Essays In Ecocriticism is the first ever anthology of its kind in India. The contributors to this volume, however, are scholars not only from India but also from other countries-Japan, China, Australia and the USA. About Author : Nirmal Selvamony is Reader in the department of English, Madras Christian College (MCC), Chennai, since 1982. Since 1980 he has expounded tinai as a social order and written extensively about it both in English and in Tamil. Based on the theory of tinai, he has developed a critical theory called, "Oikopoetics." Nirmaldasan aka N.Watson Solomon is Assistant Professor o Journalism, Faculty of Science and Humanities, SRM School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu-603 203. He is poet and founder-editor of the Journalism Online Newsletter (since 2000). Rayson K. Alex is a research scholar in the department of English, Madras Christian College, Chennai. He is completing his Ph.D. in ecocriticism on "Symbiosis in the songs of Mudugar tribe of Kerala," for which he has done extensive field work among the tribes of the Western Ghats in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Contents : Introduction 1. The Strong Green Thread 2. Visual Media: An Oikopoetic Perspective 3. Green Density Measure of a Literary Text 4. Sustainable Development and Religion: Towards an Economic Eco-Socio Spirituality 5. An Introduction to "Environmental Justice" in North American Ecocriticism: Its Origin and Practices 6. Towards Green Education 7. The Preanalytic Visions of Environmental Economics and Economics in Investigating Biodiversity Preservation 8. Oh, Lovely Slab: Robinson Jeffers, Stone Work, and the Locus of the Real 9. Becoming the "Transparent Eye-Ball": Ecodharma in American Transcendentalist Writing 10. The Joy of Being a Tree: Ecological Sensitivity Expresses in Shi Jing,