Ecology And Equity :The Use And Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India

Ecology And Equity Explores A Society That Is, In Ecological Terms, The Most Complex In The World. India S People Range From Technocrats To Hunter-Gatherers And Its Environments From Dense Forest To Wasteland. This Book Provides The First Analytically Sophisticated And Empirically Grounded Study Of Environmental Reform In The Third World. 

Radical Both In Its Interpretation Of The Crisis In India And In Its Proposals For Ecological Reform, Ecology And Equity Is Essential Reading For All Concerned With The Third World Development And/Or The Environmental Debat

Ramachandra Guha's many books include a pioneering work of environmental history (The Unquiet Woods, 1989), an award-winning social history of sport (A Corner of a Foreign Field, 2002), and a widely acclaimed and bestselling work of contemporary history (India After Gandhi, 2007). The first volume of his landmark biography of Gandhi, Gandhi Before India, was published in 2013.

Guha's awards include the R.K. Narayan Prize, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Ramnath Goenka Prize and the Fukuoka Prize. In 2014, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in the humanities by Yale University.