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Why Do We Value Diversity? Biocultural Diversity in a Global Context

About this issue

The concept of biocultural diversity was introduced by ethnobiologists to argue that the variation within ecological systems is inextricably linked to cultural and linguistic differences. In this volume of RCC Perspectives, scholars from a wide range of fields reflect on the definition, impact, and possible vulnerabilities of the concept.

Content

"Macroeconomic and Environmental History: The Impact of Currency Depreciation on Forests in British India, 1873–93"

A closer examination of India’s monetary history reveals that there exist many similarities between the effects of structural adjustment programs and those of monetary disturbances in the last quarter of the nineteenth century due to the depreciation of the rupee.