The Anil Agarwal Reader (3 Vols-Set)

Contents: Vol. I: Series Preface. Preface. 1. Mapping the issues, defining the debates. 2. Turf warriors say: or village, our rule. 3. Meet the people, the real resource managers. 4. Industrious fruits, not spoils of industry. 5. Remote control: the protection fallacy. 6. Small, five-year dreams: the environment of politics. 7. Users and abusers: whose backyard? 8. Aspects of a globalising world. 9. Towards Rio: a Green World Order? 10. North\'s Golden Globe, South\'s Sucker Punch. Index.

Vol. II: Series Preface. Preface. 1. Challenge of the balance: let us face it. 2. Challenge of the balance: is the regulator out there? 3. Citification: growth here is hell. 4. Once upon a time, the world was water-rich. 5. The time has come for civil society to step in. 6. Musings: books, articles, meetings. 7. Right to clean air: a campaign unfolds. 8. Animals vs humans: conservation\'s nemesis. 9. Less powerful vs more: trade vs environment. 10. Ecological dream, economic realities. Index.

Vol. III: Series Preface. Preface. 1. A political economy of the present. 2. Yes, ministers? 3. Filth, floods or cars: a city\'s a pity. 4. The world was water-rich. India can be. 5. For change, become your own government. 6. Missiles and rocket scientists equals science? 7. Musings: articles, meetings, films. 8. Right to clean air: the campaign is still on. 9. The business of nations: the post-WTO world. 10. One Earth: can we dare to dream? Index.

From the Preface: "The Anil Agarwal Reader series seeks to put together the intensely argumentative writings of Anil Agarwal, an environmentalist who always preferred to call himself a journalist.

The series can be characterised as a \'re-collection\'. The term enables a dual articulation. In one sense, it \'collects\' -- brings together-- what Anil Agarwal wrote, weekly, self-respecting journalist he was. In another sense, it \'recollects\' -- brings together again; remembers, but also challenges you to re-memory. The series puts his thoughts together; thus, you are (a) taken through a gamut of issues relevant to the environment-development problematic of the late 1980s through the 1990s; a critique of the politics, practices and discourse of development and their consequences for the environment and for the poor most dependent on the environment for their survival; (b) you now live in the 21 century; you will find eerie echoes -- pointed, painful, darkly humorous now and then  -- of how the environment-development problematic, as Anil Agarwal enunciated it in the last decade of the twentieth century, still holds true today."