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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.
This is a book on the ecological changes in the Nilgiri Hills of
Southern India. Motivated by concerns for environmental
degradation, and the need to understand the mechanisms that drive
ecological change, the study is situated in the academic domain of
studies on human-nature interactions. The complex nature of
interactions between human groups with their environment and their
dependence on the situational context, requires that such studies
be at a regional and local scale for which sufficient detail is
available. This particular study is situated in the Nilgiri hills
in the Western Ghats of Southern India for which such detailed
information is available. The study reconstructs the ecological
history of the Nilgiri area during the last 200 years, and from
this laboratory of human-nature interactions, attempts to derive
general patterns.
Ecologist Madhav Gadgil and historian Ramachandra Guha offer fresh
perspectives both on the ecological history of India and on
theoretical issues of interest to environmental historians
regardless of geographical specialization. Juxtaposing data from
India with the ecological literature on lifestyles as diverse as
those of modern Americans and Amazonian Indians, the authors
analyze the social conflicts that have emerged over environmental
exploitation and explore the impact of changing patterns of
resource use on human societies. They present a socio-ecological
analysis of the modes of resource use introduced to India by the
British, and explore popular resistance to state environmental
policies in both the colonial and post-colonial periods.
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