Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India (Note Series; 223)

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. Radical both in its critique of the causes of environmental crisis in India and in its proposal for ecological reform, this book reveals the interconnections of social and environmental conflict and makes for essential reading. Madhav Gadgil And Ramachandra Guha. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 196-203) And Index.