dc.contributor.advisor |
Kim, S |
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dc.contributor.author |
Mignacca, Nicholas |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2015-07-13T00:13:08Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2015 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
2015 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/26240 |
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dc.description |
Full text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only. |
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dc.description.abstract |
The paper investigates green technology development in India, with an eye on understanding the key actors and institutions involved in the solar photovoltaic and wind power industries. The Indian government’s 2008 National Action Plan for Climate Change is an attempt to transition the country towards a more environmentally sustainable form of industrial development, grounded in the development of renewable energy technologies. This initiative signals a recognition within the Indian policymaking elite of the limits of the Twentieth century Western industrialisation model based on the consumption of fossil fuels for sustaining India’s future efforts to climb up the development ladder. The Indian government’s role in initiating and operationalising the NAPCC is puzzling for a country better known for its so-called weak bureaucratic capacities – once even described as ‘quasi-predatory’ by Peter Evans – than possessing the features exhibited in the widely-praised high quality economic bureaucracies of East Asia’s ‘developmental states’. The question I pose in this study is: what has the Indian state done to pursue the systemic changes needed to make the aspirations in the NAPCC a reality? My central argument is that the Indian state has imparted a long-term strategic vision for the country and created an institutional environment, which has supported firms in their build-up of domestic capabilities in renewable energy manufacturing industries. The specific strategy pursued by Indian elites has been one heavily reliant on the input of foreign investors (from advanced industrial states) with the capital and specialised technologies needed to establish green industries in India, in partnership with local firms. My argument has implications for two debates. The first concerns the drivers behind green growth initiatives in the developing world, and the second is more specifically related to the political economic make-up of India. |
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dc.publisher |
ResearchSpace@Auckland |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Masters Thesis - University of Auckland |
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dc.relation.isreferencedby |
UoA99264811511502091 |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights |
Restricted Item. Available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.rights.uri |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/ |
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dc.title |
Latecomer Strategies in Forging a Renewable Energy Economy: An Examination of India’s Efforts in Building Domestic Capabilities in Renewable Energy Technology Industries |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
Politics and International Relations |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
The University of Auckland |
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thesis.degree.level |
Masters |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: The Author |
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pubs.elements-id |
490220 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2015-07-13 |
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dc.identifier.wikidata |
Q112909975 |
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