Claude Alvares

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Claude Alvares is a renowned environmentalist based in Goa, India. He is the editor of the Other India Press, an alternative publication based in India. The Director of the Goa Foundation, an environmental monitoring action group, Claude Alvares got his PhD from the Technische Hogeschool, Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, in 1976. He lives at Parra, Goa 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.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Books by Claude Alvares

1. De-Colonizing History: Technology and Culture in India, China and the West: 1492 to the Present Day - The Other India Press, Goa, 1991
2. Fish Curry and Rice - a source book on Goa, its ecology and life-style