E-raamat: Environmental Movements of India: Chipko, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Navdanya

1. The book can serve as a supplementary textbook at the undergraduate levels (both Bachelor’s and Associate’s) for courses in the area of Environmental Studies in Philosophy and in other academic disciplines such as Geography, History and Anthropology. The book can also be used as a supplementary text for courses included in Peace & Justice Studies, Conflict Resolution and Globalization Studies. 2. The book informs and educates a variety of readers (general and specialists) about the environmental movements of India, considering the fact that there are very few books available on the environmental movements of India. The focus of my book on the nonviolent and women’s perspectives of the environmental movements of India represents a unique approach to environmental activism. 3. The book will address the current issues of sustainability, globalization, environmental justice and human rights through a discussion of the origin and development of the Chipko, Save the Narmada River and Navdanya movements in the context of the complexly constituted Indian society. In her detailed retelling of three iconic movements in India, Professor Emerita Krishna Mallick, PhD, gives hope to grassroots activists working toward environmental justice. Each movement deals with a different crisis and affected population: Chipko, famed for tree-hugging women in the Himalayan forest; Narmada, for villagers displaced by a massive dam; and Navdanya, for hundreds of thousands of farmers whose livelihoods were lost to a compact made by the Indian government and neoliberal purveyors of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Relentlessly researched, Environmental Movements of India: Chipko, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Navdanya presents these movements in a framework that explores Hindu Vedic wisdom, as well as Development Ethics, Global Environment Ethics, Feminist Care Ethics, and the Capability Approach. At a moment when the climate threatens populations who live closest to nature – and depend upon its fodder for heat, its water for life, and its seeds for food – Mallick shows how nonviolent action can give poor people an effective voice.