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Pastoral politics : shepherds, bureaucrats, and conservation in the western Himalaya

This work explores the origins of the alarmist rhetoric on land degradation in the western Himalaya, an alarm unsubstantial by empirical evidence and repudiated by ecological theory.
Print Book, English, 1999
Oxford Univ. Press, Delhi, 1999