Environmental Sustainability from the Himalayas to the Oceans

Shikui Dong is a full professor at Beijing Normal University, China and an adjunct professor at Cornell University, USA. A Fellow with the India China Institute at The New School, New York(2010-2012) and a Fellow with Asia Scholarship Foundation (2006-2008; 2009-2010), his research focuses on highland ecosystem restoration, highland resource management and sustainable development, and coupled human-natural systems in environmental protection.Jayanta Bandyopadhyay is an author and expert on environmental policy. He is a former Professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta and former Visiting Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He is an adviser to the Water Diplomacy Program at the Tufts University, Medford MA USA.Sanjay Chaturvedi is Professor of Political Science at Panjab University in Chandigarh, India. He was a Fellow of the India-China Institute (2010-2012) at the New School, New York (USA) and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, from 2010-2012. He is an Associate Fellow of Asia Society, New York and Associate of Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre at The Adelaide University.

“This timely volume is informed and motivated by China’s and India’s emergence as ‘Planetary Powers’ in the twenty-first century. … the chapters are written in a prospective tone: what can be done to achieve a better, environmentally sustainable future. The result is a volume full of hope, respectful of local conditions, and energized by the possibilities of bottom-up solutions. … This book is a welcome contribution that helps us understand elements of that process.” (Arunabh Ghosh, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 92 (3), 2019)

• CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION.- CHAPTER 2: Environmental Struggles and Innovations in China: A Historical Perspective.- CHAPTER 3: Environmental Struggles and Innovations in India: A Historical Perspective.- CHAPTER 4: Himalayan Rivers: Struggles and Policy Innovation.- CHAPTER 5: Himalayan Grasslands: Indigenous Knowledge and Institutions for Social Innovation.- CHAPTER 6: Environmental Grassroots: Partnerships for Social Innovation.- CHAPTER 7: Coastal Mangrove Forests: Geopolitics and Social Innovation.- CHAPTER 8: Designing Delta Interactions for Social Innovation.- CHAPTER 9: Conclusion.