The Anil Agarwal Reader series puts together the weekly essays/opinion pieces that eminent environmentalist and journalist Anil Agarwal wrote between 1991 and 2001.

The essays are a riveting commentary on the environment-development problem. Witty and reflective, the pieces embody one man's committed engagement with his times.

(3 volumes) The readers delve into issues like the structural adjustment programme, natural resource management and ecological globalisation, and have a common theme: the poor are the country's real resource managers.