Claude Alvares is a renowned environmentalist

Environmentalist

An environmentalist broadly supports the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities"...

 based in Goa

Goa

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, India

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. He is the editor of the Other India Press

Other India Press

A small alternative publishing house and bookstore in Mapusa, Goa . It deals mainly in environmental, alternative and Third World books, and sells the same mainly by mail order...

, an alternative publication based in India. The Director of the Goa Foundation

Goa Foundation

The Goa Foundation is the best known of Goa's environmental action groups. Founded in 1986 by a group of Goan environmentalists each fighting individual environmental battles, the organisation today holds influence with the judiciary, government and the general public, having persisted with its...

, an environmental monitoring action group, Claude Alvares got his PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

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 from the Technische Hogeschool, Eindhoven, in the Netherlands

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, in 1976. He lives at Parra

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, Goa

Goa

Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...

 with his wife and three children, Rahul, Samir and Milind.

He is a member of the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). He is also a member of the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee (SCMC) on Hazardous Wastes constituted by the Supreme Court of India

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He wrote the famous article 'The Great Gene Robbery' in 1986.

Writings by Claude Alvares

Author

• Homo faber : technology and culture in India, China and the West from 1500 to the present day, The Hague [etc.] : Nijhoff, 1980, New edition: The Hague [etc.] : Nijhoff, 2007 - Indian edition: De-Colonizing History: Technology and Culture in India, China and the West: 1492 to the Present Day, - The Other India Press, Goa, 1991 - Paperback Edition: Decolonizing History: Technology and Culture in India, China and the West 1492 to the Present Day, Apex Press, 3rd edition 1991, ISBN 0945257406
• Article "Science" in: The Development Dictionary, ed. by Wolfgang Sachs
  Wolfgang Sachs
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  , London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1992, pp. 219–232
• Science, development and violence. the revolt against modernity, Delhi [etc.]: Oxford University Press, 1992
• Goa may be worse than Bellary Deccan Herald, Bangalore, October 2, 2011

editor

• Another Revolution Fails: Investigation into How and Why India's Operation Flood Project Went Off the Rails, Ajanta Publications 1987, ISBN 8120201183
• Unwanted guest : Goans v/s Du Pont, Mapusa : Other India Press, 1991
• (with Merryl Wyn-Davis), The Blinded Eye: 500 Years of Christopher Columbus, Other India Press, 1993
• Organic Farming Source Book, Other India Press, 1996
• Fish Curry and Rice - a source book on Goa, its ecology and life-style, 4. rev. ed. , Mapusa : Goa Foundation, 2002, ISBN 81-85569-48-7
• Multiversity: Freeing Children from the Tyranny of Schooling, Other India Press, 2006, ISBN 8185569649

Websites associated with Claude Alvares

1. Claude's Blog - http://www.typewriterguerilla.com
2. Goa Foundation - http://www.goafoundation.org
3. Other India Bookstore - http://www.otherindiabookstore.com/
4. Multiversity - http://www.multiworld.org
5. Green Goa Works - http://www.greengoaworks.com
6. Organic Farming Association of India - http://www.ofai.org/

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