Sublime

I do, however, take some comfort in the democratic diversity and prominence of Gandhian environmentalism in India. It has the potential to become a locally bred expression of dialogical transcendence in our times.

Although activists in rural and urban society utilize Web platforms for groups to self-organize and twitter for flash mobilization, the ENGOs operate largely within the scope of state policies, and this explains their ability to survive and even flourish.

Top-down state mandated agendas, however, are unlikely to fulfill the task of environmental protection despite the commitment of the central government, in part because the state itself sends mixed messages and is constituted by different agencies and levels of government with varying if not contradictory attitudes towards the environment.

The answers this book provides reveal highly complicated and contested discourses of what science was, what Japan was, and what Japanese modernity was.

Indigenous and local knowledge are in dialog with scientific techniques of agroforestry and disaster recovery; cultural and biological diversity are being found to be intimately connected.