A Wake-Up Call For Development Planners

Is biological diversity just the new buzzword? The magic door to international funding and global travelling?

Here is a book that makes a case for not dismissing environmentalists as romantics opposed to the idea of scientific progress and unwilling to recognise the logic of modernity; who seem to celebrate the past, rather than the present, and value the world we have lost in preference to the one we have gained.

There has been a sharp decline in the biological and cultural diversity of India over the last few decades. The relatively harmonious relationship between local communities and nature has soured. The dominant elite in India has conventionally viewed such communities, their homelands, and the wildlife inhabiting these homelands as