ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
part I|106 pages
The India that is
chapter 1|25 pages
Cornering the Benefits
chapter 2|27 pages
Passing on the Costs
chapter 3|37 pages
A Cauldron of Conflicts
chapter 4|15 pages
Ideologies of Environmentalism
part II|79 pages
The India that might be