ABSTRACT

What part can Hindu and Buddhist traditions play in resolving the ecological problems facing India and South East Asia? David Gosling's exciting study, based on extensive fieldwork, is of global significance: the creation of more sustainable relationships between people and the natural world is one of the most urgent social and environmental problems of the new millennium. David Gosling looks at the religions historically and from a contemporary perspective.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

chapter |18 pages

Ecology and Hindu tradition

chapter |17 pages

Ecology and modern India

chapter |17 pages

Struggles for the forests

chapter |18 pages

Ecology and Buddhism

chapter |24 pages

Thailand

A Case Study

chapter |26 pages

India since Independence

chapter |23 pages

Signs of hope

chapter |17 pages

Expanding our horizons