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Better late then never

Hogwashers

Momentary lapse of reason

A North-South conflict

BIORESOURCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY: POLICY CONCERNS FOR THE ASIAN REGION·Edited by Suman Sahai·Gene Campaign·New Delhi, 1999&…

Memories of a protest

SILENT VALLEY WHISPERS OF REASON·Kerala Forest Department·St Joseph’s Printing Press·pp 421·Price not mentioned

Environmental business

Book>> .................Environmental Business........

Humans first

EQUATION FOR LIFE·Edited by George Cheriyan·Published by: Books for change·110p; Price: 120

Beware of Policymakers

PEOPLE, PLANTS AND PATENTS: THE IMPACT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ON BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION, TRADE AND RURAL SOCIETY·Crucible group&…

A whale of problem

INUIT, WHALING, AND SUSTAINABILITY:·By Milton M R Freeman, Ingmar Egede et al ·Published by Altamira Press, New Delhi

No grey

Gem slaves Tanzanite's child labour

Forest rights and wrongs

MODERN FORESTS, STATEMAKING AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN COLONIAL EASTERN INDIA· K Sivaramakrishnan·Oxford University Press·…

Biodiversity eroded

CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL VALUES OF BIODIVERSITY, A COMPLEMENTARY CONTRIBUTION TO THE GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT·edited by Darrell Posey&…

Case for CFM

COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT — A CASEBOOK FROM INDIA·Joe Human and Manoj Pattanaik·Oxfam Publishing, Oxford·176pp·…

Genes and extinction

GENETICS AND THE EXTINCTION OF SPECIES·Editors – Laura F Landweber and Andrew P Dobson·Princeton University Press·…

Profit vs pollution

THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF PESTICIDES: FORGING CONSENSUS FROM CONFLICTING INTERESTS· Peter Hough·Earthscan, London, 1998·£ …

The story of a thirsty Kumaon

WATER IN KUMAON: ECOLOGY, VALUE, AND RIGHTS·edited by Gopal K Kadekodi, K S R Murthy, Kireet Kumar·G B Pant Institute of Himalayan …

Documenting dissent

DECOMMISSIONING THE BRENT SPAR·Tony Rice and Paula Owen·E & FN SPON (An Imprint of Routledge), 1999·182pp

Spreading root

OLD ROOTS, NEW SHOOTS: A STUDY OF JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT IN ANDHRA PRADESH·C S Rangachari and S D Mukherji·Winrock International …

No monkey business

BBC-DISCOVERY CHANNEL CO-PRODUCTION·video·English· 52 minutes

Quotes from the earth, Film festival