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ees-1769	Vasan, Sudha	Indian Monsoon: A Clarion Call for a Systems Approach and Dialectical Thinking	2025	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1290	49	38	In the best-case scenario, sustainable development has meant that each event is justified by a narrow cost–benefit analysis of its specific social and ecological impact within a limited lifecycle, and new plantations may or may not compensate for the loss of long-established biodiverse ground cover. This fragmented approach to sustainable development leaves us unprepared for heat pockets in the summer, floods and cloud bursts in the monsoon, and smog and poor urban air quality in the winter, until the retreating monsoon brings our attention back to urban floods in the southern states.	cache/ees-1769.pdf	txt/ees-1769.txt