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- Volume 5 Number 2 2007
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THOMAS K. RUDEL, Tropical forests. Regional Paths of Destruction and Regeneration in the Late Twentieth Century,
reviewed by Edmond Dounias 277
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RANJAN CHAKRABARTI, ed., Does Environmental History Matter? Shikar, Subsistence, Sustenance and the Sciences,
reviewed by Radhika Govindrajan 280
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J. DONALD HUGHES, What is Environmental History?
reviewed by Arupjyoti Saikia 284
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- Volume 5 Number 1 2007
- ERIK MEIJAARD, DOUGLAS SHEIL, ROBERT NASI, DAVID AUGERI, BARRY ROSENBAUM, DJOKO ISKANDAR, TITIEK SETYAWATI, MARTJEN LAMMERTINK, IKE RACHMATIKA, ANNA WONG, TONNY SOEHARTONO, SCOTT STANLEY and TIMOTHY O'BRIEN, Life after Logging: Reconciling Wildlife Conservation and Production Forestry in Indonesian Borneo
reviewed by Richard T. Corlett 134
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- DIVYABHANUSINH, The Story of Asia's Lions
reviewed by Radhika Govindrajan 136
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- LYLA MEHTA, The Politics and Poetics of Water: Naturalising Scarcity in Western India
reviewed by Ritupan Goswami 139
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- Volume 4 Number 4 October
- December 2006
- DAVID ARNOLD, The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856
reviewed by Deborah Sutton 628
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- ARUN BANDOPADHYAY and B.B. CHAUDHURI (eds.), Tribes, Forest and Social Formation in Indian History
reviewed by Ezra Rashkow 630
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- ASHISH and SHANTI CHANDOLA with T.N.A. PERUMAL, M. Krishnan: Eye in the Jungle, Photographs and Writings
reviewed by Ajith Kumar 633
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- Volume 4 Number 2 April -
June 2006
- GUNNEL CEDERLOF and K. SIVARAMAKRISHNAN (eds.), Ecological
Nationalisms: Nation, Livelihoods and Identities in South
Asia,
reviewed by Archana Prasad - Revisiting the Politics
of Ecology and Identity 347
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- K. ULLAS KARANTH A View from the Machan: How Science can
Save the Fragile Predator,
reviewed by M. D. Madhusudan and Pavithra Sankaran
- of Personality, Ideology and Science in Tiger Conservation
350
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- J. MARK BAKER The Kuhls of Kangra: Community-Managed Irrigation
in the Western Himalaya,
reviewed by Ganesh P. Shivakoti 353
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- Volume 4 Number 1 January
- March 2006
- JOHN KNIGHT Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological
Study of People-Wildlife Relations
reviewed by Mahesh Rangarajan 166
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- GERHARD GEROLD, MICHAEL FREMEREY and EDI GUHARDJA Land
Use, Nature Conservation and the Stability of Rainforest Margins
in Southeast Asia
reviewed by Sharachchandra Lele 169
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- SIMRON JIT SINGH and OLIVER LEHMAN The Nicobar Islands
- Cultural Choices in the Aftermath of the Tsunami
reviewed by Pankaj Sekhsaria - Reaching out to the
past 173
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- Volume 3 Number 2 July -
December 2005
- ARUPJYOTI SAIKIA Jungles, Reserves, Wildlife: A History
of Forests in Assam
reviewed by Jayeeta Sharma 533
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- K. KATHIRESAN and S.Z. QASIM Biodiversity of Mangrove Ecosystems
reviewed by Kartik Shanker 537
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- G. BORRINI-FEYERABEND, M. PIMBERT, M.T. FARVAR, A. KOTHARI
and Y. RENARD Sharing Power: Learning by Doing in Co-management
of Natural Resources Throughout the World
reviewed by Nitin D. Rai - Conservation by Consent:
A large NGO View of Participatory Management 540
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- Volume 3 Number 1 January
- June 2005
- PETER BOOMGARD Tigers and People in the Malay World
reviewed by K. Ullas Karanth – Social History in
Tigerland 231
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- SIMRON JIT SINGH In the Sea of Influence: A World Systems
Perspective of the Nicobar Islands
reviewed by Rauf Ali – Influenced by the Sea 233
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pdf]
- JARED DIAMOND Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
Survive reviewed by Rohan D’Souza – Benign Capitalism as the
Great First World Hope: Understanding Collapse 238
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pdf]
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- Volume 2 Number 2 July -December
2004
- ANN GRODZINS GOLD and BHOJU RAM GUJAR, In the time of trees
and sorrows: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan,
reviewed by Amita Baviskar
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- JAMES L.A. WEBB, JR, Tropical pioneers: Human agency and
ecological change in the highlands of Sri Lanka, 1800-1900,
reviewed by Cynthia Caron
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- RAMAN SUKUMAR, The living elephants: Evolutionary ecology,
behaviour, and conservation,
reviewed by Charles Santiapillai
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- ARUN AGRAWAL and CLARK C. GIBSON (eds), Communities and
the environment: Ethnicity, gender, and the state in community-based
conservation,
reviewed by Sudha Vasan
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- PER PINSTRUP-ANDERSEN and EBBE SHIOLER, Seeds of contention:
World hunger and the global controversy over GM crops,
reviewed by Ronald J. Herring
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- Volume 2 Number 1 January-June
2004
- MICHAEL LEWIS Inventing Global Ecology: Tracking the Biodiversity
Ideal in India, 1945-1997
Reviewed by Manjari Mahajan
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- DAVID MOSSE, The Rule of Water: Statecraft. Ecology and
Collective Action in South India.
Reviewed by Mihir Shah.
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- VIVEK MENON and MASAYUKI SAKAMOTO, Eds, Heaven and Earth
and I: Ethics of Nature Conservation in Asia.
Reviewed by Ann Grodzins Gold
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- A K GHOSH, J K GHOSH and BARUN MUKHOPADHYAY, Eds, Sustainable
Environments: A Statistical Analysis.
Reviewed by Jagdish Krishnaswamy
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- Volume 1 Number 2 July -December
2003
- HARIPRIYA RANGAN, Of Myths and movements: Rewriting Chipko
into Himalayan History,
reviewed by Subir Sinha
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- HUGH RAFFLES, In Amazonia: A natural history,
reviewed by Anand Pandian
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- DIPAK GYAWALI, Water in Nepal,
reviewed by Peter Mollinga
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- K.U. KARANTH and J.D. NICHOLS (eds), Monitoring tigers and
their prey: A manual for researchers, managers and conservationists
in tropical Asia,
reviewed by Ajith Kumar
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- N.S. JODHA, Life on the edge: Sustaining agriculture and
community resources in fragile environments, Minoti
reviewed by Chakravarty-Kaul
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- Volume 1 Number 1 January-June
2003
- NAVROZ K. DUBASH, Tubewell capitalism: Groundwater development
and Agrarian change in Gujarat,
reviewed by David Hardiman
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- MUKUL SHARMA, Landscapes and lives: Environmental dispatches
on rural India,
reviewed by Dunu Roy
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- SHEKHAR SINGH, A.R.K. SASTRY, RAMAN MEHTA and VISHAISH UPPAL
(eds),Setting biodiversity conservation priorities for India:
Summary of the findings and conclusions of the biodiversity
prioritization project,
reviewed by Richard Primack
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- S.P. HUBBELL, The unified neutral theory of biodiversity
and biogeography,
reviewed by K.N. Ganeshaiah
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- ANTHONY B. CUNNINGHAM, Applied ethnobotany: People, wild
plant use & conservation; T. CUNNINGHAM (Direcor), People
and plants in practice: Conservation through ethnobotanical
training; and YILDIZ AUMEERUDDY-THOMAS (Director), Medicinal
plants in the hidden land of Dolpo: Working with Himalayan
healers at Shey Phoksundo National Park,
reviewed by Ghazala Shahabuddin
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