Environmental Movements of India : : Chipko, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Navdanya / / Krishna Mallick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Mallick, Krishna,
• MitwirkendeR: Lappé, Frances,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Environment and Society in Asia ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Foreword --; Glossary --; Introduction --; 1. Historical and Cultural Contexts in India --; 2. Chipko (Hug the Trees) Movement --; 3. Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA): Save the Narmada --; 4. Navdanya (Nine Seeds) Movement --; 5. Moral Implications of Environmental Movements --; 6. Hindu Ethics and Ecology --; Conclusion --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048535095; 9783110743227; 9783110743357; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754148; 9783110753912
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048535095?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Krishna Mallick.

In her detailed retelling of three iconic movements in India, Professor Emerita Krishna Mallick, PhD, gives hope to grassroots activists working toward environmental justice. Each movement deals with a different crisis and affected population: Chipko, famed for tree-hugging women in the Himalayan forest; Narmada, for villagers displaced by a massive dam; and Navdanya, for hundreds of thousands of farmers whose livelihoods were lost to a compact made by the Indian government and neoliberal purveyors of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Relentlessly researched, the book presents these movements in a framework that explores Hindu Vedic wisdom, as well as Development Ethics, Global Environment Ethics, Feminist Care Ethics, and the Capability Approach. At a moment when the climate threatens populations who live closest to nature--and depend upon its fodder for heat, its water for life, and its seeds for food--Mallick shows how nonviolent action can give poor people an effective voice.