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Ecopolitical Battles at the Tarai Frontier of Nepal: An Emerging Human and Environmental Crisis

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doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-1220(199612)2:4<313::aid-ijpg40>3.0.co;2-k

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Nanda R. Shrestha · Dennis Conway

Année déclarée

1996

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en

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article

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Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University · Indiana University · Indiana University Bloomington

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Nepal has arrived at a critical crossroads where mounting peasant impoverishment has come face to face with growing ecological impoverishment. This interface lies at the heart of Nepal's emerging population and development crisis. Particularly conspicuous is the poverty of the rural poor who comprise 90% of Nepal's total population. Hence rural poverty is not merely a socioeconomic issue; it is also an ecological issue. Central to this study, therefore, is the intrinsic link between human and environmental ills – a relational focus which offers a new frontier for geographical studies of population. In Nepal, the drama of human and environmental ills is increasingly being played out in the form of peasants' ecopolitical battles over common land access and control, such as in the Tarai frontier, a region bordering the Gangetic Plain of India. This is a complex battle, pitting peasants' day-to-day survival against environmental security on one front, and against the Nepalese State and its dominant class interests on the other. This article critically dissects this raging battle to gain a clear understanding of its complexities as well as its diverse roots. We advance a political ecology framework, one that transcends both Malthusian and Marxist conceptualisations, concentrating on how the nexus of sociopolitical, ecological, developmental and demographic forces leads to the ecopolitical battle being waged in the Tarai. Such a framework not only captures its roots and nature, but also reveals its profound implications for Nepal's emerging human and environmental crisis. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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W2057940768

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• Document · https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-1220(199612)2:4<313::aid-ijpg40>3.0.co;2-k
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W2057940768

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