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1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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| Contents |
Chapter 1. Nature and Nation -- Chapter 2. Elusive Forests -- Chapter 3. Shifting Land Rights -- Chapter 4. Mining Matters -- Chapter 5. Indigenous Governance -- Chapter 6. Political Ecology at the Frontier. |
| Summary |
The questions that inspired this study are central to contemporary research within environmental anthropology, political ecology, and environmental history: how does the introduction of a modern, capitalist, resource regime affect the livelihood of Indigenous peoples? Can sustainable resource management be achieved in a situation of radical commodification of land and other aspects of nature? Focusing on conflicts relating to forest management, mining, and land rights, the author offers an account of present-day challenges for Indigenous people to accommodate aspirations for ethnic. -- Publisher's Description. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Deforestation -- India -- Meghalaya.
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Deforestation -- India, Northeastern.
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Environmental degradation -- India -- Meghalaya.
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Environmental degradation -- India, Northeastern.
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Environmental ethics -- India -- Meghalaya.
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Environmental ethics -- India, Northeastern.
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India, Northeastern -- Environmental conditions.
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Ethnoecology -- India -- Meghalaya.
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Ethnoecology -- India, Northeastern.
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Meghalaya (India) -- Environmental conditions.
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Political ecology -- India -- Meghalaya.
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Political ecology -- India, Northeastern.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business. |
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NATURE -- Natural Resources. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Deforestation |
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Ecology |
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Environmental degradation |
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Environmental ethics |
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Ethnoecology |
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Political ecology |
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India -- Meghalaya |
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Northeastern India |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Karlsson, Bengt G. Unruly Hills : A Political Ecology of India's Northeast. New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., ©2011 9780857451040 |
| ISBN |
9780857451057 (electronic bk.) |
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0857451057 (electronic bk.) |
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9780857451040 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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0857451049 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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