Mahatma Gandhi: An Apostle of Applied Human Ecology

Contents: Foreword by R K Pachauri. 1. Yogic practice and environment. 2.  The role of woman, man, and society. 3.  Unity in diversity. 4.  Western industrialism The weakest link: village and villager. 5.  Sustainable development. 6.  Towards a new order: the new thinking. Epilogue.  Appendix 1 Selected quotes of Gandhiji on environment and development.  Appendix 2 Some Sanskrit and Hindi terms used in the text with their near-English equivalents.

"In \'Mahatma Gandhi: an apostle of applied human ecology\', Dr T N Khoshoo, a well-known environmental scientist, presents a selection of Mahatma Gandhi\'s views on the environment, elaborates on them to show that they are as relevant today as they were before, and reinterprets them by adding his extensive commentary on many of the topics. The book highlights the essential truth, clearly perceived by Mahatma Gandhi, that the human being must be the focus of all attempts to analyse and address environmental issues and emphasizes the need for a creative synthesis between the rural development under a local government and industrial development at the macro level."