The relationship between society and nature is an old one. It might be better to say that this relationship is ancient.

THERE is enough evidence to show that often, development policies adopted by governments have widened the disparities amongst sections of people.

Recent studies examining British attitudes and ideologies which structured colonial policies towards 'outcaste'2 and 'deviant' groups in indigenous society, have suggested that the groups who were marginalised included those whose activities were conceived of as 'threatening' to new normative def