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Inventing global ecology [electronic resource] : tracking the biodiversity ideal in India, 1947-1997 / Michael L. Lewis.

By: Lewis, Michael L, 1971-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Ohio University Press series in ecology and history: Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2004Description: [x], 305 p. : ill., map.Subject(s): Biodiversity conservation -- India | Biodiversity -- Monitoring -- India | Animal ecology -- Research -- IndiaGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 333.95/16/0954 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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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333.95/16/0954 (Browse shelf) Available

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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