TY - BOOK AU - Gadgil, Madhav AU - Guha, Ramachandra TI - Ecology and equity: the use and abuse of nature in contemporary India SN - 9780415125246 U1 - 304.28 GAD/E PY - 1995/// CY - United Kingdom -- PB - Routledge -- KW - India KW - Environmental degradation KW - Social ecology KW - Human ecology KW - Land degradation KW - Land conservation KW - Resource Conservation KW - Human impact KW - Rehabilitation KW - Protection KW - Sustainability N1 - *Introduction; *Part 1 The India that is; *Chapter 1 Cornering the Benefits; *Chapter 2 Passing on the Costs; *Chapter 3 A Cauldron of Conflicts; *Chapter 4 Ideologies of Environmentalism; *Part 2 The India that might be; *Chapter 5 Conservative–Liberal–Socialism; *Chapter 6 Knowledge of the People, by the People, for the People; *Chapter 7 What are Forests For?; *Chapter 8 Is there Safety in Numbers?; *Chapter 9 Resources of Hope N2 - Radical both in its critique of the causes of environmental crisis in India and in its proposal for ecological reform, this book reveals the interconnections of social and environmental conflict and makes for essential reading ER -