This research explores the nexus of economic expansion, population, use of renewable
energy, democracy, and the combined effect of democracy and GDP on carbon dioxide (CO …

Emerging technologies in food and energy systems present unique problems of resource
governance. Here, we present distinct case studies to examine two emerging technologies …

India is globally renowned as a burgeoning solar energy superpower. Solar park
development is occurring in the Indian context of an ascendant Hindu nationalism …

November 2021 marked the 20th anniversary of the conception of BRICS. Two decades
have passed since the acronym BRIC–Brazil, Russia, India, China–was brought into our …

The development of large-scale solar parks has reignited contestations over land and
resources in rural India. Land acquisition for the Gujarat Solar Park and the Kurnool Solar …

In this paper, we use a political ecology lens to look at how COVID-19 adds to a set of
existing uncertainties and challenges faced by vulnerable people in the marginal …

The new modernization theory has suggested that the pervasiveness of traditional values
has a clear impact on the quality of democratic governance. In this contribution to this …

Solar photovoltaic infrastructures are often regarded as the least conflictive and destructive
renewable energy systems compared to their fossil fuel counterparts. However, there are …

Contemporary global crises and transformations—including climate change, migration,
digitalization, pandemics, financial and economic integration, and terrorism—increasingly …

In this chapter, we analyze how a majoritarian Hindu nationalism has been inscribed into
law in unprecedented ways under Narendra Modi. In doing so, we start from Hindu …