Kar, Surajit, Sundberg, Trude, Satpati, Lakshminarayan, Mukherjee, Subham (2024) Reappraising Natures and Perspectives of Wasteland in the Developing World with a Focus on India. Environments, 11 (6). Article Number 111. ISSN 2076-3298. (doi:10.3390/environments11060111) (KAR id:106173)
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Abstract
This article seeks to provide an improved and more comprehensive understanding of the concept and theories on wasteland. It achieves this by focusing on the Indian context, allowing us to unpack the importance of including multiple perspectives of wasteland narratives; this means including more positive narratives of the potential of wasteland to inform and improve prospects for land policies in the Global South. Wasteland is commonly recognized as an underutilized category of land that may transform into a valuable resource base with proper management measures. The term waste has multiple angles that carry different notions ranging from fallow to agroforestry land in the Global South and brownfield to green space in the Global North. We conduct a narrative review approach to qualitatively analyze the concept of wastelands, which has been studied in the pre-existing literature from 1970 to the present. This unsystematic literature review approach incorporates multiple elements of wasteland discourse, like understanding the meaning of the term on a global scale, setting out the meaning of the term waste into multiple perspectives explicitly in the Indian context, along with different classes and management approaches to wasteland from a national perspective. The multiple perspectives of wasteland not only generate misconceptions of land resources but spawn difficulties in land-use policy, particularly for the Indian scenario. For sustainable land-use policy, reclaiming wasteland would be the best possible way for India and other countries in the Global South, which requires a comprehensive methodological overview on wasteland narrative.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.3390/environments11060111 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | wasteland; Global South; India; policy; landuse; management |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research |
Funders: | Freie Universität Berlin (https://ror.org/046ak2485) |
SWORD Depositor: | JISC Publications Router |
Depositing User: | JISC Publications Router |
Date Deposited: | 12 Jun 2024 13:15 UTC |
Last Modified: | 12 Jun 2024 22:10 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/106173 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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