By: Ramachandra Guha and Juan Martinez-Alier
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This collection of essays deals with the perceptions and valuations of the environment among the poor in four continents, and among the subordinated social groups such as peasants and fisherfolk.
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Part I * The Environmentalism of the Poor * From Political Economy to Political Ecology * Poverty and the Environment: A Critique of the Conventional Wisdom * Towards a Cross-Cultural Environmental Ethic * Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique * The Merchandising of Biodiversity * The Failure of Ecological Planning in Barcelona * Part II * Mahatma Gandhi and the Environmental Movement * In Memory of Georgescu-Roegen * The Forgotten American Environmentalist *
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By: Ramachandra Guha and Juan Martinez-Alier
230 pages, 3 figs, tabs, map
This fruitful collaboration touches upon the fundamentals of ecological behaviour and ecological politics... a pleasure to read: Elmar Altvater, Free University of Berlin