Browsing by Author "Turaga, Rama Mohana R."
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Climate change adaptation: traditional wisdom and cross-scale understanding
Bikkina, Nalini; Turaga, Rama Mohana R. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024-06-21)Summary: This book discusses how climate change needs to be anchored in indigenous knowledge with reference to resource management, infrastructure, livelihoods, and social institutions, with a unique focus on risks and ... -
Defining the social responsibility of businesses
Turaga, Rama Mohana R.; Kandathil, George (Economic and Political Weekly, 2014)Whose Business is it? If the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has to be implemented meaningfully by companies, then the stakeholders impacted by their business should also have a say in defining what ... -
EIA draft needs a comprehensive relook
Turaga, Rama Mohana R. (Business Line, 2020-08-08) -
Emergence of impact investing in environment sustainable sectors
Wagh, Mayuresh; Raj, Aakarsh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)In the Impact Investing industry, green bonds have become quite popular in the last decade as a financial instrument that allows investors to partner with institutions for environmental sustainability by creating funding ... -
Environmental regulations in India
Turaga, Rama Mohana R.; Sugathan, Anish (Oxford University Press, 2020-06-30)Pollution is one of the greatest causes of premature deaths and morbidity in the world, and this burden of pollution is disproportionately borne by the lower and middle income countries such as India—home to more than ... -
Exploring the role of urban green spaces in ‘smartening’ cities in India
Turaga, Rama Mohana R.; Jha-Thakur, Urmila; Chakrabarti, Sandip; Hossain, Dipita (Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 2019)This paper explores the conceptualization of Urban Green Space (UGS) within India’s urban planning process. In doing so, the context of the Smart Cities Mission (SCM), which is a flagship programme for urban transformation ... -
Extended producer responsibility as an instrument for electronic waste management: a critical analysis of India’s e-waste rules
Kalyan, Bhaskar; Turaga, Rama Mohana R. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Extended producer responsibility (EPR) has been a widely used policy approach, in developed and developing countries alike, to manage the growing problem of electronic waste (e-waste). EPR assigns the responsibility of the ... -
Farmer producer organizations as farmer collectives: a case study from India
Bikkina, Nalini; Turaga, Rama Mohana R.; Bhamoriya, Vaibhav (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Small and marginal farmers in India have been vulnerable to risks in agricultural production. Several organizational prototypes are emerging to integrate them into the value chain with the objectives of enhancing incomes ... -
GAIL 'Saksham' Program: Remoulding the Future
Gupta, Vishal; Turaga, Rama Mohana R.; Mittal, Shweta (FDP) (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-07-28)‘Saksham’, a corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative of one of the largest public sector companies in India, the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL), provides specific training in skills required for plastic ... -
GAIL 'Saksham' Program: Remoulding the Future: A Teaching Note
Gupta, Vishal; Turaga, Rama Mohana R.; Mittal, Shweta (FDP) (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-07-28) -
India’s e-waste rules and their impact on e-waste management practices: a case study
Turaga, Rama Mohana R.; Bhaskar, Kalyan (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2017-06-16)India, like many other developed and developing countries, has adopted an extended producer responsibility (EPR) approach for electronic waste (e-waste) management under its E-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011. ... -
Perceptions of mercury risk and its management
Turaga, Rama Mohana R.; Howarth, Richard B.; Borsuk, Mark (Human & Ecological Risk Assessment, 2014)Anthropogenic activities, such as coal burning for electricity generation, release mercury (Hg), a toxic, bioaccumulative pollutant with potential health impacts primarily borne by specific population groups such as women ... -
The policy process of adopting environmental standards for coal plants in India: accommodating transnational politics in the Multiple Streams Framework
Turaga, Rama Mohana R.; Mittal, Harsh (Policy Press, 2023-02-23)This article provides an important international empirical application of the multiple-streams framework with some theoretical additions that make a novel contribution to the existing scholarship in this field. Using a ... -
The politics of formulation of environmental impact assessment regulation in India: a case study
Turaga, Rama Mohana R. (World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd, 2016)While the extant literature on environmental impact assessment (EIA) regulation in India largely focuses on evaluating implementation, this paper studies the political processes that shape the formulation of EIA regulation. ... -
Red alert on the green index
Turaga, Rama Mohana R. (The Hindu, 2018-01-29) -
Small industry in India: are CETPs an appropriate solution towards pollution control
Kathuria, V.; Turaga, Rama Mohana R. (Springer, 2014) -
Spatial regulation of air toxics hot spots
Turaga, Rama Mohana R.; Noonan, Douglas; Bostrom, Ann (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015)This paper analyzes the potential implications, in terms of net social costs and distribution of risks and abatement costs, of a policy to address the problem of air toxics “hot spots.” The policy we analyze involves ... -
State of inclusive growth in India: some perspectives
Turaga, Rama Mohana R.; Chakrabarti, Manali; Chatterjee, Mirai; Jolad, Shivakumar; Vaijayanti, K; Sriram, M. S. (Sage, 2018-03-20)India has recently completed 25 years of economic liberalization during which the country has delivered rapid economic growth, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), to become one of the fastest growing economies ... -
A Women-Inclusive Emancipatory Alternative to Corporate Capitalism? The Case of Kerala’s State-Instituted Kudumbashree Programme
Kandathil, George; Varma, Poornima; Turaga, Rama Mohana R. (Cambridge University Press, 2022)With the ongoing advancement of capitalism, corporate capitalism – a specific variety of capitalism that is grounded in neoliberal ideology (Harvey, 2007) – has been engulfing economic and social relations worldwide ...