item: #1 of 204 id: ees-10 author: Krishnaswamy, Jagdish title: On Climate Change: Editorial Note date: 2020-03-10 words: 632 flesch: 46 summary: In 2017, too, intense rain events, especially in urban areas and the increasingly spatial and temporal variability of rainfall distribution brought into the limelight the issue of attribution of extreme weather events to climate change. The first is that anthropogenic climate change is already transforming climate and that these changes will continue—regionally and globally. keywords: change; climate cache: ees-10.pdf plain text: ees-10.txt item: #2 of 204 id: ees-100 author: Tella , Ramya K title: Interdisciplinarity and the Challenges of Environmental Sensemaking: Review of A Elliott, J Cullis and V Damodaran, eds. 2017. Climate Change and the Humanities: Historical, Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Contemporary Environmental Crisis. London: Palgrave Macmillan date: 2020-03-17 words: 2010 flesch: 31 summary: Climate change has been described as the archetypal ―wicked problem‖ — as one that ―does not lend itself to a solution‖ (Hulme 2009, 334, 359). In several ways, the phenomenon of climate change, in fact, reflects in an intense and unprecedented manner the socio-cultural (Hulme 2015) and moral (Gardiner 2006) dilemmas of the present. keywords: author; change; climate; climate change; history; humanities cache: ees-100.pdf plain text: ees-100.txt item: #3 of 204 id: ees-1000 author: Bhaskar, Dhanya ; Ramananda, Samudyatha; KT, Sarang title: Conservation amidst Urbanization: Insights from Explorations around Bannerghatta National Park, Bengaluru date: 2023-07-30 words: 2213 flesch: 46 summary: This was subsequently linked to an increase in forest area and quality (29% responses in ESZ and 31% in EL) as the Karnataka Forest Department (KFD) is actively undertaking plantations and reclaiming encroached lands. The major reason for this shift in ESZ was the lack of gomalas (52% responses) (Figure 2), which have reduced in both area and access, owing to diversion for agriculture, housing, etc, or even inclusion in forest areas. keywords: bnp; conservation; esz; forest; india; park; villages cache: ees-1000.pdf plain text: ees-1000.txt item: #4 of 204 id: ees-101 author: Singh , Chandni title: Climate Change Adaptation in the Global South: Review of Anamika Barua, Vishal Narain and Sumit Vij, eds. 2019. Climate Change Governance and Adaptation: Case studies from South Asia. Boca Raton: CRC Press date: 2020-03-17 words: 1228 flesch: 37 summary: As the poor and most vulnerable cope with and prepare for such a heightened risk regime, climate change adaptation becomes a critical tool in the suite of actions that governments and exposed populations can undertake. However, by showing the importance of local dynamics and realities in shaping adaptation processes and outcomes, the book makes an important contribution and will be a valuable reading for students and researchers in Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal [150] natural resource management, climate change adaptation, and development studies. keywords: adaptation; change; climate; governance; south cache: ees-101.pdf plain text: ees-101.txt item: #5 of 204 id: ees-1010 author: Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala title: A Pressing Problem date: 2023-01-31 words: 1102 flesch: 39 summary: For this reason, energy transitions are also commonly known as decarbonization. The manifestations of energy transitions are also manifold. keywords: change; energy; fossil; transitions cache: ees-1010.pdf plain text: ees-1010.txt item: #6 of 204 id: ees-1011 author: Batterbury, Simon; Rodríguez, Denisse title: Emancipatory Political Ecology Pedagogy In and Out of the Classroom date: 2023-07-30 words: 2754 flesch: 38 summary: Political ecology students are nourished and encouraged to experiment, grow, and develop their symbiotic relationships based on mutual investigation and support. We explore the relational positionalities emerging from practising political ecology, and the frictions unfolding from including political ecology pedagogies as decolonial praxis in a curriculum determined by the neoliberal university. keywords: batterbury; ecology; journal; knowledge; pedagogies; south; students; university cache: ees-1011.pdf plain text: ees-1011.txt item: #7 of 204 id: ees-1017 author: Das, Budhaditya title: Political Economy of Farming in India: Chronicling 50 Years of Scholarship and Transformation date: 2023-07-30 words: 1145 flesch: 45 summary: State attempts to regulate or intervene in markets—whether in the form of fertilizer subsidies, export and import tariffs, krishi mandis (farmer markets), or rural employment schemes—are driven by the agrarian political economy, global market forces, as well as a range of economic ideologies. There is no dedicated chapter on water management, even though canal irrigation, river valley projects, and groundwater extraction are crucial drivers of agrarian change (Shah, Vijayshankar, and Harris 2021). keywords: change; economy; india; land; society cache: ees-1017.pdf plain text: ees-1017.txt item: #8 of 204 id: ees-102 author: Balachandra , P. title: India’s Quest for Low Carbon Transition: Review of Rajat Kathuria, Saon Ray and Kuntala Bandyopadhyay, eds. 2018. Low Carbon Pathways for Growth in India, New Delhi: Springer date: 2020-03-17 words: 1259 flesch: 45 summary: Several factors have contributed to these reductions — policy push for renewable energy and low carbon  Department of Management Studies & Centre for Sustainable Technologies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, INDIA; patilb@iisc.ac.in Copyright © Patil 2020. Globally, low carbon transitions have become a necessity, especially for large emerging economies like India. keywords: carbon; chapter; energy; india cache: ees-102.pdf plain text: ees-102.txt item: #9 of 204 id: ees-103 author: Jha , Rohit title: Policy and Politics in India in the Age of Global Warming: Review of Navroz K Dubash, ed. 2019. India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development, New Delhi: Oxford University Press date: 2020-03-17 words: 1808 flesch: 46 summary: In the first section, the readers are offered a nuanced understanding of the various climate models and the presumed impacts of climate change on flora and fauna of India. two of these cases, Chennai and Phalodi, showed that counterfactual (or non-manmade changes) were the cause of climate change as opposed to factual (or anthropogenic or man-made changes). keywords: change; climate; development; india; section; society; warming cache: ees-103.pdf plain text: ees-103.txt item: #10 of 204 id: ees-1035 author: Das, Sampurna title: Bringing and Being a ‘Kaim-bride’: A Note on Marriage and Migration in Assam Chars date: 2023-07-30 words: 3282 flesch: 64 summary: In this note, I will examine the structure and process of kaim–char marriages: why do men bring brides from the kaim? My conversations with local brides further revealed that the kaim-brides were not inclined to learn the culture and history of the Osthir char and did not try to understand the shifting nature—rhythms of erosion and accretion—of the char landscape. keywords: akila; brides; char; family; kaim; marriage; status; women cache: ees-1035.pdf plain text: ees-1035.txt item: #11 of 204 id: ees-1037 author: Üner, Büsra title: Defending Nature: Transformation of the Space Through Grassroots Activism Against the Threat of Extractivism date: 2023-07-30 words: 9967 flesch: 37 summary: However, despite the rapid rise of environmental movements all around the country, [183] Üner particularly after the 2010s, only a few have managed to sustain grassroots environmental activism, while many environmental movements were either dissolved by their own local communities or continue through other actors like civil-society initiatives. Therefore, research on these cases is crucial to identify the characteristics and transformation of environmental movements in the current atmosphere, where the extractive sector grows day by day and the violence against environmental defenders by law enforcement forces and corporations has been increasing. keywords: actors; artvin; cerattepe; city; community; economy; environmental; inhabitants; justice; kirazlı; mining; movement; organization; people; place; turkey; çanakkale cache: ees-1037.pdf plain text: ees-1037.txt item: #12 of 204 id: ees-1039 author: Javed, Sadaf title: Uncertainty and Climate Change Policymaking in India date: 2023-07-30 words: 1190 flesch: 37 summary: In other words, we need to move away from having a singular focus on “scientific expertise” and instead also incorporate and engage with how climate change uncertainties and impacts play out at the popular level. According to the authors, it is important to think about how climate change uncertainty is understood from “above”, as experts, policymakers, and scientists are those who frame climate change policy decisions and aid decision-making on funding priorities (29). keywords: change; climate; uncertainty cache: ees-1039.pdf plain text: ees-1039.txt item: #13 of 204 id: ees-104 author: Bharati , Kanchan ; Kumar , Dhananjay title: A Report on National Seminar “Ecology, Environment and Religions: Key Issues and Challenges” date: 2020-03-17 words: 1461 flesch: 37 summary: Spiritual ecology refers to the intersection between religion, spirituality and environment which can play an important role in controlling not only the outside world positively but also the inner nature. Change in environment and ecology is more of a moral challenge. keywords: conservation; development; ecology; environment; human; religion cache: ees-104.pdf plain text: ees-104.txt item: #14 of 204 id: ees-1043 author: Kumar, Mukul title: Environmental Racism and the Global Political Ecology of Industrial Disasters date: 2023-07-30 words: 2810 flesch: 48 summary: Christopher was one of more than 30 workers who died prematurely due to exposure to toxic mercury at the Kodaikanal mercury factory, which employed hundreds of full- and part-time workers from 1983 to 2001. The factory’s 25 exhausts also emitted toxic mercury into the atmosphere adjacent to the ecologically sensitive Pambar Shola Forest Reserve. keywords: ecology; environmental; factory; global; kodaikanal; mercury; racism; unilever; workers cache: ees-1043.pdf plain text: ees-1043.txt item: #15 of 204 id: ees-1045 author: Murty , M.N. title: The Challenges of Climate Change and Community Resilience date: 2023-07-30 words: 1345 flesch: 45 summary: Alternative livelihood options for rural communities are also discussed, along with a careful assessment of institutional or government support for assisting communities to achieve resilience capacities. As is now well-documented, climate change has dramatically altered and stressed a wide range of ecosystems. keywords: change; climate; communities; south; water cache: ees-1045.pdf plain text: ees-1045.txt item: #16 of 204 id: ees-1052 author: Kumar, Rajat title: Political Ecology of Urban Agricultural Pollution: Cultivating the Yamuna Floodplains in Delhi date: 2023-07-30 words: 6872 flesch: 55 summary: In this paper, I focus on one aspect of this agrarian landscape—the toxicity associated with river water due to the pesticides and fertilizers used in agriculture. The differently located stakeholders associated with the toxic agrarian landscape of Yamuna khadar are not experiencing pollution as a homogenous community, i.e., neither all of them see themselves as suffering from pollution nor do they see themselves as contributing to the toxicity of the landscape in a similar way. keywords: communities; cultivation; cultivators; ecology; farmers; hai; khadar; land; ngt; pollution; river; tenants; toxicity; vegetables; water; yamuna cache: ees-1052.pdf plain text: ees-1052.txt item: #17 of 204 id: ees-1054 author: Baruah, Mitul title: The Political Ecology of an Environmental Crisis in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam date: 2023-07-30 words: 9375 flesch: 60 summary: This paper delves deeper into the question of the political ecology of hazards and vulnerability by focusing on a case study from Majuli river island in India’s northeast. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Majuli river island in Assam, this paper critically investigates the role of the state in the reproduction of disaster and vulnerability, and in doing so, it attempts to re-theorize the postcolonial state in the specific context of hazardous geographies. keywords: assam; baruah; brahmaputra; colonial; control; ecology; economy; embankments; erosion; flood; india; island; majuli; people; river; society; state; valley; water cache: ees-1054.pdf plain text: ees-1054.txt item: #18 of 204 id: ees-1061 author: Dash, Minati title: “Our People Can’t Hold the Line!”: Extractive Capital, Fragile Ecologies and Politics of Dispossession and Accumulation in Eastern India date: 2023-07-30 words: 9392 flesch: 54 summary: Detailed interviews and participant observations were conducted with mining company officials, district administrators, PSSP leaders, strike leaders, and villagers from Ramibeda, Kendukhunti, Dwimundi, Kucheipadar, and D Karol. There is no exact data to convey the quantum of displacement in Odisha due to mining projects during this period.3 keywords: accumulation; committee; company; dispossession; groups; india; kashipur; land; leaders; mining; movement; new; processes; project; pssp; society; state; strikes; uail; villagers cache: ees-1061.pdf plain text: ees-1061.txt item: #19 of 204 id: ees-107 author: Singh, Aparajita; Gundimeda, Haripriya title: Why Regulations Come Up Short? : Some Observations from a Field Study of the Kanpur Leather Industry date: 2020-07-16 words: 1996 flesch: 32 summary: The responsibility of ensuring that Kanpur leather tanneries conform with regulatory norms lies with the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB), which records data on pollution and levies penalties on defaulters. Thus, this study examines why regulations have failed in addressing the problem of leather pollution. keywords: discharge; effluent; kanpur; leather; pollution; tanneries cache: ees-107.pdf plain text: ees-107.txt item: #20 of 204 id: ees-1087 author: Narain, Vishal title: Buddhist Wisdom for a Sustainable World date: 2023-07-30 words: 1411 flesch: 50 summary: Introduction to Buddhist Economics: The Relevance of Buddhist Values in Contemporary Economy and Society. Buddhist economics teaches us to derive maximum happiness with minimum possessions—perhaps the best way to reconcile human well- Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal keywords: economics; economy; happiness; society cache: ees-1087.pdf plain text: ees-1087.txt item: #21 of 204 id: ees-110 author: Singh, Rashmi title: Himal Rakshak of Sikkim: The Burden of Being the Flag-bearers of Community-based Conservation date: 2020-07-16 words: 1638 flesch: 50 summary: This initiative was indeed unique, due to its aspiration of capacity- building among local community members to help conserve the high reaches of KNP. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v3i2.110 https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v3i2.110 Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal [180] interactions with local communities. keywords: community; conservation; himal; hrs; management; sikkim cache: ees-110.pdf plain text: ees-110.txt item: #22 of 204 id: ees-112 author: Thakur, Barun Kumar ; Chakraborty, Tamali ; Ghosh, Ashok Kumar title: The Impact of Exposure to Air Pollutants among Traffic Police in Bihar: An Excerpt from the Field date: 2021-01-28 words: 1681 flesch: 50 summary: Previous studies suggest that air pollution is the primary killer among pollutants. The Global Burden of Disease Report (2017) estimated that India has a population-weighted mean of 89.9µg/m3 PM2.5 due to air pollution, which exceeds the 40 µg/m3 World Health Organization (WHO) standard. keywords: air; health; india; pollution; traffic cache: ees-112.pdf plain text: ees-112.txt item: #23 of 204 id: ees-1138 author: Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala; Mukhopadhyay, Pranab title: Reflecting on the Past and Welcoming the Future date: 2023-07-30 words: 2343 flesch: 45 summary: In this issue, the theme explored is political ecology; it has 1 https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21101049095&tip=sid&clean=0 https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21101049095&tip=sid&clean=0 [3] Lahiri-Dutt and Mukhopadhyay been edited by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Sudha Vasan, and Asmita Kabra. The current issue brings together a specially curated collection from the domain of political ecology. keywords: ecology; economy; ees; insee; issue; journal; research; society cache: ees-1138.pdf plain text: ees-1138.txt item: #24 of 204 id: ees-118 author: Magotra, Rohit ; Pandey, Pushkar ; Kumar, Mohit ; Gupta, Mohit Kumar ; Kaushik , Asha ; Parikh, Jyoti title: Role of Marine National Park for Sustainable Livelihoods of Artisan Fisherfolk: A case study of MNP, Jamnagar date: 2020-07-15 words: 7482 flesch: 53 summary: 2. HYPOTHESIS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY In this study, we investigate the hypothesis that establishing the MNP&S along the southern coast of the GoK is a sustainable option and is acceptable to local fishing communities. Traditional management systems based on restricting activities work well only where fishing communities are an integral part of the monitoring and enforcing mechanisms. keywords: coast; conservation; dwarka; fisherfolk; fishing; kumar; management; marine; mean; mnp; mohit; mpas; salaya; species; study cache: ees-118.pdf plain text: ees-118.txt item: #25 of 204 id: ees-121 author: Srinivasan , Jeena T title: A Report on the INSEE-CESS International Conference on "Climate Change and Disasters: Challenges, Opportunities and Responses" date: 2020-07-15 words: 1401 flesch: 32 summary: There were presentations on the physical and scientific bases for climate systems, climate models, and projections; the impact of global warming and the importance of mitigation activities for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals; land management and the interaction of the atmosphere with land resources; and, finally, the effects of climate change on marine life and coastal livelihoods. Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 3 (2): 215–218, July 2020 REPORT A Report on the INSEE-CESS International Conference on “Climate Change and Disasters: Challenges, Opportunities, and Responses” Jeena T. Srinivasan  The Tenth Biennial Conference of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) on Climate Change and Disasters: Challenges, Opportunities and Responses was organized jointly with and hosted by the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad, in partnership with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ, India) and keywords: change; climate; conference; insee; panel; society cache: ees-121.pdf plain text: ees-121.txt item: #26 of 204 id: ees-123 author: Ramesh , Madhuri title: A Call to Redefine ‘the Field’ in Nature Conservation Studies in India date: 2020-07-16 words: 1888 flesch: 42 summary: Now more than ever, nature conservation is not just about saving biodiversity—it is a domain marked by economic, political, and social contestation. EARLY CONNECTIONS Anthropology has much in common with nature conservation with respect to the idea that doing research in ‗the field‘ is an integral part of the disciplinary identity. keywords: areas; conservation; field; india; nature; society cache: ees-123.pdf plain text: ees-123.txt item: #27 of 204 id: ees-134 author: Chakraborty, Sanjana ; Mukherjee, Vivekananda title: Revisiting Economic Costs of Arsenicosis: A PSM Approach date: 2020-07-16 words: 9059 flesch: 54 summary: The medical expenditures borne by affected households to treat arsenicosis are an example of adaptation. Additionally, affected households also experience losses due to the social discrimination they face. keywords: arsenic; arsenicosis; bangladesh; capita; control; discrimination; expenditure; group; health; households; income; journal; labour; loss; propensity; treatment cache: ees-134.pdf plain text: ees-134.txt item: #28 of 204 id: ees-140 author: Chakravarty, Debalina ; Roy, Joyashree title: Solar Microgrids in Rural India: A Case Study of Household Benefits date: 2021-07-31 words: 9365 flesch: 49 summary: Khazzoom first mentioned this effect in the early 1980s when discussing household energy consumption (Wei 2010; Sorrell 2007; Allan et al. 2008; Allan et al. 2006; Herring 2006; Saunders 2000a; Khazzoom 1980). The change in energy service demand due to a change in perceived price can be greater than 100% in magnitude, which is identified as the frontier rebound effect. keywords: access; appliances; chakravarty; consumption; cost; demand; economy; effect; electricity; energy; households; india; journal; microgrid; policy; rebound; roy; services; solar; study; system; time; village cache: ees-140.pdf plain text: ees-140.txt item: #29 of 204 id: ees-150 author: Wasson, Robert ; Saikia, Arupjyoti ; Bansal, Priya ; Chong , Chuah Joon title: Flood Mitigation, Climate Change Adaptation and Technological Lock-In in Assam date: 2020-07-16 words: 8411 flesch: 52 summary: Where embankment breaches are common, damage is likely to increase as climate change induces larger floods, and lock-in and path dependence increase risk. Lock-ins produce inflexibility in decision-making, which, we argue, reduces the region’s adaptive capacity given both current circumstances and future climatic conditions that may produce larger floods. keywords: assam; change; construction; damage; embankments; feedback; flood; government; india; journal; land; lock; mitigation; river; saikia; society; water cache: ees-150.pdf plain text: ees-150.txt item: #30 of 204 id: ees-16 author: Watson , Robert title: On Climate Change: Climate Change: the Science date: 2018-04-03 words: 1036 flesch: 45 summary: However, even if all pledges were fully implemented, global emissions would remain at about their current level, and result in an increase in global mean temperature of between 3oC and 4oC above preindustrial levels. As part of the Paris Agreement, 162 voluntary non- binding pledges were submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); these were from 189 countries and accounted for about 98 per cent of global GHG emissions. keywords: emissions cache: ees-16.pdf plain text: ees-16.txt item: #31 of 204 id: ees-17 author: Desai, Nitin title: On Climate Change: Reflection on international climate diplomacy date: 2018-04-03 words: 1104 flesch: 50 summary: An effective agreement on climate change should include a goal for the acceptable limit for the increase in temperature. The key to averting the worst consequences of climate change lies in incentivizing a shift to low-carbon strategies for energy use through technology development, pricing reforms that reflect the social cost of carbon reform, and a reconsideration of regulatory policies from a carbon perspective. keywords: cent; climate; emissions; mitigation cache: ees-17.pdf plain text: ees-17.txt item: #32 of 204 id: ees-18 author: Sterner, Thomas title: On Climate Change: Fiscal Measures When Climate Negotiations are not Feasible date: 2018-04-03 words: 1503 flesch: 59 summary: If we were running out of fossil fuels, as the peak oil people claim, what would happen? The world needs a high and rising price signal for fossil fuel, but we are forced to create this  University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden; Thomas.Sterner@economics.gu.se Copyright keywords: cent; countries; emissions; india cache: ees-18.pdf plain text: ees-18.txt item: #33 of 204 id: ees-185 author: Parikh, Kirit title: India’s Energy Strategy for Inclusive Sustainable Development date: 2020-07-16 words: 2632 flesch: 53 summary: The 2006 report of the expert group set up by the Planning Commission on Integrated Energy Policy (IEP) notes that extractable coal reserves in India will be exhausted in 35–40 years if coal consumption keeps growing, and, in the long term, India will have to shift to renewable resources such as wind and solar energy (Parikh et al. 2006). The appliance labelling programme, under which appliances are rated with one (least efficient) to [23] Kirit S. Parikh five stars (most efficient) depending on their energy efficiency, has the potential to reduce energy consumption by 13–40% by 2030 (Parikh and Parikh 2016). keywords: coal; electricity; energy; government; growth; india; parikh; power cache: ees-185.pdf plain text: ees-185.txt item: #34 of 204 id: ees-19 author: Dayal, Vikram title: On Forect Conservation: Editorial Note date: 2018-04-03 words: 348 flesch: 46 summary: Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 1 (1): 81–82, April 2018 CONVERSATIONS 2: Forest Conservation Editorial Note Vikram Dayal  Ullas Karanth and Asmita Kabra both agree about the importance of research based conservation. Kabra, on the other hand, emphasizes the difference between vulnerable people—who suffer when they lose access to natural landscapes—and the economically richer members of Homo sapiens that Karanth is talking about. keywords: karanth cache: ees-19.pdf plain text: ees-19.txt item: #35 of 204 id: ees-20 author: Kabra, Asmita title: On Forect Conservation: Revisiting Canons and Dogmas in the Conservation-versus-Human Rights Debate date: 2018-04-03 words: 1365 flesch: 39 summary: Agencies have shifted towards using conservation strategies that are more participatory, but allegations of loss of livelihoods and lifeworlds of peoples dependent on protected areas remain widespread and well documented (Adams et al. 2004). The moral imperative of biodiversity conservation and protection of endangered species resonates with most people, as does the importance of protecting the rights of vulnerable people. keywords: areas; biodiversity; conservation; human; rights cache: ees-20.pdf plain text: ees-20.txt item: #36 of 204 id: ees-21 author: Karanth, K. Ullas title: On Forect Conservation: Reconciling Rights of Individuals with Rights of Wild Species date: 2018-04-03 words: 1367 flesch: 43 summary: Many of the assumptions that underlie emancipatory laws, such as the Forest Rights Act, do not even recognize—let alone address—real problems involved in protecting ‘species rights’. Within such a scientific framework, species conservation can be defined as promotion of the ‘rights’ of wild species, thus embracing the issue of compassion at some level. keywords: conservation; human; nature; rights; society; species cache: ees-21.pdf plain text: ees-21.txt item: #37 of 204 id: ees-214 author: Sengupta, Ramprasad title: Revisiting Environmental Economics: Concepts, Methods, and Policies: Review of Dodo J Thampapillai and Matthius Ruth, 2019. Environmental Economics: Concepts, Methods and Policies, London: Earthscan date: 2020-07-16 words: 1834 flesch: 32 summary: Before concluding the book, the authors deal with trade, the valuation of environmental capital, and environmental policies, extending the same consistent framework of adapting economic analysis to accommodate environmental capital. The book Environmental Economics: Concepts, Methods and Policies by Dodo J. Thampapillai and Mathias Ruth (2019) fills this gap in the construction of an analytical framework of environmental economics. keywords: book; capital; economics; level; policies cache: ees-214.pdf plain text: ees-214.txt item: #38 of 204 id: ees-215 author: Suresh, Lavanya title: Building Inclusive Frameworks: Review of Sharachchandra Lele, Eduardo S. Brondizio, John Byrne, Georgina M. Mace, and Joan Martinez-Alier. eds. 2018. Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity, Cambridge: MIT Press date: 2020-07-16 words: 2404 flesch: 45 summary: Chapters 2–4 address the theme of forests and other high biodiversity areas. In Chapter 2, Kent Redford and Georgina Mace focus on traditional biodiversity conservation and point to the malleable aspects in the definition of biodiversity. keywords: book; chapter; climate; frameworks; justice cache: ees-215.pdf plain text: ees-215.txt item: #39 of 204 id: ees-216 author: Asher, Manshi title: Can the Twain Ever Meet? Environmental Jurisprudence and Justice in India: Review of Shibani Ghosh, ed. 2019, Indian Environmental Law: key concepts and principles, Delhi: Orient Blackswan. date: 2020-07-16 words: 1539 flesch: 29 summary: Shibani Ghosh, in the following chapter, while laying out the various laws and rules that guarantee procedural rights—the right to information, the right to public participation, and the right to access to justice—argues that these procedural environmental rights are on ―firmer legal foundations‖ (103) than substantive environmental rights in India. Given that the themes covered by the collection are vast in scope, this brief review will comment on what the reader could take away from this book with regard to environmental jurisprudence and its implications for environmental justice in contemporary India. keywords: courts; ghosh; india; law; rights cache: ees-216.pdf plain text: ees-216.txt item: #40 of 204 id: ees-22 author: Sekhsaria, Pankaj title: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are not an ‘empty space’ date: 2018-04-03 words: 1778 flesch: 49 summary: The scale of intervention proposed—and its hugely technocratic-militaristic tenor—is in line with the growing defence and strategic interest in this group of islands. “Our string of islands theory.” keywords: aayog; andaman; islands; nicobar; niti cache: ees-22.pdf plain text: ees-22.txt item: #41 of 204 id: ees-221 author: Mukherjee, Jenia title: Editorial: Setting the Context date: 2020-07-15 words: 2618 flesch: 32 summary: Drawing on their own research experience and expertise, Rusca and Baldassarre (2019) demonstrate the multiple ways in which different natural science and social science water research frameworks can converge and become compatible and complementary to each other. Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 3 (2): 105–111, July 2020 SPECIAL SECTION: New Epistemologies of Water in India Editorial: Setting the Context Jenia Mukherjee  The Anthropocene and the ―nine planetary boundaries‖ framework have informed, and in turn have been informed by, rigorous quantitative models and in-depth qualitative studies across global, regional, and local units of analyses.1 Contemporary water research, by critically revisiting existing ontologies and epistemologies with the agenda of addressing ―wicked problems‖, is an advancement in this direction.2 Wesslink, Kooy, and Warner (2017) point out that the motivation to combine disciplinary methodologies and study water from both the natural science and social science perspectives was driven by the need to collectively understand complex and interdependent water-related societal challenges. keywords: 2017; article; ecology; mukherjee; new; research; science; society; socio; water cache: ees-221.pdf plain text: ees-221.txt item: #42 of 204 id: ees-222 author: Mukherjee, Jenia; Ghosh, Pritwinath title: Fluid Epistemologies: The Social Saga of Sediments in Bengal date: 2020-07-16 words: 4258 flesch: 45 summary: These act as effective modes of communication between char villages; they connect families during times of disrupted communication. The literature on river islands is scarce and features overtly declensional narratives. keywords: bengal; char; choruas; ecology; ganga; hamidpur; islands; jenia; mukherjee; river; sediment; social; society; water cache: ees-222.pdf plain text: ees-222.txt item: #43 of 204 id: ees-226 author: Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala title: Knowledge Others, Others’ Knowledge: The Need for a New Epistemology of Water date: 2020-07-16 words: 4112 flesch: 42 summary: Moreover, Baghel, Stepan, and Hill (2017) argue that there is ―something distinct to water, to water experiences and water knowledges in Asia‖ (2). River scientists have tried to establish standardized, universal, and appropriate conditions and settings for the creation of water knowledge [119] Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt that can be translated into a model that all knowledge production (and knowledge-seeking) can look up to. keywords: epistemologies; feminist; gender; knowledge; nature; new; rivers; science; scientists; social; water cache: ees-226.pdf plain text: ees-226.txt item: #44 of 204 id: ees-228 author: Mukhopadhyay, Anway; Choudry, Anuradha title: Revealed by Water, Hidden in Water : Indic Hydro-epistemologies of Sacred Things date: 2020-07-16 words: 3693 flesch: 58 summary: Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 3 (2): 161–168, July 2020 SPECIAL SECTION: New Epistemologies of Water in India Revealed by Water, Hidden in Water: Indic Hydro- epistemologies of Sacred Things Anway Mukhopadhyay  and Anuradha Choudry  Abstract: This essay explores two basic trajectories of the hydro-epistemology of sacred things in Indic cultures: things revealed by water—the visible gifts of water—and things hidden in water with which we can communicate only indirectly, by touching the water. Water preserves the sacrality and secrecy of the hidden object, forcing us to understand that water is not just a matrix of sacred stones, but also a medium for communicating with that mode of sacredness that revels in its inaccessibility. keywords: body; sacred; sati; stones; things; touch; water cache: ees-228.pdf plain text: ees-228.txt item: #45 of 204 id: ees-229 author: Sen, Amrita; Unnikrishnan, Hita; Nagendra, Harini title: Imperilled Waterscapes: The Social-Ecological Transformation of Lakes in Bengaluru date: 2020-07-16 words: 3889 flesch: 52 summary: These diverse and often conflicting activities around Bellandur Lake have one thing in common—an internalization of the new static identity of Bengaluru‘s lakes. In this paper, we use the case of the city‘s largest lake, Bellandur, to demonstrate the transformation of the waterscape from an open semi-arid landscape pre-dating the city into an agrarian water-dependent landscape characterized by flows of water in pre-colonial and colonial Bengaluru, and finally into a concretized landscape and the individualization of lakes in the ―modern‖ city. keywords: bellandur; bengaluru; city; hita; lake; nagendra; system; unnikrishnan; urban; water cache: ees-229.pdf plain text: ees-229.txt item: #46 of 204 id: ees-23 author: Joshi, Deepa title: Views from Below: The Economics and Politics of Water in the Darjeeling Himalayas date: 2018-04-03 words: 2709 flesch: 45 summary: I draw attention to three developments which— although interconnected, and demanding more holistic framings—are selectively addressed (or not) as environmental challenges: 1. scientific claims on the urgency of climate change, which facilitate, ill-matched climate adaptation and mitigation programmes, including hydropower development projects, the latter identified as climate mitigating, i.e. generating clean energy; 2. researcher/ civil society critique on the re-emergence of large dams (for hydropower) which, although well intentioned, pays little attention to; 3. Writing about the scalar politics of climate change in rural Nepal, Yates (2012) points to how narratives of [99] Deepa Joshi climate change that will fit with predetermined developmental solutions are first constructed, and then reproduced, as ‘local’ manifestations of climate change. keywords: change; climate; development; environment; himalayas; research; science; water cache: ees-23.pdf plain text: ees-23.txt item: #47 of 204 id: ees-231 author: Lafaye de Micheaux, Flore; Kull, Christian title: Combining Political Ecology and ‘Mésologie’ for a New Geography of Rivers? date: 2020-07-16 words: 4362 flesch: 45 summary: THE CONTOURS OF THE “ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY OF RIVERS” IN THE INDIAN CONTEXT Based on the richness of river–society relations that the existing literature highlights, we call for hydrosocial analyses to incorporate a focus on the materiality of rivers and the emotions and interpretations attached to them simultaneously.7 An environmental geography of rivers should scrutinize how the emotional and metaphoric, which could be the cultural, ethical, ideological, or spiritual dimensions of rivers, enrich the hydrosocial cycle. They propose reinterpreting the episteme of geography in the contemporary context and shifting to an ―environmental geography‖. In this paper, we elaborate on a new theoretical framework for the environmental geography of rivers with the objective of rethinking existing practices of river management. keywords: 2012; ecology; geography; kull; lafaye; management; micheaux; mésologie; new; paris; river; society; water cache: ees-231.pdf plain text: ees-231.txt item: #48 of 204 id: ees-232 author: DasGupta, Amrita title: Hydrocultural Histories and Narratives: Insights from Sundarbans date: 2020-07-16 words: 3820 flesch: 59 summary: Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 3 (2): 169–178, July 2020 SPECIAL SECTION: New Epistemologies of Water in India Hydrocultural Histories and Narratives: Insights from the Sundarbans Amrita DasGupta  To put water at the heart of the narrative is to demand that we adopt a more flexible conception of space Unruly Waters: How Mountain Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia’s History (Sunil Amrith 2018, 9) Keywords: Hydroculture, Water, Culture, Bonbibi, Sunderbans 1. INTRODUCTION From cultural and political transitions, modern history has shifted its focus to water, owing to the escalation of the irrecoverable existential threats induced by climate change (Amrith 2018). keywords: bengal; bonbibi; forest; ganga; goddess; manasa; rai; resources; river; society; sundarbans; water cache: ees-232.pdf plain text: ees-232.txt item: #49 of 204 id: ees-24 author: Roy, Dunu title: Review of Annual State of India’s Environment—SOE 2017 (Centre for Science and Environment 2017) date: 2018-04-03 words: 1119 flesch: 53 summary: Other authors show that while Rs 11.25 lakh crore was spent on flood control measures, flood-affected areas rose in the same period by over 160 per cent; and that river beds are rising because of sediment loads, while embankments are unable to contain rising water levels. [107] Dunu Roy The tendency in this chapter, to underline the (mis)behaviour of the poor and encourage government schemes, is carried over into other chapters. keywords: cent; chapter; environment; water cache: ees-24.pdf plain text: ees-24.txt item: #50 of 204 id: ees-25 author: Krishnan, Radhika title: Review of Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature (Simon & Schuster 2017) date: 2018-04-03 words: 1000 flesch: 40 summary: In penning A Life in Nature, Ramesh seeks to uncover the naturalist in the politician and, more ambitiously, to trace an entire country’s tense tryst with ecological conservation through the lens of Indira Gandhi’s life and experiences. We see concerns for employment, infrastructure, and food security being deployed against ecological impacts—even as stubborn bureaucrats and political stakeholders are cajoled, threatened, and placated to set up policies and institutions to address ecological conservation. keywords: gandhi; indira; ramesh cache: ees-25.pdf plain text: ees-25.txt item: #51 of 204 id: ees-252 author: Pandit, Nitin title: COVID-19: Urban Density's Poetic Justice date: 2020-07-15 words: 1825 flesch: 46 summary: Urban planners in India continue to adopt western ideas centred on dense urban cores to facilitate transport and provision of other public services, accompanied tree planting (CNBC Sustainable Energy 2020). Stalwarts like Paul Krugman came to the defence, extolling the other virtues of urban density in New York (Krugman 2020), while influencers like Joel Kotkin highlighted how the urban sprawl in Los Angeles (Kotkin 2020) helped flatten the curve. keywords: april; cities; covid-19; density; new; poor; society cache: ees-252.pdf plain text: ees-252.txt item: #52 of 204 id: ees-255 author: Dasgupta, Anirban title: In Search of Post-Development Futures: Review of Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Fedrico Demaria, & Aberto Acosta, eds. 2019, Pluriverse: A post-development dictionary. Tulika Books and Authorsupfront. date: 2020-07-15 words: 1836 flesch: 45 summary: Other articles that deal with popular ideas like ―green economy‖ and ―smart cities‖, which are regularly peddled around in mainstream development as magic bullets, turn out to be similarly unsatisfactory as they are not allowed to run their full explanatory course due to a paucity of space. Interestingly, the two scholars based in the Global North, Philip McMichael and Jose Maria Tortosa, do not write on North America or Europe specifically but comment more generally on chosen aspects of global development. keywords: development; ecology; global; post; section; society cache: ees-255.pdf plain text: ees-255.txt item: #53 of 204 id: ees-26 author: Lele , Sharachchandra title: Review of Parisaranītiśatakam (Chinmaya International Foundation Shodha Sansthan, Adi Shankara Nilayam 2017) date: 2018-04-03 words: 884 flesch: 47 summary: Nadkarni’s latest book Parisaranītiśatakam (or ‘Hundred Verses on Environmental Ethics’) continues this innovative tradition by composing 113 verses in both Sanskrit and English to propound the basic principles of environmental thought. Like Bhartrahari’s Nītiśatakam of c. 500 CE, Nadkarni’s composition encompasses both meanings and more. keywords: environmental; nadkarni; verses cache: ees-26.pdf plain text: ees-26.txt item: #54 of 204 id: ees-269 author: Das, Saudamini title: Karl-Göran Mäler: the Adi Guru of Environmental Economics date: 2020-07-15 words: 1427 flesch: 44 summary: Karl-Göran, along with Partha Dasgupta, initiated network programmes in environmental economics research and teaching in the Global South that resulted in the formation of these regional networks: South Asian Network for Environment and Developmental Economics (SANDEE), Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA, previously RANESA), and Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP). His first book, Environmental Economics: A Theoretical Inquiry (1974) is a foundational volume for environmental economics. keywords: economics; göran; insee; karl; mäler cache: ees-269.pdf plain text: ees-269.txt item: #55 of 204 id: ees-27 author: Baviskar , Amita title: The Duke Kunshan Conference on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Citizenship: 22–24 May 2017 date: 2018-04-03 words: 1287 flesch: 33 summary: DOI: https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v1i1.27 https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v1i1.27 Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal [118] To address this gap, the Global Asia Initiative at Duke University, together with Duke Kunshan University, held a conference on environmental justice and sustainable citizenship in May 2017. The meeting brought together scholars and practitioners who work on environmental questions in China and India from a variety of disciplinary perspectives for three days of informative and stimulating discussion. keywords: change; china; citizenship; conference; humanities cache: ees-27.pdf plain text: ees-27.txt item: #56 of 204 id: ees-273 author: Peddi, Dayakar; KS, Kavi Kumar title: Adoption of Soil Conservation Measures: Evidence from Rain-fed Watershed Areas of Telangana date: 2021-07-31 words: 8439 flesch: 52 summary: The findings also highlight the influence of conservation measures practised in the neighbourhood on farmers’ decisions to implement SWC measures. The model estimates suggest that out of the 14 variables that are hypothesized to influence the adoption of SWC measures, 6 are significant—soil erosion, crop diversity index, irrigation facility, neighbours’ adoption of conservation measures, distance to dwelling, and presence of IWMP interventions. keywords: adoption; area; conservation; erosion; farmers; household; iwmp; journal; land; level; measures; model; plot; practices; soil; study; swc; swc measures; variables; villages cache: ees-273.pdf plain text: ees-273.txt item: #57 of 204 id: ees-279 author: Bindra, Prerna Singh ; Gajjar, Chirag ; Ghosh, Arunabha ; Kumar, Manoj ; Lobo, Crispino ; Mukherjee, Digangana ; Nair, Pradeep ; Olsson, Shannon ; Pandit, Nitin; Patrao, Tina ; Ramakrishnan, Uma ; Ramanathan, Usha ; Shah, Nimish ; Shyamsundar, Priya ; Srinivas, Prashanth N. title: The Post-COVID India: : Making science and technology socially and environmentally relevant date: 2020-07-04 words: 2344 flesch: 33 summary: In May 2020, steered by the echo network, 1 the authors of this commentary—a group of economists, public health professionals, lawyers, environmental scholars, policymakers, activists, journalists, and CEOs— assembled over three online discussions to identify the urgent problems created, revealed, or exacerbated by the current crisis; clarify priorities for rejuvenating India; and establish immediate starting points. The authors represent a multi-disciplinary group brought together for a discussion on COVID-19 in May 2020 by the echo network, Center for Cellular and Molecular Platforms, (C-Camp), UAS-GKVK Campus, Bellary Road, Bangalore 560 065, India. keywords: ghosh; group; health; india; need; new; research; science; technology cache: ees-279.pdf plain text: ees-279.txt item: #58 of 204 id: ees-28 author: Gerber, Julien-François title: Field notes from the Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE), Budapest, Hungary: 20–23 June 2017 date: 2018-04-03 words: 1108 flesch: 36 summary: After a few years in South Asia, I was able to attend the Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) in Budapest, Hungary, 20–23 June 2017, and to reconnect with some of my European colleagues in the field of ecological economics. Among the regional societies for ecological economics, the ESEE is often seen as the one most closely sticking to the original heterodox roots of ecological economics. keywords: conference; economics; esee; growth cache: ees-28.pdf plain text: ees-28.txt item: #59 of 204 id: ees-283 author: Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala title: Living In, and Thinking About, the World in Pandemic Times date: 2020-07-04 words: 1126 flesch: 49 summary: Our Sustainable Development Goals, agreements to reduce [3] Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt fossil fuel use, and many other global initiatives and processes have already agreed to the ideal of a more sustainable, equal, and just world where humans and nature no longer act as adversaries. The environment—and its conservation—holds different meanings for different communities, and our quest for a more inclusive and sustainable future should be based on a deep understanding of these differences. keywords: future; pandemic; state; world cache: ees-283.pdf plain text: ees-283.txt item: #60 of 204 id: ees-297 author: Quinn, Terrance title: Lonergan's Contribution to Ecological Economics date: 2021-08-13 words: 5431 flesch: 49 summary: In Lonergan’s model, then, the economy is made up of two “sub-economies” (one for capital production and one for consumer production) that are linked and mutually dependent. According to Lonergan’s model, capital production is for consumer production, and consumer production provides the material basis for a standard of living. keywords: 2019; capital; consumer; ecology; economics; economy; goods; journal; lonergan; model; new; production cache: ees-297.pdf plain text: ees-297.txt item: #61 of 204 id: ees-299 author: Arfanuzzaman, Md.; Shaheduzzaman , Md. title: A Report on the National Workshop on “Strengthening National Capacity to Meet the Enhanced Transparency Framework of the Paris Agreement in Bangladesh” date: 2021-01-28 words: 1408 flesch: 31 summary: In general, there was a high degree of support from the participants for a formal memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the DoE and the respective entities on GHG data collection. He urged the project administration to set up a common and user-friendly platform for GHG data sharing and coordination to comply with the TCCCA (transparent, consistent, comparable, complete, and accurate) reporting principles. keywords: bangladesh; data; etf; reporting; requirements cache: ees-299.pdf plain text: ees-299.txt item: #62 of 204 id: ees-3 author: Chopra, Kanchan title: Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal date: 2020-02-29 words: 948 flesch: 43 summary: Other social sciences, meanwhile, question the basic paradigm of ‘homo economicus’, on which a number of its results are contingent. However, this has happened in many diverse ways—so diverse, indeed, that one can identify several ‘academic worlds’, each laying a claim to being the ‘most appropriate’ way of bridging the two divides referred to above. keywords: ecology; economics; society cache: ees-3.pdf plain text: ees-3.txt item: #63 of 204 id: ees-30 author: Chopra, Kanchan title: Analysing Human–Nature Interactions: allowing for Multiple Agents and Power Structures date: 2018-07-02 words: 656 flesch: 40 summary: Given our vantage point of South Asia, so-called ‘local’ issues such as air pollution and water governance as well as issues related to urban conglomerations seem to be in the forefront. We begin with a focus on environmental issues (other than climate change) that have captured media attention in the recent past. keywords: issues; society cache: ees-30.pdf plain text: ees-30.txt item: #64 of 204 id: ees-309 author: Sanyal , Kritishnu ; Kaur, Anupreet ; Dasgupta, Shyamasree title: So Near Yet So Far: A Narrative from a Forest-dwelling Gaddi Community in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh date: 2021-01-28 words: 2089 flesch: 44 summary: For forest management, there was neither a ―politics of collaboration‖ nor a ―politics of partnership‖ (Guha 2001, 232–233). This note briefly narrates two significant observations from the site on how the Gaddi villagers perceive the ―forest‖ as a natural resource and their thorough sense of alienation from the entire gamut of forest management practices. keywords: community; forest; indian; management; practices; services; society; villagers cache: ees-309.pdf plain text: ees-309.txt item: #65 of 204 id: ees-31 author: Perrings, Charles ; Kinzig, Ann title: Biological Conservation and Economic Theory date: 2018-07-02 words: 2825 flesch: 51 summary: The field of conservation biology was originally developed as the science required to preserve endangered wild species in protected areas. In this note we draw on a forthcoming book (Perrings 2019) to consider how the problem posed by conservation biology appears through the lens of economic theory. keywords: capital; conservation; growth; hotelling; resource; species; value cache: ees-31.pdf plain text: ees-31.txt item: #66 of 204 id: ees-315 author: Thomas, Bejoy ; Bhar, Soumyajit; Chakravarty, Shoibal title: Imagining Sustainability Beyond COVID-19 in India date: 2021-01-28 words: 2522 flesch: 44 summary: We looked at expenditure on food, non-food, and luxury items3 across households belonging to different income deciles for 2011–12, the latest available IHDS data (Figure 2). Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 4 (1): 13–20, January 2021 COMMENTARY Imagining Sustainability Beyond COVID-19 in India Bejoy K. Thomas,  Soumyajit Bhar  and Shoibal Chakravarty  Abstract: The COVID-19 lockdown in India saw a spate of news stories suggesting improvements in environmental conditions. keywords: 2020; air; covid-19; data; economy; income; india; lockdown cache: ees-315.pdf plain text: ees-315.txt item: #67 of 204 id: ees-32 author: Liu, Jianguo title: An Integrated Framework for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Around the World date: 2018-07-02 words: 2231 flesch: 45 summary: Regarding relationships between the focal country and other countries for achieving SDG 2, food trade and associated factors need to be considered. Of course, trade policy and diplomatic relationships between trade partners influence the amount and timing of food trade. keywords: countries; food; framework; scores; sdg; sdgs; trade cache: ees-32.pdf plain text: ees-32.txt item: #68 of 204 id: ees-33 author: Coelho , Karen title: Reading History and Power in Urban Landscapes: The Lens of Urban Political Ecology date: 2018-07-02 words: 4739 flesch: 44 summary: And finally, by highlighting histories of urban production, urban political ecology can not only help to assert non-property claims on urban space in terms that still carry some legitimacy (such as customary or grandfathered rights), but can also draw attention to the value of the investments and stocks built up over time in these incremental productions. Urban ecology, then, is not only an account of the interface between the city and its natures; it is about the co-production of urban nature and society or, in Swyngedouw’s (1996) formulation, the production of  Madras Institute of Development Studies, 79, Second Main Road, Gandhinagar, Adyar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 600 020; keywords: capital; chennai; city; coelho; ecology; land; nature; new; projects; spaces; urban; urbanization; water cache: ees-33.pdf plain text: ees-33.txt item: #69 of 204 id: ees-331 author: Sehgal, Shaina ; Babu, Suresh title: Economic Transformation of the Nicobar Islands Post-tsunami: A Material Import–Export Analysis date: 2021-07-31 words: 8406 flesch: 43 summary: Port Blair, India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands Administration, Government of India. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v4i2.331 mailto:ssehgal.13@stu.aud.ac.in mailto:suresh@aud.ac.in https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v4i2.331 Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal [120] Keywords: Physical Trade; Nicobar Islands; Economic Transformation; Natural Disaster; Tsunami. keywords: andaman; coconut; commodities; construction; development; ecology; economics; economy; exports; figure; food; great; imports; india; islands; journal; materials; nicobar; nicobar islands; nicobarese; society; trade; tsunami cache: ees-331.pdf plain text: ees-331.txt item: #70 of 204 id: ees-335 author: Singh, Rashmi ; Bhutia, Kinzong Sherap ; Bhutia, Tshering Uden ; Babu, Suresh title: Rangeland Conservation, Pastoralist Displacement, and Long-term Implications of a Grazing Ban in the Indian Himalaya date: 2022-02-11 words: 10041 flesch: 51 summary: 5.3 From Pastoralists to Farmers: Livelihood Change and Associated Challenges Ex-herders opted for a variety of livelihoods including cardamom cultivation and vegetable farming, rearing stall-fed animals, i.e., cattle and sheep, working as wage labourers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), running shops, and raising pack animals for trekking groups (Fig. 2). Historically, Gurungs and Mangers were shepherds, the Bhutia were traders and yak herders, Limbu were hunter-gatherers and shifting cultivators, the Chettris and Bahuns were agro-pastoralists, and the Tibetan Dokpas were nomadic yak herders (Tambe and Rawat 2009). keywords: animals; ban; bhutia; biodiversity; case; conservation; displacement; ecology; evictions; grazing; herders; india; journal; knp; livelihoods; park; pastoral; pastoralists; sikkim; singh; society; study; yak cache: ees-335.pdf plain text: ees-335.txt item: #71 of 204 id: ees-337 author: Manjula , M.; Devi , P. Indira title: Organic Farming in India : Catalysts that Can Help in Transition date: 2021-01-28 words: 3422 flesch: 33 summary: (2019) (detailed in Footnote 2) could be adopted to arrive at the per hectare value of non-market ecosystem services [27] M. Manjula and P. Indira Devi from organic farming, and the rupee value of the ecological incentive to be paid out as PES to organic farmers. Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 4 (1): 21–29, January 2021 COMMENTARY Organic Farming in India: Catalysts that Can Help in Transition M. Manjula  and P. Indira Devi  Abstract: Organic farming has been receiving policy support from both the central and state governments in India since 2005. keywords: agriculture; ecosystem; farmers; farming; india; market; organic; pes; policy; services; yield cache: ees-337.pdf plain text: ees-337.txt item: #72 of 204 id: ees-34 author: Mathur, Mihir ; Sharma, Kabir title: Modelling the Economics of Grassland Degradation in Banni, India, using System Dynamics date: 2018-07-02 words: 10881 flesch: 57 summary: 4. Ecological impacts of P. juliflora removal: The model does not capture the ecological impacts of removing P. juliflora from Banni grassland as the scientific and practical knowledge on it is found to be inconclusive. The model runs from 1992 to 2030, recreating the major dynamics seen between 1992 and 2014 and simulating future scenarios up to 2030 under a base case; policy implementation of P. juliflora removal; and a five-year-delay in the [37] Mihir Mathur and Kabir Sharma implementation of the policy of removing P. juliflora. keywords: 2012; area; banni; cent; charcoal; dynamics; figure; fodder; grassland; income; inr; juliflora; kankrej; livestock; model; net; rainfall; year cache: ees-34.pdf plain text: ees-34.txt item: #73 of 204 id: ees-344 author: Perrings, Charles; Espinoza , Baltazar title: Mobility Restrictions and the Control of COVID-19 date: 2021-01-28 words: 4896 flesch: 52 summary: In this paper, we discuss the implications of the Espinoza result for the effectiveness of COVID-19 disease control. The thresholds 1  t and 1  t denote the level of mobility required to reduce the total final epidemic size below that reached by applying the most extreme mobility restrictions (area quarantine), and the level of mobility needed to control a disease outbreak in the whole system, respectively. 3. COVID-19 AND THE 2020 RECESSION Estimating the cost of disease control measures is complicated by the fact that the pandemic coincided with an expected downturn in the economy. keywords: community; control; covid-19; disease; epidemic; espinoza; health; mobility; perrings; restrictions; risk; size; trade cache: ees-344.pdf plain text: ees-344.txt item: #74 of 204 id: ees-347 author: Kumar, Deepak title: Culture and Land in the Making of Rural Bengal: Review of Suhita Sinha Roy. 2019. The Cultural Economy of Land: Rural Bengal 1860-1940. New Delhi: Tulika Books. date: 2021-01-28 words: 1424 flesch: 56 summary: Despite the book’s excellent and compelling discussion on how notions of land shaped colonial rural Bengal, one is still left with a few questions. The Cultural Economy of Land: Rural Bengal 1860- 1940. keywords: bengal; book; economy; land; roy cache: ees-347.pdf plain text: ees-347.txt item: #75 of 204 id: ees-35 author: Bandyopadhyay , Jayanta title: On Water Governance: Editorial Note: Emerging Knowledge Should Prevail in Water Governance date: 2018-07-02 words: 356 flesch: 43 summary: The Conversation actually makes it clear that in addressing the grave challenges in water governance in India, replacement of the obscure perception of water governance as practised by a more informed and  Editor and Coordinator for this Conversations section. The Conversation makes it clear that such a transition is yet to arrive in formal water governance in India. keywords: water cache: ees-35.pdf plain text: ees-35.txt item: #76 of 204 id: ees-357 author: Jain, Sarandha title: A Wealth of Information in a Novel Narrative: Review of Dolly Kikon. 2019. Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India (Culture, Place, and Nature). Seattle: University of Washington Press. date: 2021-01-28 words: 1773 flesch: 57 summary: Hannah Appel (2012, 2019) has illustrated the role of capitalist economies in allowing oil sites to disengage with the local, while Kikon‘s research demonstrates their entanglements with the local. The growing literature on oil extraction suggests that living with oil implies living with violence, as it isn‘t just an effect of extraction but has been fundamental to fossil fuel production (Sawyer 2004; Vitalis 2007; Watts 2008; Shever 2012). keywords: oil; people; press; state; university cache: ees-357.pdf plain text: ees-357.txt item: #77 of 204 id: ees-358 author: Roy, Brototi title: A Report of the Third Biennial POLLEN (Political Ecology Network) Conference, 2020 date: 2021-01-28 words: 1210 flesch: 37 summary: North, South and Beyond‖. Unlike most conferences, POLLEN 2020 did not have a closing plenary. The fourth and final keynote, called ―Troubling Nature and Political Ecology: Feminists in The Capitalocene‖, was a roundtable discussing feminist political ecology. keywords: conference; ecology; keynote; pollen cache: ees-358.pdf plain text: ees-358.txt item: #78 of 204 id: ees-36 author: Ghosh , Nilanjan title: On Water Governance: From a Reductionist Paradigm to a Holistic One: Combining Ecology, Economics, Engineering, and Social Sciences in a Transdisciplinary Framework for Water Governance date: 2018-07-02 words: 1256 flesch: 36 summary: The water bureaucracy and technocracy in South Asia still believes that it is ‘scarcity’, delineated as scant physical availability of water, that leads to water conflicts. Mihir Shah, in this conversation, has provided a succinct analysis of the existence of the outmoded British Common Law as the backbone of the legal framework for water governance in India, as also the outdated knowledge of the present day bureaucracy and technocracy to address the new emerging challenges of water governance. keywords: basin; governance; india; water cache: ees-36.pdf plain text: ees-36.txt item: #79 of 204 id: ees-363 author: Das, Sukanya; Murty, MN; Sardana, Kavita title: Using Economic Instruments to Fix the Liability of Polluters in India: Assessment of the Information Required and Identification of Gaps date: 2021-07-31 words: 8137 flesch: 48 summary: Given the higher ambient standards of air pollution in urban areas, there is a permissible pollution load that needs to be achieved to realize them. In Section 5, we discuss data requirements and gaps for using taxes and permits to control air pollution in India. keywords: abatement; air; control; cost; emissions; estimates; india; inr; instruments; murty; pollution; prices; quality; standards; water cache: ees-363.pdf plain text: ees-363.txt item: #80 of 204 id: ees-37 author: Arthington, Angela H title: On Water Governance: Environmental Flow Concepts and Holistic Applications in River Basin Governance date: 2018-07-02 words: 1241 flesch: 28 summary: This e- flows study is remarkable for its special emphasis on the social-cultural, religious, and livelihood importance of this river – cultural bathing rituals during Kumbh events cannot be performed unless river flows are sufficient and water levels adequate. The first methods to estimate e-flows were simple hydrological rules, such as minimum flows or baseflows, or the retention of an arbitrary proportion (percentage) of annual river flows for environmental purposes. keywords: basin; ecosystems; flows; river; water cache: ees-37.pdf plain text: ees-37.txt item: #81 of 204 id: ees-373 author: Bhatt, Tanay; Chowdhury, Vidisha; Somanathan, E title: A Report on the 14th Annual Meeting of the Environment for Development (EfD) Initiative date: 2021-01-28 words: 1435 flesch: 41 summary: It brings together researchers from various EfD centres, their collaborators, and other key stakeholders for the exchange of research ideas, discussion of research proposals, and presentation of results from EfD projects. Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 4 (1): 157–160, January 2021 REPORT A Report on the 14th Annual Meeting of the Environment for Development (EfD) Initiative Tanay Raj Bhatt,  Vidisha Chowdhury,  and E. Somanathan  The 14th Annual Meeting of the Environment for Development (EfD) Initiative (https://efdinitiative.org/) was held virtually during 16–20 November 2020. keywords: climate; economics; efd; gender; research cache: ees-373.pdf plain text: ees-373.txt item: #82 of 204 id: ees-374 author: Pattnaik, Ayesha title: Conservation Dilemmas in Contemporary India: Review of Ghazala Shahabuddin and K. Sivaramakrishnan, eds. 2019. Nature Conservation in the New Economy. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. date: 2021-01-28 words: 1179 flesch: 36 summary: Like the earlier essay by Vikas, Sinha too asserts that conservation policies need to go beyond treating these urban ecologies as merely aesthetic contributions and instead should acknowledge them for the important services they provide as wetland ecosystems. In the final essay, Archana Bali and Kartik Shanker weigh the effectiveness of certain kinds of conservation policies within coffee plantations located in the Western Ghats. keywords: communities; conservation; economy; essay; india cache: ees-374.pdf plain text: ees-374.txt item: #83 of 204 id: ees-376 author: Chorran, Tenzin ; Kuchimanchi, Bhavana Rao ; Karmakar, Shreya ; Sharma, Himani ; Ghosh , Debarupa ; Priyadarshini , Pratiti title: Understanding How Local-level Environment Stewardship Initiatives Increase Livelihood Resilience to Climate Change: Insights from Rajasthan, India date: 2021-01-28 words: 8144 flesch: 47 summary: While efforts are being made by the institution to reduce conflicts, encroachments still exist and the regeneration rate of forest resources is also comparatively low. In Cheetarawas, in spite of the high incidence of conflicts and low regeneration rate of forest products, there has been a significant improvement in the availability of forest resources, since the VFPMC was formed, thus providing benefits to communities, particularly buffering them from losses in agriculture and livestock production. keywords: adaptation; agriculture; bhilwara; change; climate; communities; cprs; forest; hhs; india; lands; livestock; management; resources; sites; study; systems; udaipur cache: ees-376.pdf plain text: ees-376.txt item: #84 of 204 id: ees-377 author: Adhikari , Bhim title: The Economics of Common Pool Resources: A Review date: 2021-01-28 words: 6878 flesch: 42 summary: As a strong researcher and practitioner, he advocated for the right policy intervention in managing local commons by creating a set of synergies such that different sections of the community can benefit from common property resources management. In recent years, resource management under a common property regime has emerged a major policy agenda in land reform; land titling; conservation of forest, grazing, and wildlife resources; fisheries management; water management, and so on. keywords: action; commons; community; cprs; development; economic; forest; institutions; jodha; management; property; resource; rights; users cache: ees-377.pdf plain text: ees-377.txt item: #85 of 204 id: ees-378 author: Murali, Ranjini ; Bijoor, Ajay ; Mishra , Charudutt title: Gender and the Commons: Water Management in Trans-Himalayan Spiti Valley, India date: 2021-01-28 words: 4075 flesch: 58 summary: We found that gender, class, and caste intersected in the governance of irrigation water. Snow melt is the main source of irrigation water, which is brought to the fields using water channels that are repaired before the start of irrigation each year and are maintained through the growing period. keywords: caste; chechang; gender; households; irrigation; land; rights; system; water; women cache: ees-378.pdf plain text: ees-378.txt item: #86 of 204 id: ees-38 author: Shah, Mihir title: On Water Governance: Reforming Governance to Solve India’s Water Crisis date: 2018-07-02 words: 1267 flesch: 46 summary: Lack of transparency and access to water information: Needless secrecy of water data and information and restricted access for researchers and stakeholders over the years has compromised the quality of water management and exacerbated conflicts. While there is growing recognition both on the ground and among researchers and policymakers about the gravity of the water crisis, what is not adequately understood is the link between this crisis and the ossified structures of water governance in India. keywords: groundwater; india; river; water cache: ees-38.pdf plain text: ees-38.txt item: #87 of 204 id: ees-39 author: Dayal , Vikram title: On Air Pollution: Editorial Note date: 2018-07-02 words: 511 flesch: 49 summary: First, Ashish Kothari sees air pollution in Delhi as a symptom of the wrong model of development. Negi draws attention to the Punjab chief minister saying that the central government has to lead such efforts; Shyamsundar closes her piece by suggesting that the central government’s announcement of a subsidy package to help farmers who stop burning straw—along with other measures—could reduce pollution and lead to longer-term food security. keywords: delhi; pollution cache: ees-39.pdf plain text: ees-39.txt item: #88 of 204 id: ees-396 author: Nagendra, Harini; Mukhopadhyay, Pranab ; Ghate, Rucha title: Celebrating Jodha: And Revisiting the Commons date: 2021-01-28 words: 4311 flesch: 48 summary: As the population in South Asia becomes increasingly urban and the poor migrate to urban spaces for their livelihood, the role of urban commons needs to be looked at from multiple dimensions. With some estimates indicating that India will become more than 50% urban in a couple of decades (Nagendra et al. 2018), CPR research in India must significantly expand its focus to consider urban commons in detail. keywords: commons; cprs; data; india; jodha; journal; nagendra; research; society; urban; work cache: ees-396.pdf plain text: ees-396.txt item: #89 of 204 id: ees-4 author: Vatn, Arild title: Institutional Economics—The Economics of Ecological Economics! date: 2020-03-02 words: 1742 flesch: 40 summary: While I observe several alternatives that may offer progress, I will in this short paper show what institutional economics, as an alternative, can offer ecological economics. Institutional economics can largely be divided into two main schools— ‗new‘ and ‗classic‘. keywords: economics; institutions; new; society cache: ees-4.pdf plain text: ees-4.txt item: #90 of 204 id: ees-40 author: Kothari, Ashish title: On Air Pollution: To Tackle Air Pollution, One Needs to be Grounded date: 2018-07-02 words: 1105 flesch: 48 summary: So when Delhi’s horrific air pollution issue took up prime time this winter, I found it ironically welcome. Secondly, while air pollution affects everyone, it affects the poor (and especially women and children) more. keywords: air; india; pollution; power cache: ees-40.pdf plain text: ees-40.txt item: #91 of 204 id: ees-401 author: Levin, Simon A. title: Mathematical Ecology, Evolution and the Social Sciences date: 2021-01-28 words: 2833 flesch: 46 summary: Arrow, K. J., P. R. Ehrlich, and S. A. Levin. Chave, J., and S. A. Levin. keywords: ecology; economics; evolution; levin; social; theory cache: ees-401.pdf plain text: ees-401.txt item: #92 of 204 id: ees-403 author: Chopra, Kanchan title: Nature and Socio-Economic Systems: A Narrative of Conflict and Adaptation date: 2021-01-28 words: 995 flesch: 46 summary: Note, however, that studies have shown that land use change contributes in a non-trivial way to the emergence of vector borne and zoonotic diseases. Meanwhile, another common unifying force, nature, remains unheeded in many ways. keywords: journal; pandemic; socio cache: ees-403.pdf plain text: ees-403.txt item: #93 of 204 id: ees-41 author: Negi , Rohit title: On Air Pollution: Regionalizing Air: On the Possibilities of Transborder Collaborations date: 2018-07-02 words: 911 flesch: 45 summary: The transboundary nature of air pollution is well recognized today. In their analysis of the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP), which brings together 51 countries of Europe and North America to monitor and ameliorate air pollution, Lidskog and Sundqvist (2012) elaborate on what they consider the preconditions for such collaboration. keywords: air; delhi; pollution; science cache: ees-41.pdf plain text: ees-41.txt item: #94 of 204 id: ees-414 author: Singh, Chandni ; Patil, Sheetal; Poonacha, Prathigna; Koduganti, Maitreyi; Sharma, Swarnika title: When the “Field” Moves Online: Reflections on Virtual Data Collection during COVID-19 date: 2021-07-31 words: 2779 flesch: 38 summary: Many chose to speak to 7 In two cases, people we contacted were unable to set up online interviews because they felt farm visits would be more suitable to demonstrate the practices and outcomes of urban agriculture. This field note describes our experiences with online data collection in Pune and Bengaluru during the first year of UPAGrI, January 2020–2021. keywords: bengaluru; collection; data; field; interviews; online; research; respondents cache: ees-414.pdf plain text: ees-414.txt item: #95 of 204 id: ees-42 author: Shyamsundar, Priya title: On Air Pollution: Can We Use Delhi’s Air Pollution Crisis to Improve Agriculture? date: 2018-07-02 words: 961 flesch: 51 summary: In Punjab, the health costs associated with bad air from straw burning are estimated to be some Rs 76 million per year, or Rs 3 per ton of rice residue produced (Kumar et al. 2015). However, one source of pollution— rice straw burning in the Indo-Gangetic plains—emerges as a particularly significant problem during the winter. keywords: burning; delhi; pollution; rice; straw cache: ees-42.pdf plain text: ees-42.txt item: #96 of 204 id: ees-43 author: Unnikrishnan , Hita title: Thinking Beyond Fairy Lights and Fountains: Lessons from the Waterscape of Bengaluru date: 2018-07-02 words: 1943 flesch: 51 summary: People use lake water to bathe and wash clothes and utensils, notwithstanding the pollution level; sometimes, they even drink it. It was a glimpse into how the idea of urban Bengaluru as a city of educated, elite upper and middle classes has permeated the identity of the city to the  Urban Institute, ICOSS, The University of Sheffield, 219, Portobello, Sheffield S1 4DP, United Kingdom and Azim Premji University, PES Campus, Pixel Park, B Block, Electronics City, Hosur Road (Beside Nice Road), Bengaluru 560100, Karnataka, India; h.unnikrishnan@sheffield.ac.uk; hita.unnikrishnan@apu.edu.in Copyright © Unnikrishnan 2018. keywords: bengaluru; city; lakes; nagendra; urban; village; water cache: ees-43.pdf plain text: ees-43.txt item: #97 of 204 id: ees-44 author: Thomas, Liya ; V, Sanoop ; Rodrigues , Vinita title: The Forest Game: Field Experiments as a Means to Influence Mental Models date: 2018-07-02 words: 1658 flesch: 40 summary: These statements reflect that communities understand the social-cultural and ecological relevance of forests, and that these should be considered in making decisions for forest governance The potential of the game to trigger action for better forest governance was demonstrated during a community debrief in Gogunda block of Rajasthan, Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal The game is followed by a community debrief, which attempts to trigger discussion around the playing pattern and how it influenced the condition of the forest, thereby initiating dialogue on aspects of collective action for forest governance. keywords: community; forest; game; governance; players cache: ees-44.pdf plain text: ees-44.txt item: #98 of 204 id: ees-45 author: Dobhal , Harsh title: Envisioning a Just and Sustainable Society: Review of Ashish Kothari and K J Joy, eds. 2017. Alternative Futures: India Unshackled, New Delhi: Authors Upfront date: 2018-07-02 words: 1037 flesch: 31 summary: Alternative Futures: India Unshackled, New Delhi: Authors Upfront, ISBN: 9788193392478; pp. 704, INR 995 Alternative Futures is a compelling collection of thought-provoking essays on how India’s several political, economic, environmental, and social challenges might play out towards a hopeful future. Nonetheless, the essays in Alternative Futures remain useful for not only helping us understand the many social, economic, political, and environmental ills that afflict contemporary India. keywords: alternative; essays; futures; india cache: ees-45.pdf plain text: ees-45.txt item: #99 of 204 id: ees-456 author: Mahapatra, Aurko title: Economics for the Everyday date: 2021-07-31 words: 890 flesch: 53 summary: These slick and quick-witted 1Third-year student of BSc Economics, Erasmus University, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam, Netherlands; aurko.mahapatra@gmail.com. In other words, if complementarities are involved, one lagging behind the other most certainly leads to inefficient outcomes. keywords: economics; sarangi; things cache: ees-456.pdf plain text: ees-456.txt item: #100 of 204 id: ees-457 author: Ray, Avishek title: Rethinking Delhi, When Ecological Consciousness Crosses Paths with Bourgeoise Imaginaries date: 2021-07-31 words: 1418 flesch: 44 summary: Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 4 (2): 165-168, July 2021 BOOK REVIEW Rethinking Delhi, When ecological Consciousness crosses paths with Bourgeoise Imaginaries Avishek Ray1 Amita Baviskar, Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi, New Delhi: SAGE-Yoda Press, 2020, pp. [168] publicly funded Delhi University to the privately managed Ashoka University, which, for me, contravenes the persuasiveness of some of the arguments she presents in the book. keywords: baviskar; book; city; delhi; ecology cache: ees-457.pdf plain text: ees-457.txt item: #101 of 204 id: ees-461 author: Singh, Simron J; Talwar, Simran ; Shenoy, Megha title: Why Socio-metabolic Studies are Central to Ecological Economics date: 2021-07-31 words: 7818 flesch: 34 summary: [30] Table 1: Domestic Material Consumption Trends in Top Industrial Regions Country DMC (tonnes) per capita in 2015 CAGR* between 1990 and 2015 (%) Australia 38.38 –0.07 China 23.65 5.92 United States of America 21.14 –1.01 Europe 13.84 –0.05 Japan 9.38 –1.37 India 5.34 1.96 Source: Talwar (2019), based on Dittrich (2014); UNEP-IRP (2018); OECD (2016) *Compound annual growth rate Shah, Dong, and Park (2020) compare trade, material flows, and resource efficiency indicators for Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan over four decades from 1978 to 2017. The authors quantified material flows for 7 resource categories and 11 self-organized symbiotic relationships within a 42-firm dataset from the Nanjangud industrial area in Karnataka. keywords: april; development; ecology; economic; economy; energy; environment; et al; flows; haberl; india; journal; krausmann; material; research; resource; shenoy; singh; smr; society; socio; sustainability; use cache: ees-461.pdf plain text: ees-461.txt item: #102 of 204 id: ees-463 author: Srinivasan, Umesh; Shanker, Kartik title: Making Nature Count: Reflections on The Dasgupta Review date: 2021-07-31 words: 3010 flesch: 49 summary: However, an issue that TEB does not address is the political ecology of biodiversity conservation. We need more creative forms of natural resource ownership and management that can assure tenure to local communities and customary practices while simultaneously ensuring positive environmental and biodiversity outcomes. keywords: biodiversity; change; climate; conservation; earth; ecology; resources; society cache: ees-463.pdf plain text: ees-463.txt item: #103 of 204 id: ees-464 author: S Raina, Rajeswari title: Conserving Economics for Biodiversity: Reflections on “The Dasgupta Review” date: 2021-07-31 words: 2506 flesch: 41 summary: “Nature Is a Blind Spot in Economics that We Ignore at our Peril, says Dasgupta Review.” Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 4 (2): 13-19, July 2021 COMMENTARY Conserving Economics for Biodiversity: Reflections on “The Dasgupta Review” Rajeswari S Raina1 Abstract: The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review (Dasgupta 2021), henceforth the Review, tells us that we are embedded in Nature and our economies are bounded within Nature. keywords: biodiversity; capital; economics; economy; nature; review; wealth cache: ees-464.pdf plain text: ees-464.txt item: #104 of 204 id: ees-47 author: Agrawal , Arun ; Rutt, Rebecca ; Watkins , Cristy title: Engaging the Forests and Livelihoods Community: The 3rd Annual FLARE Network Meeting date: 2018-07-02 words: 1332 flesch: 28 summary: Forests and forest products (still) matter to the livelihoods of the poor Presenters identified direct benefits from forests (e.g., nutrition from hunting, fishing, and foraging activities) and indirect benefits (e.g., income  Effective forest management requires cross-scale coordination and attention to power dynamics Power dynamics was a ubiquitous theme, especially in sessions exploring community engagement in forest management. keywords: flare; forest; livelihoods; research; tools cache: ees-47.pdf plain text: ees-47.txt item: #105 of 204 id: ees-479 author: Basappa, Shivanand Savatagi title: Self-care or Delay in Seeking Healthcare: Reflections from the Field date: 2021-07-31 words: 2099 flesch: 54 summary: Homemakers play a significant role in the prevention of many diseases and the promotion of health through their nutrition-based interventions. What Is Health, Disease, and keywords: care; disease; health; healthcare; participants; practices; self cache: ees-479.pdf plain text: ees-479.txt item: #106 of 204 id: ees-48 author: Nawn, Nandan title: A Report on the INSEE Ninth Biennial Conference on Sustainability, Institutions, Incentives: Voices, Policies and Commitments date: 2018-07-02 words: 1502 flesch: 25 summary: In one panel, titled ‘Environment, Climate Change, Biodiversity and Local Governance’, and chaired by the Director, Directorate of Environment and Climate Change, Government of Kerala, speakers ranged from the Secretary of Kerala State Biodiversity Board to the President of the Meenangadi Gram Panchayat to representatives of the Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad to the Secretary of the Forum of Environment Journalists in India. This session aimed to show teachers of environmental economics how to use this game to explain the potential of the inclusive wealth index in negotiating with policy trade-offs at both a point of time, say, between health, education, and GDP growth, as well as across time. keywords: change; climate; economics; insee; kerala; society cache: ees-48.pdf plain text: ees-48.txt item: #107 of 204 id: ees-486 author: Ankur Jain; Neela Madhaba Sheekha; Sandip Tanu title: Agricultural Sustainability in the North Eastern Region of India: A Sustainable Livelihood Security Index (SLSI) Approach date: 2022-07-24 words: 7035 flesch: 48 summary: The findings show that the value of the SLSI ranged from 0.37 to 0.56 among the North Eastern states, which shows low agricultural sustainability. : This paper offers an economic analysis of agricultural sustainability in the North Eastern Region (NER) of India by calculating the sustainable livelihood security index (SLSI) of each state. keywords: agriculture; assam; development; food; index; india; mizoram; ner; north; region; security; slsi; states; sustainability cache: ees-486.pdf plain text: ees-486.txt item: #108 of 204 id: ees-487 author: Deb, Debal title: The Erosion of Biodiversity and Culture: Bankura District of West Bengal as an Illustrative Locale date: 2022-02-11 words: 13008 flesch: 53 summary: While old-growth trees are now extremely rare in the forest, due to the rotational felling of sal trees since [151] Debal Deb the 1970s, corruption in the FD, in collusion with a few political heads in the village-level administration, has destroyed many village forests outside the FD’s jurisdiction. [144] sacred groves were compiled in multiple line transects, while belt transects (3 km × 50 m) were employed for inventorying roadside vegetations, as described in my respective publications (Deb 2007a; Deb 2014; Deb and Roy 2021; Deb et al. 2018). keywords: animal; bankura; bankura district; bengal; biodiversity; bishnupur; block; conservation; crop; cultures; deb; debal; debal deb; development; district; ecology; economy; ecosystem; forest; groves; india; insee; journal; landraces; loss; new; pond; process; rice; sgs; society; species; state; trees; use; value; village; west; wild cache: ees-487.pdf plain text: ees-487.txt item: #109 of 204 id: ees-49 author: Bawa, Kamal title: Environment, Sustainability and Equity date: 2019-01-31 words: 517 flesch: 39 summary: Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 2 (1): 1–2, January 2019 EDITORIAL Environment, Sustainability and Equity Kamal Bawa  This first issue of the second volume of Ecology, Economy and Society continues the tone set up by the first volume that focused on humanity’s predicament to reconcile economic development with the need to foster environmental sustainability and achieve equity and social justice in the use of commons. The special section on ecological conflicts further highlights the inadequacy of existing institutions to address environmental justice to the detriment of both the environment and society. keywords: ecology; society cache: ees-49.pdf plain text: ees-49.txt item: #110 of 204 id: ees-492 author: Suraj Das; Priya title: Food Choices and Beliefs: Factors Influencing Dietary Preferences in Chandigarh, India date: 2022-02-11 words: 6275 flesch: 50 summary: We utilized data from this preliminary cross-sectional study i) to explore the impacts of socio-cultural and socio-ecological factors, and ii) to examine the impact of demographic and lifestyle factors on traditional food choices and eating practices. Yet, there are multiple research gaps; most research related to food beliefs and behaviours in India focus on the nutritional content of traditional food choices rather than exploring the socio-cultural belief systems attached to them (Tirodkar et al. 2011). keywords: beliefs; chandigarh; change; choices; climate; culture; factors; food; habits; india; journal; norms; society; socio; study cache: ees-492.pdf plain text: ees-492.txt item: #111 of 204 id: ees-50 author: Røpke , Inge title: Sustainability Transitions from an Ecological Economic Perspective date: 2019-01-31 words: 2182 flesch: 42 summary: The concept of sustainability transition is widely used, and the desirability of such transitions is generally emphasized. This brief commentary introduces an ecological economic perspective on sustainability transitions, which can be considered one of the more radical versions of the concept. keywords: economics; economy; energy; røpke; studies; sustainability; systems; transitions cache: ees-50.pdf plain text: ees-50.txt item: #112 of 204 id: ees-509 author: Chauhan, Ayushi title: Revisiting Regulations : Air Pollution and Colonial Urbanism date: 2022-02-11 words: 1321 flesch: 40 summary: Awadhendra Sharan’s Dust and Smoke clearly deflects from these thematic concerns and explores the history and visualization of smoke as a nuisance in the sprawling colonial cities of Calcutta and Bombay. The importance given to the rising middle class, however, worked to breed administrative neglect towards the domestic smoke originating from poor working-class homes, which continued to inversely impact the skies of Bombay and Calcutta. Dust and Smoke: Air Pollution and Colonial Urbanism makes a compelling case of why we should examine the journey of smoke in India. keywords: air; bombay; calcutta; smoke cache: ees-509.pdf plain text: ees-509.txt item: #113 of 204 id: ees-51 author: Kabra , Asmita title: Ecological Critiques of Exclusionary Conservation date: 2019-01-31 words: 6991 flesch: 39 summary: Since the late 1990s, an important new debate on exclusionary versus mixed-use landscapes has emerged from ecologists studying the links between agricultural expansion and biodiversity conservation, especially in the context of growing global demand for food (Adams 2012; McLaughlin 2011). “Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification.” keywords: areas; biodiversity; biological; conservation; ecology; exclusionary; forest; human; india; landscapes; management; nature; society; species; tiger; use cache: ees-51.pdf plain text: ees-51.txt item: #114 of 204 id: ees-523 author: Nawn, Nandan title: Ecology and Socialism to Ecosocialism: Roots and Branches date: 2021-07-31 words: 1309 flesch: 51 summary: Chapter 11, aptly titled “A Science for the People”, and the epilogue follow a ground-up approach in dissecting movements that were “new forms of struggle devoted to anti-racism, anti-imperialism, peace, and the promotion of a global human ecology” (p. 457). The Return of Nature will especially interest those who are keen to understand the intellectual journeys of “numerous socialists and radical materialists” (p. 12), including those in the natural sciences, such as “Fabian-style socialist ecologist” Arthur Tansley (p. 8); “red scientists” JD Bernal, JBS Haldane, Joseph Needham, and Hyman Levy (p. 8); “left Darwinian” E Ray Lankester (p. 7); and “radical humanist” Lancelot Hogben (p. 334). keywords: ecology; foster; nature; society cache: ees-523.pdf plain text: ees-523.txt item: #115 of 204 id: ees-524 author: Chopra, Kanchan title: Thinking Ahead Towards Converging Perspectives date: 2021-07-31 words: 1075 flesch: 43 summary: Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 4 (2): 1–3, July 2021 EDITORIAL Thinking Ahead Towards Converging Perspectives Kanchan Chopra 1 As this issue of the Journal is published, at this crucial juncture in history, when the global pandemic seems to be relentless, the good news is that more holistic thinking and action on environmental issues is emerging all around. And how will it translate into the kind of change we need in human behaviour? keywords: biodiversity; change; human; impact cache: ees-524.pdf plain text: ees-524.txt item: #116 of 204 id: ees-53 author: Martinez-Alier, Joan ; Roy , Brototi title: Editorial: Some Insights on the Role of Violence date: 2019-01-31 words: 1493 flesch: 41 summary: In political ecology, the terms socio-environmental conflict, environmental conflict or EDC are interchangeable. From the many cases of environmental conflict included in this and other inventories (Roy, 2018), they select only a few in Odisha and Tamil Nadu for examining “extreme violence against environmental defenders” (a variable for which India appears to score at the world average) to other forms of violence: structural, cultural and ecological. keywords: alier; conflicts; distribution; environmental; india cache: ees-53.pdf plain text: ees-53.txt item: #117 of 204 id: ees-530 author: Bahinipati, Chandra Sekhar ; Sirohi, Rahul A; Rao, Sagarika S title: Technological Innovations, Behavioural Interventions, and Household Energy Conservation: Policy Insights and Lessons date: 2022-02-11 words: 9905 flesch: 45 summary: However, the relationship between economic development and energy use turned out to be far more complex than what classical economists initially predicted. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, the world has witnessed ever increasing rates of energy use (Vance et al. 2015; Pablo– Romero and De Jesús 2016; Malm 2016). keywords: allcott; behaviour; choices; consumer; consumption; demand; economics; efficiency; electricity; energy; et al; households; india; information; interventions; journal; policy; price; social; studies; technologies; use cache: ees-530.pdf plain text: ees-530.txt item: #118 of 204 id: ees-536 author: K.S., Kavi Kumar; R.C., Bhatta; Mukhopadhyay, Pranab; L.R., Anneboina; P., Naren; Nath, Megha; Sharan, Abhijit; Ghosh, Santadas; V., da Costa; Pednekar, Sulochana title: Valuation of Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services in India date: 2022-02-11 words: 10247 flesch: 47 summary: In the current valuation exercise, only the use values of coastal ecosystem services are estimated, including the benefits obtained from the direct or indirect use of ecosystem services. Thus, in such cases, market data such as price, quantity, and cost information has been used to value coastal ecosystem services. keywords: carbon; coastal; cost; desalination; economic; ecosystem; ecosystem services; environmental; india; mangroves; marine; market; national; seawater; sequestration; services; studies; study; total; valuation; value; water; year cache: ees-536.pdf plain text: ees-536.txt item: #119 of 204 id: ees-54 author: Bisht , Arpita title: Discontent, Conflict, Social Resistance and Violence at Non-metallic Mining Frontiers in India date: 2019-01-31 words: 4753 flesch: 43 summary: For instance, in Gwalior district of Madhya Pradesh, illegal sand mining is rampant within the National Chambal Wildlife Sanctuary, which is home to critically endangered amphibian the gharial. Forest officials have been taking action against illegal sand mining in the Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal keywords: cases; conflicts; construction; development; extraction; extractivism; india; minerals; mining; operations; sand; sand mining cache: ees-54.pdf plain text: ees-54.txt item: #120 of 204 id: ees-545 author: Vinay Sankar title: The Political Ecology of Rural Community Ponds in Kerala, India: A Quantitative Study date: 2022-07-30 words: 12460 flesch: 48 summary: Table 2: Select Determinants of Collective Action S.No Factors of institutional strength Number of respondents that answered in the affirmative 1 Existence of rules for extraction of pond waters 115 To capture elements of a potential countermovement (Polanyi 2001), I also asked specific questions related to resistance to unsustainable or unjust usage of the pond (such as commercial-scale fish rearing in public ponds, diversion of pond waters for major irrigation, and dumping of waste) through deliberations in the panchayat. keywords: access; commons; community; ecology; economic; economy; governance; india; journal; kerala; land; number; ostrom; panchayat; ponds; respondent; score; social; society; state; study; usage; utilization; water cache: ees-545.pdf plain text: ees-545.txt item: #121 of 204 id: ees-55 author: Fanari, Eleonora title: Relocation from protected areas as a violent process in the recent history of biodiversity conservation in India date: 2019-01-31 words: 10156 flesch: 41 summary: “Funds delay hampering village relocation for tiger corridor.” If we analyse this from a policy perspective, this ground scenario contradicts Forest Rights Act (FRA) discussed above that acknowledges communities forest rights and cohabitation; this scenario is also in contradiction with several of international measures adopted by UN and ILO, which recognize tenure rights and the rights of the indigenous people as essential in the conservation management discourse. keywords: 2015; act; areas; communities; conservation; eviction; families; fanari; forest; forest rights; fra; india; journal; national; park; people; relocation; reserve; rights; society; tiger; villages; wildlife cache: ees-55.pdf plain text: ees-55.txt item: #122 of 204 id: ees-56 author: Roy, Brototi; Martinez-Alier, Joan title: Environmental Justice Movements in India: An analysis of the multiple manifestations of violence date: 2019-01-31 words: 6127 flesch: 53 summary: In the EJAtlas the proportion of environmental conflict cases in India where environmental defenders (one or more) have been killed is about 12 per cent, roughly similar to the proportion in the world in general, larger than in Europe, lower than in Latin America. There are many studies that have analysed the interplay between environmental conflicts, violence and power relations (Omeje 2013; Peluso and Watts 2001). keywords: 2018; alier; cases; conflicts; ecology; ejatlas; environmental; india; intensity; justice; land; martinez; movement; people; plant; violence cache: ees-56.pdf plain text: ees-56.txt item: #123 of 204 id: ees-567 author: Bandyopadhyay, Sunando; Bandyopadhyay, Sumana ; Dasgupta, Susmita; Mallik, Chinmoyee; Wheeler, David title: Discounting Disaster: Land Markets and Climate Change in the Indian Sundarbans date: 2022-07-24 words: 7710 flesch: 50 summary: We find that land price falls significantly with plot size, as reported in most of the empirical literature on land price determination in developed countries. : Data scarcity has hindered studies on the impacts of climate change on land prices in the coastal regions of developing countries. keywords: areas; bandyopadhyay; climate; cyclone; damage; dasgupta; data; economics; impact; indian; journal; land; prices; results; risk; salinity; storm; sundarbans; wheeler cache: ees-567.pdf plain text: ees-567.txt item: #124 of 204 id: ees-57 author: Gupta , Shivani ; Das , Sukanya ; Murty , M.N. title: Quantifying Air Pollution Vulnerability and its Distributional Consequences: some perspectives from Delhi date: 2019-01-31 words: 11222 flesch: 44 summary: Some other studies, on the other hand, examine SES as a modifier in the association between air pollution exposure and its health impact. However, with all residents clubbed, results showed no status prejudice in air pollution exposure attributable to the housing mechanism in Hong Kong, where the poor live in government-provided housing with relatively better air quality. keywords: air; air pollution; benefits; data; delhi; exposure; family; function; health; household; index; journal; members; mitigating; model; pollution; pollution exposure; reduction; ses; socio; status; study; variables; vulnerability cache: ees-57.pdf plain text: ees-57.txt item: #125 of 204 id: ees-59 author: Geevan , Chandanathil P. ; Dixit , Arun M. ; Silori , Chandra S. title: Importance of Tightly Coupled Equations in Modelling Grassland Ecological Economics: A response to “Modelling the Economics of Grassland Degradation in Banni, India, using System Dynamics” (Mihir Mathur and Kabir Sharma, EES, July 2018) date: 2019-01-31 words: 1743 flesch: 57 summary: There are also several deficiencies in the second standalone model of livestock dynamics, which we shall not discuss in detail. M&S has, however, overlooked the previous work on economy-ecology linkages of the region (Geevan et al 2003, 2005). keywords: livestock; m&s; mesquite; rate; spread cache: ees-59.pdf plain text: ees-59.txt item: #126 of 204 id: ees-590 author: Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala; Pattnaik, Itishree title: Women Headed Households in Agriculture: Report from West Bengal, India date: 2022-02-11 words: 2899 flesch: 56 summary: Finally, we also held focus group discussions with village women to talk about their perceptions regarding the changing climate and its livelihood consequences for them. This complexity reflects a local custom where most women contribute labour in cultivating the agricultural land of each other’s families. keywords: average; cultivators; farming; households; india; land; women; work cache: ees-590.pdf plain text: ees-590.txt item: #127 of 204 id: ees-598 author: Dhar, Dipsita title: Nature And Indigeneity: Towards An Environmental History of Adivasi Society date: 2022-02-11 words: 1292 flesch: 42 summary: However, the monograph is careful not to take on a patronizing tone nor romanticize the social and ecological worlds that shape Adivasi people. Consequentially, Adivasi people who had previously inhabited roles on a spectrum ranging from hunter–gatherers to subsistence cultivators were now forced to become settled agriculturalists and even attempt commercial farming. keywords: adivasi; mahato; manbhum; people cache: ees-598.pdf plain text: ees-598.txt item: #128 of 204 id: ees-6 author: Dasgupta, Partha title: Global population size and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals date: 2020-03-07 words: 2238 flesch: 60 summary: Today the world community conceptualizes family planning programmes in terms of women’s reproductive rights. Proportionately that is small, but it won’t remain small unless the region engages seriously in matters relating to family planning. keywords: demand; family; need; planning; population; rights cache: ees-6.pdf plain text: ees-6.txt item: #129 of 204 id: ees-60 author: Mathur, Mihir; Sharma, Kabir title: Response: To the Comments by C.P. Geevan, Arun Dixit and Chandra Shekhar Silori date: 2019-01-31 words: 1867 flesch: 59 summary: However, the effect GDS mention is interesting and we acknowledge that along with other approaches for modeling spread of PJ area, such as considering biomass as the driver of PJ area change, this approach could also be of potential importance to explore further. PJ area is influenced by livestock numbers through an increased spread rate due to livestock acting as vectors in Banni; and, livestock numbers depend on PJ area as with increased PJ invasion, area available for grass growth comes down, thereby reducing biomass production, which leads to fodder deficit - named as such in our model - impacting livestock numbers. keywords: area; banni; livestock; model; rate cache: ees-60.pdf plain text: ees-60.txt item: #130 of 204 id: ees-601 author: Mishra, Neha; Saha, Anindita Roy; Tiwary, Nawin title: A Report of the Online Course on “Climate, Community and Conservation” date: 2022-07-24 words: 1182 flesch: 30 summary: Dr Mukunda Dev Behera, IIT Kharagpur, spoke about the role of climate in the evolution of biodiversity on the planet, the devastating impacts of climate change on biodiversity, and the possible solutions through coordinated global efforts and local actions. A Report of the Online Course on “Climate, Community and Conservation” Neha Mishra, Anindita Roy Saha, and Nawin Kumar Tiwary The interconnectedness of climate, community, and the environment is a subject of active interdisciplinary discourse against the backdrop of the current climate crisis permeating across prevalent social stratifications. keywords: climate; community; conservation; delhi; university cache: ees-601.pdf plain text: ees-601.txt item: #131 of 204 id: ees-607 author: Mukhopadhyay, Pranab title: The Crisis of Sustainability in India date: 2022-02-11 words: 1030 flesch: 48 summary: The Green Revolution, with introduced irrigated agriculture and new seed technologies, replaced traditional modes of farming in India. There are also reflections on traditional irrigation technologies like the tank irrigation system that evolved in South India (Kuppanan Palanisami and Mohanasundari Thangavel) and the ahars (water reservoirs) based on gravity flow in southern Bihar (Tetsuo Satoh). keywords: chapter; india; sustainability; water cache: ees-607.pdf plain text: ees-607.txt item: #132 of 204 id: ees-61 author: Seidler , Reinmar ; Lama , Rinzi ; Rai , Poonam title: Mountain Agriculture at a Crossroads? : Understanding Household-level Decision-making in Rapidly Changing Socio-economic Contexts date: 2019-01-31 words: 2000 flesch: 44 summary: Our own research on crop raiding in Darjeeling hills shows that there is relentless pressure on forest village crops from wild boar, muntjac, porcupine, black bear and macaque. And these villagers seemed quite certain about the cause of increased depredation by wild boar: it was the new Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary (gazetted 1987) and the attendant ban on hunting. keywords: 2015; agriculture; climate; crops; ecology; household; india cache: ees-61.pdf plain text: ees-61.txt item: #133 of 204 id: ees-611 author: Paroda, Raj title: Crop Diversification for Sustainable Agriculture date: 2022-02-11 words: 2540 flesch: 34 summary: There is a need for long term planning and development of various strategies for crop diversification in the best national interest. Additionally, crop diversification has a positive impact on climate change due to increased carbon sequestration. keywords: agriculture; crop; cropping; diversification; india; north; pradesh; systems cache: ees-611.pdf plain text: ees-611.txt item: #134 of 204 id: ees-612 author: Prabhu, Ravi title: Would Indian Agriculture Benefit from a Stewardship Model? date: 2022-02-11 words: 3575 flesch: 39 summary: An alternate framing, the Stewardship Economy, would build on stewardship, a ‘duty of care’ that values monetized and non-monetised products and services within the framing of rewards, framed as stewardship dividends, to farmers and other stewards of land and landscapes. Our search for a stewardship economy, as we propose here, leads us to suggest the need for “stewardship dividend”, which would make up the difference between market-based income and the total income a steward needs to pursue their duty of care toward essential [9] Ravi Prabhu non-commodified products and services and simultaneously achieve equitable welfare outcomes. keywords: agriculture; economy; food; india; journal; land; landscapes; nature; services; society; stewardship cache: ees-612.pdf plain text: ees-612.txt item: #135 of 204 id: ees-617 author: Dasgupta, Purnamita title: Role and Scope of Environmental Models date: 2022-02-11 words: 1578 flesch: 40 summary: The book Environmental Assessments: Scenarios, Modelling and Policy presents various perspectives on the role and contribution of environmental models in safeguarding nature and natural wealth. , the book examines various theoretical framings as well as empirical applications of environmental models and scenario-building exercises, with a focus on understanding the drivers of environmental change as well as the implications for human society. keywords: biodiversity; ecosystem; environmental; models; scenarios cache: ees-617.pdf plain text: ees-617.txt item: #136 of 204 id: ees-618 author: Shah, Mihir title: Dismantling Barriers to Upscaling Agro-ecological Farming in India date: 2022-02-11 words: 11795 flesch: 46 summary: Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 5 (1): 31-62 January 2022 THEMATIC ESSAY Dismantling Barriers to Upscaling Agro-ecological Farming in India Mihir Shah* Abstract: With growing recognition of the increasingly destructive impacts of the Green Revolution (GR) the world over, heightened further by COVID-19, there is an urgent need to scale up alternative approaches embedded within the paradigm of agro-ecology. The paper proposes key policy reforms that could help dismantle these barriers and facilitate, support, and accelerate movement towards agro-ecological farming in India. keywords: agriculture; agro; barrier; chemical; crop; ecology; economy; farmers; farming; food; government; health; india; inputs; insee; journal; mihir; need; new; paradigm; policy; production; productivity; shah; society; soil; systems; testing; water cache: ees-618.pdf plain text: ees-618.txt item: #137 of 204 id: ees-62 author: Oommen , Meera Anna ; Ramesh , Madhuri title: Tides of Change in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands date: 2019-01-31 words: 1877 flesch: 39 summary: Tourism activities in earmarked indigenous spaces such as Little Andaman as well as the Nicobar group of islands are likely to be problematic in this regard because past studies have shown (Anderson et al. 2015; Venkateswar 2004) that a sudden exposure to ‘mainstreaming’ policies as well as an influx of outsiders has a debilitating effect on the well- being of traditional societies and the natural resources their lives are closely connected to. “Islands in peril: develop and perish?” keywords: andaman; development; fisheries; india; islands; nicobar; tourism cache: ees-62.pdf plain text: ees-62.txt item: #138 of 204 id: ees-63 author: Somanathan, Eswaran title: Shooting at the Wrong Target: Review of Julien-François Gerber and Rajeswari S. Raina (eds.). 2018. Post-Growth Thinking in India: Towards Sustainable Egalitarian Alternatives (New Delhi: Orient Blackswan) date: 2019-01-31 words: 1527 flesch: 55 summary: Others are less categorical, merely suggesting that economic growth be given less importance than it presently receives. At least two of the authors, Jayati Ghosh and Kanchan Chopra, do not buy the argument that economic growth must end forthwith. keywords: growth; india; pollution; problems cache: ees-63.pdf plain text: ees-63.txt item: #139 of 204 id: ees-630 author: Shah, Amita; Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala; Pattnaik, Itishree title: Women’s Role in Agriculture and Food Security: Learnings from Gujarat and West Bengal date: 2022-02-11 words: 6755 flesch: 46 summary: The findings of an extensive survey carried out in the states of Gujarat and West Bengal, which captures their intrinsic agro-climatic and socio-cultural diversities, is presented to understand the role of women in agriculture and in maintaining household food security. It attempts to understand, first, the trend of overall agricultural growth processes and their implications for natural resources; second, it examines the specific role of women farmers, and in particular, captures the conditions under which they perform their roles and whether their labour contributions benefit them or not; and third, it analyses women’s role in maintaining household food security. keywords: agriculture; bengal; economic; farm; food; food security; gujarat; household; income; india; sector; security; west; women cache: ees-630.pdf plain text: ees-630.txt item: #140 of 204 id: ees-635 author: Purushothaman , Seema ; Puttur Sadashiva, Vidya; K.M., Dhanush title: Agroecological Impacts of Urban Demand for Fresh Vegetables: Preliminary Insights from Exploratory Surveys in Bengaluru date: 2022-07-24 words: 3534 flesch: 45 summary: Bengaluru’s appetite for fresh farm produce is reflected in the existence of old and well-known markets, such as KR market, established in the early twentieth century; the Agricultural Produces Marketing Committee yards dedicated to fresh produce, such as Yeshwantpur and Singena Agrahara; weekly farmers’ markets across the city, and Raithara Santhe in Yelahanka. 4. TRANSITION IN FRESH PRODUCE DEMAND AMONG BANGALOREANS Accurately estimating the quantities demanded by the city was infeasible due to the data issues we mentioned earlier. keywords: bangalore; bengaluru; city; consumers; demand; food; income; journal; produce; purushothaman; stores; vegetables cache: ees-635.pdf plain text: ees-635.txt item: #141 of 204 id: ees-64 author: Ao, Lanukumla title: An Environmental Basis for Comparing different Histories and Experiences: Review of S. Ravi Rajan and Lise Sedrez (eds.). 2018. The Great Convergence: Environmental Histories of BRICS, New Delhi: Oxford University Press date: 2020-03-15 words: 975 flesch: 40 summary: In the third theme, Lise Sedrez and Eunice Nodari (Brazil), Julia Lajus (Russia), S. Ravi Rajan and Rohan D’Souza (India), Shen Hou (China) and Sandra Swart (South Africa) provide a broad survey approach to outline the state of environmental history as an academic field in their respective countries. Sheng’s discussion on the role of Environmental NGOs (ENGOs) and [157] Lanukumla Ao Government NGOs (GONGOs) in China reveals how complicated and yet hopeful the problems of achieving conservation outcomes can be under a communist government. keywords: china; histories; history; india cache: ees-64.pdf plain text: ees-64.txt item: #142 of 204 id: ees-65 author: Krishnan, Radhika title: Industrialisation in India: the Many Worlds of Discord and Resistance: Review of Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Patrik Oskarsson (eds.). 2017. Industrialising Rural India: Land, Policy and Resistance, London and New York: Routledge date: 2020-03-15 words: 1156 flesch: 33 summary: For Eriksen, Indian economic policy is a somewhat odd admixture of neoliberalism and statism. This volume is a useful synthesis of academic work dealing with the challenges of industrialisation in rural India. keywords: governance; india; land; policy cache: ees-65.pdf plain text: ees-65.txt item: #143 of 204 id: ees-66 author: Kumar, A. Biju title: A Report on International Biodiversity Congress date: 2020-03-15 words: 1990 flesch: 24 summary: Its plan, called the 2020 Strategic Plan of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), aims to address the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, reduce the pressures on biodiversity, safeguard biodiversity at all levels, and to enhance the benefits provided by biodiversity. Expressing concern over biodiversity loss for monetary benefits in the western world, Renate Kunast, former Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture, Germany, advocated the adaption of international protocols and agreement to protect biodiversity and highlighted the need to Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal [166] break the dependency and monopoly, and work towards pluralism for sustainable economies. keywords: biodiversity; conservation; development; india; need; resources; society cache: ees-66.pdf plain text: ees-66.txt item: #144 of 204 id: ees-661 author: Bawa, Kamal ; Chopra, Kanchan title: New Perspectives on Indian Agriculture date: 2022-02-11 words: 1035 flesch: 38 summary: Other alternative systems include crop diversification, agroecology, climate-smart agriculture, conservation agriculture, regenerative agriculture, and several more. Ravi Prabhu argues that approaches that follow the principles of agroecology and regenerative agriculture are viable alternatives to industrial agriculture, but incentive-based approaches still depend heavily on the commodification of nature. keywords: agriculture; alternatives; food; india cache: ees-661.pdf plain text: ees-661.txt item: #145 of 204 id: ees-662 author: Olsson, Shannon; Ameen, Minhaj ; Bajpai, Saransh; Gudasalamani, Gravikanth; Gajjar, Chirag; Gupta, Srajesh; Hvilshøj, Søren ; Krishnakumar, Jyotsna; Lobo, Crispino; Mukherjee, Rohan; Naik, Abhayraj; Raghavan, Ajay; Singh, Hansika; Subaharan, Kesavan title: Framework For a Collective Definition of Regenerative Agriculture in India date: 2022-02-11 words: 2976 flesch: 30 summary: : The concept of regenerative agriculture has received increasing attention worldwide as a method to restore and conserve natural resources while maintaining crop productivity. However, there remains a lack of consensus as to what conditions define regenerative agriculture, making it difficult for decision-makers,  keywords: agriculture; climate; farming; india; institute; resources; water cache: ees-662.pdf plain text: ees-662.txt item: #146 of 204 id: ees-67 author: Raina, Rajeswari S. title: A Report on the Fifteenth Conference of International Society for Ecological Economics date: 2020-03-15 words: 1205 flesch: 27 summary: The key takeaway of this conference was that ecological economics, an inter-disciplinary knowledge formation integrating ecological sciences with values, behaviours, cultural practices, institutions, and social dynamics, has not, thus far, made attempts to engage with the multiple actors and in diverse forms of knowledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v2i1.67 1 http://www.isecoeco.org/about/cross-discipline-approach/ https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v2i1.67 http://www.isecoeco.org/about/cross-discipline-approach/ Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal [170] metrics of ecological economics, political ecology, ethnoecology, agroecology and energy systems. keywords: conference; economics; knowledge; society cache: ees-67.pdf plain text: ees-67.txt item: #147 of 204 id: ees-679 author: Saikia, Mrinal; Mahanta, Ratul title: Measurement of Vulnerability to Climate Change in Char Areas: A Survey date: 2022-12-29 words: 6441 flesch: 45 summary: Climate vulnerability can be studied using two approaches: qualitative and quantitative. “Climate Vulnerability Index – Measure of Climate Change Vulnerability to Communities: A Case of Rural Lower Himalaya, India.” keywords: areas; bangladesh; change; char; climate; climate change; et al; index; ipcc; journal; livelihood; lvi; river; social; vulnerability cache: ees-679.pdf plain text: ees-679.txt item: #148 of 204 id: ees-68 author: Bawa, Kamal title: Sustainability Science Remains a Challenge for Academia date: 2022-05-06 words: 722 flesch: 38 summary: Sustainability Science centers are scarce even in the United States and Europe, and much fewer in countries of the South, posing a challenge that is not being addressed with the urgency it deserves. Sustainability Science based on the integration of a wide range of disciplines including arts and humanities is one of the means to achieve sustainability. keywords: science; sustainability cache: ees-68.pdf plain text: ees-68.txt item: #149 of 204 id: ees-687 author: Sengupta, Reshmi ; Rooj, Debasis title: The Impact of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Samman Nidhi Yojna on Food Security and the Healthcare-Seeking Practices of Agricultural Households in Bihar: A Note from the Field date: 2022-07-30 words: 2096 flesch: 52 summary: Almost 28% of beneficiary households reported that they had enough food to eat in terms of quantity and variety compared to only 23% of non-beneficiary households. Almost 90% of pregnant women in beneficiary households sought antenatal care (ANC) under JSY, compared to 85% in non-beneficiary households. keywords: beneficiary; households; kisan; non; women cache: ees-687.pdf plain text: ees-687.txt item: #150 of 204 id: ees-69 author: DeFries , Ruth ; Chhatre , Ashwini title: Why India Needs a Unique Approach to Sustainability date: 2022-05-06 words: 1976 flesch: 45 summary: “Connecting the dots: Connectivity mapping for tiger in central India.” [5] Ruth DeFries and Ashwini Chhatre Watersheds with vegetation that absorbs water into the soil and recharges groundwater can contribute to India’s long tradition of water management. keywords: country; development; economy; india; infrastructure; water; world cache: ees-69.pdf plain text: ees-69.txt item: #151 of 204 id: ees-7 author: Malghan, Deepak title: On the Normalization of Dimensioned Variables in Ecological Economics date: 2020-03-08 words: 5518 flesch: 47 summary: The fundamental concern of ecological economics is to accurately model all aspects of the economy–ecosystem interaction problem — the myriad ways in which the economic and ecological systems are connected to each other. By measuring population using non-dimensional X , we have scaled the problem so that equation 9 applies to a wide variety of phenomena following the logistic growth pattern. keywords: 2012; economics; economy; equation; function; non; normalization; problem; variables cache: ees-7.pdf plain text: ees-7.txt item: #152 of 204 id: ees-70 author: Costanza, Robert title: Science, Uncertainty, and Society: Getting Beyond the Argument Culture to Shared Visions date: 2022-05-06 words: 4773 flesch: 53 summary: DEALING WITH UNCERTAINTY One of the main issues with scientific uncertainty is not just its existence, but the radically different expectations and modes of operation that scientists, the public and policymakers have developed to deal with it. Science, in both the logical positivist and this ―pragmatic modelling‖ vision, works by building models and testing them. keywords: costanza; culture; future; models; public; science; society; uncertainty; vision; world cache: ees-70.pdf plain text: ees-70.txt item: #153 of 204 id: ees-709 author: Chand, Sandip; Behera, Bhagirath title: Does Assignment of Individual Property Rights Improve Forest Conservation Outcomes? : Empirical Evidence from West Bengal, India date: 2023-07-30 words: 8202 flesch: 44 summary: There are three categories of forest rights that the eligible parties can claim: (1) individual rights to forest land for self-cultivation and habitation; (2) community rights of ownership, collection, and use of traditionally collected non-timber forest produce as well as other customary community rights; and (3) community forest resource (CFR) rights, which establish legitimate community-based forest governance (Ministry of Tribal Affairs 2006; Lee and Wolf 2018). It aimed to bring 33% of the total geographical area of the country under forest cover National Commission on Agriculture, 1976 Emphasis on meeting the requirements of forest-based industries through commercial forestry following a scientific approach to growing trees Forest Conservation Act, 1980 Minimize deforestation and conserve biodiversity and wildlife Indian Forest Policy, 1988 Recognition of the participation of local forest inhabitants in the protection of forest resources Joint Forest Management Programme, 1990 Adoption of forest department and community- based joint forest management Forest Rights Act, 2006 Devolution of forest rights to ST forest peoples and other traditional forest dwellers Source: Authors There is a large body of literature on the variables that might explicate the differential outcomes seen in forest conservation. keywords: behera; change; conservation; cover; data; degradation; forest; forest conservation; forest degradation; fra; india; land; management; outcomes; population; property; resources; rights; tribal cache: ees-709.pdf plain text: ees-709.txt item: #154 of 204 id: ees-71 author: Lele, Sharachchandra title: Understanding Current Forest Policy Debates through Multiple Lenses:: the Case of India date: 2022-05-06 words: 3625 flesch: 52 summary: The idea of the FRA emerged originally to redress the problem of unsettled cultivation and habitation rights of forest-dwellers in improperly notified RFs and PFs, by allowing them to claim ‗individual forest rights‘ (now section 3(1)(a)). ―Forest management and forest policy in India: a critical review.‖ Forest, Environment and People 33 (2):127-155. keywords: colonial; communities; ecology; forest; india; lele; management; policy; rights; state cache: ees-71.pdf plain text: ees-71.txt item: #155 of 204 id: ees-719 author: Gupta, Ranjoy title: Food beyond Counting: Insights based on local knowledge from the field date: 2022-07-24 words: 1534 flesch: 60 summary: Variability refers to variations in food taste; when they say, “to avoid repetition of taste”, they mean repetition of the same taste over days or weeks, which is believed to lead to illness. Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 5 (2): 103-106, July 2022 INSIGHTS FROM THE FIELD Food Beyond Counting: Insights Based on Local Knowledge from the Field Ranjoy Gupta 1. keywords: eating; factors; food; taste cache: ees-719.pdf plain text: ees-719.txt item: #156 of 204 id: ees-72 author: Nagendra, Harini title: On Practising Sustainability Science: Challenges in Teaching and Research: Editorial Note: Sustainability Education: The Importance of Diversity date: 2022-05-06 words: 618 flesch: 40 summary: While all three articles stress the need to bridge disciplinary divides, Hassan approaches sustainability from the perspective of sustainability science, while Rai and Lélé focus on a normative goal of sustainable development, and Purushothaman deliberately sheds both suffixes to focus on sustainability. Insights from sustainability science and economics tend to have a greater impact in shaping global discourse as compared to insights from the social sciences, and from practice. keywords: global; sustainability cache: ees-72.pdf plain text: ees-72.txt item: #157 of 204 id: ees-720 author: Dhara, Sagar title: Contribution to the Sustainability and Equity dialogue date: 2022-07-30 words: 3487 flesch: 47 summary: Technology deployability: Mean theoretical global wind energy is estimated to be 1,200 TW, but the deployable amount is only 1 TW due to difficulties in reaching or servicing areas that have high wind potential, the fraction of wind potential available in the lowest layer of the troposphere, the fraction of wind that interacts with the generator’s blades, and energy conversion efficiency. Instead of replacing fossil fuels, renewable energy is supplementing them. keywords: development; emissions; energy; entropy; growth; india; law; power; society; sustainability cache: ees-720.pdf plain text: ees-720.txt item: #158 of 204 id: ees-722 author: Borah, Anurag title: Exploring the “Green”: A Review of Environment and Ecology as Embedded in the Historical Literature of Pre-Colonial Assam date: 2023-07-30 words: 8843 flesch: 63 summary: Assam Buranji. Assam Buranji. keywords: ahom; animals; assam; bhuyan; buranji; carit; colonial; early; ecology; economy; elephants; environment; forest; guwahati; history; india; journal; kalika; khel; literature; medieval; nature; people; purana; region; rivers; sankaradeva; society; transl; water cache: ees-722.pdf plain text: ees-722.txt item: #159 of 204 id: ees-727 author: Choksi, Nishaant title: The Making and Re-making of Adivasi Worlds date: 2022-07-24 words: 1579 flesch: 37 summary: By challenging the homogenous representation of tribes and attempting to take seriously movements like the Tana, Dasgupta’s book advances studies on Adivasi communities, colonial India, and the nationalist movement. Early colonial accounts of the Oraon, in fact, did not classify the Oraons as “tribal”; rather, they saw them and the other Adivasi groups of Chhota Nagpur as a stratified agricultural society, albeit one that went beyond the “civilized” Aryan pale. keywords: colonial; dasgupta; oraon; tana cache: ees-727.pdf plain text: ees-727.txt item: #160 of 204 id: ees-73 author: Purushothaman, Seema title: On Practising Sustainability Science: Challenges in Teaching and Research: Sustainability: Challenges in Teaching date: 2022-05-06 words: 1231 flesch: 37 summary: This note reminisces on the learning from designing and teaching sustainability at APU.3 Unlike the notes by Nitin Rai and Rashid Hassan in this section, this write up focuses on sustainability education in an interdisciplinary Masters‘ programme aimed at moulding reflective development practitioners. The commonality in sustainability education at Masters‘ and PhD programmes is the need to instil a holistic but questioning and ‗people first‘ attitude. keywords: concept; course; development; sustainability cache: ees-73.pdf plain text: ees-73.txt item: #161 of 204 id: ees-748 author: Tice, Julianne; Batterbury, Simon title: Who Accesses Solar PV? : Energy Justice and Climate Justice in a Local Government Rooftop Solar Programme date: 2023-07-30 words: 10951 flesch: 41 summary: Interestingly, one of the randomly selected participant interviewees, who was a landlord, offered some insight into the perceptions of landlords towards helping their tenants access solar energy, “Why would we want to give them solar panels and we’re having to pay for it? As there is clear potential to use programmes such as SS to address the justice concerns of low-income, tenants, and senior households, if programmes are targeted, solar energy schemes may be useful but only with a clear focus on those who really need this source of energy. keywords: access; change; city; climate; costs; council; darebin; energy; government; https://www.darebin.vic.gov.au/about-council/council-structure-and-performance/council-and-committee-meetings/council-meetings/meeting-agendas-and-minutes; income; justice; participants; programme; residents; respondents; tenants cache: ees-748.pdf plain text: ees-748.txt item: #162 of 204 id: ees-75 author: Rai, Nitin D. ; Lele, Sharachchandra title: On Practising Sustainability Science: Challenges in Teaching and Research: Practicing and Teaching Sustainability under the Shadow of Multiple Hegemonies date: 2022-05-06 words: 1326 flesch: 39 summary: We admit students from all disciplines, and introduce them to the fundamental theoretical and methodological aspects of ecology, environmental science, sociology and economics. Does sustainability science provide a way forward? keywords: ecology; research; science; students cache: ees-75.pdf plain text: ees-75.txt item: #163 of 204 id: ees-755 author: Mishra, Arunika ; Das, Shreyasee ; Kasibhatta, Samhitha ; Chakrabarty, Himadri Shekhar title: A Report of the Roundtable on “Pathways towards Transition to Low Carbon for Industry in India and Developing Countries”, The Centre for Development and Environment Policy (CDEP), Indian Institute of Management Calcutta date: 2022-07-24 words: 1165 flesch: 31 summary: In this regard, the second session threw light on various beneficial global policy practices in enabling carbon transition finance with a focus on technology transfer. [156] again later this year to finalize the report, which could be the beginning of a journey which India undertakes in walking the talk on carbon transition. keywords: calcutta; indian; institute; transition cache: ees-755.pdf plain text: ees-755.txt item: #164 of 204 id: ees-76 author: Hassan, Rashid title: On Practising Sustainability Science: Challenges in Teaching and Research: The Current State and Challenges to Advancing Sustainability Science and Education date: 2022-05-06 words: 1311 flesch: 26 summary: “Methodological characteristics of sustainability science: A systematic review.” Environment, Development, and Sustainability 19 (4): 1127–40. Purushothaman and Rai document valuable lessons from the experiences of Azim Premji University and Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, respectively, in advancing sustainability science education in Asia. keywords: challenges; education; research; science; sustainability cache: ees-76.pdf plain text: ees-76.txt item: #165 of 204 id: ees-77 author: Srinivasan , Jeena T ; Nuthalapati , Chandra Sekhara Rao title: Groundwater Extraction, Agriculture and Poverty in Godavari River Basin date: 2022-05-06 words: 11348 flesch: 62 summary: This helped the farmers optimise input use, diversify to high value crops, and achieve higher water productivity (Shah et al. 2007; World Bank 2010). The difficulty in accessing the markets in the lower reaches of the river basin seems to have resulted in higher water usage and lower water productivity. keywords: access; acre; basin; economic; farmers; groundwater; households; income; inequality; irrigation; middle; poverty; productivity; reaches; river; small; use; users; water cache: ees-77.pdf plain text: ees-77.txt item: #166 of 204 id: ees-772 author: Deivendran, Muthuvel title: Deconstructing Agricultural Revolutions date: 2022-07-30 words: 1319 flesch: 31 summary: Following several field and experimental trials, however, soyabean cultivation found a new life, and interest in it surged after it was promoted as a cash crop that could be processed into cattle feed (de-oiled cake – DOC) and edible oil. Chapters four and five go on to further scrutinize the notion of productivity and how to meaningfully make sense of the phenomenon of soyabean cultivation. keywords: kumar; malwa; revolution; soyabean cache: ees-772.pdf plain text: ees-772.txt item: #167 of 204 id: ees-78 author: Chopra, Vasudha ; Das, Sukanya title: Estimating Willingness to Pay for Wastewater Treatment in New Delhi: Contingent Valuation Approach date: 2022-05-06 words: 12349 flesch: 52 summary: Usually, it is expected that respondents having high water consumption have a higher contribution to the treatment of used water. Based on the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM), this study assesses Delhi urban households‘ willingness to pay for the Operation & Maintenance (O&M) costs of a local Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP) that supplies residential complexes treated water for toilet-flushing. keywords: bill; consumption; cost; delhi; freshwater; households; india; journal; new; respondents; reuse; saving; society; study; survey; treatment; wastewater; wastewater treatment; water; wtp cache: ees-78.pdf plain text: ees-78.txt item: #168 of 204 id: ees-780 author: Ghosh, Nilanjan title: Between Growth-fetishism and Green Recovery date: 2022-07-29 words: 3290 flesch: 45 summary: The insatiable human desire for economic growth in the developing world has led to lopsided development. However, post-pandemic development priorities in the developing world have centred on promoting economic growth through large-scale capital expenditures on physical infrastructure. keywords: 2022; change; climate; development; global; growth; india; recovery; transition cache: ees-780.pdf plain text: ees-780.txt item: #169 of 204 id: ees-783 author: Somokanta, Thounaojam title: Large Dams, Adivasi Struggles, and Their Untold Stories date: 2022-07-24 words: 1135 flesch: 47 summary: Despite the existence of substantial literature and a widening body of work that critiques large dams in India (Nusser 2013; Klingensmith 2007; Khagram 2004), there remains little effort to explore and explain the Adivasi perspective on the debate surrounding large dams in India. The Adivasi voice, hence, has been sorely lacking in the narration of their own stories, anxieties, and travails, even as they have been central to evolving the challenge against large dams in India. keywords: adivasi; dams; narmada; oza cache: ees-783.pdf plain text: ees-783.txt item: #170 of 204 id: ees-79 author: Novick , Adam P. title: Appreciation and Minor Clarification for Kabra (2019) date: 2022-05-06 words: 746 flesch: 37 summary: For example, the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) generally imposes uncompensated land-use regulation based on the presence of animal species identified (“listed”) as endangered, and such regulation (whether as land-use restrictions or liability for mitigation) tends to make it self-defeating for anyone to conserve or actively maintain habitat for existing populations of declining animal species on private land (Langpap, Kerkvliet, and Shogren 2018, 77–78). I also thank Kabra (2019, 11) for questioning the widely presumed divide between species conservation and human rights. keywords: conservation; land; species cache: ees-79.pdf plain text: ees-79.txt item: #171 of 204 id: ees-791 author: Paul, Seema; Khare, Amit; Chunekar, Aditya title: Role of Energy Efficiency and Demand-side Management in India’s Clean Energy Transition date: 2022-07-30 words: 1844 flesch: 45 summary: Managing the growth in energy demand—especially during peak hours— would be extremely beneficial to India, including by reducing the investment required for the unabated expansion of non-fossil fuel power, which also runs into the challenge of limited land availability. India Energy Outlook 2021. keywords: demand; efficiency; electricity; energy; india; power cache: ees-791.pdf plain text: ees-791.txt item: #172 of 204 id: ees-8 author: Kashwan, Prakash title: Democracy and the Environment: An Ecological Economics Research Agenda date: 2020-03-08 words: 3448 flesch: 32 summary: This brings us back to the role that institutions of democracy have to play in environmental conservation, and the implications for ecological economics research, which are the topics of the concluding section below. Market-based environmentalism, as practised in most cases, is undermining efforts to promote social justice, economic inequality, and ecological integrity; yet, from an institutionalist perspective, markets can be governed [35] Prakash Kashwan in a variety of ways, and thereby lead to varying effects on the goals of ecological conservation and social justice (Dauvergne 2015; Corbera et al. 2007; Lele et al. 2010; Kashwan 2017). keywords: conservation; democracy; environment; environmentalism; governance; institutions; kashwan; research; social; society; state cache: ees-8.pdf plain text: ees-8.txt item: #173 of 204 id: ees-80 author: Ichikawa , Sayuri title: What Does ‘Gender’ Mean in Myanmar’s Rural Fishery Communities? date: 2022-05-06 words: 2020 flesch: 54 summary: In our fieldwork in Myanmar‟s rural fishery communities, we came across unexpectedly universal gendered behaviour such as women being chatty and wanting someone to listen to their issues and at the same time unexpectedly contradicting gendered behaviour by being the most mobile at the same time associated with home. As is often concluded in gender research and observed in rural fishery communities, women are associated with “home” and “being chatty”, thus often making them responsible for house chores and raising children as well as selling their products (Resurreccion 2006). keywords: fish; fishery; gender; home; myanmar; women cache: ees-80.pdf plain text: ees-80.txt item: #174 of 204 id: ees-81 author: Giri , Saroj title: Growth and Identity: A Deadlock? Review of Patrik Oskarsson. 2018. Landlock: Paralysing Dispute over Minerals on Adivasi Land in India. Canberra: Australian National University Press date: 2022-05-06 words: 1320 flesch: 60 summary: When mining corporations destroy tribal rights and adivasi culture, is there not precisely this grassroots capital at work in the form of ‗local elites‘ (as mining contractors) who are busy minting money? The rise of mining contractors from within the local community would appear to converge ‗growth‘ and ‗identity‘. keywords: deadlock; mining; money; society cache: ees-81.pdf plain text: ees-81.txt item: #175 of 204 id: ees-812 author: Bawa, Kamal ; Chopra, Kanchan title: The Journal: A Relook After Five Years date: 2022-07-30 words: 1042 flesch: 47 summary: Consequently, journals such as ours, for which integration is the key pillar, have a tremendous potential to foster interdisciplinarity and serve as a platform to weave narratives into a common framework for a sustainable world. We face common problems with our neighbours and beyond. keywords: journal; problems; society; years cache: ees-812.pdf plain text: ees-812.txt item: #176 of 204 id: ees-82 author: Nagendra, Harini ; Ghate, Rucha title: Building an Alliance on the Commons date: 2022-05-06 words: 1397 flesch: 43 summary: At the same time, the Foundation recommended engagement on other equally important but neglected commons such as community radio and internet, cultural and knowledge commons, genetic resources, urban commons, and coastal waters. Collective action on the management of commons can play a pivotal role in addressing such challenges. keywords: action; alliance; commons; communities; need cache: ees-82.pdf plain text: ees-82.txt item: #177 of 204 id: ees-83 author: Pamphilon, Barbara title: Seeds of Change: Report from a Conference on “Gender Equality through Agricultural Research for Development” date: 2022-05-06 words: 914 flesch: 39 summary: Although gender equality and gender equity are now ‘mainstreamed’, in reality many gender-focused researchers in agriculture are relatively isolated and have few opportunities to challenge and extend their thinking and practice. Whilst rural transformation may be occurring due to outmigration of particular groups, improved infrastructure, increased access to public services, and new opportunities both in the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors, gender relations both influence these processes of rural transformation and are changed by them. keywords: conference; gender; research cache: ees-83.pdf plain text: ees-83.txt item: #178 of 204 id: ees-84 author: Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala title: Ecology, Economy and Society through an Interdisciplinary Lens date: 2020-01-30 words: 1278 flesch: 30 summary: In providing a selective overview of the contents of this issue of EES, I underscore how, any analysis of research questions on ecology, economy and the society must involve values, rights and law as well as economic and social concerns. This issue of Ecology, Economy and Society offers glimpses into interdisciplinary research on a broad swathe of topics. keywords: ecology; interdisciplinarity; research; society cache: ees-84.pdf plain text: ees-84.txt item: #179 of 204 id: ees-85 author: Fischer-Kowalski , Marina title: Integral Ecology: An unexpected support for Ecological Economics by Pope Francis date: 2020-03-17 words: 2157 flesch: 45 summary: The focus is clearly on the interlinkage between environmental destruction, global warming and social inequality as joint products of a particular model of progress. In these quotes, some fundamentally critical elements meet: the intertwining of environmental destruction and social inequality, a challenge to the idea of permanent economic growth, and a view on technology not as a solution, but as a means of imposing a mode of living in the interest of some powerful groups. keywords: cent; ecology; economy; encyclical; society; world cache: ees-85.pdf plain text: ees-85.txt item: #180 of 204 id: ees-86 author: Gupta , Shreekant title: Has Economics Caught Up with Climate Science? date: 2020-03-17 words: 7486 flesch: 52 summary: Put differently, the economic gain from business-as-usual (BAU) is now whereas the pain, that is damages due to climate change, will be down the road. Thus, economic analysis of climate change is an exercise in intertemporal BCA but with the added dimensions of risk, uncertainty and irreversibility. keywords: bca; change; climate; damage; dice; economic; economy; emissions; function; ghg; journal; model; nordhaus; policy; science; temperature cache: ees-86.pdf plain text: ees-86.txt item: #181 of 204 id: ees-87 author: Singha , Chandan title: Soil Conservation in a Watershed: : Institutional Alternatives date: 2020-03-17 words: 6433 flesch: 42 summary: In response to lack of adequate incentives for farmers to invest in soil conservation, the U.S. federal government has started providing technical assistance to farmers while sharing the cost of soil conservation measures (Walker and Young 1984) – this is one way of providing investment subsidies for soil conservation. In their study, King and Sinden (1988) revealed that soil conservation measures fetched a higher price and a higher rental value of land. keywords: action; conservation; development; economics; farmers; forest; government; land; property; services; soil; soil conservation; watershed cache: ees-87.pdf plain text: ees-87.txt item: #182 of 204 id: ees-871 author: Gamble, Ruth title: A SINKing Feeling: New Insights into the Himalaya’s Pressing Environmental Issues date: 2023-01-31 words: 1988 flesch: 48 summary: SINK begins with the notion that “nature organises itself in a systematic and integrated manner” (9) but argues that river governance has been predominantly reductionist, and that this has interrupted nature’s systems. [139] Gamble The authors’ use of the extensive HKH river system enables them to stretch the case for holistic river governance from the interdisciplinary and integrated stakeholder level to the inter-basin and international level. keywords: authors; governance; knowledge; rivers; systems; water cache: ees-871.pdf plain text: ees-871.txt item: #183 of 204 id: ees-88 author: Dasgupta, Susmita ; Guha , Bansari ; Wheeler , David title: Co-Location, Socioeconomic Status and Perceptions of Environmental Change in the Indian Sundarbans date: 2020-03-17 words: 6646 flesch: 43 summary: The dependent variable is the correlation coefficient of environmental change variable scores for paired individuals. This paper uses regression analysis to explore variations in environmental risk assessments across socioeconomic classes and localities, using new survey data from the Indian Sundarbans. keywords: action; assessments; common; conditions; correlation; dasgupta; environmental; group; high; households; individuals; journal; low; research; ses; socioeconomic; status; table cache: ees-88.pdf plain text: ees-88.txt item: #184 of 204 id: ees-89 author: Kawadia , Ganesh ; Tiwari , Era title: Adaptation Measures to Combat Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture: An Empirical Investigation in the Chambal Basin date: 2020-03-17 words: 11577 flesch: 51 summary: Climate change adaptation and mitigation, therefore, is now an important area of research in social sciences as well as physical sciences. Climate change adaptations in agricultural practices often have synergy with sustainable development policies and may explicitly influence social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainability. keywords: adaptation; agriculture; area; arid; cent; change; climate; climate change; crop; districts; farmers; harvesting; increase; index; irrigation; journal; kawadia; measures; moisture; region; soil; study; table; temperature; water cache: ees-89.pdf plain text: ees-89.txt item: #185 of 204 id: ees-890 author: Alankar title: Discerning Global and Local of Climate Change in Indian Context date: 2022-12-29 words: 1072 flesch: 36 summary: Chapter 3 shifts the discussion to tracking how climate change impacts affect people and ecosystems. Interestingly, Adve points out that mitigation efforts tend to attract more support in state plans because they also happen to be financially profitable and allow for private collaboration, whereas adaptation gets short shrift because it needs government spending and is mostly meant to cushion the poor against climate change impacts. keywords: adve; change; climate cache: ees-890.pdf plain text: ees-890.txt item: #186 of 204 id: ees-893 author: Kacker, Rakesh ; Srivastava, Nidhi title: Elements and Possible Constraints for a Smooth Energy Transition in India date: 2023-01-31 words: 2386 flesch: 39 summary: The major concern is that this sharp increase in renewable energy capacity is not supported by any corresponding policy measures. Much of this capacity addition would be from RE sources, as suggested by various climate and energy targets and projections. keywords: capacity; coal; electricity; energy; india; transition cache: ees-893.pdf plain text: ees-893.txt item: #187 of 204 id: ees-9 author: Nayak, Tapaswini ; Roy Chowdhury , Indrani title: Health Damages from Air Pollution: Evidence from Opencast Coal Mining Region of Odisha, India date: 2020-03-10 words: 8644 flesch: 51 summary: The coefficient of awareness regarding pollution related health impact is negative and significant at 1 per cent level; showing a decrease in sick days due to the rise in awareness level. The regression result confirms that there is a positive and significant relationship between the level of air pollution (respiratory suspended particulate matter (RSPM)/particulate matter less than 10 g/m3(PM10) and RI-related sick days, depicting that a reduction in air pollution level (PM10) may cause a reduction in expected number of RI-related sick days in the coal mining region. keywords: air; air pollution; coal; coal mining; days; economic; health; illness; level; mining; odisha; pm10; pollution; reduction; region; regression; state; survey cache: ees-9.pdf plain text: ees-9.txt item: #188 of 204 id: ees-90 author: Mukhopadhyay, Pranab ; Ghate, Rucha title: Narpat S. Jodha: Forever Restless date: 2020-07-16 words: 1117 flesch: 59 summary: Rucha Ghate and Pranab Mukhopadhyay co-edited a book with Narpat Singh Jodha titled Promise, Trust and Evolution: Managing the Commons of South Asia, which was published by Oxford University Press, UK, in 2008. REFERENCES Bhatta, Laxmi Dutt, Anil Shrestha, Nilhari Neupane, Narpat Singh Jodha, and Ning Wu. 2019. keywords: jodha; narpatji; rucha; singh cache: ees-90.pdf plain text: ees-90.txt item: #189 of 204 id: ees-91 author: Nawn, Nandan title: On National Mineral Policy 2019 — balancing stakeholder interests and concerns: Editorial Note: Recognising Diverse Stakeholders in Mineral Policy — a Trajectory over Time date: 2020-03-17 words: 1104 flesch: 40 summary: Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 3 (1): 99–101, January 2020 CONVERSATIONS: National Mineral Policy 2019 — balancing stakeholder interests and concerns Editorial Note: Recognising Diverse Stakeholders in Mineral Policy — a Trajectory over Time Nandan Nawn  Economic activity in India is supported by minerals extracted domestically. [...] (j) consultative mechanisms with stakeholder groups right from pre- mining stages through the life cycle and up to post-closure stages to ensure stakeholder groups involvement and participation in identifying and addressing the sustainability issue. keywords: mineral; mining; policy; stakeholders cache: ees-91.pdf plain text: ees-91.txt item: #190 of 204 id: ees-914 author: Chauhan, Tejasvi; Gaur, Vinod title: Exergy Analysis: A Guide to Sustainability? date: 2023-01-31 words: 7646 flesch: 48 summary: The efficiency () with which heat energy can be transformed to work is equal to {1 – (T0 / TH)}, which is always less than 100%, even in a slowly transforming reversible process, because, when flowing down a thermal gradient with concomitant cooling, a part of it (= Q0) cannot produce any work when it reaches equilibrium with the surrounding air at T0. In the nineteenth century, an analytical inquiry in the efficiency of energy transformation processes led to an understanding of energy quality as distinct from energy quantity. keywords: chemical; earth; ecosystems; energy; equilibrium; figure; flows; heat; information; potential; state; system; work cache: ees-914.pdf plain text: ees-914.txt item: #191 of 204 id: ees-915 author: Kleidon, Axel title: Sustaining the Terrestrial Biosphere in the Anthropocene : A Thermodynamic Earth System Perspective date: 2023-01-31 words: 9801 flesch: 45 summary: 2. HOW TO GENERATE FREE ENERGY FROM SOLAR FORC- ING Before I describe how photosynthesis generates free energy, it is important to define this term briefly, to explain what makes it so different from “just” energy and to understand how Earth system processes generate it. The focus here is on free energy—energy generated by work that can per- form further work. keywords: activity; biosphere; carbon; earth; efficiency; energy; evaporation; figure; human; photosynthesis; productivity; radiation; system; use; water cache: ees-915.pdf plain text: ees-915.txt item: #192 of 204 id: ees-92 author: Jain , Pradeep Kumar title: On National Mineral Policy 2019 — balancing stakeholder interests and concerns: A Business-friendly New Mineral Policy date: 2020-03-17 words: 1318 flesch: 39 summary: ―Reformation in mining Sector: If the government is serious about ensuring the welfare of people in mining areas and securing their rights, it must improve mechanisms of giving clearances, management of environmental pollution and preservation of natural resources, with which the lives and livelihoods of these people are intricately related. keywords: mineral; mining; nmp; policy cache: ees-92.pdf plain text: ees-92.txt item: #193 of 204 id: ees-925 author: Mondal, Ayan; Das, Nilanjan; Banerjee, Rituparna; Batabyal, Sunanda; Gangopadhyay, Sohini; Ray, Harisankar; Biswas, Nivedita; Mandal, Sudipto title: Investigating the Health of a Rice Field Ecosystem Using Thermodynamic Extremal Principles date: 2023-01-31 words: 7291 flesch: 43 summary: Water concentration in domesticated rice field systems varies between 2.8–12 cm, but in wild rice field systems, it varies between 10–70 cm due to higher rainfall during monsoon seasons. Keywords: Far-from-equilibrium system; goal-function; rice field ecosystem; thermodynamic ecology 1. keywords: dissipation; ecology; ecosystem; entropy; exergy; fields; impact; journal; maximum; omnivore; principles; rate; rice; society; system; values cache: ees-925.pdf plain text: ees-925.txt item: #194 of 204 id: ees-927 author: Chandel, Vikram; Chauhan, Tejasvi title: Attributing Vegetation Recovery During the Indian Summer Monsoon to Climate Drivers in Central India date: 2023-01-31 words: 3985 flesch: 45 summary: In this work, to compare the linear and non-linear dependencies of vegetation on precipitation, soil moisture, and temperature, we compute pairwise normalized mutual information ( of daily datasets of soil moisture (SM), temperature (T), and precipitation (P) with gross primary productivity (GPP) to understand the association of hydrometeorological variables with vegetation productivity for the various above-discussed transitions of vegetation stress from May to September for our study region. During the monsoons, precipitation contributes to vegetation recovery from pre-monsoon stress through soil moisture recharge while inhibiting vegetation productivity by limiting the amount of radiation available for photosynthesis. keywords: climate; gpp; moisture; monsoon; precipitation; productivity; recovery; soil; stress; temperature; variables; vegetation cache: ees-927.pdf plain text: ees-927.txt item: #195 of 204 id: ees-93 author: Ranjan , Ram title: On National Mineral Policy 2019 — balancing stakeholder interests and concerns: Economic Opportunities and Environmental Challenges Offered by India’s New Mineral Policy date: 2020-03-17 words: 1250 flesch: 34 summary: “Here‟s why China‟s trade war threat to restrict rare earth minerals is so serious.” However, for all these benefits to accrue, mining must be made corruption free, well-regulated, transparent, and the generated revenues invested in growth enhancing avenues. keywords: earth; gdp; india; minerals; mining cache: ees-93.pdf plain text: ees-93.txt item: #196 of 204 id: ees-935 author: Iqbal, Iftekhar title: Climate Change Adaptation and Neoliberalism in Bangladesh: A Review of Two Monographs date: 2023-01-31 words: 1249 flesch: 48 summary: Put differently, since an overt nexus between neoliberalism and climate discourse had not yet crystallized in the 1980s, there must be other factors beyond neoliberalism that explain the ecological and social vulnerabilities in coastal Bangladesh. This quibble aside, both the books deserve high commendation— particularly as critiques of climate change adaptation strategies that have re- envisioned neoliberalism. keywords: adaptation; bangladesh; change; climate; shrimp cache: ees-935.pdf plain text: ees-935.txt item: #197 of 204 id: ees-94 author: Kumar, S. Vijay title: On National Mineral Policy 2019 — balancing stakeholder interests and concerns: National Mineral Policy 2019: a Remedy as Bad as the Disease? date: 2020-03-17 words: 1403 flesch: 42 summary: As mentioned by Ranjan (this issue) trade-offs arising from increasing mining activities need to be considered carefully. One of the important consequences of the change in the law (and now in the policy as well) is that, despite some phrases in the policy to the contrary, the private sector no longer has an incentive to do exploration to locate minerals at their own risk and cost, since that will not enable them to claim mining rights, as these rights will be auctioned to the highest qualifying bidder (Kumar 2019). keywords: exploration; mineral; mining; policy cache: ees-94.pdf plain text: ees-94.txt item: #198 of 204 id: ees-95 author: Basu , Rahul title: On National Mineral Policy 2019 — balancing stakeholder interests and concerns: Will Intergenerational Equity be Implemented? date: 2020-03-17 words: 1226 flesch: 52 summary: As the policy acknowledges, “Natural resources, including minerals, are a shared inheritance where the state is the trustee on behalf of the people to ensure that future generations receive the benefit of inheritance” (section 1).  Second, to ensure that the extraction work, itself an inheritance associated with the mineral deposit, is available to future generations. keywords: december; future; karnataka; mining cache: ees-95.pdf plain text: ees-95.txt item: #199 of 204 id: ees-96 author: Abraham , Dimple Tresa ; N, Neetha title: MGNREGA Farm Pond Works – Perspectives of People and Policy date: 2020-03-17 words: 2326 flesch: 47 summary: DOI: https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v3i1.96 https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v3i1.96 Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal [120] (MGNREGA), emphasis is given to farm pond works. Our research observed that policy on farm pond works and specifications related to size and other parameters varied across study states with MP and Karnataka pushing for these works with a vision for water harvesting for agriculture and ground water recharge, while in West Bengal its focus was to facilitate fish farming for home consumption and livelihoods. keywords: beneficiaries; farm; fish; mgnrega; ponds; water; works cache: ees-96.pdf plain text: ees-96.txt item: #200 of 204 id: ees-97 author: Thakur, Barun Kumar ; Debnath, Kanish ; Dhingra, Vaishali ; Bal, Debi Prasad title: Rising Drinking Water Insecurity in the Indian Himalayan Region of Sikkim: A multi-stakeholder perspective date: 2020-03-17 words: 1658 flesch: 52 summary: In many instances, female members of the households were particularly keen to answer our questions as they are often responsible for household water provision. Even though many households realise that the rains have become [127] Barun Kumar Thakur, Kanish Debnath, Vaishali Dhingra and Debi Prasad Bal erratic, and that they used spring water for irrigation, we noted, that as long as there was enough water in the main source point, households did not mind carrying it to the house, while doing little to conserve rain water . keywords: drinking; government; households; respondents; sikkim; water cache: ees-97.pdf plain text: ees-97.txt item: #201 of 204 id: ees-98 author: Bhattacharya , Shreyashi title: Vulnerabilities and Resilience in post-Fani Chilika: Lessons from the Field date: 2020-03-17 words: 1652 flesch: 52 summary: There are local Self-Help Groups (SHG) that have helped empower rural women by giving them the opportunities to transform their skills into an economic engagement. Omm Gayatri Jute Cluster (in collaboration with District Supply and Marketing Society (DSMS), Puri), run by a woman named Manasi, is an SHG where rural women sell home-made bags, purses and stationeries made of jute. keywords: brahmapur; chilika; cyclone; fani; women cache: ees-98.pdf plain text: ees-98.txt item: #202 of 204 id: ees-985 author: M, Manjula; Gopi, Girigan ; P, Vipindas title: Wetlands and Ecosystem Services: Empirical Evidence for Incentivizing Paddy Wetlands date: 2023-07-30 words: 8671 flesch: 56 summary: Realizing that paddy lands are important ecological systems, the state of Kerala in southern India passed an act in 2008 preventing their conversion to other uses. However, the economic benefits associated with the conversion of paddy lands are considerably higher than the current subsidies and bonuses. keywords: abundance; areca; banana; diversity; ecosystem; frog; frog abundance; kerala; land; level; nut; paddy; plot; services; species; species diversity; study; use; variables; water; wetlands cache: ees-985.pdf plain text: ees-985.txt item: #203 of 204 id: ees-99 author: Saikia , Arupjyoti title: Riverine Ecology of Eastern and North-Eastern India: Review of Madhurilata Basu, Rajat Roy & Ranabir Samaddar, eds. 2018. Political Ecology of Survival: Life and Labour in the River Islands of East and North-East India, New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan date: 2020-03-17 words: 919 flesch: 46 summary: These essays provide us a detailed account of how recurring floods, river bank erosion and state negligence aggravates poverty and exploitation. In the first essay, Mithilesh Kumar discusses the entwined social and economic conditions that prevail in the floodplains of Kosi river, a tributary of the Ganga. keywords: ecology; india; north; river cache: ees-99.pdf plain text: ees-99.txt item: #204 of 204 id: ees-990 author: Srivastwa, Amit Kumar; Kabra, Asmita title: Socio-spatial Infrastructures: Drinking Water Supply and Formation of Unequal Socio-technological Relations in Rural Southern Bihar date: 2023-07-30 words: 10169 flesch: 50 summary: Section 4 traces how groundwater contamination and the development of clean and safe drinking-water infrastructures have affected household water access across different socio-spatial groups in the study area. This paper explores the dialectical relationship between drinking water infrastructures and social spaces, how both shape each other, through which assemblages, and what it renders. keywords: access; actors; drinking; drinking water; ecology; groups; hand; hardiya; households; infrastructures; settlement; social; socio; state; supply; tap; village; water cache: ees-990.pdf plain text: ees-990.txt