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100 _aChopra, Kanchan
245 _aConservation and development in the western ghats : a tale of two committees and more
260 _c2014
300 _ap.12-14.
362 _a15 Mar
520 _aThe Ministry of Environment and Forests by its hasty order of 20 December 2013 has set in motion events that go against the recommendations of the Western Ghats Ecology Experts Panel and the High Level Working Group. Decisions with respect to the Western Ghats - 39 sites within which now have the World Heritage tag and are the repository of unique biodiversity rich regions - will now go back into the hands of individual state governments, driven by their own short-term economic and electoral interests. - Reproduced.
650 _aEnvironmental conservation
773 _aEconomic and Political Weekly
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909 _a103498
999 _c103494
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