1st Edition
Regional Political Ecologies and Environmental Conflicts in India
Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding Regional Political Framings of Environmental Conflicts in India
Sarmistha Pattanaik and Amrita Sen
Chapter 2: Heritage or Basic Human Rights? Politics of Environmentalism Surrounding the Adi Ganga in Kolkata
Jenia Mukherjee, Shreyashi Bhattacharya and Lina Bose
Chapter 3: The Opportunities and Challenges of Transboundary Conservation: Solutions in Adaptive Management
Radhika Bhargava
Chapter 4: Riverbank Erosion and Inter-Community Relationships in Majuli: Political Implications of a Changing Landscape in Assam
Avijit Sahay
Chapter 5: A Regional Political Ecology of the Changing Cityscape and the Crisis of Conservation of the East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW), India
Sana Huque
Chapter 6: Land Ownership and Ecological Knowledge Production from a Gender and Power Dynamics Perspective in a Village in Nagaland
A. Wati Walling
Chapter 7: Political Ecology of Natural Resource Governance in Chhattisgarh, India: Critical Ethnographic Reflections on the Vulnerable Livelihoods of the Scheduled Tribes in Bastar
Janmejaya Mishra
Biography
Sarmistha Pattanaik is Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Faculty of Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) and Centre for Urban Science and Engineering (C-USE), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.
Amrita Sen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.
