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 Rethink growth with forest capital [1]

Can you love tigers but hate forests? This is the question that troubled me as I visited the middle of India last fortnight. I was in Nagpur, where local politicians, conservationists and officials were discussing what needed to be done in this chronically poor and backward region endowed with forests and tiger habitats.

Sunita Narain [2]
Down to Earth [3]
May 31, 2011
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Naxalites [4], Sunita Narain [5], India [6], Poverty [7], Protected Area Conservation [8], Tiger [9], Tiger Reserves [10], Forest Act 1980 [11], Development [12], Deforestation [13], Net Present Value (NPV) [14]
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tiger
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[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-act-1980
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[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/deforestation
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/net-present-value-npv