"Bottom-up" approaches in governance and adaptation for sustainable development : case studies from India and Bangladesh/ edited by Binay Kumar Pattnaik; Pradip Swarnakar; Stephen Zavestoski

Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Governance for Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene - Stephen Zavestoski and Pradip SwarnakarSection 1: Governance I: Questioning the Top-down Approach of Sustainable DevelopmentForest, Adivasis, and the Forest Rights Act (2006): Interrogating Top-down Environmental Governance - Jyotiprasad ChatterjeeScience and Politics of Wildlife Enumeration: Questioning the 'Tiger Count' in India - Jayanthi A Pushkaran Urban Land Governance Reforms and Sustainable Development: A Study of Urban Property Ownership Records (UPOR) in Karnataka - Kanekanti Chandrashekar Smitha and Manasi SeshaiahChallenges of Sustainable Biodiversity Management: National Chambal Sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh - Nidhi Yadav and Naresh Chandra SahuFreshwater Wetlands in Bangladesh: The Need for Alternative Governance - Mohammad Abu Taiyeb ChowdhurySection 2: Governance II: Experiments with 'Bottom-up' ApproachesDynamics and Pay-offs in Community-based Water Resource Management: A Case Study from Indian Sunderbans - Satabdi DattaLocal Solutions to Local Disasters: Governance in Flood Management in Assam - Arpita Das and Partha Jyoti Das The Role of Rural Local Bodies in Sustainable Development - James RajanayagamDeployment of Solar Home Lighting Systems in Rural India - Kartikeya SinghFrom Participation to Empowerment: Community-based Ecotourism in Goa - Rohini Fadte Section 3: Climate Change Adaptation: A 'Bottom-up' Challenge to 'Top-down' Sustainable DevelopmentDownscaling Climate Change: Perceptions and Adaptive Behaviors of Rural Farmers in West Bengal - Farhat Naz, Marie-Charlotte Buisson, and Archisman Mitra Adaptive Capacity of Marginalized Urban Women to Climate Change: National Capital Territory of Delhi - Sakshi Saini and Savita AggarwalCommunity-based Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal India: A 'Bottom-up' Approach Using 3P Model - Rachna Arora, Ashish Chaturvedi, Manjeet Saluja, Nikita Mundra, and Arushi Sen Local Knowledge, Social Capital, and Governance of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh - Md. Masud-All-KamalSection 4: Synergizing 'Top-down' and 'Bottom-upNeither 'Top-down' nor 'Bottom-up': A 'Middle-out' Alternative to Sustainable Development - Stephen Zavestoski and Pradip SwarnakarIndex