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...

• 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.