TY - BOOK AU - Rangarajan,Mahesh AU - Saberwal,Vasant K. TI - Battles over nature: science and the politics of conservation SN - 8178241412 PY - 2009/// CY - Delhi, Bangalore PB - Permanent Black, Distributed by Orient Longman KW - Nature conservation KW - Political aspects KW - India KW - Political ecology N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Forging a consensus in Rajaji National Park : an interview / B.M.S. Rathore -- Community approaches to conservation : some comparisons from Africa and India / Alan Rodgers, Dawn Hartley and Sultana Bashir -- Reflections on community involvement in conservation / K. Sivaramakrishnan; Why big, fierce animals are threatened : conserving large mammals in densely populated landscapes / M.D. Madhusudan and Charudutt Mishra -- The anatomy of ignorance or ecology in a fragmented landscape : do we know what really counts? / Renee Borges -- Ecology and objective based management : case study of the Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur, Rajasthan / Beth Middleton -- Conservation outside protected areas : case study of bustard protection / Asad R. Rahmani -- The authoritarian biologist and the arrogance of anti-humanism : wildlife conservation in the third world / Ramachandra Guha -- Sustainability and the scientist's burden / Sharachchandra L�el�e and Richard B. Norgaard -- The politics of ecology : the debate on wildlife and people in India, 1970-95 / Mahesh Rangarajan -- Conservation by state fiat -- Vasant K. Saberwal -- States, communities, and conservation : the practice of ecodevelopment in the Great Himalayan National Park / Amita Baviskar -- N2 - With reference to India ER -