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Ecology and Equity The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem. Ecology and Equity explores the most ecologically complex country in the world. India's peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The bookanalyses the use and abuse of nature on the sub-continent to reveal the interconnections of social and... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 The India that is; Chapter 1 Cornering the Benefits; Chapter 2 Passing on the Costs; Chapter 3 A Cauldron of Conflicts; Chapter 4 Ideologies of Environmentalism; Part 2 The India that might be; Chapter 5 Conservative–Liberal–Socialism; Chapter 6 Knowledge of the People, by the People, for the People; Chapter 7 What are Forests For?; Chapter 8 Is there Safety in Numbers?; Chapter 9 Resources of Hope;
Biography
Madhav Gadgil is a Professor in the Centre for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science.,
Ramachandra Guha is an independent writer. They previously collaborated on This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India (1992).
