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Mahatma Gandhi

an apostle of applied human ecology

In 'Mahatma Gandhi: an apostle of applied human ecology', Dr T N Khoshoo, a well-known environmental scientist, presents a selection of Mahatma Gandhi's views on the environment, elaborates on them to show that they are as relevant today as they were before, and reinterprets them by adding his extensive commentary on many of the topics. The book highlights the essential truth, clearly perceived by Mahatma Gandhi, that the human being must be the focus of all attempts to analyse and address environmental issues and emphasizes the need for a creative synthesis between the rural development under a local government and industrial development at the macro level.

during the lifetime of Mahatma Gandhi, there were no wide-ranging debates on
environment and development per se, he was nevertheless much ahead of his
times, on account of his being deeply conscious of the very environmental ...