01. IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review
IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review
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List of Reviewers for IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review
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List of Reviewers for IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review
IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review 4(2) 173 © 2015 Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
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1. Editorial
Pati, Rupesh Kumar
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1. Editorial
Pati, Rupesh Kumar
The evidences of the impact of global warming in the recent years have been significant. Increase in the number of natural disasters like severe drought on one part of the world to devastating flood in the other part of the world clearly indicates the unintended side effects of rapid economic growth for human development. One of the reasons for these incidences have been attributed by the scientific community to the over exploitation of the natural resources for the benefit of mankind. Hence, the academic community as well as practitioners are exploring new ways to save our earth using various environment-friendly techniques and technologies. Energy sector in most of the developing countries is among the top ranked polluting sectors, primarily because of the over-reliance on coal-based thermal power plants. Given that the
economic viability of cleaner sources of energy are still in question, especially in the developing world, a proper management of the production as well as distribution of energy has become very important. Decentralized energy management is one
such attempt where energy is produced close to the point of consumption, rather than at a large plant elsewhere and sent through the power grid. This local generation reduces transmission losses and lowers carbon emissions....
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1. Editorial
Mathew, A.F.
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1. Editorial
Mathew, A.F.
How does one contextualize the question of globalization?Given the present state of the world and the existing deep economic and social crises, it is imperative that an ideological underpinning to every phenomenon is examined. However, a postmodernist perspective would demonstrate a suspicion to all-embracing systems of thought. This
would include a suspicion of ‘totalizing theories’; an anti-foundationalism that rejects all claims to ‘absolute’ or ‘universal’ foundations of knowledge (Mathew, 2008).
Postmodernism also stresses the heterogeneity and fragmented character of social and cultural ‘realities’. It also questions any attempts of any unified account of them....
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of Management Kozhikode
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2. Electricity Governance in India
Shankar Sharma
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2. Electricity Governance in India
Shankar Sharma
Electricity governance and planning ought to have been two important areas of administration in India right since Independence, but unabated growth in demand, chronic power cuts, nature’s limits and global warming implications all have now made them critical to the all-round development of our communities on a sustainable basis. A rational analysis at how the Electricity sector in the country has performed since independence provides a disappointing picture: there is indifference to the consumers’ needs, inequity of access, financial mismanagement, lack of professionalism and frequent non-compliance with relevant laws. These conditions indicate the need for a paradigm shift in the way the sector is governed. Electricity planning seems to be based on archaic principles, insensitive to changing customer needs and the global warming context. This article recommends that both in governance and planning, effective stakeholder participation and regular consultations with the domain experts will help to address the major issues. System-wide measures such as efficiency improvement, demand side management (DSM), energy conservation and effective use of distributed renewable energy sources (REs), supported by micro grids and smart grids, should be the way forward. A number of national and international reports focusing on Power sector reforms have advocated this approach.
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