The politics of climate change and uncertainty in India / edited by Lyla Mehta, Hans Nicolai Adam and Shilpi Srivastava.

Chapter 1: Climate Change and Uncertainty:Politics andPerspectives, Shilpi Srivastava, Lyla Mehta and Hans Nicolai Adam Chapter 2: UncertaintyfromAbove:DiverseUnderstandings, Politicsand Implications, Lyla Mehta, Hans Nicolai Adam, Mihir R. Bhatt, Synne Movik, Lars Otto Naess and Shilpi Srivastava Chapter 3: Uncertainty and Environmental ChangeKutch and the Sundarbans as Environmental Histories of Change, Vinita Damodaran, Rohan D⁰́₉Souza and Subir Dey Chapter 4: Between theMarket and Climate Change:Uncertainty andTransformation inKutch, Shilpi Srivastava, Lyla Mehta, Lars Otto Naess, Mihir R. Bhatt and V. Vijay Kumar Chapter 5: The Certainty of Uncertainty: Climate Change Realities oftheIndian Sundarbans, Upasona Ghosh, Darley Jose Kjosavik and Shibaji Bose Chapter 6: Climate ChangeandUncertainty inIndia⁰́₉s Maximum City,Mumbai, Hans Nicolai Adam, Synne Movik, D. Parthasarathy, Alankar, NC Narayanan and Lyla Mehta Chapter 7: Bridging Gaps in Understandings of Climate Change and Uncertainty, Synne Movik, Mihir Bhatt, Lyla Mehta, HansNicolaiAdam, Shilpi Srivastava,D. Parthasarathy,Espen Sjaastad,Shibaji Bose, Upasona Ghosh andLars OttoNaess Chapter 8: Conclusion

This book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. Uncertainty is a key factor shaping climate and environmental policy at international, national, and local levels. Climate change and events such as cyclones, floods, droughts and changing rainfall patterns create uncertainties that planners, resource managers and local populations are regularly confronted with. In this context, uncertainty has emerged as a "wicked problem" for scientists and policymakers, resulting in highly debated and disputed decision-making. The book focuses on India, one of the most climatically vulnerable countries in the world, where there are stark socio-economic inequalities in addition to diverse geographic and climatic settings. Based on empirical research, it covers case studies from coastal Mumbai to dryland Kutch and the Sundarbans delta in West Bengal. These localities offer ecological contrasts, rural-urban diversity, varied exposure to different climate events and diverse state and official responses. The book unpacks the diverse discourses, practices and politics of uncertainty and demonstrates profound differences through which the "above", "middle" and "below" understand and experience climate change and uncertainty and makes a case for bringing together diverse knowledges and approaches to understand and embrace climate-related uncertainties in order to facilitate transformative change. Appealing to a broad professional and student audience, the book draws on wide-ranging theoretical and conceptual approaches from climate science, historical analysis, science technology and society studies, development studies and environmental studies. By looking at the intersection between local and diverse understandings of climate change and uncertainty with politics, culture, history, and ecology, the book argues for plural and socially just ways to tackle climate change in India and beyond.

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