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

by Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha, Madhav & Guha Gadgil

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415125243
• ISBN13: 9780415125246
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Excellent eye-opener on the current status of India

A must for anyone concerned with the people of India. This book is written in simple language and is precise. I know people whose whole attitude toward our Indian problem have changed after reading this book. This book clearly shows how even the middle-class Indians have been responsible (indirectly) for the degeneration of India.