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Author Lewis, Michael L., 1971-

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

Imprint Athens : Ohio University Press, 2004.

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Description [x], 305 p. : ill., map.
Series Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
Note Originally published: Hyderabad : Orient Longman, 2003.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Biodiversity conservation -- India.
Biodiversity -- Monitoring -- India.
Animal ecology -- Research -- India.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0821415409 (cloth : alk. paper)
0821415417 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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