Migration, Common Property, Resources and Environmental Degradation: Interlinkages in India's Arid and Semi-arid Regions.(Book Review)

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MIGRATION, COMMON PROPERTY, RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION: Interlinkages in India's Arid and Semi-arid Regions. By Kanchan Chopra and S.C. Gulati. New Delhi, Thousand Oaks (California), London: Sage Publications. 2001. 163 pp. (Tables, maps.) US$45.00, cloth. ISBN 0-7619-9501-3.

Studies of natural resource management and rural development in India have shown an abiding fascination with the question of the commons. What this refers to is the idea that a significant proportion of rural lands in India--in the study under review the figure used is 40-45 million ...

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