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Sustainable development goals: an Indian perspective

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sustainable development goals seriesPublication details: Springer 2020 SwitzerlandDescription: xix, 301 p.:col.ill. Includes indexISBN:
  • 9783030424909
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.954 S82
Summary: This volume examines the practicality of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals in India and includes policy analyses and statistical assessments of comparative data between India and different countries. With a focus on poverty and economics, the contributors offer sector and state-specific performance analyses of each goal, determining the feasibility for different states and regions to implement a given goal under conditions of extreme poverty and economic distress. Readers will learn how to perform comprehensive economic performance analyses, and how to apply these methods at local and regional scales within the framework of sustainable development. The book will be of interest to students and researchers studying sustainable development, economics, and policy analysis, as well as NGOs and government agencies working towards achieving the SDGs in impoverished nations. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-42488-6
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Table of contents

Chapter 1. No Poverty: How Much, How Far
Chapter 2. Sustainable Agriculture, Poverty, Food Security and Improved Nutrition
Chapter 3. Health Progress in India in respect of Millennium Development Goals: Is Health Target of SDG Achievable?
An Empirical Study at Sub-National level
Chapter 4. Education in India: Goals and Achievements
Chapter 5. Gender Equality and the Sustainable Development Goals: focussing on the Adolescent Girls in India
Chapter 6. Clean Water and Sanitation: Indias present and future prospects
Chapter 7. Enabling Energy Sustainability
Chapter 8. Structural change in employment & Unemployment in India
Chapter 9. Avoiding Pre-mature Deindustrialization in India: Achieving SDG9
Chapter 10. How is India Flaring in Achieving SDG 10 on Reduced Inequality?
Chapter 11. Sustainability in Indian Cities: a developing country perspective
Chapter 12. Sustainable Consumption Pattern in India
Chapter 13. Climate change Responses and Sustainable Development: Integration of Mitigation and Adaptation
Chapter 14. Ocean and Sustainable Development: A preliminary assessment for India
Chapter 15. Biodiversity Conservation and the UNs Sustainable Development Goals: Indias Responses Evaluated
Particularly in Relation to SDG15
Chapter 16. Sustainable Development Goals: Implementation of Goal 16 by India
Chapter 17. Trade and Sustainable Development Goals: A multi-scenario analysis for India and other Asia-Pacific countries.

This volume examines the practicality of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals in India and includes policy analyses and statistical assessments of comparative data between India and different countries. With a focus on poverty and economics, the contributors offer sector and state-specific performance analyses of each goal, determining the feasibility for different states and regions to implement a given goal under conditions of extreme poverty and economic distress. Readers will learn how to perform comprehensive economic performance analyses, and how to apply these methods at local and regional scales within the framework of sustainable development. The book will be of interest to students and researchers studying sustainable development, economics, and policy analysis, as well as NGOs and government agencies working towards achieving the SDGs in impoverished nations.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-42488-6

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