Conservation Dilemmas in Contemporary India

Abstract

Nature Conversation in the New Economy presents a thoughtful analysis of how a steady reorientation in environmental laws following the liberalization of the Indian economy in the 1990s has impacted conservation policies in India. The editors, Ghazala Shahabuddin and K. Sivaramakrishnan, emphasize that this shift towards neo-liberal legal thinking has mostly served commercial interests and excludes a range of local stakeholders. The case studies in the volume provide deep insights into how legal loopholes, implementation challenges, and the unintended consequences of even wellintentioned efforts have worked