AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 10 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW-2013-10_2_03
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Arresting ‘Development’ as Environmental Governance: An Empirical Assessment

S. Mohammed Irshad1
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1 Jamshedji Tata Centre for Disaster Management, Tata Institute of Social Science, Malatil and Jal A.D. Nauroji (New) Campus, Mumbai – 400088, India
AJWEP 2013, 10(2), 11–18; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW-2013-10_2_03
Submitted: 13 March 2012 | Accepted: 18 March 2013 | Published: 1 January 2013
© 2013 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Valuing ecology on the basis of its contributions to environment protection is getting less social acceptance  in contemporary development governance. Although, there are multiple models and approaches to tackle the question  of ecology, the development governance still prefers to put economic value on ecology. The use value of ecology  is becoming an administrative instrument, which often undermines the environment. The impact of this changing  perception of ecology is well refl ected in natural resource governance. It has become an issue of satisfying individual  needs rather than sustainable utilization of resources. This governance is heading towards the project of arresting  development; indeed it is becoming an unacceptable solution.

Keywords
Ecology
natural resource governance
individual rights
collective capacity
Kole wetland
development
arresting development
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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