Lewis, Michael L., 1971-

Inventing global ecology tracking the biodiversity ideal in India, 1947-1997 / [electronic resource] : Michael L. Lewis. - Athens : Ohio University Press, 2004. - [x], 305 p. : ill., map. - Ohio University Press series in ecology and history . - Ohio University Press series in ecology and history. .

Originally published: Hyderabad : Orient Longman, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : tracking elephants -- Ch. 1. Tracking ideas : transnational science -- Ch. 2. The Gateway to India : Salim Ali, S. Dillon Ripley, and the introduction of the new ecology to India -- Ch. 3. Looking for the jungle : U.S. ecologists in India -- Ch. 4. Scientists or spies? : ecology and Cold War suspicion -- Ch. 5. "Modern" ecology comes to India : Madhav Gadgil and the CES -- Ch. 6. Science to save the natural world : the ecology of conservation -- Ch. 7. Indian science for Indian conservation : nationalism and wildlife biology -- Ch. 8. All nature great and small : designing Indian nature preserves -- Epilogue : conservation ecology crossing borders.


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Biodiversity conservation--India.
Biodiversity--Monitoring--India.
Animal ecology--Research--India.


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