The deepest cut: Political ecology in the dredging of a new sea mouth in chilika lake, orissa, India

Conservation and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 192-204

  Dujovny, Eial ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aquaculture; Environmental orthodoxy; Fl ood control; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Historical ecology; Hydrological interventions; Political ecology; Politics of scale.

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650419294     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.64736     Document Type: Article

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