delhi.- The Fragile Future of Urban Villages: Shahpur Jat and the Quest for Sustainable Growth.- Embracing Human Settlements and Cities Sustainable, Resilient, Inclusive and Safe: A Review of Varanasi.- Detection of Land Use and Land Cover Changes and its Impact on Vegetation and Temperature in Sonbhadra District.- Exploring the Nexus between Land Surface Temperature and Land Use/Land Cover Indices: A Landsat-Based Analytical Approach.- Climate Change and Sustainability: Exploring Rainfall Variability in Upper Jambhira Basin of Odisha, India .- Evaluating the Progress of Studies in Natural Resources Management and Sustainability of India.- Prospects and Challenges of Community-based Ecotourism in Majuli Island: An Institutional Analysis of Socio-Ecological System (SES) Framework.- Sustainable Development Goals and Inclusive Development in India: A Critical Perspective.- Disaster and Sustainable Development: A Complex Intertwining.
