Sunita Narain
Conflicts of interest : my journey through India's green movement - Haryana Penguin 2017 - 226p.
India's foremost environmentalist, Sunita Narain gives a personal account of her battles as part of the country's Green Movement. While outlining the enormous environmental challenges that India faces today, Narain talks about how corporate lobbies and political interests often scuttle their effective resolution. She recounts some widely reported controversies triggered by research undertaken by her along with her team at the Centre for Science and Environment, such as the pesticides in colas report, air pollution research in Delhi, endosulfan research in Karnataka, among others. Narain also includes an 'environmental manifesto', a blueprint for the direction India must take if it is to deal with the exigencies of climate change and environmental degradation.
9780670088881
Centre for Science and Environment (New Delhi, India)
Environmentalists
Green movement
Pollution
Climatic changes
Conflict of interests
Environmental degradation
333.72092 / SUN/C
Conflicts of interest : my journey through India's green movement - Haryana Penguin 2017 - 226p.
India's foremost environmentalist, Sunita Narain gives a personal account of her battles as part of the country's Green Movement. While outlining the enormous environmental challenges that India faces today, Narain talks about how corporate lobbies and political interests often scuttle their effective resolution. She recounts some widely reported controversies triggered by research undertaken by her along with her team at the Centre for Science and Environment, such as the pesticides in colas report, air pollution research in Delhi, endosulfan research in Karnataka, among others. Narain also includes an 'environmental manifesto', a blueprint for the direction India must take if it is to deal with the exigencies of climate change and environmental degradation.
9780670088881
Centre for Science and Environment (New Delhi, India)
Environmentalists
Green movement
Pollution
Climatic changes
Conflict of interests
Environmental degradation
333.72092 / SUN/C