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The environmental trade-offs

You begin to think how language of economic forces legitimises appropriation of natural resources

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Nitin Sethi
Business Interests and the Environmental Crisis
Kanchi Kohli and Manju Menon (Eds)
Sage
244  pages; Rs 845

 
The definitiveness of legal provisions; the absolutism of ecological science; the trade-offs legitimised by pure economic logic; the politics of discretionary dispensations; and demands of an aspirational society: How do these five forces combine to give us the environmental regime of which so much is written in dismay?
 
All of them need to be considered collectively so as not to misjudge how a nation deals with its natural resources and the environment. In the case of a developing country such