Inventing Global Ecology: Tracking the Biodiversity Ideal in India
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PrintLewis examines whether ecologists from western nations created a new colonialism by imposing western conservation ideals on third world environments. He concludes that sometimes they have but, in other cases, they worked with the local people to produce local solutions. Focusing on Indian ecologists such as Madhav Gadgil and Salim Ali, Lewis presents case studies where Indians were able to adapt the most appropriate of western thinking to Indian needs. Ali, a close colleague of Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, first brought ecology to India, setting a precedent for successful Indian adaptation of such ideals.
Smithsonian History Bibliography
Ecology and History Series, edited by James L. A. Webb
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
2004
India
Number of pages: 379; Page numbers: 1-369