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Explain the interface between population, ecology and environment in the context of India.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Population Dynamics

The popular Indian framing — too many people for too little environment — is the first thing a sociology of the environment has to reject. Ecological damage in India is distributed by property, class and consumption long before it can be explained by numbers; the interface is a social relation, not an arithmetic one.

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  • Beyond the headcount
  • Commons, enclosure and the ecological poor
  • Omnivores, ecosystem people and ecological refugees
  • The Indian evidence
  • Conclusion

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