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A political ecology of forest conservation in India : communities, wildlife, and the state by Amrita Sen; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book critically explores the political ecology of forest conservation and the political making of globally recognized forest landscapes, drawing on examples from India. The book specifically demonstrates the nuances within human-environmental linkages, by showing how environmental agendas are not only ecological in content, but also political. In India a large part of the forests and their surrounding areas were inhabited far before they were designated as protected areas and inviolate zones, with the local population reliant on forests for their survival and livelihoods. Thus, socio-ecological conflicts between the forest dependents and official state bodies have been widespread, with growing conservation driven dispossessions. This book uses a political ecology lens to explore the complex interplay between current norms of forest conservation and environmental subjectivities. It illustrates contemporary articulation of forest rights and the complex mediations between forest dependents and different state and non-state bodies in designing and implementing regulatory standards for wildlife and forest protection. The book foregrounds issues of identity, migration and power whil

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Author

Amrita Sen;

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781000477580

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Nature, Science, Philosophy