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Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India

By Ramachandra Guha , Madhav Gadgil

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1995
ISBN
0415125243, 9780415125246
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22250068 bytes)
Pages
225\225
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-04-23 17:20:28

Description

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 environmental conflict on the global scale. The authors argue that the root of this conflict is competition within different social groups and between different economic interests for natural resources. Radical both in its critique of the causes of crisis in India and in its proposals for ecological reform, Ecology and Equity is essential reading for all concerned for the Third World's in the world.

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