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Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Development

 
Sukant K. Chaudhury (Editor)
Synopsis Ecology is of great concern to every society because it depends upon its environment for resources that safeguard its survival. Resources that safeguard its survival. Resource mobilization has been largely cultural in nature. Less technological skill means less exploitation of natural resources and advanced technology means more aggressive resource exploitation. Today undoubtedly maddening consumerism has resulted in serious ecological crises. It is of mounting concern to politicians, bureaucrats and both social and physical scientists and activists to ponder over the issue and provide a viable strategy for conservation as well as development. Sustainable development is the key word today; unless we have a fear psychosis towards our dangerous future we cannot help ourselves but continue to destroy. It is well known that India is one of the 12 mega biodiversity countries and holds 8.1 per cent of the world’s total biodiversity. Being a predominantly agriculture-based country, India also has a mix of wild and cultivated habitats, giving rise to specialized biodiversity. Therefore enhancing and conserving environmental resources becomes a big challenge today. The book discusses the above issues substantiated with cases from various communities in India. It will be of interest to administrators, anthropologists, sociologists, and environmentalists.
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About the author

Sukant K. Chaudhury

Sukant K. Chaudhury (b. 1961) is Reader in the Department of Sociology, University of Lucknow. He did his M.A. AND Ph.D from the University of Delhi. His books include Myopic Development and Cultural Lens (1993), and Tribal Identity (2004). Currently, he is the General Secretary of two associations of anthropologists, namely Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society, Lucknow, and Indian Anthropological Association, Delhi.

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Title Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Development
Format Hardcover
Date published: 01.01.2006
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 8183241328
length xii+304p., Maps; Tables; Figures; References; Index; 22cm.