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Title: Hinduism and Ecology: The Intersection of Earth, Sky, and Water.(Book Review)
Author: Ellison Banks Findly
Publication: The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2002
Publisher: American Oriental Society
Volume: 122Issue: 4Page: 925(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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Several water-related conferences organized by the Wessex Institute of
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How can we explain the over-exploitation and degradation of natural resources in the countries of the South? Population growth, poverty and problems associated with common property resource management have been common themes in this debate, yet insufficient attention has been paid to how traditional political relations and local perceptions affect natural resource capture and resource allocation. This is especially evident with respect to groups and communities at the political and geographical peripheries of state influence and control for whom self-identity is constructed around notions of autonomy and food self-sufficiency. This informative book addresses this omission by discussing water resource allocation and management. It focuses in particular on the socio-economic and political contexts which influence approaches to and determine practices of water management. Taking the example of the tribal communities of the Sa'dah basin in the northern Yemen, it analyzes the politics of environmental change, with particular reference to groundwater resource degradation, within the conceptual framework of "political ecology". ... Read more

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The red desert!
In those distant years of the early seventies, the first augur voices of Barry Commoner, Osborn Segerberg or Rome Club were considered as simple red alarms in the desert of the indifference. The Ecology was in its puberty and the Concorde was the final culmination of a long expected dream. The first indications of certain anomalies around the Ozone layer and the overheating of the planet were issues of minor relevance. There was a general overlook, a pertinent indifference in this sense. The main headlines dealt about much more important to keep ion mind. But the first signals were acquiring more and more cover. The residual waters and the atomic wastes began to establish its own vestibule, when that first half of the seventies (Vietnam, Watergate, Munich massacre, 1973 Petroleum crisis, Patricia Hearst and the first symptoms of a visible cracking of the extinct U.R.S.S.) were A-1 priorities.

Nevertheless this text added its little grain of sand due the well documented it was. One of the best documented texts of its ages, that, despite of the years still maintains to keep your interest.


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