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Explain how change in land use can promote eco-development at different levels in the country.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Contemporary Issues

Eco-development is the middle term of the eco-triad — eco-restoration, eco-development, eco-preservation — adopted for the Hill Area Development Programme from the Sixth Plan: not development withheld, but development redesigned to run inside ecological capacity.

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  • What Eco-Development Asks Land Use to Do
  • Micro Level: The Village, the Watershed, the Field
  • Meso Level: The Protected Area, the Command, the District
  • Macro Level: The National Frame
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