symposium participants

• The Problem
  Posed by Sharachchandra Lélé, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore,  and Vasant K. Saberwal, writer and film-maker, Delhi

• JHUM: SHIFTING OPINIONS
  T.R. Shankar Raman, Centre for Ecological Research and Conversation, Mysore

• HIMALAYAN EROSION
  Arjun M. Heimsath, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra

• ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS IN NEPAL
  Barbara Brower, Editor "Himalayan Research Bulletin", Portland State University, Oregon, USA

• DEGRADATION, SUSTAINABILITY OR TRANSFORMATION?
  Sharachchandra Lélé, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore,

• MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF SAHELIAN LAND USE ECOLOGY
  Matthew Turner, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

• WEBS OF POWER: FOREST LOSS IN GUINEA
  James Fairhead, Reader, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and Melissa Leach, Environmental Group, Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

• THE AMAZON: A NATURAL LANDSCAPE?
  Hugh Raffles, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

• INDIA'S GROUNDWATER CHALLENGE
  Marcus Moench, Director, Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, Colorado, USA

• GLOBAL WARMING AND INDIA
  Anand Patwardhan,  School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

• Ecological uncertainty, institutions and myths
  Vasant K. Saberwal, writer and film-maker, Delhi

• INTERVIEW
  With Anil Agarwal, Director, Centre for Science and Environment, Delhi 

• BOOKS
  Reviewed  by Sumit Guha, Sudha Vasan, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Vasant K. Saberwal and Rohan D'Souza

• COMMUNICATION
  Received from D.S. Poornananda, Mangalore

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