Renu Khator is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Florida.

The empirical data and discussion are useful and interesting. Political Studies Review The book is very well researched, objective in its analysis and gives the impression of some serious hard work on the part of the author. -- Dr. R.B. Jain, University of Delhi, India Political Studies Review ...this book provides a fine source of information as well as addressing a timely issue so vital to many developing countries. Environment, Development and Politics in India, is a work well done by Renu Khator. It will serve the students and scholars of India as well a setting the wheels in motion for analysis of a timely issue which is vitally important for other third world countries. -- Dr. R.B. Jain, University of Delhi, India Jaas ...filled with supportive historical details and quantitative data...deserve[s] careful study. -- Dr. R.B. Jain, University of Delhi, India Policy Currents Not the least of the many attractive features of Renu Khator's study is the integration of politics and administration. Renu Khator has useful things to say about environment and development being inseparable and about problems of implementation and state capacity, and to that extent her book is of more general interest beyond the details of the particular period she studied. -- QUOTE AFFILIATION: Journal Of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics Not the least of the many attractive features of Renu Khator's study is the integration of politics and administration. Renu Khator has useful things to say about environment and development being inseparable and about problems of implementation and state capacity, and to that extent her book is of more general interest beyond the details of the particular period she studied. -- QUOTE AFFILIATION: Journal Of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics The empirical data and discussion are useful and interesting. Political Studies Review The book is very well researched, objective in its analysis and gives the impression of some serious hard work on the part of the author. -- Dr. R.B. Jain, University of Delhi, India Political Studies Review ...this book provides a fine source of information as well as addressing a timely issue so vital to many developing countries. Environment, Development and Politics in India, is a work well done by Renu Khator. It will serve the students and scholars of India as well a setting the wheels in motion for analysis of a timely issue which is vitally important for other third world countries. -- Dr. R.B. Jain, University of Delhi, India Jaas ...filled with supportive historical details and quantitative data...deserve[s] careful study. -- Dr. R.B. Jain, University of Delhi, India Policy Currents

• Environmental crisis; making of an environmental policy; functioning of an environmental bureaucracy; environmental bureaucracy and its non-regulatory functions; response from the people; environmental politics in a broader perspective.

Renu Khator is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Florida.

The empirical data and discussion are useful and interesting. Political Studies Review The book is very well researched, objective in its analysis and gives the impression of some serious hard work on the part of the author. -- Dr. R.B. Jain, University of Delhi, India Political Studies Review ...this book provides a fine source of information as well as addressing a timely issue so vital to many developing countries. Environment, Development and Politics in India, is a work well done by Renu Khator. It will serve the students and scholars of India as well a setting the wheels in motion for analysis of a timely issue which is vitally important for other third world countries. -- Dr. R.B. Jain, University of Delhi, India Jaas ...filled with supportive historical details and quantitative data...deserve[s] careful study. -- Dr. R.B. Jain, University of Delhi, India Policy Currents Not the least of the many attractive features of Renu Khator's study is the integration of politics and administration. Renu Khator has useful things to say about environment and development being inseparable and about problems of implementation and state capacity, and to that extent her book is of more general interest beyond the details of the particular period she studied. -- QUOTE AFFILIATION: Journal Of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics Not the least of the many attractive features of Renu Khator's study is the integration of politics and administration. Renu Khator has useful things to say about environment and development being inseparable and about problems of implementation and state capacity, and to that extent her book is of more general interest beyond the details of the particular period she studied. -- QUOTE AFFILIATION: Journal Of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics The empirical data and discussion are useful and interesting. Political Studies Review The book is very well researched, objective in its analysis and gives the impression of some serious hard work on the part of the author. -- Dr. R.B. Jain, University of Delhi, India Political Studies Review ...this book provides a fine source of information as well as addressing a timely issue so vital to many developing countries. Environment, Development and Politics in India, is a work well done by Renu Khator. It will serve the students and scholars of India as well a setting the wheels in motion for analysis of a timely issue which is vitally important for other third world countries. -- Dr. R.B. Jain, University of Delhi, India Jaas ...filled with supportive historical details and quantitative data...deserve[s] careful study. -- Dr. R.B. Jain, University of Delhi, India Policy Currents

• Environmental crisis; making of an environmental policy; functioning of an environmental bureaucracy; environmental bureaucracy and its non-regulatory functions; response from the people; environmental politics in a broader perspective.