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Ecological Conflicts and the Environmental Movement in India
Nature-based conflicts have increased in frequency and inten- sity in India. They revolve around competing claims over forests, land, water and fisheries, and have generated a new movement struggling for the rights of victims of ecological degradation. The environmental movement has added a new dime...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Developnien and Change
1994
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/004732.pdf |
| Summary: | Nature-based conflicts have increased in frequency and inten-
sity in India. They revolve around competing claims over
forests, land, water and fisheries, and have generated a new
movement struggling for the rights of victims of ecological
degradation. The environmental movement has added a new
dimension to Indian democracy and civil society. It also poses
an ideological challenge to the dominant notions of the mean-
ing, content and patterns of development. |
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| Physical Description: | P.101-136. Vol. 25 (1994), |