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This is the first book on environmental journalism in South Asia. It provides an important benchmark for journalism in the region as well as an excellent source of material for the future evolution of environmental journalism. This is a collection of essays by prominent Indian and South Asian environmental journalists. Apart from essays from India, there are contributions from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and the Maldives. The essays examine this specialization of journalism both historically and in the present.
Tourism and Beyond: Does Environmental Journalism Matter?
Tourism and Beyond: Does Environmental Journalism Matter?
We Goans hold that arrogant belief that we were into environmentalism even before that term took root. If this is the case, can the environmental journalist be far behind in India's tiniest state?
I was a latecomer to this field, having joined journalism even while I was finishing college here in 1983. Yet, I took to it with gusto, as it appealed to my common sense and also ideological biases. Environmentalism, and its approach of minimising waste, appeals to the Gandhian that hides in all of us. Its mistrust of corporates, their motives often driven by the single-minded quest for profits, also appeals to the radical leftwing bias that any sensitive young individual ...