Mahatma Gandhi and the Environment: Analysing Gandhian environmental thought

The book presents a selection of Mahatma Gandhi s views on the environment and elaborates on their relevance today. It is particularly relevant now when the threat of climate change looms large and natural resources are fast depleting. The book is of interest to all concerned in protecting the earth s environment and its natural resources. The book presents Mahatma Gandhi s views on sustainable use of resources and minimal damage to the environment for the sake of future generation. The need for a significant synergy between rural development and industrial development has also been highlighted. The book has a detailed foreword by Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI, and Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Key Features:

• Brings out little known thoughts and beliefs of Mahatma Gandhi on environmental protection and
• ecological balance
• Contents structured under different themes for better understanding
• Contains a large number of quotations by Mahatma Gandhi
• Insightful, absorbing, and full of valuable knowledge
• Equally useful for scholars and general readers

Contents:   

• Nature and humankind
• Yogic practice and environment
• The role of woman, man, and society
• Unity in diversity
• Western industrialism
• The weakest link: village and villager
• Sustainable development
• Hind Swaraj: the Gandhian manifesto of ecological living
• Gandhi and science
• Situating satyagraha in mainstream conflict resolution theory
• Gandhi and the contemporary discourse on decentralization
• Gandhi and the Dalit question
• Towards a new order: the new thinking
• Selected quotes of Mahatma Gandhi on environment and development