num_pages: 268
description: Vasant Saberwal explores the origins of the alarmist rhetoric on land degradation in the western Himalaya, which he finds to be unsubstantiated according to empirical evidence and ecological theory.
language: English
title: Pastoral Politics: Shepherds, Bureaucrats, and Conservation in the Western Himalaya
titlecomplete: Pastoral Politics: Shepherds, Bureaucrats, and Conservation in the Western Himalaya (Studies in Social Ecology and Environmental History)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Oxford University Press