TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karlsson, B. G.
AU  - B. G. Karlsson.
TI  - Unruly hills : : a political ecology of India's northeast
SN  - 9789394852310
U1  - 333.709 KAR 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - , New York
PB  - : Berghahn Books, Inc
KW  - Deforestation
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Environmental degradation
KW  - Ethnoecology
KW  - India Meghalaya
N1  - 
Chapter 1. Nature and Nation
Chapter 2. Elusive Forests
Chapter 3. Shifting Land Rights
Chapter 4. Mining Matters
Chapter 5. Indigenous Governance
Chapter 6. Political Ecology at the Frontier
N2  - The questions that inspired this study are central to contemporary research within environmental anthropology, political ecology, and environmental history: how does the introduction of a modern, capitalist, resource regime affect the livelihood of indigenous peoples? Can sustainable resource management be achieved in a situation of radical commodification of land and other aspects of nature? Focusing on conflicts relating to forest management, mining, and land rights, the author offers an account of present-day challenges for indigenous people to accommodate aspirations for ethnic.-
ER  -