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SATYAJIT KUMAR SINGH
OUR COMMON FUTURE: REPORT OF THE WORLD COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOP¬MENT/THE FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL by Anil Agarwal, Darryl L'Monte, & Ujwala Samarth Oxford University Press, Delhi/Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, 1988, 383 pp., 110
THE FIGHT FOR SURVIVALby Anil Agarwal, Darryl L'Monte, & Ujwala Samarth Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, 1987, 361 pp., 128.00
May-June 1988, volume 12, No 3

Two important books have appeared recently which seriously examine the environ-mental problems with the intention of working out a strategy for survival. These books differ in more than one way from each other. Still there is a commonality—they agree that all major malfunctions in society are ecological. They intend to see ecology emerge as a ‘super’ subject, just like August Comte saw sociology and Karl Marx saw political economy.

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