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Book Cover for: The Use and Abuse of Nature: Incorporating This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India and Ecology and Equity, Madhav Gadgil

The Use and Abuse of Nature: Incorporating This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India and Ecology and Equity

Madhav Gadgil

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publish Date: Mar 10th, 2005
  • Pages: 515
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.56in - 5.54in - 1.06in - 1.24lb
  • EAN: 9780195671988
  • Categories: Life Sciences - EcologyEnvironmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Asia - South - General

About the Author

Madhav Gadgil is professor of Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

Ramachandra Guha is one of India's best-known historians, a full-time author and columnist. He has taught at Yale University, the Indian Institute of Science and the University of California at Berkeley, where he was the Indo-American Community Chair Professor in 1997 and 1998.

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