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Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India
Contributor(s): Gadgil, Madhav (Author), Guha, Ramachandra (Author)
ISBN: 0415125243     ISBN-13: 9780415125246
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $95.00  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 1995
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"Ecology and Equity" presents a provocative interpretation of the environment debate in a large, diverse and vitally important Third World country. Its focus is not so much on the extent of environmental degradation in India, but on its manifold human consequences. The book uses an original theoretical framework for making sense of what is, from an ecological point of view, undoubtedly the most complex society in the world.
The authors divide this society into three categories--omnivores, ecosystem people and ecological refugees--and the processes of environmental degradation and social conflict are analyzed in terms of inequities in access to natural resources of the competing classes. The book then turns from analysis to prescription, arguing for an environment-friendly agenda for development. The principles of this agenda are developed for several key sectors, such as forestry, information and population.
"Ecology and Equity" provides the first analytically sophisticated and empirically grounded interpretation of environmental degradation and social conflict in India, innovatively combining political economy with ecology and emphasizing a forward looking agenda for environmental reform in the Third World.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Human Geography
- Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental)
- Science | Earth Sciences - Geography
Dewey: 304.280
LCCN: 95005494
Series: Note Series; 223
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.74" W x 8.56" (1.13 lbs) 226 pages
 
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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 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.