From to margins mainstream? : state climate change planning in India as a door opener' to a sustainable future

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2014-02

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Climate Initiative, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, IN

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State Action Plans on Climate Change hold potential as an important intervention in the development process. They provide an institutional platform to mainstream concerns of environmental sustainability into development planning and, if done properly, to update ideas of sustainability to include climate resilience. This platform provides a potential opening to enterprising and committed bureaucrats, but is also an opening with which development practitioners, academics, business, and civil society at large could productively engage...

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