From margins to mainstream? : state climate change planning in India
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2014-11
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Sameeksha Trust
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In 2009, the Government of India requested states to
develop State Action Plans on Climate Change. Based on
a detailed analysis of five state climate plans, this article
finds that climate plans provide an important
institutional platform to mainstream concerns of
environmental sustainability into development planning
but fail to update ideas of sustainability to include
climate resilience. There are shortcomings in approach,
process, formulation of outcomes, and implementation
efforts. These shortcomings are united by a common
thread – a tendency to prematurely view state climate
plans as vehicles for generating implementable actions
rather than an opportunity to redirect development
towards climate resilience. However, if state plans are
viewed as the beginning of a complex process of
updating sustainable development planning rather than
as an end in themselves, they provide a foundation upon
which climate concerns can be more effectively
mainstreamed in local development planning.
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Dubash, N.K., & Jogesh, A. (2014). From Margins to Mainstream? State Climate Change Planning in India. Economic & Political Weekly, 49(48): 86-95.