Quest for Planetary Well-Being

Essays in Honour of M.V. Nadkarni
Herausgegeben:Giri, Ananta Kumar; Deshpande, R. S.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book enriches this discourse and scholarship and brings the unique contributions of MV Nadkarni, a noted economist and transdisciplinary thinker of India, to the emerging field of well-being studies. It explores the multi-dimensional visions, practices, and movements for well-being at personal, interpersonal, community, state, and world levels. It goes beyond our conventional frames of knowledge and discourse and focuses on new intimations and initiatives in health, learning, knowledge, and well-being. Chapters of this volume strive to cultivate visions and practices of planetary well being dialoguing with the works of Nadkarni as well as some bringing their related works on the theme.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Singapore / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 89534079, 978-981-95-2076-3
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm
• ISBN-13: 9789819520763
• ISBN-10: 9819520762
• Artikelnr.: 75134213

Autorenporträt

Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, and the author, editor, co-editor, and translator of more than six dozen books in English and Odia. R.S. Deshpande is a noted economist of India and former Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Change.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: MV Nadkarni and Quest for Planetary Well-Being: An Introduction and an Invitation.- Part I: Quest for Planetary Well-Being: The Life and Works of MV Nadkarni.- Chapter 2: MV Nadkarni s Economics of Well-Being.- Chapter 3: Broad Basing Process for Socio-Economic Transformation: Dialogues with MV Nadkarni.- Chapter 4: Integrating Ethics and Economics: M.V. Nadkarni and Amartya Sen.- Chapter 5: Gandhian Perspectives on Ethics in Economics: Reflections on Nadkarni s Engagement with Gandhi.- Chapter 6: Revelation, Interpretation, and Analysis: M.V. Nadkarni s Engagement with the Gita.- Chapter 7: Relevance of Parisara-niti-shatakam (on Environmental Ethics) for Nepali Himalayan Environmental Dynamics and Well-Being.- Chapter 8: Life and Language Out of Balance: Ideas from Gandhi and Nadkarni for Linguistic Sarvodaya (Emancipation for All).- Part II: Further Reflections on Well-Being.- Chapter 9: Good Life, Good Society and Evolutionary Flourishing.- Chapter 10: A Cognitive Sociological Approach to a Quest for Planetary Well-Being.- Chapter 11: On the Concept of Well-Being : Perspectives from the Sankhya and Other Sources.- Chapter 12: Reconceptualising Indic Governance and Well-Being.- Chapter 13: Planetary Health Diet to Save Planet Earth: Some Critical Comments.- Chapter 14: Planetary Well Being and the Building of the Dharma of Peace.- Chapter 15: When Economic Initiatives Combine A Sense of Social Responsibility.- Chapter 16: Finding fulfillment in later life- an essay on promoting wellbeing among older adults.- Chapter 17: Auroville: Experiments Beyond Well-Being and the Good Life towards Planetary Unity.- Chapter 18: The Cry of the Earth: Literature as a Catalyst for Sustainable Behavioural Change.- Part III: Essays in Honor of MV Nadkarni.- Chapter 19: Industrial Pollution Control Regime for Sustainable Development of India.- Chapter 20: Climate Change and Disasters: An Indian Perspective.- Chapter 21: Economics of Waste Management and Well Being.- Chapter 22: The Plight of the Peasants, Agrarian Mobilisation, and the Movements to Reconstruct the Countryside in Liberalised India.- Chapter 23: Political and Administrative Hegemony of Left Democratic Front in Kerala in Policy Making and Policy Implementation with special reference to People s Plan Campaign.- Chapter 24: Reimagining Traditional Local Self-Governing Institutions (TSGIs) and Its Synergies with Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) in Telangana State.- Chapter 25: Reimagining Development Journalism for Rural Development and Well-being: The Mediation Role of Journalism for Inclusive Development.- Chapter 26: Inclusive Education for Overall Well-Being: Debating Nonprofit Advertising for Attaining Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter 27: The Concept of Human Nature in Chanakya s Arthashastra and Machiavelli s The Prince.- Chapter 28: Transformational Leadership.- Chapter 29: Quantum-Complex Interplay with Axiological Value Systems of Ethics for Planetary Challenges.