Critical research concerning ecotourism has revealed the activity's socio-economic impacts,
including low-wage employment-based dependencies for many rural communities. While …

India's sacred Ganga River is arguably one of the most iconic sites for worship, with a
continuity of rituals for the living and the dead that span over two millennia. Along the river …

A rich, original study of the social and bureaucratic life of organic quality that challenges
assumptions of what organic means Tracing the social and bureaucratic life of organic …

• Describes the history of global environmental politics as a discipline and explains the
various theories and perspectives used by scholars and students to understand it.• …

This book examines the multiple scales at which the inequities of climate change are borne
out. Shangrila Joshi engages in a multi-scalar analysis of the myriad ways in which various …

Although scholarly interest in Northeast India is growing there is still relatively little
discussion of the high levels of poverty in the region and the failures of development. When …

Perhaps more than any other field, political ecology grew out of a desire to understand
marginalization and contestation from the perspective of those who were impoverished …

Comparing Taiwan and South Korea strategically, Hwa-Jen Liu seeks an answer to a
deceptively simple question: Why do social movements appear at different times in a …

In recent years, food manufacturers have begun to observe complex challenges with regard
to sustainability–social, environment and economic. Although new opportunities towards …

In India's contemporary model of extractive industry, the Company Town has been replaced
by the 'company village.'Private sector firms throughout India's mineral belt now occupy …