TY - JOUR AB - The present paper deals with the people and society of a state in India which was known as “the hidden land”. Since Independence, this predominantly tribal society has been in a phase of transition from near isolation to the assimilation of the market economy, giving rise to certain environmental problems. The paper attempts to analyse the linkage between environment and sustainable development in the hilly regions of North East India by considering the case of indigenous shifting cultivation (jhum) techniques practised on a large scale in Arunachal Pradesh. The author feels that a sustainable hill area development requires the blending of traditional and modern techniques and the revival of old tribal beliefs and knowledge regarding the preservation of environment. VL - 25 IS - 2/3/4 SN - 0306-8293 DO - 10.1108/03068299810193399 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/03068299810193399 AU - Mitra Amitava PY - 1998 Y1 - 1998/01/01 TI - Environment and sustainable development in the hilly regions of North‐East India: A study in Arunachal Pradesh T2 - International Journal of Social Economics PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 196 EP - 206 Y2 - 2024/04/23 ER -