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This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India
Second edition
Author
Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha
Language
English
Subject
Ecology, History
Publisher
Oxford University Press, as Oxford India Paperbacks and Oxford India Perennials
Publication date
1992, 1993, 2013
Publication place
India
Media type
Print (Paperback)
Pages
216 (excluding Index, Bibliography etc.)
ISBN
978-0-19-807744-2
This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India[1][2] is a book by Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha on the ecological history of India. It examines 'prudent' (sustainable) and 'profligate' (unsustainable) use of natural resources, and their effects. It describes the ecological history of India, from the first humans, through the ages of hunter-gatherers, farmers, empires and the British Raj.
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ThisFissuredLand: An Ecological History of India is a book by Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha on the ecological history of India. It examines 'prudent'...
barren land with rocky ground and generally consisting of nearby caves, fissured ground, and sinkholes. Although these regions normally have moderate to...
Twenty-First Century (Cambridge UP, 2018) Gadgil, M. and R. Guha. ThisFissuredLand: An Ecological History of India (University of California Press, 1993)...
been a citation classic. He published his first book in English, ThisFissuredLand, a book on the ecological history of India, in 1992. The next book...
1093/envhis/11.2.319. JSTOR 3986234. Gadgil, Madhav; Guha, Ramachandra (1993). ThisFissuredLand: An Ecological History of India. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520082960...
doi:10.1093/envhis/11.2.319. Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha, ThisFissuredLand: An Ecological History of India (1993) Burley, Jeffery, et al. 2009...
retrieved 5 October 2010 Gadgil, Madhav; Guha, Ramachandra (1993), Thisfissuredland: an ecological history of India, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University...
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horizontal fissure, and an oblique fissure. The left lung is divided into two lobes by an oblique fissure which is closely aligned with the oblique fissure in...
664–665. ISBN 978-0-19-164769-7. Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha, Thisfissuredland: an ecological history of India (1993). John M. MacKenzie, The empire...
breached. Lava flow from the initial fissure cut the main road to Grindavik while lava from the second fissure destroyed three homes. The eruption stopped...
features prominently in much fictional literature. This page is a list of environmental books. In this context they are notable books that feature the environment...
Shambhulingehwara temple is also nearby to this place. Gadgil, Madhav; Guha, Ramachandra (31 March 1993). ThisFissuredLand: An Ecological History of India. ISBN 9780520082960...
urban sprawl) and resource exploitation (such as mining and deforestation). Land degradation frequently leads to less stabilization of soil by vegetation...
The 1992 Landers earthquake occurred on Sunday, June 28 with an epicenter near the town of Landers, California, in San Bernardino County. The shock had...
County. The fissure is named after Waldo Conard who owned the land that the fissure is situated on. The original excavation of the Conard Fissure was performed...
upward to 82 on May 25. The area of land covered by the 2018 lava on May 25, 2018, reached 2,223 acres. The eastern fissures would experience limited resurgences...
originate in fissures, steeply dipping veins or in the amygdaloid top portion of the Portage Lake Lava Series lava tops and conglomerate beds. This series of...
dam site is highly fissured and unstable, particularly on the right side (as one faces the direction of flow). The widest fissures were determined to...
Land vertebrate faunachrons (LVFs) are biochronological units used to correlate and date terrestrial sediments and fossils based on their tetrapod faunas...
entry point for the initial settlement of North America by way of the Bering land bridge. The Russian Empire was the first to actively colonize the area beginning...