Drought, policy, and politics in India : the need for a long-term perspective
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Drought, policy, and politics in India : the need for a long-term perspective
Sage, 1993
- India
- US
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
IndiaCOE-SA||312.25||Mat||9905924199059241
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Includes one folded map
Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-135) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Adopting and ecological perspective, this book is a study of public policy on drought management in India. The authors argue that policy-makers have assumed drought to be a consequence of exclusively natural factors and, because of this, the planning process has been short-sighted and concerned with drought mitigation through relief, rather than with longer-term measures of drought-proofing. The book details the administrative and financial arrangements for drought mitigation in India and highlights the politics of policy-making, showing how the sanctioning of relief expenditure is often politically motivated.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Drought in the Long-Term Perspective
Evolution of Policy
Financing of Relief Expenditure and Related Administrative Procedures
Rajasthan
Drought Proofing, Drought Relief and Political Concerns of Electoral Candidates
Participation and Representation in Parliament
Perspectives on Drought in Parliament
Concluding Remarks
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