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Striving For Sustainability: Environmental Stress And Democratic Initiatives In Kerala

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Concept Publishing Company, Jan 1, 2006 - Environmental degradation - 350 pages
  

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Contents

Employing
3
The World Environmental Crisis
5
Keralas Geographical Setting and Its Environmental
28
Macro and Micro Ecological Zones
59
Land Use Changes
79
Changes in Landscape Ecology
108
Why the Environment is Changing
152
Introduction to Part II
183
State Level Initiatives for Environmental
204
The Kerala Peoples Campaign for the Ninth Plan of
229
The Potential of Local Democracy
243
Local Democracy
284
Bibliography
309
Index
339
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TitleStriving For Sustainability: Environmental Stress And Democratic Initiatives In Kerala
AuthorsSrikumar Chattopadhyay, Richard W. Franke
Editionillustrated
PublisherConcept Publishing Company, 2006
ISBN8180692949, 9788180692949
Length350 pages
  
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