India's forests are rapidly deteriorating. This thought-provoking book explores the relationship between ecology, environment and the sustainable use of natural resources in the course of economic development. "The book by Nadkarni and his colleagues makes an important contribution to this literature....Although this study was done in India, the three main actors identified in the struggle of the use of forest resources and their responses to pressures from other actors, and also to technical changes in the larger national and global economy, provide an important framework in which to examine deforestation in other parts of the world....this book provides interesting and stimulating ideas." --Global Environmental Change
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`This is solid and thourough piece of research which should shake up slumbering conscience of a lot of decision-makers not only in India but also leaders in other Third World countries trapped into the expeditious, western-orientated methods of development...' - An Indians Bookworm's Journal
`Scientifically planned, with data painstakingly analysed and whetted at verious seminars inside and outside the country this work becomes essential reading for all those interested or involved in ecology and envirnoment, besides students of economic history, politcal economy and forest managment.' - Financial Express
`Nadkarni's scholarly, objective and illuminating book... separates myths from reality. Based on a case study of two districts in Karnataka, it discusses changes in forest use and management in the state and in India as a whole... the book is particularly valuable is its analysis of the class bias in the local economy itself.' - Hindustan Times
`...this is a fascinating glimpse of the struggle to achieve rational land management in the world's largest democracy' - Journal of Agricultural Economics
`This book contains good historical and class analysis at the local level.... It is a thought-provoking publication and is likely to be widely debated.' - South Asia Research
`... the book takes a multi-disciplinary and political economy approach: examining some fascinating historical material on forest use and making effective use of village household surveys.... The book is particulary well written and organised and should be well within the capacity of advanced under-graduates and postgraduate students of economics, the environment and development.' - South Asia
`This book is a welcome addition to the very scant literature on the political economy of Indian forests. It also symptomises the growing academic interest that social scientists are showing in forests - too long an exclusive domain of biologists and environmentalists...the study brings out many important issues, and is a valuable input to the ongoing global debate.' - Indian Journal of Public Administration
`makes an important contribution....provides interesting and stimulating ideas.' - Global Environmental Change
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