Fisheries Development in India: The Political Economy of Unsustainable Development (In 2 Volumes)

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Sustainable development of fisheries in India is a major concern for the public, the industry as well as the administration as it contributes significantly to the national economy: to food supply, employment, earnings, foreign exchange, public revenue, regional development, recreation, social welfare etc.  Nonetheless, the sustainability of Indian fisheries, like most other nations’ fisheries, is threatened by a number of ecological, economic, social, cultural, institutional and technological constraints.  This book explores the sustainable development.  It, however, comes to the conclusion that such solutions are unlikely to bring about sustainability because of many interactions, interdependencies and externalities in the economy, all of which remind one about the working of the ‘impossibility theorem’ in poor countries.  This book has, in addition to this, and prior to this, given a comprehensive review of the global and national literature relating to sustainable development theory and sustainable development of fisheries. Its discussion of the sustainable development theory is exhaustive dealing with definition, development of the concept over time, spanning from classical to neo-classical, Marxian, modern and post-modern thinking, and with issues, criteria, and indicators of sustainability.  Notwithstanding all these, this book has also cast some doubt on the concept of sustainable development as a neo-liberal ploy to camouflage the ongoing process of global business expansion, thus exposing the political economy of unsustainable development.  This book, cast in eight chapters, is a rare critique of the general theory of sustainable development and the political economy of unsustainable development of fisheries in India.  It will be of great interest to academics, administrators and others concerned with the general theory of sustainable development and with sustainable development of fisheries in India in particular and the world in general.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ramakrishnan Korakandy

Dr. Ramakrishnan Korakandy (b. 1950), M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D. is Professor of Fisheries Economics and currently Director of the School of Industiral fisheries of the Cochin University of Science and Technology, at the Lake side Campus at Ernakulam. He is a first generation learner teaching fisheries economics and guiding research at the School of Industrial Fisheries for the past 26 years. He got his first innings in fisheries economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru Univeristy, New Delhi as a research scholar during 1973-78 and Ph.D. degree from the Cochin University of Science and Technology in 1988. His pioneering works,'Technological Change and Development of Marine Fishing Industry in India','Economics of fisheries Management-A Critique in Third World Perspective' and 'Recreational Fisheries Development inIndia' were published in 1994-1996 and 2000 respectively. Dr. Ramakerishnanhas written extensively on fisheries economic issues in national/international academic journals and newspapers. the present work on Coastal Zone Management is h is latest contribution. His current concerns encompass such fields as environmental economics, political economy of sustainable development, etc. Dr. Ramakrishnan'swritings are known for their theoretical underpinning and expository qualities.

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Title
Fisheries Development in India: The Political Economy of Unsustainable Development (In 2 Volumes)
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788178356327
Length
313p., xii+315-695p., Tables; Bibliography; Index; 24cm.
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