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Comment on environmentalism of the poor.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 10 marks
  • Social Movements

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The environmentalism of the poor names the struggles of peasants, Adivasis, fishers and pastoralists to defend the forests, water and land on which their subsistence depends. Ramachandra Guha and the Catalan ecological economist Joan Martínez-Alier developed it in Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South (1997); Martínez-Alier’s The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of…

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