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

Ecology and Equity explores a society that is, in ecological terms, the most complex in the world: India's peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gatherers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The book provides the first analytically sophisticated and empirically grounded study of environmental degradation and soical conflict in India. It presents an original theoretical framework which innovatively combines political economy with ecology, emphasizing a forward-looking agenda for environmental reform in the Third World.Radical both in its interpretation of the crisis in India and in its proposals fro ecological reform, Ecology and Equity is essential reading for all concerned with Third World development and/or the environmental debate.Gadgil, Madhav is the author of 'Ecology and Equity The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India' with ISBN 9780415125239 and ISBN 0415125235.