Unquiet Woods - Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya

Informationen zum Autor Ramachandra Guha is a historian and journalist living in Bangalore! India. Klappentext A short history of the Chipko movement in India! one of the world's most famous examples of a grassroots environmental protest movement. This is a revised and expanded edition of a widely-reviewed book originally published in 1990. Zusammenfassung Expanded Edition This new, expanded edition of The Unquiet Woods , Ramachandra Guha's pathbreaking study of peasant movements against commercial forestry, offers a new epilogue that brings the story of Himalayan social protest up-to-date, reflecting the Chipko movement's continuing influence in the wider world. A new appendix charts the progress of environmental history in India. The bibliography and index have been revised and updated.

Product details

• Authors: Ramachandra Guha, Guha Ramachandra
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.02.2000
• EAN: 9780520222359
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22235-9
• No. of pages: 265
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; NATURE / Natural Resources, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, Rural communities, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmental Management, the Himalayas, Deforestation, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Himalayas