item: #1 of 246 id: ees-10 author: Krishnaswamy, Jagdish title: On Climate Change: Editorial Note date: 2020 words: 632 flesch: 46 summary: The first is that anthropogenic climate change is already transforming climate and that these changes will continue—regionally and globally. Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 1 (1): 67–68, April 2018 CONVERSATIONS 1: Climate Change Editorial Note Jagdish Krishnaswamy  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. keywords: change; climate cache: ees-10.pdf plain text: ees-10.txt item: #2 of 246 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 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 246 id: ees-1000 author: Bhaskar, Dhanya ; Ramananda, Samudyatha; KT, Sarang title: Conservation amidst Urbanization: Insights from Explorations around Bannerghatta National Park, Bengaluru date: 2023 words: 2213 flesch: 47 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 246 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 words: 1228 flesch: 38 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. [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 246 id: ees-1010 author: Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala title: A Pressing Problem date: 2023 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 246 id: ees-1011 author: Batterbury, Simon; Rodríguez, Denisse title: Emancipatory Political Ecology Pedagogy In and Out of the Classroom date: 2023 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 246 id: ees-1017 author: Das, Budhaditya title: Political Economy of Farming in India: Chronicling 50 Years of Scholarship and Transformation date: 2023 words: 1145 flesch: 45 summary: As demonstrated in the earlier vignette from Rajasthan, agrarian change also intersects with the processes of urbanization, industrialization, and political conflicts over land and dispossession in contemporary India (Levien 2015). 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. keywords: change; economy; india; land; society cache: ees-1017.pdf plain text: ees-1017.txt item: #8 of 246 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 words: 1259 flesch: 45 summary: Globally, low carbon transitions have become a necessity, especially for large emerging economies like India. In Chapter 6, Zeba Aziz argues for the adoption of the ―Avoid-Shift-Improve‖ approach for low carbon transition. keywords: carbon; chapter; energy; india cache: ees-102.pdf plain text: ees-102.txt item: #9 of 246 id: ees-1021 author: Singh, Monalisa; Bahinipati, Chandra Sekhar title: The Implicit Discount Rate, Information, and Investment in Energy-Efficient Appliances: A Review date: 2024 words: 6334 flesch: 42 summary: It follows that disclosure of such information through labels, along with energy costs information, influences households’ decision to make energy- efficient investments. In other words, the difference between the initial price (immediate costs) of efficient and less efficient/inefficient products is weighed more heavily than the difference in future energy operating costs (delayed benefits). keywords: appliances; costs; decisions; discount; economics; efficiency; energy; factors; households; idr; information; investment; journal; rate; time cache: ees-1021.pdf plain text: ees-1021.txt item: #10 of 246 id: ees-1022 author: Singhar, Aditi Samant; Gundimeda, Haripriya title: Sustainable Harvests under Different Bio-economic Scenarios of Chilika Wetland’s Fisheries date: 2024 words: 10413 flesch: 51 summary: However, unsustainable harvesting, habitat degradation, loss of fishery resources, spawning, and the construction of nursery grounds worldwide has resulted in declining fishery yields. This study examines the economic principles central to fishery resource management to suggest a regulatory regime that can assure economic sustainability while utilizing fishery resources. keywords: catch; chilika; conservation; data; ecology; economy; effort; fisheries; fishery; fishing; harvest; journal; lagoon; lake; levels; management; mey; model; msy; ramsar; resource; species; stock; study; yield cache: ees-1022.pdf plain text: ees-1022.txt item: #11 of 246 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 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. Chennai floods (2015); heat waves in Andhra Pradesh (2015) and extreme heat in Phalodi, Rajasthan (2016) ─ 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: #12 of 246 id: ees-1035 author: Das, Sampurna title: Bringing and Being a ‘Kaim-bride’: A Note on Marriage and Migration in Assam Chars date: 2023 words: 3282 flesch: 63 summary: 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. I observed how her neighbours, who were local brides, had become solicitous keywords: akila; brides; char; family; kaim; marriage; status; women cache: ees-1035.pdf plain text: ees-1035.txt item: #13 of 246 id: ees-1037 author: Üner, Büsra title: Defending Nature: Transformation of the Space Through Grassroots Activism Against the Threat of Extractivism date: 2023 words: 9967 flesch: 37 summary: 2. AN OUTLINE OF THE CERATTEPE AND KIRAZLI ANTI- MINING ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS The Cerattepe anti-mining movement has been continuing for over two decades in Artvin and has significantly shaped the daily lives of local communities and the relationships among them. 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: #14 of 246 id: ees-1039 author: Javed, Sadaf title: Uncertainty and Climate Change Policymaking in India date: 2023 words: 1190 flesch: 35 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: #15 of 246 id: ees-104 author: Bharati , Kanchan ; Kumar , Dhananjay title: A Report on National Seminar “Ecology, Environment and Religions: Key Issues and Challenges” date: 2020 words: 1461 flesch: 36 summary: Rohit Prajapati delved on the different [163] Kanchan Bharati and Dhananjay Kumar socio-legal dimension of environmental conservation based on legal cases related to development projects with environmental issues. 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. keywords: conservation; development; ecology; environment; human; religion cache: ees-104.pdf plain text: ees-104.txt item: #16 of 246 id: ees-1043 author: Kumar, Mukul title: Environmental Racism and the Global Political Ecology of Industrial Disasters date: 2023 words: 2810 flesch: 47 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: #17 of 246 id: ees-1045 author: Murty , M.N. title: The Challenges of Climate Change and Community Resilience date: 2023 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. In view of these benefits, the government should provide incentives to coastal communities for the conservation of mangroves and avoid turning them into shrimp farms for commercial profits or deforesting them for fuel wood. keywords: change; climate; communities; south; water cache: ees-1045.pdf plain text: ees-1045.txt item: #18 of 246 id: ees-1046 author: Bajracharya, Ayusha title: Countering Local Disaster Capitalism: Lessons from Nepal’s Indigenous People date: 2024 words: 11507 flesch: 50 summary: Based on an in-depth analysis of local disaster capitalism in Rudrayani Guthi, Nepal, the findings of this study demonstrate that Indigenous peoples have been negatively affected by state-sponsored disaster recovery schemes, whereas wealthy people and businesses have benefitted from them. The paper concludes by offering some principles used by Indigenous peoples while countering local disaster capitalism through confrontations with powerful actors and while protecting their land during the process of disaster recovery. keywords: capitalism; communities; culture; development; disaster; disaster capitalism; earthquake; government; guthi; journal; khokana; knowledge; land; nepal; participants; peoples; process; projects; recovery; research; rudrayani; society; women cache: ees-1046.pdf plain text: ees-1046.txt item: #19 of 246 id: ees-1052 author: Kumar, Rajat title: Political Ecology of Urban Agricultural Pollution: Cultivating the Yamuna Floodplains in Delhi date: 2023 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: #20 of 246 id: ees-1054 author: Baruah, Mitul title: The Political Ecology of an Environmental Crisis in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam date: 2023 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; control; ecology; economy; embankments; erosion; flood; government; india; island; majuli; people; river; society; state; valley; water cache: ees-1054.pdf plain text: ees-1054.txt item: #21 of 246 id: ees-1060 author: Mehta, Pradeep title: Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change and their Adaptation in a semi-Arid Region in India date: 2024 words: 8721 flesch: 43 summary: Abstract: Climate change is emerging as a significant threat to farmers in semi-arid rural areas in India, where agricultural livelihoods are primarily dependent on rainfall. The effect of climate change on farmers’ social and economic well-being depends not only on their awareness of shifting climatic patterns but also on their responses to such changes. keywords: adaptation; change; climate; climate change; crops; data; district; et al; factors; farmers; future; groundwater; nuh; perceptions; rainfall; strategies; temperature; water cache: ees-1060.pdf plain text: ees-1060.txt item: #22 of 246 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 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 However, 2 Odisha contains 95% chromite, 92% nickel ore, 55% bauxite, 33% iron ore (hematite), etc. (It is) the leading producer of chromite with a share of 99.8%, iron ore 47% and bauxite 36% in the total production of respective mineral in the country (GoI 2015). 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: #23 of 246 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 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: #24 of 246 id: ees-1087 author: Narain, Vishal title: Buddhist Wisdom for a Sustainable World date: 2023 words: 1411 flesch: 51 summary: Introduction to Buddhist Economics: The Relevance of Buddhist Values in Contemporary Economy and Society. Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science. keywords: economics; economy; happiness; society cache: ees-1087.pdf plain text: ees-1087.txt item: #25 of 246 id: ees-110 author: Singh, Rashmi title: Himal Rakshak of Sikkim: The Burden of Being the Flag-bearers of Community-based Conservation date: 2020 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: #26 of 246 id: ees-1119 author: Ghosh, Poulomee; Bobba, Eshwar Reddy; Sai Sanjay Dodda; Vamsi Krishna Jasti; Sarvan Meka; Hasitha Reddy Vanga title: Scenario of Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities: A Study of Pune, Visakhapatnam, and Tirupati date: 2025 words: 8253 flesch: 46 summary: If waste treatment, recovery, and disposal are not effective, then waste segregation becomes purposeless. Now, e-autorickshaws are deployed for waste collection. keywords: charges; cities; city; collection; door; india; management; practices; pune; recovery; service; slp; swachh; swm; tirupati; urban; visakhapatnam; waste cache: ees-1119.pdf plain text: ees-1119.txt item: #27 of 246 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 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: #28 of 246 id: ees-1122 author: Kumar, Partik; Srinivasan, Veena title: Addressing Depletion in Alluvial Aquifers: Why Context Matters in Participatory Groundwater Management date: 2025 words: 7461 flesch: 35 summary: While these programmes have been attempted on a pilot basis, there are barriers to scaling, especially in alluvial aquifer systems, which pose specific problems. We argue that the characteristics of groundwater resources, the socioeconomic attributes of uses and users, and the rules governing use framed by existing institutions and agrarian policies are the distinguishing features to be considered in building solutions for alluvial aquifers. keywords: aquifers; attributes; community; depletion; development; farmers; framework; government; groundwater; haryana; india; institutions; management; pgwm; punjab; resources; rock; systems; users cache: ees-1122.pdf plain text: ees-1122.txt item: #29 of 246 id: ees-1138 author: Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala; Mukhopadhyay, Pranab title: Reflecting on the Past and Welcoming the Future date: 2023 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: #30 of 246 id: ees-1161 author: Mahajan, Rashmi; Rajankar, Manish title: Inclusive Management of Our Water Commons date: 2024 words: 6444 flesch: 44 summary: Farmers who do not have nistar rights constantly struggle and negotiate with other farmers to get tank water, even if they have a permit from the irrigation department to access tank water for irrigation. For example, in Bolde village, where the WMC head is actively encouraging tank water management, irrigation, and water distribution, WMC record-keeping is up to date. keywords: dams; department; development; ecology; farmers; fish; fishers; government; india; irrigation; maharashtra; management; rajankar; society; species; state; tanks; water cache: ees-1161.pdf plain text: ees-1161.txt item: #31 of 246 id: ees-1169 author: Baral, Sony; Regmi, Aayoush Raj; Joshi, Khagendra P.; Atreya, Kishor title: Methodological Accounting of the Ecosystem Services Benefits of Community-based Restoration: A Systematic Review date: 2025 words: 10398 flesch: 51 summary: avoided cost (AC), value transfer (VT) Wiskerke et al. (2010) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ VT Pistorius, Carodenuto, and Wathum (2017) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ DMP, VT Siregar et al. ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ DMP and CV Barry et al. (2014) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ CV and VT van der Horst (2007) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ VT Morri et al. (2014) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ AC and VT Strassburg et al. (2016) ✔ ✔ ✔ AC and VT Rai, Neupane, and Dhakal (2016) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ DMP Paudel, Bhusal, and Kimengsi (2021) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ DMP Keefe, Alavalapati, and Pinheiro (2012) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ VT Bechara et al. (2021) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ VT Source: Authors’ analysis Ecology, Economy, and Society–the INSEE Journal 8(1): 99-131, January 2025 3.4 Valuation Techniques Economic valuation in the case of forest restoration or natural resources is highly complex due to the presence of both DBs and IBs, which require different methods of valuation. keywords: analysis; articles; benefit; community; cost; data; discount; ecology; economics; ecosystem; environmental; et al; figure; forest; journal; management; market; parameters; projects; restoration; review; services; society; source; studies; study; valuation; value; ✔ ac; ✔ dmp; ✔ vt; ✔ ✔ cache: ees-1169.pdf plain text: ees-1169.txt item: #32 of 246 id: ees-1174 author: Bhandari, Preety title: Building Resilience for an Uncertain Climate Future date: 2024 words: 1290 flesch: 43 summary: Climate change is the pre- eminent challenge of this century, and its intersection with economy, society, and nature is amplifying the baseline risks that are commonly factored into decision-making. The Sixth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2022) clearly states that around 3.3 billion to 3.6 billion people live in countries that are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, with hotspots in the Arctic, Central and South America, Small Island Developing States (SIDS), South Asia, and much of Sub-Saharan Africa. keywords: change; climate; resilience; risk cache: ees-1174.pdf plain text: ees-1174.txt item: #33 of 246 id: ees-1175 author: V, Chitra title: Tangled Web: Indigenous Rights and Spatial Politics in Mumbai date: 2024 words: 1766 flesch: 49 summary: It weaves a detailed account of their everyday struggles, from the pressures of changing fish markets and its impacts on Koli women and domestic economies to the charged politics of development projects and the changing demographics and practices that characterize the fishing industry. In the fourth and fifth chapters, the book explores the consequences of these changes for Koli women, examining their inclusion in workers’ collectives as well as their own politics and political organizations. keywords: book; community; fishing; koli; nair cache: ees-1175.pdf plain text: ees-1175.txt item: #34 of 246 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 words: 7482 flesch: 54 summary: 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: #35 of 246 id: ees-1185 author: D.A., Kiran ; S.V., Pushkara ; R, Jitvan; H.K., Ramaraju title: Legacy Waste Remediation in Karnataka: Field Assessments and the Promise of Biomining Technology date: 2024 words: 2439 flesch: 55 summary: Figure 1 shows the burning of legacy waste at a dumpsite. Consequently, legacy waste has accumulated in dumpsites, with approximately 2.1 crore tonnes of legacy waste in the state occupying an estimated 2,000 acres of land. keywords: bio; dumpsites; legacy; soil; tpd; ulbs; waste cache: ees-1185.pdf plain text: ees-1185.txt item: #36 of 246 id: ees-1191 author: Rajasekaran, Mohan Raj; Ravichandran, Indhar Saidanyan; Balasingam, Parthiban; Sivagnanam, Chandrasekaran title: The Ecological and Socio-economic Impacts of the Aquarium Sailfin Catfish Invasion: Fate of Fisherfolk at Major Inland Water Bodies, Tamil Nadu, South India date: 2025 words: 12132 flesch: 50 summary: This paper examines the invasion by sailfin catfish (Pterygoplichthys spp.) Keywords: Pterygoplichthys spp., Biological Invasion, Ecological and Socio-economic Impacts, Fishing Communities, Cauvery River Basin, Vaigai River Basin. keywords: abundance; anicut; biomass; catfish; cauvery; cfs; economic; fish; fish species; fishing; ifs; impacts; invasion; journal; lake; pterygoplichthys; river; sites; species; spp; study; total; vaigai river; vrb; water cache: ees-1191.pdf plain text: ees-1191.txt item: #37 of 246 id: ees-1192 author: Gonji, Ajay Immanuel; Chauhan, Sonali; Babu, Suresh title: Coexistence of Wild Fauna in the City: A Case Study of the Golden Jackal (Canis aureus Linn.) in Central Ridge, Delhi date: 2024 words: 11643 flesch: 52 summary: Keywords: Urbanisation, Delhi Ridge, Golden Jackals, Mesopredator, Behavioural Adaptations, Synanthropic Fauna, Urban Adapters 1. INTRODUCTION Urban ecosystems are unique combinations of the natural sphere, with abiotic and biotic components, and the anthroposphere, which exists as a result of the socio-politico-economic actions of humans (Endlicher et al.  Using a combination of camera trapping and occupancy modelling, our study aims to understand the habitat use, distribution, and urban adaptations of the jackal in Delhi’s Central Ridge Reserve Forest. keywords: activity; behaviour; camera; central; central ridge; city; conservation; data; delhi; density; ecology; food; forest; golden; habitat; human; india; jackals; journal; new; occupancy; patterns; reserve; ridge; site; society; species; study; urban; use; wildlife cache: ees-1192.pdf plain text: ees-1192.txt item: #38 of 246 id: ees-1193 author: Bhardwaj, Shashank; , Shiwani; , Mandeep; Yadav, Gitanjali; Babu, Suresh title: Ecology of Grasslands of Central Nicobar: Commons in a Sea of Change date: 2024 words: 12047 flesch: 50 summary: Therefore, the distribution and persistence of tropical grasslands in Southeast Asia are loosely understood to be related to climatic conditions, human activity, and edaphic features (Pletcher, Staver, and Schwartz 2022), which makes it difficult to assign a singular determinant to these formations. Based on the factors that govern their persistence, tropical grasslands are broadly categorized into two types: “derived” and “natural” (Gibson 2009). keywords: andaman; area; asia; bhardwaj; commons; community; ecology; economy; fire; forests; grasslands; india; insee; islands; journal; kamorta; management; mandeep; nicobar; nicobar islands; pilpilow; research; shiwani; society; southeast; species; study; tropical; tsunami; tuhet; vegetation cache: ees-1193.pdf plain text: ees-1193.txt item: #39 of 246 id: ees-1195 author: Nawn, Nandan title: Reconciling Ecological Sustainability and Economic Development in Developing Countries date: 2024 words: 1291 flesch: 40 summary: Experienced researchers may gain insights on the use of sophisticated econometric techniques from “Incentives for Rural Households to Establish Tree Cover on Agricultural Land in Andhra Pradesh, India” (Ch. 7) or “Minimizing Ecological Damage from Road Improvement in Tropical Forests” (Ch. 8). Young researchers may learn how to write a literature survey from “Electrification and Development: Empirical Evidence on the Effect of Electricity Provision on Household Welfare” (Ch. 4) or “Regional Climate Vulnerabilities in South Asia: A Development Perspective” (Ch. 9). keywords: countries; development; economics; insee cache: ees-1195.pdf plain text: ees-1195.txt item: #40 of 246 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 words: 1401 flesch: 33 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. In the context of the increased risk of climate-related natural disasters such as floods, heatwaves, and storms, both predicted by scientific studies and recently experienced in different parts of the world and India, the objectives of the conference were to discuss the following: What are the likely impacts of climate change on human and natural systems? keywords: change; climate; conference; insee; panel; society cache: ees-121.pdf plain text: ees-121.txt item: #41 of 246 id: ees-123 author: Ramesh , Madhuri title: A Call to Redefine ‘the Field’ in Nature Conservation Studies in India date: 2020 words: 1875 flesch: 41 summary: To begin with, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the arm of the United Nations that steers the global conservation agenda, has become an increasingly neoliberal institution—it has marginalized concerns regarding the impacts of capitalism and, instead, has promoted market-based tools for conservation and sought partnerships with a range of industries including mining corporations (MacDonald 2010). Now more than ever, nature conservation is not just about saving biodiversity—it is a domain marked by economic, political, and social contestation. keywords: conservation; field; india; nature; need; society cache: ees-123.pdf plain text: ees-123.txt item: #42 of 246 id: ees-1235 author: Acharyya, Achiransu title: Professor Rabindra Nath Bhattacharya (15 November 1941 to 3 June 2022): A homage date: 2024 words: 2801 flesch: 51 summary: It was Professor Sarmila Banerjee who had taken the initiative to introduce the course on environmental economics and involve Professor Bhattacharya. Professor Bhattacharya was deeply involved with the two institutional networks for environmental economics in South Asia—SANDEE and the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE). keywords: bhattacharya; college; dasgupta; economics; insee; kolkata; professor; university cache: ees-1235.pdf plain text: ees-1235.txt item: #43 of 246 id: ees-1251 author: Kumar, Surender title: Will the Green Credit Programme Incentivize Positive Environmental Actions? date: 2024 words: 3247 flesch: 36 summary: Keywords: Market mechanism; Property rights; Environmental effectiveness; Cost effectiveness; Equity 1. INTRODUCTION A policy such as the GCP should be gauged on the basis of three parameters: environmental effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and equity. keywords: activities; conservation; costs; credits; effectiveness; environmental; gcp; market; programme cache: ees-1251.pdf plain text: ees-1251.txt item: #44 of 246 id: ees-1261 author: Krishnaswamy, Jagdish title: 2023: The Year that our Planet's Environmental Signals Played Loud and Clear date: 2024 words: 706 flesch: 46 summary: GCEW asked for renewed governance and economic thinking on water management at all scales. In our current issue, three papers address aspects of water management and fisheries in Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Odisha that resonate well with the messaging from the global science policy discourse. keywords: policy; species; water cache: ees-1261.pdf plain text: ees-1261.txt item: #45 of 246 id: ees-1271 author: Yunus, Mohammad title: The Vulnerability and Transformation of Indonesian Peatlands: Navigating Social-Ecological Tipping Points for Resilient Futures date: 2024 words: 1488 flesch: 30 summary: Its relevance extends beyond Indonesia, encompassing countries with tropical peatlands, such as those within the ASEAN region, South America, and even Africa. The concluding chapter integrates the social and environmental dimensions of peatland transformation through a case study on issuing Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certification to smallholder cooperatives in Riau Province. keywords: book; chapter; drainage; indonesia; peatland; scale cache: ees-1271.pdf plain text: ees-1271.txt item: #46 of 246 id: ees-1281 author: Biswas Roy, Malabika; Saha, Shilpa; Kumar Roy, Pankaj title: Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment: A Review of Research Development date: 2025 words: 11625 flesch: 40 summary: Keywords: Constructed Wetlands; Wetlands; Wastewater; Wastewater Treatment; VOSviewer  Department of Geography, Women’s College, Calcutta, Kolkata 700003, India; malabikabiswasroy@gmail.com Figure 1: Country-wise Publications on Constructed Wetlands from 1991 to 2020 Data Source: Scopus. keywords: analysis; authors; cws; ecology; economy; elsevier; engineering; environmental; et al; figure; insee; journal; management; processes; publications; removal; research; roy; saha; science; scopus; society; source; systems; technology; treatment; wastewater; wastewater treatment; water; wetlands cache: ees-1281.pdf plain text: ees-1281.txt item: #47 of 246 id: ees-1288 author: Gupta, Ranjoy; Singh, Ranvir title: Meal-less Mornings for School-going Children: An Insight into the Food–Health Interface in the Remote Mountain Region of Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir, India date: 2024 words: 1799 flesch: 60 summary: A discussion with a shopkeeper confirmed the children’s statements: “My daughter doesn’t eat home food and takes biscuits and juice early in the morning despite food being available, because every other child is doing so,” he said. She further added that the family follows this routine for four days a week, but on other days, when they can cook and provide meals, the children do not prefer home food. keywords: children; food; morning; school; time cache: ees-1288.pdf plain text: ees-1288.txt item: #48 of 246 id: ees-1296 author: Antony, Merlyn Maria title: Fisheries Livelihoods and Governance: Lessons for Policy-making date: 2025 words: 1698 flesch: 50 summary: Written by Michael Fabinyi (Professor) of the School of Communication and Kate Barclay (Professor) of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), the book is an outcome of their years of qualitative research on fishing livelihoods in the Asia-Pacific. Chapter 1 provides an introduction that details the approaches used to look at fishery livelihoods and governance. keywords: authors; fisheries; fishers; fishing; governance; livelihoods cache: ees-1296.pdf plain text: ees-1296.txt item: #49 of 246 id: ees-1319 author: Toppo, Anju O.M. title: Reordering Nature: An Assessment of Colonial and Post-Colonial Forest Policy in Jalpaiguri and the Jungle Mahals date: 2024 words: 899 flesch: 38 summary: Chapter 4 traces the transformation of local inhabitants, from communities having access to a vast array of forest resources, to becoming a landless people whose subsistence livelihoods were increasingly defined by colonial rules and laws. This book will be a useful resource for academics who want a descriptive study of colonial policies on forestry and mining in Jalpaiguri and the Jungle Mahals. keywords: chapter; jalpaiguri; mahals cache: ees-1319.pdf plain text: ees-1319.txt item: #50 of 246 id: ees-134 author: Chakraborty, Sanjana ; Mukherjee, Vivekananda title: Revisiting Economic Costs of Arsenicosis: A PSM Approach date: 2020 words: 9058 flesch: 53 summary: The outcome variables are per capita monthly household income and per capita monthly household expenditure. The medical expenditures borne by affected households to treat arsenicosis are an example of adaptation. keywords: arsenic; arsenicosis; bangladesh; capita; contamination; control; discrimination; expenditure; group; health; households; income; journal; labour; loss; propensity; treatment cache: ees-134.pdf plain text: ees-134.txt item: #51 of 246 id: ees-1371 author: Ramakrishnan, Rajesh title: The Forest Rights Act and the 2023 Amendment to the Forest Conservation Act date: 2024 words: 1804 flesch: 52 summary: Examining the 2023 Amendment from the standpoint of forest rights under the FRA gives a different perspective. The Act recognized and vested forest dwellers with forest rights and laid out procedures for recording the rights and demarcating their geographical domain. keywords: diversion; forest; fra; land; rights cache: ees-1371.pdf plain text: ees-1371.txt item: #52 of 246 id: ees-1377 author: Dhavala, Kishore title: Managing the Commons : Roles of Governance, Markets, and Communities date: 2025 words: 1450 flesch: 28 summary: The integrated approach presented in the book enriches the discourse on sustainable development, offering valuable insights for students, researchers, and policymakers engaged in environmental policy and management. The reprinted articles are organized into three categories: environmental policy instruments, budgetary policy instruments, and actions targeting environmental problems. keywords: authors; chapter; communities; management; taxes cache: ees-1377.pdf plain text: ees-1377.txt item: #53 of 246 id: ees-140 author: Chakravarty, Debalina ; Roy, Joyashree title: Solar Microgrids in Rural India: A Case Study of Household Benefits date: 2021 words: 9365 flesch: 50 summary: Khazzoom first mentioned this effect in the early 1980s when discussing household energy consumption (Wei 2010; Sorrell 2007; Allan et al. 2008; 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: #54 of 246 id: ees-1400 author: Krishnaswamy, Jagdish title: Understanding Human–Environment Interactions Using Multiple Dimensions date: 2024 words: 963 flesch: 42 summary: The new government will have to take a fresh look at climate change adaptation strategies across cities and farms. This EES issue also grapples with opportunities and hope for sustainability amidst the threat of global environmental change. keywords: ees; forest; india; issue cache: ees-1400.pdf plain text: ees-1400.txt item: #55 of 246 id: ees-1429 author: Khangar, Nihal; Thangavel, Mohanasundari title: Eco-efficiency of Crop Production in Madhya Pradesh: A Directional Distance Function Approach date: 2025 words: 9937 flesch: 48 summary: For instance, when prioritizing a 10% reduction in inputs and a 40% decrease in ED—while concurrently aiming for a 20% increase in yield and a 10% increase in residue—the efficiency ratios and requisite targets for achieving crop efficiency change (Table 5). Numerous studies have investigated the eco-efficiency of agricultural crop production using DEA (Cao et al. 2022; keywords: agriculture; analysis; approach; assessment; crop; data; dea; dsr; eco; efficiency; emissions; et al; impact; input; journal; output; production; research; sorghum; study; use; wheat cache: ees-1429.pdf plain text: ees-1429.txt item: #56 of 246 id: ees-1453 author: Shailesh Kumar; Diptimayee Nayak title: Navigating Environmental Crisis: A Review of Escape from Overshoot date: 2025 words: 1729 flesch: 39 summary: (149) Green growth is “the idea that economic growth can continue indefinitely while at the same time resource requirements and environmental impacts decline” (153). The author suggests three types of decoupling: relative, absolute, and strong (or sufficient) decoupling, wherein the “greater the difference between the rate of emissions intensity reduction and the rate of economic growth, the greater is the rate of reduction in emissions” (159). keywords: author; capacity; economics; growth; overshoot cache: ees-1453.pdf plain text: ees-1453.txt item: #57 of 246 id: ees-1455 author: Shashidharan, Nita title: De jure and De facto Land Management Approaches of Forest Officials: Reflections from the Field and Archives date: 2025 words: 2580 flesch: 46 summary: The RFOs acknowledge the complexity of land management in STR, citing its geographic structure, diverse terrain, and fragmented forest habitats interspersed with agriculture and settlements. This reflects that the state acts as both a “giver” and “taker” (Chakravorty 2013), highlighting the complexity of land management beyond the FD. 2.3. keywords: field; forest; interviews; land; management; rfos; str cache: ees-1455.pdf plain text: ees-1455.txt item: #58 of 246 id: ees-1481 author: Ramesh , Madhuri ; Patil, Sheetal; Pradyumna, Adithya title: An Indian perspective on One Health prescriptions date: 2025 words: 2034 flesch: 39 summary: Environmental health • Environment Act, 1986, and pollution control boards • Biological Diversity Act, 2002, and biodiversity au- thorities • Environment Impact As- sessment Notification, 2006 • Forests-related regulations Human health • National Health Mission; Governmental health services • Government health insurance schemes • Integrated disease surveillance programme • National Programme for Prevention and Control of Non- Communicable Diseases, 2010 • Maternal and child health-related programmes • National Programme on Climate Change and Human Health, 2019 • Health research institutes National One Health Mission Animal health • Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 • National Animal Disease Control Programme, 2019 • National Livestock Health and Disease Control scheme, 2013 • National Wildlife Action Plan, 2017 • (Proposed) Centre of Excellence in Wildlife Health • Reporting systems One Health in India National Health Policy 2017. keywords: escap; guide; health; india; national; policy cache: ees-1481.pdf plain text: ees-1481.txt item: #59 of 246 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 words: 8407 flesch: 53 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; wasson; water cache: ees-150.pdf plain text: ees-150.txt item: #60 of 246 id: ees-1533 author: Osei, Charles Dwumfour title: Environmental Literacy among Vegetable Farm Entrepreneurs and its Influence on Green Agricultural Production in Ghana date: 2025 words: 8975 flesch: 41 summary: Measurement of Variables Dependent Variable: We measured green agricultural production behaviour (GAPB) as a latent construct based on VFEs’ decision to adopt GAP and implement it across the pre-production, production, and post-production stages. Environmental values serve as moral frameworks that determine whether actions are beneficial or harmful to the environment. keywords: behaviour; effect; environmental; et al; farmers; gap; gapb; gapw; ghana; green; journal; knowledge; literacy; practices; production; responsibility; study; values; vfes; willingness cache: ees-1533.pdf plain text: ees-1533.txt item: #61 of 246 id: ees-1585 author: Vasan, Sudha title: Diversity, Scale, and Context in Environmental Governance date: 2025 words: 1325 flesch: 38 summary: Two contributions in this issue tackle the topic—a research essay examining best practices for involving private companies in solid waste management, and a thematic essay evaluating research on the development of an eco- technology (constructed wastelands) for wastewater treatment. Poulomee Ghosh et al. discuss best practices in solid waste management under initiatives such as the Smart City Mission using case studies of three success stories (the Indian cities of Pune, Visakhapatnam, and Tirupati). keywords: ecology; economy; management; policy; society; waste cache: ees-1585.pdf plain text: ees-1585.txt item: #62 of 246 id: ees-16 author: Watson , Robert title: On Climate Change: Climate Change: the Science date: 2018 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: #63 of 246 id: ees-1671 author: Khandelwal, Mugdha title: Every Drop Counts: Gendered Impacts of Solar Pumps, Within and Outside Rural Households in Chhattisgarh date: 2025 words: 2479 flesch: 47 summary: In the basti (hamlet) in Pahargaon, I met many women from households that had adopted SPV pumps. Signs of irrigation using SPV pumps are clearly visible to any visitor to Pahargaon. keywords: author; chhattisgarh; energy; irrigation; pumps; spv; time; water; women cache: ees-1671.pdf plain text: ees-1671.txt item: #64 of 246 id: ees-17 author: Desai, Nitin title: On Climate Change: Reflection on international climate diplomacy date: 2018 words: 1104 flesch: 49 summary: It should include a greenhouse gas (GHG) budget for the distribution of allowable global emissions between countries and a time profile of GHG emissions consistent with the accepted goal. An effective agreement on climate change should include a goal for the acceptable limit for the increase in temperature. keywords: cent; climate; emissions; mitigation cache: ees-17.pdf plain text: ees-17.txt item: #65 of 246 id: ees-1712 author: Bisht , Arpita title: Extractive Economics and Ecological Rights date: 2025 words: 1212 flesch: 37 summary: He does an excellent job of covering the multiple layers of legislative, administrative, and bureaucratic issues involved in mining, particularly as they apply to people at mining frontiers. The book makes critical contributions by including the historical precedents to mining in India, e.g., current policy and governance dimensions (which continue to be founded on the legacy of British colonial governance), and sociocultural dimensions particular to India (the “primitive accumulation” of land and resources founded on the ever-present caste system of India). keywords: book; india; mining; rights cache: ees-1712.pdf plain text: ees-1712.txt item: #66 of 246 id: ees-1722 author: Ramesh, M K title: Natural Resources Management Law: A Referencer date: 2025 words: 965 flesch: 42 summary: Formerly, Professor of Law, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560072; 799, ‘Surabhi’, IV Block, Sir M. V. Layout, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560110; mkramesh@nls.ac.in Copyright © Ramesh 2025. While the book showcases the struggles faced by Adivasis and other local communities, as well as the importance of protecting their rights, the chapters fall short of exploring how local knowledge and customary law can be more effectively integrated into legal frameworks. keywords: india; law; resource cache: ees-1722.pdf plain text: ees-1722.txt item: #67 of 246 id: ees-1758 author: Mythili, G title: Professor U. Sankar (5 June 1935 to 30 March 2025) : A Tribute date: 2025 words: 2140 flesch: 41 summary: Ecology, Economy, and Society–the INSEE Journal 8(1): 113-118, July 2025 IN MEMORY Professor U. Sankar (5 June 1935 to 30 March 2025): A Tribute G Mythili  Professor Ulaganathan Sankar, former Director of Madras School of Economics, passed away at Chennai after a brief illness. Coming from a rural background and born into a humble family, Sankar rose to become an eminent econometrician, making significant contributions to environmental economics, agricultural economics, and public-sector economics. keywords: economics; india; mse; programme; research; sankar; university cache: ees-1758.pdf plain text: ees-1758.txt item: #68 of 246 id: ees-1769 author: Vasan, Sudha title: Indian Monsoon: A Clarion Call for a Systems Approach and Dialectical Thinking date: 2025 words: 1290 flesch: 38 summary: In the best-case scenario, sustainable development has meant that each event is justified by a narrow cost–benefit analysis of its specific social and ecological impact within a limited lifecycle, and new plantations may or may not compensate for the loss of long-established biodiverse ground cover. This fragmented approach to sustainable development leaves us unprepared for heat pockets in the summer, floods and cloud bursts in the monsoon, and smog and poor urban air quality in the winter, until the retreating monsoon brings our attention back to urban floods in the southern states. keywords: development; economics; economy; monsoon; time cache: ees-1769.pdf plain text: ees-1769.txt item: #69 of 246 id: ees-18 author: Sterner, Thomas title: On Climate Change: Fiscal Measures When Climate Negotiations are not Feasible date: 2018 words: 1503 flesch: 60 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; keywords: cent; countries; emissions; india cache: ees-18.pdf plain text: ees-18.txt item: #70 of 246 id: ees-185 author: Parikh, Kirit title: India’s Energy Strategy for Inclusive Sustainable Development date: 2020 words: 2632 flesch: 52 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; delhi; electricity; energy; government; growth; india; parikh; power cache: ees-185.pdf plain text: ees-185.txt item: #71 of 246 id: ees-19 author: Dayal, Vikram title: On Forect Conservation: Editorial Note date: 2018 words: 348 flesch: 46 summary: 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. Kabra too points out that Homo sapiens has altered every landscape—nothing is ‘pristine’, not even areas rich in wildlife—and yet, excluding vulnerable people may have harmful side effects. keywords: karanth cache: ees-19.pdf plain text: ees-19.txt item: #72 of 246 id: ees-20 author: Kabra, Asmita title: On Forect Conservation: Revisiting Canons and Dogmas in the Conservation-versus-Human Rights Debate date: 2018 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 rate of creation of protected areas has accelerated in the twenty- first century as part of a global consensus under the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD). keywords: areas; biodiversity; conservation; human; rights cache: ees-20.pdf plain text: ees-20.txt item: #73 of 246 id: ees-21 author: Karanth, K. Ullas title: On Forect Conservation: Reconciling Rights of Individuals with Rights of Wild Species date: 2018 words: 1367 flesch: 44 summary: 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. Such faith-based assumptions include the idea that wild species are not impacted by the increase in human population density, which is accompanied by the doubling of life expectancy; reduction in poverty; and the consequent, rising demand for more animal protein, water, sanitation, and healthcare. keywords: conservation; karanth; nature; rights; society; species cache: ees-21.pdf plain text: ees-21.txt item: #74 of 246 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 words: 1834 flesch: 33 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. These micro- and macro-level analyses do not, however, factor in the role of environmental capital explicitly, nor do they articulate methods of analysis that consider environmental issues as derivatives of the role of environmental capital. keywords: book; capital; economics; level; policies cache: ees-214.pdf plain text: ees-214.txt item: #75 of 246 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 words: 2404 flesch: 45 summary: In Chapter 2, Kent Redford and Georgina Mace focus on traditional biodiversity conservation and point to the malleable aspects in the definition of biodiversity. In Chapter 3, Peter Minang explores the connections between values and incentives in the context of ecosystem services in high-diversity tropical forest systems. keywords: book; chapter; climate; frameworks; justice cache: ees-215.pdf plain text: ees-215.txt item: #76 of 246 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 words: 1539 flesch: 30 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. Interestingly, Lavanya Rajamani‘s essay observes how the ―precautionary principle‖ has not come of age in environmental law in India, due to the courts‘ balancing of environmental concerns with those of ―sustainable development‖. keywords: courts; ghosh; india; justice; law; rights cache: ees-216.pdf plain text: ees-216.txt item: #77 of 246 id: ees-22 author: Sekhsaria, Pankaj title: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are not an ‘empty space’ date: 2018 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: #78 of 246 id: ees-221 author: Mukherjee, Jenia title: Editorial: Setting the Context date: 2020 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. Reflecting on the significance of ―reciprocal learning‖ for water researchers, Evers et al. (2017) have conceptualized a ―pluralistic water research‖ approach that is ―integrative and interdisciplinary‖ and which aims to ―coherently and comprehensively integrate human-water dimensions‖. The South Asian water scene is huge and diverse, leading to the exploration and analysis of complex problems using natural science and social science approaches, such as socio-hydrology, environmental history, and political ecology (including hydrosocial studies).3 keywords: article; ecology; india; mukherjee; new; research; science; society; socio; water cache: ees-221.pdf plain text: ees-221.txt item: #79 of 246 id: ees-222 author: Mukherjee, Jenia; Ghosh, Pritwinath title: Fluid Epistemologies: The Social Saga of Sediments in Bengal date: 2020 words: 4258 flesch: 46 summary: These act as effective modes of communication between char villages; they connect families during times of disrupted communication. The char is considered as shikasti (governmental non-revenue land) according to the Revenue Bill (an outcome of the Bengal Alluvion and Diluvion Act, 1825), which states that if a piece of land that was previous submerged in water re-emerges, it becomes state property; as such, no revenue can be generated on the re-emerged char. keywords: bengal; char; choruas; ecology; ganga; hamidpur; india; islands; jenia; mukherjee; river; sediment; society; water cache: ees-222.pdf plain text: ees-222.txt item: #80 of 246 id: ees-226 author: Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala title: Knowledge Others, Others’ Knowledge: The Need for a New Epistemology of Water date: 2020 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 keywords: epistemologies; feminist; gender; knowledge; lahiri; nature; new; rivers; science; scientists; water cache: ees-226.pdf plain text: ees-226.txt item: #81 of 246 id: ees-228 author: Mukhopadhyay, Anway; Choudry, Anuradha title: Revealed by Water, Hidden in Water : Indic Hydro-epistemologies of Sacred Things date: 2020 words: 3693 flesch: 58 summary: 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. 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. keywords: body; sacred; sati; stones; things; touch; water cache: ees-228.pdf plain text: ees-228.txt item: #82 of 246 id: ees-229 author: Sen, Amrita; Unnikrishnan, Hita; Nagendra, Harini title: Imperilled Waterscapes: The Social-Ecological Transformation of Lakes in Bengaluru date: 2020 words: 3887 flesch: 52 summary: 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. Once considered tanks, they transformed in the public imagination into lakes: ecological and recreational spaces, rather than being water reservoirs for irrigation. keywords: bellandur; bengaluru; city; hita; lake; nagendra; system; tanks; unnikrishnan; water cache: ees-229.pdf plain text: ees-229.txt item: #83 of 246 id: ees-23 author: Joshi, Deepa title: Views from Below: The Economics and Politics of Water in the Darjeeling Himalayas date: 2018 words: 2709 flesch: 45 summary: In the Darjeeling region, the well-intentioned researcher and civil societyled critique of large dams is as distanced from complex ground realities of latent old water injustice as climate policies and interventions are from ground realities. 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. keywords: change; climate; development; environment; himalayas; research; science; water cache: ees-23.pdf plain text: ees-23.txt item: #84 of 246 id: ees-231 author: Lafaye de Micheaux, Flore; Kull, Christian title: Combining Political Ecology and ‘Mésologie’ for a New Geography of Rivers? date: 2020 words: 4362 flesch: 45 summary: 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. It emphasizes human–environment relations and the concept of ―milieu‖. It particularly captures the role of lived experience in river–human relationships, by accounting for the emotions and interpretations that link people to rivers both collectively and individually. keywords: ecology; geography; journal; kull; lafaye; management; micheaux; mésologie; new; paris; river; society; water cache: ees-231.pdf plain text: ees-231.txt item: #85 of 246 id: ees-232 author: DasGupta, Amrita title: Hydrocultural Histories and Narratives: Insights from Sundarbans date: 2020 words: 3820 flesch: 60 summary: 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). This leaves the readers wondering how water resources are to be shared and whose refuge is to be sought when dealing with resources from the water. keywords: bengal; bonbibi; forest; ganga; goddess; manasa; rai; resources; river; society; sundarbans; water cache: ees-232.pdf plain text: ees-232.txt item: #86 of 246 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 words: 1119 flesch: 54 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: #87 of 246 id: ees-25 author: Krishnan, Radhika title: Review of Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature (Simon & Schuster 2017) date: 2018 words: 1000 flesch: 41 summary: New Delhi: Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 978-81-93355-24-4 Jairam Ramesh, economist and Member of Parliament, has attempted to ‘paint a fresh portrait’ of Indira Gandhi. Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature. keywords: gandhi; indira; ramesh cache: ees-25.pdf plain text: ees-25.txt item: #88 of 246 id: ees-252 author: Pandit, Nitin title: COVID-19: Urban Density's Poetic Justice date: 2020 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; energy; new; society cache: ees-252.pdf plain text: ees-252.txt item: #89 of 246 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 words: 1836 flesch: 45 summary: Pluriverse: A Post-development Dictionary. 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. keywords: development; ecology; section; society; world cache: ees-255.pdf plain text: ees-255.txt item: #90 of 246 id: ees-26 author: Lele , Sharachchandra title: Review of Parisaranītiśatakam (Chinmaya International Foundation Shodha Sansthan, Adi Shankara Nilayam 2017) date: 2018 words: 884 flesch: 50 summary: [114] The first eight verses propound Nadkarni’s core philosophy: human beings are decidedly the most evolved of all species on earth; and have developed unprecedented powers to modify the environment; and, therefore, have the greatest responsibility towards its protection. 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. keywords: environmental; nadkarni; verses cache: ees-26.pdf plain text: ees-26.txt item: #91 of 246 id: ees-269 author: Das, Saudamini title: Karl-Göran Mäler: the Adi Guru of Environmental Economics date: 2020 words: 1427 flesch: 45 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: #92 of 246 id: ees-27 author: Baviskar , Amita title: The Duke Kunshan Conference on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Citizenship: 22–24 May 2017 date: 2018 words: 1287 flesch: 35 summary: [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: #93 of 246 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 words: 8420 flesch: 52 summary: Here, SWC measures have been undertaken by the government and NGOs at the sub- watershed/community level and by individual farmers at the farm level. The findings also highlight the influence of conservation measures practised in the neighbourhood on farmers’ decisions to implement SWC measures. keywords: adoption; conservation; erosion; farmers; household; iwmp; journal; land; level; measures; plot; practices; soil; study; swc; swc measures; variables; villages cache: ees-273.pdf plain text: ees-273.txt item: #94 of 246 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 words: 2329 flesch: 34 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: group; health; india; national; need; research; science; technology; women cache: ees-279.pdf plain text: ees-279.txt item: #95 of 246 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 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: #96 of 246 id: ees-283 author: Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala title: Living In, and Thinking About, the World in Pandemic Times date: 2020 words: 1126 flesch: 50 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. For example, if the wealthy northern Italian province of Lombardy had allowed its public- funded hospital system to retreat, which led to a higher incidence of COVID-19 deaths, Britain’s well-built National Health Service, one of the largest and best state-funded healthcare provision system in the world, also failed miserably in dealing with the deadly virus. keywords: future; pandemic; state; world cache: ees-283.pdf plain text: ees-283.txt item: #97 of 246 id: ees-297 author: Quinn, Terrance title: Lonergan's Contribution to Ecological Economics date: 2021 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: capital; consumer; ecology; economics; economy; goods; journal; lonergan; model; new; production; work cache: ees-297.pdf plain text: ees-297.txt item: #98 of 246 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 words: 1408 flesch: 32 summary: Arfanuzzaman and Md. Shaheduzzaman from other CBIT projects, he mentioned that Papua New Guinea has prepared an AFOLU Action Plan and Mongolia has established an NDC Forum that addresses the need for well-structured institutional arrangements and transparent GHG data collection and reporting. 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. keywords: bangladesh; data; etf; reporting; requirements cache: ees-299.pdf plain text: ees-299.txt item: #99 of 246 id: ees-3 author: Chopra, Kanchan title: Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal date: 2020 words: 947 flesch: 45 summary: 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. Other social sciences, meanwhile, question the basic paradigm of ‘homo economicus’, on which a number of its results are contingent. keywords: ecology; economics; society cache: ees-3.pdf plain text: ees-3.txt item: #100 of 246 id: ees-30 author: Chopra, Kanchan title: Analysing Human–Nature Interactions: allowing for Multiple Agents and Power Structures date: 2018 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: #101 of 246 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 words: 2089 flesch: 45 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: #102 of 246 id: ees-31 author: Perrings, Charles ; Kinzig, Ann title: Biological Conservation and Economic Theory date: 2018 words: 2825 flesch: 50 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: #103 of 246 id: ees-315 author: Thomas, Bejoy ; Bhar, Soumyajit; Chakravarty, Shoibal title: Imagining Sustainability Beyond COVID-19 in India date: 2021 words: 2522 flesch: 44 summary: The projected emissions reduction over the calendar year 2020 could vary between 5.2% and 8.7% (midpoint estimates) depending on the continuation of lockdown measures and the severity of the economic slowdown. Air pollution returned to pre-COVID-19 levels in China and Europe when lockdown restrictions were lifted (Carrington and Kommenda 2020). keywords: air; covid-19; data; economy; income; india; lockdown cache: ees-315.pdf plain text: ees-315.txt item: #104 of 246 id: ees-32 author: Liu, Jianguo title: An Integrated Framework for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Around the World date: 2018 words: 2231 flesch: 44 summary: Regarding relationships between the focal country and other countries for achieving SDG 2, food trade and associated factors need to be considered. For example, in Brazil, most of the fertilisers used for food production are imported from other countries. keywords: countries; food; framework; scores; sdg; sdgs; systems; trade cache: ees-32.pdf plain text: ees-32.txt item: #105 of 246 id: ees-33 author: Coelho , Karen title: Reading History and Power in Urban Landscapes: The Lens of Urban Political Ecology date: 2018 words: 4739 flesch: 43 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; karen.coelho@gmail.com Copyright © Coelho 2018. keywords: capital; chennai; city; coelho; ecology; land; nature; new; projects; spaces; urban; urbanization; water cache: ees-33.pdf plain text: ees-33.txt item: #106 of 246 id: ees-331 author: Sehgal, Shaina ; Babu, Suresh title: Economic Transformation of the Nicobar Islands Post-tsunami: A Material Import–Export Analysis date: 2021 words: 8405 flesch: 43 summary: 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. We, therefore, follow a regional perspective to analyse the medium-term impact of the disaster and recovery process in an offshore island setting in the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India. keywords: andaman; coconut; commodities; construction; development; ecology; economics; economy; exports; figure; food; great; imports; india; islands; journal; materials; nicobar; nicobar islands; physical; society; trade; tsunami cache: ees-331.pdf plain text: ees-331.txt item: #107 of 246 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 words: 10041 flesch: 51 summary: In case of KNP too, protected areas that had previously been used only by local herders were eventually made accessible to regional and national tourists, and “conservation” was achieved at the cost of pastoral livelihoods. Government agencies must engage with local formal and informal institutions to re-initiate rotational grazing practices, help deal with wildlife crimes, monitor livestock, and maintain equity among local herders. keywords: animals; ban; bhutia; biodiversity; case; conservation; displacement; ecology; evictions; forest; grazing; herders; india; journal; knp; livelihoods; park; pastoralists; sikkim; singh; society; study; yak cache: ees-335.pdf plain text: ees-335.txt item: #108 of 246 id: ees-337 author: Manjula , M.; Devi , P. Indira title: Organic Farming in India : Catalysts that Can Help in Transition date: 2021 words: 3422 flesch: 33 summary: [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. 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; pes; policy; practices; services; yield cache: ees-337.pdf plain text: ees-337.txt item: #109 of 246 id: ees-34 author: Mathur, Mihir ; Sharma, Kabir title: Modelling the Economics of Grassland Degradation in Banni, India, using System Dynamics date: 2018 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: area; banni; cent; charcoal; dynamics; economy; figure; fodder; grassland; income; inr; juliflora; kankrej; livestock; model; rainfall; removal; year cache: ees-34.pdf plain text: ees-34.txt item: #110 of 246 id: ees-344 author: Perrings, Charles; Espinoza , Baltazar title: Mobility Restrictions and the Control of COVID-19 date: 2021 words: 4889 flesch: 53 summary: 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. COVID-19 proved to be the trigger for a widely anticipated recession, making it hard to identify the excess costs due to disease control measures. 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: #111 of 246 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 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. While Roy turns to ―local history‖ and micro-studies to examine changes in rural Bengal, she also utilizes the notions of ―slow motion‖ and ―enlargement‖ as proposed by the philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin. keywords: bengal; book; economy; land; roy cache: ees-347.pdf plain text: ees-347.txt item: #112 of 246 id: ees-35 author: Bandyopadhyay , Jayanta title: On Water Governance: Editorial Note: Emerging Knowledge Should Prevail in Water Governance date: 2018 words: 356 flesch: 44 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  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: #113 of 246 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 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 idea of a ―good person‖ being defined by their position vis-à-vis oil sites is insightful (142). keywords: oil; people; press; state; university cache: ees-357.pdf plain text: ees-357.txt item: #114 of 246 id: ees-358 author: Roy, Brototi title: A Report of the Third Biennial POLLEN (Political Ecology Network) Conference, 2020 date: 2021 words: 1210 flesch: 38 summary: Unlike most conferences, POLLEN 2020 did not have a closing plenary. https://pollen2022.com/ [151] Brototi Roy There were also sessions on publishing in political ecology, the issues that researchers from the Global South face and how can they be countered, as well as broader discussions on the need for open-access journals. keywords: conference; ecology; keynote; pollen cache: ees-358.pdf plain text: ees-358.txt item: #115 of 246 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 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: #116 of 246 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 words: 8137 flesch: 47 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: #117 of 246 id: ees-37 author: Arthington, Angela H title: On Water Governance: Environmental Flow Concepts and Holistic Applications in River Basin Governance date: 2018 words: 1241 flesch: 29 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 concept of environmental flows (e-flows) has emerged as a scientific resource and policy framework to protect or restore the freshwater regimes that sustain aquatic ecosystems and the ecological services they provide to society. keywords: basin; ecosystems; flows; river; water cache: ees-37.pdf plain text: ees-37.txt item: #118 of 246 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 words: 1435 flesch: 43 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. These covered EfD thematic areas such as agriculture, air quality, biodiversity, carbon pricing, climate change, conservation, energy, experiments, fisheries, forestry, gender, health, land, policy design, urban spaces, waste, and water. keywords: climate; economics; efd; feed; gender; research cache: ees-373.pdf plain text: ees-373.txt item: #119 of 246 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 words: 1179 flesch: 38 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: #120 of 246 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 words: 8144 flesch: 48 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: #121 of 246 id: ees-377 author: Adhikari , Bhim title: The Economics of Common Pool Resources: A Review date: 2021 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: #122 of 246 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 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: #123 of 246 id: ees-38 author: Shah, Mihir title: On Water Governance: Reforming Governance to Solve India’s Water Crisis date: 2018 words: 1267 flesch: 46 summary: 7. 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: #124 of 246 id: ees-39 author: Dayal , Vikram title: On Air Pollution: Editorial Note date: 2018 words: 511 flesch: 50 summary: First, Ashish Kothari sees air pollution in Delhi as a symptom of the wrong model of development. https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v1i2.39 https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v1i2.39 Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal [82] Third, Priya Shyamsundar picks up one aspect of Delhi’s air pollution that Kothari and Negi identify—rice straw burning in the Indo-Gangetic plains. keywords: delhi; pollution cache: ees-39.pdf plain text: ees-39.txt item: #125 of 246 id: ees-396 author: Nagendra, Harini; Mukhopadhyay, Pranab ; Ghate, Rucha title: Celebrating Jodha: And Revisiting the Commons date: 2021 words: 4311 flesch: 49 summary: While some work has been done in this regard in India, there is potential to vastly expand the scope, focus, and relevance of commons research to digital and information commons issues, which are of vital importance in contemporary times. Although the need for robust, inexpensive, accessible community-based health services across India, and indeed across the world, is self-evident, commons research has played a relatively small role in shaping debates on public health so far. keywords: commons; cprs; data; health; india; jodha; journal; nagendra; research; society; urban; work cache: ees-396.pdf plain text: ees-396.txt item: #126 of 246 id: ees-4 author: Vatn, Arild title: Institutional Economics—The Economics of Ecological Economics! date: 2020 words: 1742 flesch: 40 summary: Classical institutional economics emphasizes the role of culture and social processes and sees humans as socially constructed, and in this way it goes beyond new institutional 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: #127 of 246 id: ees-40 author: Kothari, Ashish title: On Air Pollution: To Tackle Air Pollution, One Needs to be Grounded date: 2018 words: 1105 flesch: 49 summary: Secondly, while air pollution affects everyone, it affects the poor (and especially women and children) more. To Tackle Air Pollution, One Needs to be Grounded Ashish Kothari  Ecological issues are rarely headlines in the national media. keywords: air; india; pollution; power cache: ees-40.pdf plain text: ees-40.txt item: #128 of 246 id: ees-401 author: Levin, Simon A. title: Mathematical Ecology, Evolution and the Social Sciences date: 2021 words: 2833 flesch: 46 summary: Arrow, K. J., P. R. Ehrlich, and S. A. Levin. Chave, J., and S. A. Levin. keywords: commons; ecology; economics; evolution; levin; systems; theory cache: ees-401.pdf plain text: ees-401.txt item: #129 of 246 id: ees-403 author: Chopra, Kanchan title: Nature and Socio-Economic Systems: A Narrative of Conflict and Adaptation date: 2021 words: 995 flesch: 46 summary: He supports a paradigm-shifting movement, from a focus on economic growth and prices towards socio-ecological economics. 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: #130 of 246 id: ees-41 author: Negi , Rohit title: On Air Pollution: Regionalizing Air: On the Possibilities of Transborder Collaborations date: 2018 words: 911 flesch: 45 summary: Associate Professor, Ambedkar University Delhi, Lothian Road, Delhi 110006; rohit@aud.ac.in Copyright © Negi 2018. The transboundary nature of air pollution is well recognized today. keywords: air; delhi; pollution; science cache: ees-41.pdf plain text: ees-41.txt item: #131 of 246 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 words: 2779 flesch: 39 summary: 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. PIVOTING, SLOWLY Within three weeks of starting scoping visits and preliminary interviews with urban farmers in Bengaluru, we had to halt field visits because of India’s national lockdown, which started on March 25, 2020. keywords: bengaluru; collection; data; field; interviews; online; research; respondents cache: ees-414.pdf plain text: ees-414.txt item: #132 of 246 id: ees-42 author: Shyamsundar, Priya title: On Air Pollution: Can We Use Delhi’s Air Pollution Crisis to Improve Agriculture? date: 2018 words: 961 flesch: 53 summary: However, one source of pollution— rice straw burning in the Indo-Gangetic plains—emerges as a particularly significant problem during the winter. Thus, when it is time to clear their fields of rice straw to plant wheat, farmers simply light a match. keywords: burning; delhi; pollution; rice; straw cache: ees-42.pdf plain text: ees-42.txt item: #133 of 246 id: ees-43 author: Unnikrishnan , Hita title: Thinking Beyond Fairy Lights and Fountains: Lessons from the Waterscape of Bengaluru date: 2018 words: 1943 flesch: 52 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), keywords: bengaluru; city; lakes; nagendra; urban; village; water cache: ees-43.pdf plain text: ees-43.txt item: #134 of 246 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 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: #135 of 246 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 words: 1037 flesch: 31 summary: 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. Alternative Futures: India Unshackled, New Delhi: Authors Upfront, ISBN: 9788193392478; pp. keywords: essays; futures; india; society cache: ees-45.pdf plain text: ees-45.txt item: #136 of 246 id: ees-456 author: Mahapatra, Aurko title: Economics for the Everyday date: 2021 words: 889 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. Published by Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE), c/o Institute of Economic Growth, University Enclave, North Campus, Delhi 110007. keywords: economics; sarangi; things cache: ees-456.pdf plain text: ees-456.txt item: #137 of 246 id: ees-457 author: Ray, Avishek title: Rethinking Delhi, When Ecological Consciousness Crosses Paths with Bourgeoise Imaginaries date: 2021 words: 1418 flesch: 45 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: #138 of 246 id: ees-461 author: Singh, Simron J; Talwar, Simran ; Shenoy, Megha title: Why Socio-metabolic Studies are Central to Ecological Economics date: 2021 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 “costs” and “benefits” of current patterns of resource use are unequally distributed across the world and between current and future generations (Schaffartzik, Duro, and Krausmann 2019; Diffenbaugh and Burke 2019). keywords: april; development; ecology; economic; economy; energy; environmental; et al; flows; global; haberl; india; journal; krausmann; material; research; resource; shenoy; singh; smr; society; socio; sustainability; use cache: ees-461.pdf plain text: ees-461.txt item: #139 of 246 id: ees-463 author: Srinivasan, Umesh; Shanker, Kartik title: Making Nature Count: Reflections on The Dasgupta Review date: 2021 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: #140 of 246 id: ees-464 author: S Raina, Rajeswari title: Conserving Economics for Biodiversity: Reflections on “The Dasgupta Review” date: 2021 words: 2506 flesch: 41 summary: “Nature Is a Blind Spot in Economics that We Ignore at our Peril, says Dasgupta Review.” These include looking to niche communities that live within the limits set by Nature, learning from various environmental social sciences on how to maintain and promote the aggregate stocks and funds of Nature; and finding ways to include economic activity and output in value frameworks of sustainability, justice, and diversity. keywords: biodiversity; capital; economics; economy; nature; review; wealth cache: ees-464.pdf plain text: ees-464.txt item: #141 of 246 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 words: 1332 flesch: 28 summary: 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. [113] Arun Agrawal, Rebecca Rutt and Cristy Watkins 113 Collaboration is central to conservation and development Presenters argued that forest ecosystems can support agricultural resilience but competition for land is fierce. keywords: flare; forest; livelihoods; research; tools cache: ees-47.pdf plain text: ees-47.txt item: #142 of 246 id: ees-479 author: Basappa, Shivanand Savatagi title: Self-care or Delay in Seeking Healthcare: Reflections from the Field date: 2021 words: 2099 flesch: 53 summary: Homemakers play a significant role in the prevention of many diseases and the promotion of health through their nutrition-based interventions. According to the Participants? Self-care for health is rooted in an understanding of proper dietary practices, consuming fresh air, physical activity, and other domestic activities that can prevent disease (Levin and Idler 1983). keywords: care; disease; health; healthcare; participants; practices; self cache: ees-479.pdf plain text: ees-479.txt item: #143 of 246 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 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: climate; economics; environmental; insee; kerala; society cache: ees-48.pdf plain text: ees-48.txt item: #144 of 246 id: ees-486 author: Jain, Ankur ; Madhaba Sheekha, Neela ; Tanu, Sandip title: Agricultural Sustainability in the North Eastern Region of India: A Sustainable Livelihood Security Index (SLSI) Approach date: 2022 words: 7036 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. Sandip Tanu Mandal Abstract: 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; eastern; food; index; india; mizoram; ner; north; region; security; slsi; states; sustainability cache: ees-486.pdf plain text: ees-486.txt item: #145 of 246 id: ees-487 author: Deb, Debal title: The Erosion of Biodiversity and Culture: Bankura District of West Bengal as an Illustrative Locale date: 2022 words: 13008 flesch: 53 summary: No. of Mature Individuals Status in District* Reference Bhadu Vitex glabrata Barjora Last specimen felled in 2016 EW Deb (2019c) Sitapatra Cordia macleodii Bishnupur, Sonamukhi 6 CR Deb et al. (2018) Bharna Crateva nurvala All blocks <800 EN Deb (2014) [145] Debal Deb 4.1.1 Forest The multi-tier mixed deciduous forests of the extended Chota Nagpur plateau, including the lateritic districts of Bengal, were destroyed in the second half of the nineteenth century, when the British colonial forest policy transformed all native forests into silvicultural timber farms—initially for building railroads and ships, from the late 1850s, and later and more importantly, for military use during the World Wars in 1914–1918 and 1940–1944 (Flint 1998; Sivaramakrishnan 1999). 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: #146 of 246 id: ees-49 author: Bawa, Kamal title: Environment, Sustainability and Equity date: 2019 words: 517 flesch: 41 summary: 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: #147 of 246 id: ees-492 author: Das, Suraj ; , Priya title: Food Choices and Beliefs: Factors Influencing Dietary Preferences in Chandigarh, India date: 2022 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: #148 of 246 id: ees-50 author: Røpke , Inge title: Sustainability Transitions from an Ecological Economic Perspective date: 2019 words: 2182 flesch: 41 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: economy; energy; environmental; studies; sustainability; systems; transitions cache: ees-50.pdf plain text: ees-50.txt item: #149 of 246 id: ees-509 author: Chauhan, Ayushi title: Revisiting Regulations : Air Pollution and Colonial Urbanism date: 2022 words: 1321 flesch: 39 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. 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: #150 of 246 id: ees-51 author: Kabra , Asmita title: Ecological Critiques of Exclusionary Conservation date: 2019 words: 6991 flesch: 40 summary: At the same time, conservationists stress the fact that the loss of species diversity is accelerating and a large number of protected areas notified by national governments continue to remain “paper parks”, whose actual contribution to biodiversity conservation has been significantly below expectations (Gaston, Jackson, Cantú-Salazar, and Cruz-Piñón 2008; 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). keywords: areas; biodiversity; conservation; ecology; ecosystem; forest; human; india; landscapes; management; nature; society; species; tiger; use cache: ees-51.pdf plain text: ees-51.txt item: #151 of 246 id: ees-523 author: Nawn, Nandan title: Ecology and Socialism to Ecosocialism: Roots and Branches date: 2021 words: 1308 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). We are reminded here that the “estrangement of art and labor” (p. 76) and “alienation of nature” (p. 76) are dominant themes in Morris’ work. keywords: ecology; foster; nature; society cache: ees-523.pdf plain text: ees-523.txt item: #152 of 246 id: ees-524 author: Chopra, Kanchan title: Thinking Ahead Towards Converging Perspectives date: 2021 words: 1074 flesch: 44 summary: The agenda of humanity’s need to deal with climate change immediately has come to the fore. Also, and importantly, the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the two inter-governmental agencies charged with the responsibility of designing action on climate change, biodiversity, and ecosystem services, joined hands to publish a Report (in June 2021) on the synergies and trade-offs between actions on climate change and biodiversity. keywords: biodiversity; change; human; impact cache: ees-524.pdf plain text: ees-524.txt item: #153 of 246 id: ees-53 author: Martinez-Alier, Joan ; Roy , Brototi title: Editorial: Some Insights on the Role of Violence date: 2019 words: 1493 flesch: 41 summary: The term Ecological Distribution Conflicts (EDCs) was coined about 20 years ago by ecological economists (Martinez-Alier and O’Connor 1996) to describe social conflicts born from the unfair access to natural resources and the unjust burdens of pollution. ‘Ecological distribution conflicts’ is then a term for collective claims against environmental injustices. keywords: alier; conflicts; distribution; environmental; india; martinez cache: ees-53.pdf plain text: ees-53.txt item: #154 of 246 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 words: 9905 flesch: 45 summary: Ever since the Industrial Revolution, the world has witnessed ever increasing rates of energy use (Vance et al. 2015; From the perspective of public policy, this implies that apart from supply-side interventions, influencing demand-side determinants of energy efficiency is crucial for managing energy use (Parrish et al. 2020). keywords: allcott; bahinipati; behaviour; choices; conservation; consumer; consumption; demand; economics; efficiency; electricity; energy; et al; households; india; information; interventions; journal; policy; price; studies; technologies; use cache: ees-530.pdf plain text: ees-530.txt item: #155 of 246 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 words: 10246 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; services; studies; study; total; valuation; value; water; year cache: ees-536.pdf plain text: ees-536.txt item: #156 of 246 id: ees-54 author: Bisht , Arpita title: Discontent, Conflict, Social Resistance and Violence at Non-metallic Mining Frontiers in India date: 2019 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: conflicts; construction; development; extraction; extractivism; india; minerals; mining; operations; sand; sand mining cache: ees-54.pdf plain text: ees-54.txt item: #157 of 246 id: ees-545 author: Sankar, Vinay title: The Political Ecology of Rural Community Ponds in Kerala, India: A Quantitative Study date: 2022 words: 12354 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 (95%) 2 GP has a role in framing access rules 117 (97%) 3 GP has a role in framing usage rules 116 (96%) 4 GP ensures non-violation of the above rules 117 (97%) 5 GP able to punish rule violation 121 (100%) 6 GP has a role in conflict resolution 115 (95%) 7 GP is the significant place of discussion on ponds 114 (94%) 8 Respondent attends discussions on ponds in GP 100 (83%) 9 Respondent speaks in such discussions in GP 90 (74%) 10 User communities are the major beneficiaries of pond 117 (97%) 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; governance; india; journal; kerala; land; number; ostrom; panchayat; ponds; respondent; score; society; state; study; utilization; washing; water cache: ees-545.pdf plain text: ees-545.txt item: #158 of 246 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 words: 10153 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: act; areas; communities; conservation; eviction; families; fanari; forest; forest rights; fra; india; journal; land; national; park; people; relocation; reserve; rights; society; tiger; villages; wildlife cache: ees-55.pdf plain text: ees-55.txt item: #159 of 246 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 words: 6127 flesch: 52 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: alier; cases; conflicts; ecology; ejatlas; environmental; india; intensity; justice; land; martinez; movement; people; plant; south; violence cache: ees-56.pdf plain text: ees-56.txt item: #160 of 246 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 words: 7710 flesch: 51 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. Abstract: 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: #161 of 246 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 words: 11201 flesch: 44 summary: The results reflected that economically weaker sections were more exposed to air pollution than their counterparts, however, for socially (caste-based) weaker sections, the relationship with air pollution exposure was not significant, and no relation existed with the aspect of religion. Some other studies, on the other hand, examine SES as a modifier in the association between air pollution exposure and its health impact. 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: #162 of 246 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 words: 1743 flesch: 56 summary: There are also several deficiencies in the second standalone model of livestock dynamics, which we shall not discuss in detail. They invoke the dependency on livestock by employing a ‘graphical function’ for E, a livestock dependent multiplier of the rate of spatial spread. keywords: dynamics; livestock; m&s; mesquite; rate; spread cache: ees-59.pdf plain text: ees-59.txt item: #163 of 246 id: ees-590 author: Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala; Pattnaik, Itishree title: Women Headed Households in Agriculture: Report from West Bengal, India date: 2022 words: 2899 flesch: 57 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: #164 of 246 id: ees-598 author: Dhar, Dipsita title: Nature And Indigeneity: Towards An Environmental History of Adivasi Society date: 2022 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: #165 of 246 id: ees-6 author: Dasgupta, Partha title: Global population size and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals date: 2020 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: #166 of 246 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 words: 1867 flesch: 58 summary: 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. Furthermore, as explained earlier on, our model is tightly coupled, and any change in PJ area due to livestock numbers reflects in the next time step on the livestock numbers through profitability and fodder deficit (causing livestock stress sale or migration). keywords: area; banni; livestock; model; rate cache: ees-60.pdf plain text: ees-60.txt item: #167 of 246 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 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. Currently pressing issues like climate migration, sustainability of forests and rural and urban communities, and circular economy solutions for sustainable cities and communities were some of the major topics of discussion. keywords: climate; community; conservation; delhi; university cache: ees-601.pdf plain text: ees-601.txt item: #168 of 246 id: ees-607 author: Mukhopadhyay, Pranab title: The Crisis of Sustainability in India date: 2022 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: #169 of 246 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 words: 2000 flesch: 43 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: agriculture; climate; crops; ecology; household; hwc; india cache: ees-61.pdf plain text: ees-61.txt item: #170 of 246 id: ees-611 author: Paroda, Raj title: Crop Diversification for Sustainable Agriculture date: 2022 words: 2540 flesch: 34 summary: Returning to higher crop diversification could contribute to all three main principles of climate-smart agriculture (CSA): improving productivity and livelihood outcomes, increasing the resilience and sustainability of farming systems, and reducing carbon dioxide emissions. There is a need for long term planning and development of various strategies for crop diversification in the best national interest. keywords: agriculture; crop; cropping; diversification; india; north; pradesh; systems cache: ees-611.pdf plain text: ees-611.txt item: #171 of 246 id: ees-612 author: Prabhu, Ravi title: Would Indian Agriculture Benefit from a Stewardship Model? date: 2022 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: #172 of 246 id: ees-617 author: Dasgupta, Purnamita title: Role and Scope of Environmental Models date: 2022 words: 1578 flesch: 41 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; models; nature; scenarios cache: ees-617.pdf plain text: ees-617.txt item: #173 of 246 id: ees-618 author: Shah, Mihir title: Dismantling Barriers to Upscaling Agro-ecological Farming in India date: 2022 words: 11795 flesch: 46 summary: “Pesticide Poisoning in India Challenges of Data and Management in Public Health.” 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. 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: #174 of 246 id: ees-62 author: Oommen , Meera Anna ; Ramesh , Madhuri title: Tides of Change in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands date: 2019 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: #175 of 246 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 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: #176 of 246 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 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. Women’s increased labour participation in agriculture and allied sectors in Gujarat is mainly due to the major role played by women in the dairy industry. 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: #177 of 246 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 words: 3534 flesch: 45 summary: We designed the field survey for this study to focus on fresh vegetables supplied from peri-urban areas, covering Bengaluru’s rural district and the rural parts of Bengaluru district. The data from HOPCOMS show that nearly 9,150 tonnes of fresh vegetables were sold in the city in 2020–21 through its 280 outlets, some mobile stores, and its recently launched online marketing platform. keywords: bangalore; bengaluru; city; consumers; demand; food; income; journal; produce; purushothaman; stores; vegetables cache: ees-635.pdf plain text: ees-635.txt item: #178 of 246 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 words: 975 flesch: 41 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 keywords: china; histories; history; india cache: ees-64.pdf plain text: ees-64.txt item: #179 of 246 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 words: 1156 flesch: 36 summary: This volume is a useful synthesis of academic work dealing with the challenges of industrialisation in rural India. For Eriksen, Indian economic policy is a somewhat odd admixture of neoliberalism and statism. keywords: governance; india; land; policy cache: ees-65.pdf plain text: ees-65.txt item: #180 of 246 id: ees-66 author: Kumar, A. Biju title: A Report on International Biodiversity Congress date: 2020 words: 1990 flesch: 25 summary: (iii) Biodiversity utilization should be integrated with sustainable development goals and there should be holistic action plans involving the youth, women and citizen scientists to popularise the need for biodiversity conservation for sustainable development. (iv) As the governments have already announced adoption of the concept of sustainable development in planning process, the concept of biodiversity and related livelihoods should be flagged as the central principle of all developmental processes. (v) Considering the fact that habitat degradation is one of the primary reasons for biodiversity loss, spatial planning using GIS technology is recommended to prioritise land use for developmental and conservation planning and to demarcate areas rich in indigenous biodiversity including that of the agro-biodiversity. 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. keywords: biodiversity; conservation; development; india; need; resources; society cache: ees-66.pdf plain text: ees-66.txt item: #181 of 246 id: ees-661 author: Bawa, Kamal ; Chopra, Kanchan title: New Perspectives on Indian Agriculture date: 2022 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: #182 of 246 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 words: 2976 flesch: 29 summary: Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 5 (1): 23-30 January 2022 COMMENTARY Framework For a Collective Definition of Regenerative Agriculture in India Shannon B. Olsson, Minhaj Ameen, Saransh Bajpai***, Ravikanth Gudasalamani****, Chirag Gajjar*****, Srajesh Gupta+, Søren Hvilshøj++, Jyotsna Krishnakumar+++, Crispino Lobo++++, Rohan Mukherjee+++++, Abhayraj Naik, Ajay Raghavan##, Hansika Singh###, Kesavan Subaharan#### Abstract: The concept of regenerative agriculture has received increasing attention worldwide as a method to restore and conserve natural resources while maintaining crop productivity. keywords: agriculture; climate; farming; india; institute; resources; water cache: ees-662.pdf plain text: ees-662.txt item: #183 of 246 id: ees-67 author: Raina, Rajeswari S. title: A Report on the Fifteenth Conference of International Society for Ecological Economics date: 2020 words: 1205 flesch: 29 summary: 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. Some themes, academically more closely linked with ecological economics, like ecosystem services, valuation languages, tools of measurement and policy instruments, legal and social processes, multi-criteria analysis (theme 9), food security/sovereignty, and rural-urban transitions (theme 4), globally diverse inequities, social and environmental conflicts, environmental and climate justice, and ecological debt (theme 6), trans-disciplinary responses to socio-ecological contexts (theme 1), and energy transitions, climate analysis and policies (theme 10) were well represented. keywords: conference; economics; knowledge; society cache: ees-67.pdf plain text: ees-67.txt item: #184 of 246 id: ees-679 author: Saikia, Mrinal; Mahanta, Ratul title: Measurement of Vulnerability to Climate Change in Char Areas: A Survey date: 2023 words: 6461 flesch: 45 summary: To estimate the extent of vulnerability of char areas, researchers have used a variety of indicator-based methods such as the Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI), LVI-IPCC, and Climate Change Vulnerability Index (CVI). “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; study; vulnerability cache: ees-679.pdf plain text: ees-679.txt item: #185 of 246 id: ees-68 author: Bawa, Kamal title: Sustainability Science Remains a Challenge for Academia date: 2022 words: 722 flesch: 38 summary: Sustainability Science based on the integration of a wide range of disciplines including arts and humanities is one of the means to achieve sustainability. The inclusion of arts and humanities indeed calls into the question the use of “science” in Sustainability Science. keywords: future; science; sustainability cache: ees-68.pdf plain text: ees-68.txt item: #186 of 246 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 words: 2096 flesch: 50 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: #187 of 246 id: ees-69 author: DeFries , Ruth ; Chhatre , Ashwini title: Why India Needs a Unique Approach to Sustainability date: 2022 words: 1974 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: #188 of 246 id: ees-7 author: Malghan, Deepak title: On the Normalization of Dimensioned Variables in Ecological Economics date: 2020 words: 5485 flesch: 47 summary: 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. It is straightforward to non-dimensionalize equation 7 so that it is invariant to particular choices of units for population and time. keywords: economics; economy; ecosystem; equation; function; non; normalization; problem; throughput; variables cache: ees-7.pdf plain text: ees-7.txt item: #189 of 246 id: ees-70 author: Costanza, Robert title: Science, Uncertainty, and Society: Getting Beyond the Argument Culture to Shared Visions date: 2022 words: 4772 flesch: 54 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. For example, mental models based on the hypothesis of the inherent superiority of one subset of humans over others can be shown to be inconsistent with reality. keywords: costanza; culture; future; models; public; science; society; uncertainty; vision; world cache: ees-70.pdf plain text: ees-70.txt item: #190 of 246 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 words: 8202 flesch: 45 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 cover; forest degradation; fra; india; land; management; outcomes; population; property; resources; rights; tribal cache: ees-709.pdf plain text: ees-709.txt item: #191 of 246 id: ees-71 author: Lele, Sharachchandra title: Understanding Current Forest Policy Debates through Multiple Lenses:: the Case of India date: 2022 words: 3625 flesch: 52 summary: A LANDMARK LAW 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)). At the same time, the FRA requires that such community forest management meet sustainability and conservation goals—a requirement that even the IFA and the so-called Forest Conservation Act, 1980 do not have! keywords: communities; ecology; forest; governance; india; lele; management; policy; rights; state cache: ees-71.pdf plain text: ees-71.txt item: #192 of 246 id: ees-719 author: Gupta, Ranjoy title: Food beyond Counting: Insights based on local knowledge from the field date: 2022 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. “Food is a source of health, it is also a source of pleasure, and it can be the reason for illness.” keywords: factors; food; taste; work cache: ees-719.pdf plain text: ees-719.txt item: #193 of 246 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 words: 618 flesch: 39 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. Purushothaman (this issue) describes the learnings from sustainability education within a Masters’ programme at Azim Premji University (in which this author is also closely involved). keywords: science; sustainability cache: ees-72.pdf plain text: ees-72.txt item: #194 of 246 id: ees-720 author: Dhara, Sagar title: Contribution to the Sustainability and Equity dialogue date: 2022 words: 3487 flesch: 46 summary: Intermittence of solar and wind power: Solar and wind energy have low power load factors (plf) due to intermittence. 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: #195 of 246 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 words: 8843 flesch: 63 summary: Assam Buranji. Assam Buranji. keywords: ahom; animals; assam; bhuyan; buranji; carit; ecology; economy; elephants; environment; forest; guwahati; history; india; journal; kalika; kamrup; khel; literature; medieval; nature; people; purana; region; rivers; sankaradeva; society; transl; water cache: ees-722.pdf plain text: ees-722.txt item: #196 of 246 id: ees-727 author: Choksi, Nishaant title: The Making and Re-making of Adivasi Worlds date: 2022 words: 1579 flesch: 38 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: dasgupta; movement; oraon; tana cache: ees-727.pdf plain text: ees-727.txt item: #197 of 246 id: ees-73 author: Purushothaman, Seema title: On Practising Sustainability Science: Challenges in Teaching and Research: Sustainability: Challenges in Teaching date: 2022 words: 1230 flesch: 35 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. Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 2 (2): 33–36, July 2019 CONVERSATIONS: Practising Sustainability Science: Challenges in Teaching and Research Sustainability: Challenges in Teaching Seema Purushothaman  Sustainability could very well be the vantage point from where we can look at anything and everything- be it food, farming, forests, water, industry, livelihoods, lifestyles or civilisation itself. keywords: concept; course; development; sustainability cache: ees-73.pdf plain text: ees-73.txt item: #198 of 246 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 words: 10951 flesch: 41 summary: We find that local councils are important and trusted delivery agents of household energy programmes. 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? keywords: access; 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; solar; tenants cache: ees-748.pdf plain text: ees-748.txt item: #199 of 246 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 words: 1326 flesch: 37 summary: We admit students from all disciplines, and introduce them to the fundamental theoretical and methodological aspects of ecology, environmental science, sociology and economics. ―Thinking like a Human: social science and the two cultures problem.‖ Oryx 41 (3): 275–276. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605307004131 Robbins, P. 2012. keywords: ecology; research; science; students cache: ees-75.pdf plain text: ees-75.txt item: #200 of 246 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 words: 1165 flesch: 29 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; management; transition cache: ees-755.pdf plain text: ees-755.txt item: #201 of 246 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 words: 1311 flesch: 27 summary: 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. https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v2i2.76 https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v2i2.76 Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal [42] Emergence of sustainability science in research and education is one such important response. keywords: challenges; education; research; science; sustainability cache: ees-76.pdf plain text: ees-76.txt item: #202 of 246 id: ees-77 author: Srinivasan , Jeena T ; Nuthalapati , Chandra Sekhara Rao title: Groundwater Extraction, Agriculture and Poverty in Godavari River Basin date: 2022 words: 11224 flesch: 60 summary: ic i ii C WA PY WP (3) Where WPC represent he average economic water productivity of crops and C represents the crops from i to N. Yi is the physical yield of crop i, and Pi is the price realized by the farmer household, while WAi represents the water applied for crop i in cubic meter per acre.10 This helped the farmers optimise input use, diversify to high value crops, and achieve higher water productivity (Shah et al. 2007; World Bank 2010). keywords: access; acre; basin; economic; farmers; groundwater; households; income; inequality; irrigation; middle; non; poverty; productivity; reaches; river; use; users; water cache: ees-77.pdf plain text: ees-77.txt item: #203 of 246 id: ees-772 author: Deivendran, Muthuvel title: Deconstructing Agricultural Revolutions date: 2022 words: 1319 flesch: 30 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: #204 of 246 id: ees-78 author: Chopra, Vasudha ; Das, Sukanya title: Estimating Willingness to Pay for Wastewater Treatment in New Delhi: Contingent Valuation Approach date: 2022 words: 12348 flesch: 52 summary: Usually, it is expected that respondents having high water consumption have a higher contribution to the treatment of used water. These cost estimates take into consideration the following specific characteristics of a wastewater 20 This reduction can stem from various sources i.e. lower absolute consumption of freshwater without any increase in alternative sources or reusing treated water such that it displaces freshwater consumption. keywords: bill; consumption; cost; delhi; environmental; freshwater; households; india; journal; respondents; reuse; saving; society; study; survey; treatment; wastewater; wastewater treatment; water; wtp cache: ees-78.pdf plain text: ees-78.txt item: #205 of 246 id: ees-780 author: Ghosh, Nilanjan title: Between Growth-fetishism and Green Recovery date: 2022 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: change; climate; development; economic; global; green; growth; india; recovery; transition cache: ees-780.pdf plain text: ees-780.txt item: #206 of 246 id: ees-783 author: Somokanta, Thounaojam title: Large Dams, Adivasi Struggles, and Their Untold Stories date: 2022 words: 1135 flesch: 47 summary: Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal 5 (2): 125-128, July 2022 BOOK REVIEW Large Dams, Adivasi Struggles, and Their Untold Stories Thounaojam Somokanta Oza, Nandini. 2022. 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. keywords: adivasi; dams; narmada; oza cache: ees-783.pdf plain text: ees-783.txt item: #207 of 246 id: ees-79 author: Novick , Adam P. title: Appreciation and Minor Clarification for Kabra (2019) date: 2022 words: 746 flesch: 40 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). At least in the USA, some conservation laws can indeed prohibit management essential to the survival of species. keywords: conservation; land; species cache: ees-79.pdf plain text: ees-79.txt item: #208 of 246 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 words: 1844 flesch: 46 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: #209 of 246 id: ees-8 author: Kashwan, Prakash title: Democracy and the Environment: An Ecological Economics Research Agenda date: 2020 words: 3448 flesch: 33 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. [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; society; state cache: ees-8.pdf plain text: ees-8.txt item: #210 of 246 id: ees-80 author: Ichikawa , Sayuri title: What Does ‘Gender’ Mean in Myanmar’s Rural Fishery Communities? date: 2022 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. LEARNING THE COMPLEXITY OF GENDER RESEARCH 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: #211 of 246 id: ees-808 author: Chakraborty, Gorky; Momin, Hassan title: Measuring Impermanence: A Community Perspective on Char Land date: 2023 words: 3332 flesch: 61 summary: This new act (Section 12 of WBLRA, 2000) specifies, “any land gained by the gradual accession to a plot of land, from within the recess of a river or of the sea, shall vest in the State Government and the rayat who owns the plot of land shall not be entitled to retain such land as an accretion thereto.” According to local resident Asraful Sk, If any conflict arises regarding ownership rights in char lands, we first try to settle it within the claimants. keywords: areas; bengal; chakraborty; char; government; land; revenue; river; settlement cache: ees-808.pdf plain text: ees-808.txt item: #212 of 246 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 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; economy; mining; money cache: ees-81.pdf plain text: ees-81.txt item: #213 of 246 id: ees-812 author: Bawa, Kamal ; Chopra, Kanchan title: The Journal: A Relook After Five Years date: 2022 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: #214 of 246 id: ees-82 author: Nagendra, Harini ; Ghate, Rucha title: Building an Alliance on the Commons date: 2022 words: 1397 flesch: 44 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. Between 40- 60 million hectares of village and forest commons is informally used by local communities (constituting de facto commons), but their rights of access, withdrawal and management on most of this area were not legally recognised (i.e. not de jure commons) until recently. keywords: action; alliance; commons; communities; need cache: ees-82.pdf plain text: ees-82.txt item: #215 of 246 id: ees-83 author: Pamphilon, Barbara title: Seeds of Change: Report from a Conference on “Gender Equality through Agricultural Research for Development” date: 2022 words: 914 flesch: 41 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: #216 of 246 id: ees-84 author: Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala title: Ecology, Economy and Society through an Interdisciplinary Lens date: 2020 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: #217 of 246 id: ees-85 author: Fischer-Kowalski , Marina title: Integral Ecology: An unexpected support for Ecological Economics by Pope Francis date: 2020 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; economy; encyclical; international; new; world cache: ees-85.pdf plain text: ees-85.txt item: #218 of 246 id: ees-86 author: Gupta , Shreekant title: Has Economics Caught Up with Climate Science? date: 2020 words: 7482 flesch: 51 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; weitzman cache: ees-86.pdf plain text: ees-86.txt item: #219 of 246 id: ees-87 author: Singha , Chandan title: Soil Conservation in a Watershed: : Institutional Alternatives date: 2020 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) 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; quality; services; soil; soil conservation; watershed cache: ees-87.pdf plain text: ees-87.txt item: #220 of 246 id: ees-871 author: Gamble, Ruth title: A SINKing Feeling: New Insights into the Himalaya’s Pressing Environmental Issues date: 2023 words: 1988 flesch: 47 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: #221 of 246 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 words: 6643 flesch: 44 summary: 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. Effective mobilization requires cohesion, which, as previously [49] Susmita Dasgupta, Bansari Guha and David Wheeler noted, may be affected by differences in environmental risk assessment as well as negotiations among groups with different interests. keywords: action; assessments; authors; change; conditions; correlation; dasgupta; group; households; individuals; journal; research; scores; ses; status; table cache: ees-88.pdf plain text: ees-88.txt item: #222 of 246 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 words: 11577 flesch: 52 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: #223 of 246 id: ees-890 author: A, Alankar title: Discerning Global and Local of Climate Change in Indian Context date: 2023 words: 1075 flesch: 39 summary: Science, Impacts, and Politics, Eklavya Foundation Bhopal, 2022 Nagraj Adve’s Global Warming in India: Science, Impacts, and Politics is a booklet-length effort that aims to make the complexities of climate change and global warming accessible to school and college students, teachers, and activists. The emphasis throughout the booklet is on bridging what Adve considers to be a growing chasm in the understanding of climate change between abstract high science and people’s popular perceptions about challenges on the ground. keywords: adve; change; climate; warming cache: ees-890.pdf plain text: ees-890.txt item: #224 of 246 id: ees-893 author: Kacker, Rakesh ; Srivastava, Nidhi title: Elements and Possible Constraints for a Smooth Energy Transition in India date: 2023 words: 2386 flesch: 38 summary: The major concern is that this sharp increase in renewable energy capacity is not supported by any corresponding policy measures. The electricity demand projections and installed capacity targets require 6.81 GW of pump storage by 2026–2027 and 18.82 GW by 2031–2032. keywords: capacity; coal; electricity; energy; india; transition cache: ees-893.pdf plain text: ees-893.txt item: #225 of 246 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 words: 8630 flesch: 51 summary: 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. The third is to calculate the change in air pollution level by implementing a specific pollution-reducing technique. keywords: air; air pollution; coal; coal mining; days; economic; health; household; illness; level; mining; odisha; pm10; pollution; reduction; region; regression; state; survey cache: ees-9.pdf plain text: ees-9.txt item: #226 of 246 id: ees-90 author: Mukhopadhyay, Pranab ; Ghate, Rucha title: Narpat S. Jodha: Forever Restless date: 2020 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: #227 of 246 id: ees-902 author: Chakma, Amie; P, Manikantan ; Chaudhary, Aditi title: Sustainable Management of Exotic Fish Biodiversity in Karnataka: Status, Challenges, and Threats date: 2024 words: 5154 flesch: 53 summary: However, in multiple global locations, these fish have been observed to breed prolifically and compete effectively with native fish species, leading to ecological imbalances and compromising environmental integrity (Raja and Ravikanth 2020). However, the distribution and diversity of fish species have not been well-researched at the state and/or regional levels. keywords: biodiversity; carp; et al; fish; fisheries; ias; india; journal; karnataka; research; reservoirs; river; species cache: ees-902.pdf plain text: ees-902.txt item: #228 of 246 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 words: 1104 flesch: 39 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. National Mineral Policy of 1990 considered mining to be the exclusive responsibility of the State; the 1993 policy, reflecting the changes initiated in 1991, paved the way for private sector participation. keywords: mineral; mining; policy; stakeholders cache: ees-91.pdf plain text: ees-91.txt item: #229 of 246 id: ees-910 author: Jena, Pradyot Ranjan title: Technological Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture date: 2024 words: 1948 flesch: 42 summary: He opined that a significant hindrance to the adoption of such crops by farmers is their economic viability. The detrimental effects of climate change are beyond debate as are its serious ramifications for agricultural production and food security (Kalli and Jena 2022; Mendelsohn 2014). keywords: agriculture; change; climate; crops; farmers; food; power cache: ees-910.pdf plain text: ees-910.txt item: #230 of 246 id: ees-914 author: Chauhan, Tejasvi; Gaur, Vinod title: Exergy Analysis: A Guide to Sustainability? date: 2023 words: 7648 flesch: 47 summary: Ecosystems integrate these processes into a biogeochemical cycle by abstracting the exergy of inflowing solar energy and outflowing heat energy from the earth’s depths to build gravitational and chemical potential energies in the form of landscapes and biomass. 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. keywords: earth; ecosystems; energy; equilibrium; figure; flows; heat; information; potential; solar; state; system; work cache: ees-914.pdf plain text: ees-914.txt item: #231 of 246 id: ees-915 author: Kleidon, Axel title: Sustaining the Terrestrial Biosphere in the Anthropocene : A Thermodynamic Earth System Perspective date: 2023 words: 9801 flesch: 46 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; terrestrial; use; water cache: ees-915.pdf plain text: ees-915.txt item: #232 of 246 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 words: 1318 flesch: 41 summary: 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. Such initiation may avoid indefinite delay in acquiring clearances for land acquisition, forest, environment, wildlife, ecology etc., in implementing mining projects. keywords: mineral; mining; nmp; policy cache: ees-92.pdf plain text: ees-92.txt item: #233 of 246 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 words: 7292 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. INTRODUCTION Ecosystems are complex, hierarchic, adaptive, and organized, as they are comprised of many components. 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: #234 of 246 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 words: 3985 flesch: 46 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; linear; moisture; monsoon; precipitation; productivity; recovery; soil; stress; temperature; variables; vegetation cache: ees-927.pdf plain text: ees-927.txt item: #235 of 246 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 words: 1250 flesch: 35 summary: 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. Despite the strategic and commercial relevance of mining to countries, its long-term potential to support GDP growth is relatively small. keywords: earth; gdp; india; minerals; mining cache: ees-93.pdf plain text: ees-93.txt item: #236 of 246 id: ees-935 author: Iqbal, Iftekhar title: Climate Change Adaptation and Neoliberalism in Bangladesh: A Review of Two Monographs date: 2023 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: #237 of 246 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 words: 1403 flesch: 43 summary: As mentioned by Ranjan (this issue) trade-offs arising from increasing mining activities need to be considered carefully. [114] Another alternative is to turn the clock back to the pre-2015 position and return to a situation where exploration is incentivized through the grant of mining lease rights, but where prospecting (and mining) concessions may be discretionary based on MoUs with industry, or an effort to promote the public sector. keywords: exploration; mineral; mining; policy cache: ees-94.pdf plain text: ees-94.txt item: #238 of 246 id: ees-95 author: Basu , Rahul title: On National Mineral Policy 2019 — balancing stakeholder interests and concerns: Will Intergenerational Equity be Implemented? date: 2020 words: 1226 flesch: 53 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: #239 of 246 id: ees-954 author: Gupta, Rupesh Kumar title: Identifying Urban Hotspots and Cold Spots in Delhi Using the Biophysical Landscape Framework date: 2024 words: 6275 flesch: 52 summary: “Spatial Process of Surface Urban Heat Island in Rapidly Growing Seoul Metropolitan Area for Sustainable Urban Planning Using Landsat Data (1996–2017).” “Assessment of Urban Heat Island Based on the Relationship between Land Surface Temperature and Land Use/Land Cover in Tehran.” Sustainable Cities and Society 23: 94–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2016.03.009. keywords: area; city; cover; delhi; environment; gupta; heat; intensity; island; journal; land; landscape; lst; surface; temperature; urban; vegetation cache: ees-954.pdf plain text: ees-954.txt item: #240 of 246 id: ees-96 author: Abraham , Dimple Tresa ; N, Neetha title: MGNREGA Farm Pond Works – Perspectives of People and Policy date: 2020 words: 2323 flesch: 48 summary: 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. Officials in-charge of MGNREGA implementation across states championed for farm ponds works on private lands as these were labour intensive (over 90% of work expenditure was spent on labour/wage payments); hence helped to maintain the mandatory 60:40 labour to material ratio.4 For instance, in Karnataka cattle/goat sheds were popular works among the beneficiaries. keywords: beneficiaries; farm; fish; mgnrega; ponds; water; works cache: ees-96.pdf plain text: ees-96.txt item: #241 of 246 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 words: 1656 flesch: 53 summary: In South Sikkim, household access to drinking water can broadly be categorised into three types: (a) government-supplied piped water, (b) private arrangements for piped water, and (c) non-piped water supply or drawing water from the nearest water sources. In such households, often the responsibility of household water provision rests on the womenfolk, who make multiple trips to meet their household water needs. keywords: drinking; government; households; respondents; sikkim; water cache: ees-97.pdf plain text: ees-97.txt item: #242 of 246 id: ees-98 author: Bhattacharya , Shreyashi title: Vulnerabilities and Resilience in post-Fani Chilika: Lessons from the Field date: 2020 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: #243 of 246 id: ees-985 author: M, Manjula; Gopi, Girigan ; P, Vipindas title: Wetlands and Ecosystem Services: Empirical Evidence for Incentivizing Paddy Wetlands date: 2023 words: 8671 flesch: 55 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; species; species diversity; study; use; variables; water; wetlands cache: ees-985.pdf plain text: ees-985.txt item: #244 of 246 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 words: 919 flesch: 47 summary: DOI: https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v3i1.99 https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v3i1.99 Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal [138] plains of the Ganga and Brahmaputra river systems and the many governmental initiatives that have over the years been singularly aimed at trying to control floods. These essays provide us a detailed account of how recurring floods, river bank erosion and state negligence aggravates poverty and exploitation. keywords: ecology; india; north; river cache: ees-99.pdf plain text: ees-99.txt item: #245 of 246 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 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; pump; settlement; socio; state; supply; tap; village; water cache: ees-990.pdf plain text: ees-990.txt item: #246 of 246 id: ees-998 author: Roy, Krittika title: Cooking with Modern Energy in Rural Households of India: A Cost–Benefit Analysis date: 2024 words: 11148 flesch: 53 summary: In the 1990s, social cost–benefit analyses increasingly included environmental factors in projects (Pearce 1998; Vanclay and Bronstein 1995; Quah and Tan 1999; Wattage et al. 2000; Crookes and de Wit 2002). The present value of social benefits and social costs have been calculated to arrive at the benefit–cost ratio and the NPV of the interventions based on the formulae given in Box 1. keywords: analysis; benefit; cooking; cost; electricity; energy; environmental; fuel; government; health; households; india; interventions; lpg; provision; ratio; time; total; transition; value cache: ees-998.pdf plain text: ees-998.txt