Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgements; UNRISD; INTRODUCTION; Part I. The India that is; 1. CORNERING THE BENEFITS; 2. PASSING ON THE COSTS; 3. A CAULDRON OF CONFLICTS; 4. IDEOLOGIES OF ENVIRONMENTALISM; Part II. The India that might be; 5. CONSERVATIVE-LIBERAL-SOCIALISM; 6. KNOWLEDGE OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE; 7. WHAT ARE FORESTS FOR?; 8. IS THERE SAFETY IN NUMBERS?; 9. RESOURCES OF HOPE; Glossary of words In Indian languages; Glossary of words referring to Indian communities; Bibliography; Index
Summary
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
