Abstract
Disaster risk reduction is an institutional intervention programme and there are both global and local strategies and approaches available. Regulating natural resource is one among them. This paper attempts to analyse the globally and nationally existing water governance approaches and their relative failure to impede the large scale river pollution in India’s mining areas. The diversion of river for mining have resulted in multiple hazards in the mineral deposits areas of India. These approaches are advocating for ‘sustainable development’ and offer an institutional mechanism to integrate disaster risk reduction with environmental security. The regulatory measured are also being regulated by the economic interests of mining.
Highlights
The mining areas are becoming conflict zones in India
The focus of this paper is the implementation of disaster risk reduction in the mining areas in India
The definition of civil war may not fit into contemporary mining issues, if we look at the nature of involvement of political forces and state in India’s mining areas indicate the presence of a silent civil war
Summary
The mining areas are becoming conflict zones in India. This reason is applicable to all natural resource exploitation programs. Ecological and social concern would be set aside for national wealth creation assuming that it would bring-in prosperity and development. The state with the help of all its apparatus is trying to establish the rationale of economy of mining and legitimizing the state policies towards mining. On the one hand, the state takes charges of the externalized consequences of private enterprises (ecological damage) or it secures the survival capacity of endangered sectors (mining and agriculture)’. The environmental and social consequences of mining have been considered as normal risk and the state is eager to implement policies to legitimize the consequences
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