This Fissured Land

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Author: Madhav Gadgil

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1993-03-31

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780520082960

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"A masterful study. . . . It does for ecological history what the writings of Marx and Engels did for the study of class relations and social production."—Michael Adas, Rutgers University

This Fissured Land

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Author: Madhav Gadgil

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 304

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"A masterful study. . . . It does for ecological history what the writings of Marx and Engels did for the study of class relations and social production."--Michael Adas, Rutgers University

Ecology and Equity

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Author: Madhav Gadgil

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1135634955

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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.

The Use and Abuse of Nature

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Author: Madhav Gadgil

Publisher: Oxford India Collection (Paper

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 9780195671988

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This is an omnibus edition of two books that have radically altered our understanding of Indian history. This Fissured Land presents an interpretive ecological history of the sub-continent. Ecology and Equity is a spirited intervention into the environment-development debate.

The Ends of the Earth

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Author: Donald Worster

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780521348461

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A unifying discussion of our increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and greater resource demands.

The Asian Elephant

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Author: R. Sukumar

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780521437585

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This ecological analysis of elephant-human interaction, and its implications for the conservation of Asian elephants, includes recommendations on conservation and management, taking into consideration the socio-economic characteristics of the Asian region.

Man and Environment

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Author: Irfan Habib

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789382381631

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Increasing interest has been shown in recent decades in matters relating to ecology, especially under the influence of the debate on climate change. The scope of ecology is, of course, much wider than that of climate alone, and involves in addition not only human relation with all species of animals and plants but also those conditions of human societies (material and intellectual) that influence our responses to the opportunities and challenges posed by nature. It is with this wider sense in mind that the history of ecology has been treated in this volume. Extensive extracts from sources have been provided; and there are special notes on ecology, climatology, zooarchaeology, natural history, and forestry.