Article ID: CBB091354757

Water, Climate, and Economy in India from 1880 to the Present (2021)

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Theories of economic growth based on Western Europe are inadequate when applied to India because the two areas are incommensurate in their geographies and their resources. Because its initial conditions were different from those in, say, Europe and North America, India could arrive at economic growth only by solving different problems—preeminent among them being reliable access to clean water. The actions taken by the state, scientists, and society since 1880 in India weakened the chains that linked water insecurity, low yield, mass mortality, and caste-biased mortality but at the inevitable cost of ecological stress. In a tropical-monsoon climate, where well-being and the environment were constantly in flux, asking deprived individuals to consume less or cooperate more was not necessarily the best response to water problems. Science and capitalism provided better solutions.

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Authors & Contributors
Day, Jon C.
Hochstadt, Steve
Moss, Timothy
Martin Schneider
Hardy, Eric M.
Zurbrigg, Sheila
Concepts
Environmentalism
Ecology
Water resource management
Conservation biology
Economic growth
Environmental history
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Berlin (Germany)
Great Britain
Georgia (U.S.)
Arizona (U.S.)
Spain
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