ees: A Pathfinder

This is a computer-generated pathfinder created against the Distant Reader study called ees.

Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the scope of the carrel. The keywords include:

Society; Water; Ecology; Climate; Economy; Change; Conservation; Economics; Land; Development; Forest; Management; Energy; Environmental; Species; Households; Food; Policy; Agriculture; Data; Community; State; Science; Mining; Pollution; Health; Rights; Women; Nature; Governance; Communities; Air; Chapter; People; Emissions; Model; Soil; Conference; Socio; Resource; Islands; Rate; Movement; History; Singh; Dams; Kumar; Karanth; Gandhi

Depending on how this pathfinder was created, many of the bibliographic sections will include elaborations on the meaning(s) of the given keywords. These elaborations were generated by feeding the items' summaries to a large langauge model and asking the model to address the question, "What is X?", where "X" is the keyword. The result will be a few sentences of elaboration. Be forewarned. The elaborations are often plausible, but they should not be take as truth. Instead, they should be taken as points for consideration.

• Political Economy of Farming in India: Chronicling 50 Years of Scholarship and Transformation by Das, Budhaditya (2023) - 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
• 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 by Jha , Rohit (2020) - 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
• Countering Local Disaster Capitalism: Lessons from Nepal’s Indigenous People by Bajracharya, Ayusha (2024) - 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
• The Political Ecology of an Environmental Crisis in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam by Baruah, Mitul (2023) - 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
• “Our People Can’t Hold the Line!”: Extractive Capital, Fragile Ecologies and Politics of Dispossession and Accumulation in Eastern India by Dash, Minati (2023) - 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
• Buddhist Wisdom for a Sustainable World by Narain, Vishal (2023) - 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
• Reflecting on the Past and Welcoming the Future by Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala; Mukhopadhyay, Pranab (2023) - 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
• Inclusive Management of Our Water Commons by Mahajan, Rashmi; Rajankar, Manish (2024) - 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
• Methodological Accounting of the Ecosystem Services Benefits of Community-based Restoration: A Systematic Review by Baral, Sony; Regmi, Aayoush Raj; Joshi, Khagendra P.; Atreya, Kishor (2025) - 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; ✔ ✔
• Coexistence of Wild Fauna in the City: A Case Study of the Golden Jackal (Canis aureus Linn.) in Central Ridge, Delhi by Gonji, Ajay Immanuel; Chauhan, Sonali; Babu, Suresh (2024) - 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
• Ecology of Grasslands of Central Nicobar: Commons in a Sea of Change by Bhardwaj, Shashank; , Shiwani; , Mandeep; Yadav, Gitanjali; Babu, Suresh (2024) - 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
• A Report on the INSEE-CESS International Conference on "Climate Change and Disasters: Challenges, Opportunities and Responses" by Srinivasan , Jeena T (2020) - 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
• A Call to Redefine ‘the Field’ in Nature Conservation Studies in India by Ramesh , Madhuri (2020) - 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
• Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment: A Review of Research Development by Biswas Roy, Malabika; Saha, Shilpa; Kumar Roy, Pankaj (2025) - 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
• Flood Mitigation, Climate Change Adaptation and Technological Lock-In in Assam by Wasson, Robert ; Saikia, Arupjyoti ; Bansal, Priya ; Chong , Chuah Joon (2020) - 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
• Diversity, Scale, and Context in Environmental Governance by Vasan, Sudha (2025) - 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
• On Forect Conservation: Reconciling Rights of Individuals with Rights of Wild Species by Karanth, K. Ullas (2018) - 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
• Editorial: Setting the Context by Mukherjee, Jenia (2020) - 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
• Fluid Epistemologies: The Social Saga of Sediments in Bengal by Mukherjee, Jenia; Ghosh, Pritwinath (2020) - 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
• Combining Political Ecology and ‘Mésologie’ for a New Geography of Rivers? by Lafaye de Micheaux, Flore; Kull, Christian (2020) - 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
• Hydrocultural Histories and Narratives: Insights from Sundarbans by DasGupta, Amrita (2020) - 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
• COVID-19: Urban Density's Poetic Justice by Pandit, Nitin (2020) - 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
• 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. by Dasgupta, Anirban (2020) - 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
• Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal by Chopra, Kanchan (2020) - 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
• Analysing Human–Nature Interactions: allowing for Multiple Agents and Power Structures by Chopra, Kanchan (2018) - 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
• So Near Yet So Far: A Narrative from a Forest-dwelling Gaddi Community in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh by Sanyal , Kritishnu ; Kaur, Anupreet ; Dasgupta, Shyamasree (2021) - 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
• Economic Transformation of the Nicobar Islands Post-tsunami: A Material Import–Export Analysis by Sehgal, Shaina ; Babu, Suresh (2021) - 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
• Rangeland Conservation, Pastoralist Displacement, and Long-term Implications of a Grazing Ban in the Indian Himalaya by Singh, Rashmi ; Bhutia, Kinzong Sherap ; Bhutia, Tshering Uden ; Babu, Suresh (2022) - 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
• Celebrating Jodha: And Revisiting the Commons by Nagendra, Harini; Mukhopadhyay, Pranab ; Ghate, Rucha (2021) - 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
• Institutional Economics—The Economics of Ecological Economics! by Vatn, Arild (2020) - 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
• Envisioning a Just and Sustainable Society: Review of Ashish Kothari and K J Joy, eds. 2017. Alternative Futures: India Unshackled, New Delhi: Authors Upfront by Dobhal , Harsh (2018) - 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
• Why Socio-metabolic Studies are Central to Ecological Economics by Singh, Simron J; Talwar, Simran ; Shenoy, Megha (2021) - [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
• Making Nature Count: Reflections on The Dasgupta Review by Srinivasan, Umesh; Shanker, Kartik (2021) - 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
• A Report on the INSEE Ninth Biennial Conference on Sustainability, Institutions, Incentives: Voices, Policies and Commitments by Nawn, Nandan (2018) - 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
• The Erosion of Biodiversity and Culture: Bankura District of West Bengal as an Illustrative Locale by Deb, Debal (2022) - 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
• Environment, Sustainability and Equity by Bawa, Kamal (2019) - 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
• Food Choices and Beliefs: Factors Influencing Dietary Preferences in Chandigarh, India by Das, Suraj ; , Priya (2022) - 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
• Ecological Critiques of Exclusionary Conservation by Kabra , Asmita (2019) - 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
• Ecology and Socialism to Ecosocialism: Roots and Branches by Nawn, Nandan (2021) - 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
• The Political Ecology of Rural Community Ponds in Kerala, India: A Quantitative Study by Sankar, Vinay (2022) - 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
• Relocation from protected areas as a violent process in the recent history of biodiversity conservation in India by Fanari, Eleonora (2019) - “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
• Would Indian Agriculture Benefit from a Stewardship Model? by Prabhu, Ravi (2022) - 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
• Dismantling Barriers to Upscaling Agro-ecological Farming in India by Shah, Mihir (2022) - “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
• A Report on International Biodiversity Congress by Kumar, A. Biju (2020) - (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
• A Report on the Fifteenth Conference of International Society for Ecological Economics by Raina, Rajeswari S. (2020) - 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
• Science, Uncertainty, and Society: Getting Beyond the Argument Culture to Shared Visions by Costanza, Robert (2022) - 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
• Contribution to the Sustainability and Equity dialogue by Dhara, Sagar (2022) - 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
• Exploring the “Green”: A Review of Environment and Ecology as Embedded in the Historical Literature of Pre-Colonial Assam by Borah, Anurag (2023) - 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
• Estimating Willingness to Pay for Wastewater Treatment in New Delhi: Contingent Valuation Approach by Chopra, Vasudha ; Das, Sukanya (2022) - 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
• Democracy and the Environment: An Ecological Economics Research Agenda by Kashwan, Prakash (2020) - 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
• The Journal: A Relook After Five Years by Bawa, Kamal ; Chopra, Kanchan (2022) - 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
• Ecology, Economy and Society through an Interdisciplinary Lens by Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala (2020) - 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
• Investigating the Health of a Rice Field Ecosystem Using Thermodynamic Extremal Principles by Mondal, Ayan; Das, Nilanjan; Banerjee, Rituparna; Batabyal, Sunanda; Gangopadhyay, Sohini; Ray, Harisankar; Biswas, Nivedita; Mandal, Sudipto (2023) - 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

• The Challenges of Climate Change and Community Resilience by Murty , M.N. (2023) - 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
• Political Ecology of Urban Agricultural Pollution: Cultivating the Yamuna Floodplains in Delhi by Kumar, Rajat (2023) - 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
• Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change and their Adaptation in a semi-Arid Region in India by Mehta, Pradeep (2024) - 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
• The Ecological and Socio-economic Impacts of the Aquarium Sailfin Catfish Invasion: Fate of Fisherfolk at Major Inland Water Bodies, Tamil Nadu, South India by Rajasekaran, Mohan Raj; Ravichandran, Indhar Saidanyan; Balasingam, Parthiban; Sivagnanam, Chandrasekaran (2025) - 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
• 2023: The Year that our Planet's Environmental Signals Played Loud and Clear by Krishnaswamy, Jagdish (2024) - 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
• Every Drop Counts: Gendered Impacts of Solar Pumps, Within and Outside Rural Households in Chhattisgarh by Khandelwal, Mugdha (2025) - 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
• Knowledge Others, Others’ Knowledge: The Need for a New Epistemology of Water by Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala (2020) - 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
• Revealed by Water, Hidden in Water : Indic Hydro-epistemologies of Sacred Things by Mukhopadhyay, Anway; Choudry, Anuradha (2020) - 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
• Imperilled Waterscapes: The Social-Ecological Transformation of Lakes in Bengaluru by Sen, Amrita; Unnikrishnan, Hita; Nagendra, Harini (2020) - 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
• Views from Below: The Economics and Politics of Water in the Darjeeling Himalayas by Joshi, Deepa (2018) - 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
• Review of Annual State of India’s Environment—SOE 2017 (Centre for Science and Environment 2017) by Roy, Dunu (2018) - 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
• Reading History and Power in Urban Landscapes: The Lens of Urban Political Ecology by Coelho , Karen (2018) - 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
• On Water Governance: Editorial Note: Emerging Knowledge Should Prevail in Water Governance by Bandyopadhyay , Jayanta (2018) - 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
• 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 by Ghosh , Nilanjan (2018) - 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
• Using Economic Instruments to Fix the Liability of Polluters in India: Assessment of the Information Required and Identification of Gaps by Das, Sukanya; Murty, MN; Sardana, Kavita (2021) - 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
• On Water Governance: Environmental Flow Concepts and Holistic Applications in River Basin Governance by Arthington, Angela H (2018) - 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
• Gender and the Commons: Water Management in Trans-Himalayan Spiti Valley, India by Murali, Ranjini ; Bijoor, Ajay ; Mishra , Charudutt (2021) - 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
• On Water Governance: Reforming Governance to Solve India’s Water Crisis by Shah, Mihir (2018) - 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
• Thinking Beyond Fairy Lights and Fountains: Lessons from the Waterscape of Bengaluru by Unnikrishnan , Hita (2018) - 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
• Valuation of Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services in India by 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 (2022) - 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
• The Crisis of Sustainability in India by Mukhopadhyay, Pranab (2022) - 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
• Framework For a Collective Definition of Regenerative Agriculture in India by 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 (2022) - 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
• Why India Needs a Unique Approach to Sustainability by DeFries , Ruth ; Chhatre , Ashwini (2022) - “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
• Groundwater Extraction, Agriculture and Poverty in Godavari River Basin by Srinivasan , Jeena T ; Nuthalapati , Chandra Sekhara Rao (2022) - 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
• A SINKing Feeling: New Insights into the Himalaya’s Pressing Environmental Issues by Gamble, Ruth (2023) - 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
• Adaptation Measures to Combat Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture: An Empirical Investigation in the Chambal Basin by Kawadia , Ganesh ; Tiwari , Era (2020) - 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
• Sustaining the Terrestrial Biosphere in the Anthropocene : A Thermodynamic Earth System Perspective by Kleidon, Axel (2023) - 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
• MGNREGA Farm Pond Works – Perspectives of People and Policy by Abraham , Dimple Tresa ; N, Neetha (2020) - 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
• Rising Drinking Water Insecurity in the Indian Himalayan Region of Sikkim: A multi-stakeholder perspective by Thakur, Barun Kumar ; Debnath, Kanish ; Dhingra, Vaishali ; Bal, Debi Prasad (2020) - 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
• Wetlands and Ecosystem Services: Empirical Evidence for Incentivizing Paddy Wetlands by M, Manjula; Gopi, Girigan ; P, Vipindas (2023) - 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
• Socio-spatial Infrastructures: Drinking Water Supply and Formation of Unequal Socio-technological Relations in Rural Southern Bihar by Srivastwa, Amit Kumar; Kabra, Asmita (2023) - 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

• Emancipatory Political Ecology Pedagogy In and Out of the Classroom by Batterbury, Simon; Rodríguez, Denisse (2023) - 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
• Sustainable Harvests under Different Bio-economic Scenarios of Chilika Wetland’s Fisheries by Singhar, Aditi Samant; Gundimeda, Haripriya (2024) - 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
• A Report on National Seminar “Ecology, Environment and Religions: Key Issues and Challenges” by Bharati , Kanchan ; Kumar , Dhananjay (2020) - 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
• Environmental Racism and the Global Political Ecology of Industrial Disasters by Kumar, Mukul (2023) - 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
• Lonergan's Contribution to Ecological Economics by Quinn, Terrance (2021) - 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
• A Report of the Third Biennial POLLEN (Political Ecology Network) Conference, 2020 by Roy, Brototi (2021) - 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
• Mathematical Ecology, Evolution and the Social Sciences by Levin, Simon A. (2021) - Arrow, K. J., P. R. Ehrlich, and S. A. Levin. Chave, J., and S. A. Levin. Keywords: commons; ecology; economics; evolution; levin; systems; theory
• Rethinking Delhi, When Ecological Consciousness Crosses Paths with Bourgeoise Imaginaries by Ray, Avishek (2021) - 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
• Environmental Justice Movements in India: An analysis of the multiple manifestations of violence by Roy, Brototi; Martinez-Alier, Joan (2019) - 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
• Mountain Agriculture at a Crossroads? : Understanding Household-level Decision-making in Rapidly Changing Socio-economic Contexts by Seidler , Reinmar ; Lama , Rinzi ; Rai , Poonam (2019) - 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
• Understanding Current Forest Policy Debates through Multiple Lenses:: the Case of India by Lele, Sharachchandra (2022) - 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
• On Practising Sustainability Science: Challenges in Teaching and Research: Practicing and Teaching Sustainability under the Shadow of Multiple Hegemonies by Rai, Nitin D. ; Lele, Sharachchandra (2022) - 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
• 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 by Saikia , Arupjyoti (2020) - 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

• On Climate Change: Editorial Note by Krishnaswamy, Jagdish (2020) - 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
• 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 by Tella , Ramya K (2020) - 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
• 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 by Singh , Chandni (2020) - 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
• Uncertainty and Climate Change Policymaking in India by Javed, Sadaf (2023) - 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
• Building Resilience for an Uncertain Climate Future by Bhandari, Preety (2024) - 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
• On Climate Change: Reflection on international climate diplomacy by Desai, Nitin (2018) - 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
• 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 by Suresh, Lavanya (2020) - 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
• A Report on the 14th Annual Meeting of the Environment for Development (EfD) Initiative by Bhatt, Tanay; Chowdhury, Vidisha; Somanathan, E (2021) - 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
• Understanding How Local-level Environment Stewardship Initiatives Increase Livelihood Resilience to Climate Change: Insights from Rajasthan, India by Chorran, Tenzin ; Kuchimanchi, Bhavana Rao ; Karmakar, Shreya ; Sharma, Himani ; Ghosh , Debarupa ; Priyadarshini , Pratiti (2021) - 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
• Discounting Disaster: Land Markets and Climate Change in the Indian Sundarbans by Bandyopadhyay, Sunando; Bandyopadhyay, Sumana ; Dasgupta, Susmita; Mallik, Chinmoyee; Wheeler, David (2022) - 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
• A Report of the Online Course on “Climate, Community and Conservation” by Mishra, Neha; Saha, Anindita Roy; Tiwary, Nawin (2022) - 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
• Measurement of Vulnerability to Climate Change in Char Areas: A Survey by Saikia, Mrinal; Mahanta, Ratul (2023) - 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
• Who Accesses Solar PV? : Energy Justice and Climate Justice in a Local Government Rooftop Solar Programme by Tice, Julianne; Batterbury, Simon (2023) - 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
• Between Growth-fetishism and Green Recovery by Ghosh, Nilanjan (2022) - 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
• Has Economics Caught Up with Climate Science? by Gupta , Shreekant (2020) - 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
• Discerning Global and Local of Climate Change in Indian Context by A, Alankar (2023) - 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
• Technological Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture by Jena, Pradyot Ranjan (2024) - 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
• Attributing Vegetation Recovery During the Indian Summer Monsoon to Climate Drivers in Central India by Chandel, Vikram; Chauhan, Tejasvi (2023) - 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
• Climate Change Adaptation and Neoliberalism in Bangladesh: A Review of Two Monographs by Iqbal, Iftekhar (2023) - 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

• Defending Nature: Transformation of the Space Through Grassroots Activism Against the Threat of Extractivism by Üner, Büsra (2023) - 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
• Solar Microgrids in Rural India: A Case Study of Household Benefits by Chakravarty, Debalina ; Roy, Joyashree (2021) - 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
• Indian Monsoon: A Clarion Call for a Systems Approach and Dialectical Thinking by Vasan, Sudha (2025) - 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
• Imagining Sustainability Beyond COVID-19 in India by Thomas, Bejoy ; Bhar, Soumyajit; Chakravarty, Shoibal (2021) - 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
• Modelling the Economics of Grassland Degradation in Banni, India, using System Dynamics by Mathur, Mihir ; Sharma, Kabir (2018) - 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
• 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. by Kumar, Deepak (2021) - 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
• Conservation Dilemmas in Contemporary India: Review of Ghazala Shahabuddin and K. Sivaramakrishnan, eds. 2019. Nature Conservation in the New Economy. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. by Pattnaik, Ayesha (2021) - 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
• Conserving Economics for Biodiversity: Reflections on “The Dasgupta Review” by S Raina, Rajeswari (2021) - “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
• Sustainability Transitions from an Ecological Economic Perspective by Røpke , Inge (2019) - 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
• On the Normalization of Dimensioned Variables in Ecological Economics by Malghan, Deepak (2020) - 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
• 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 by Giri , Saroj (2022) - 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
• Integral Ecology: An unexpected support for Ecological Economics by Pope Francis by Fischer-Kowalski , Marina (2020) - 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

• A Pressing Problem by Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala (2023) - For this reason, energy transitions are also commonly known as decarbonization. The manifestations of energy transitions are also manifold. Keywords: change; energy; fossil; transitions
• The Duke Kunshan Conference on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Citizenship: 22–24 May 2017 by Baviskar , Amita (2018) - [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
• Thinking Ahead Towards Converging Perspectives by Chopra, Kanchan (2021) - 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
• Does Assignment of Individual Property Rights Improve Forest Conservation Outcomes? : Empirical Evidence from West Bengal, India by Chand, Sandip; Behera, Bhagirath (2023) - 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
• Co-Location, Socioeconomic Status and Perceptions of Environmental Change in the Indian Sundarbans by Dasgupta, Susmita ; Guha , Bansari ; Wheeler , David (2020) - 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

• Conservation amidst Urbanization: Insights from Explorations around Bannerghatta National Park, Bengaluru by Bhaskar, Dhanya ; Ramananda, Samudyatha; KT, Sarang (2023) - 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
• Himal Rakshak of Sikkim: The Burden of Being the Flag-bearers of Community-based Conservation by Singh, Rashmi (2020) - 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
• Role of Marine National Park for Sustainable Livelihoods of Artisan Fisherfolk: A case study of MNP, Jamnagar by Magotra, Rohit ; Pandey, Pushkar ; Kumar, Mohit ; Gupta, Mohit Kumar ; Kaushik , Asha ; Parikh, Jyoti (2020) - 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
• Will the Green Credit Programme Incentivize Positive Environmental Actions? by Kumar, Surender (2024) - 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
• On Forect Conservation: Revisiting Canons and Dogmas in the Conservation-versus-Human Rights Debate by Kabra, Asmita (2018) - 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
• Adoption of Soil Conservation Measures: Evidence from Rain-fed Watershed Areas of Telangana by Peddi, Dayakar; KS, Kavi Kumar (2021) - 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
• Biological Conservation and Economic Theory by Perrings, Charles ; Kinzig, Ann (2018) - 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
• Technological Innovations, Behavioural Interventions, and Household Energy Conservation: Policy Insights and Lessons by Bahinipati, Chandra Sekhar ; Sirohi, Rahul A; Rao, Sagarika S (2022) - 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
• Appreciation and Minor Clarification for Kabra (2019) by Novick , Adam P. (2022) - 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
• Soil Conservation in a Watershed: : Institutional Alternatives by Singha , Chandan (2020) - 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

• The Implicit Discount Rate, Information, and Investment in Energy-Efficient Appliances: A Review by Singh, Monalisa; Bahinipati, Chandra Sekhar (2024) - 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
• Reconciling Ecological Sustainability and Economic Development in Developing Countries by Nawn, Nandan (2024) - 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
• Professor Rabindra Nath Bhattacharya (15 November 1941 to 3 June 2022): A homage by Acharyya, Achiransu (2024) - 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
• Navigating Environmental Crisis: A Review of Escape from Overshoot by Shailesh Kumar; Diptimayee Nayak (2025) - (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
• Professor U. Sankar (5 June 1935 to 30 March 2025) : A Tribute by Mythili, G (2025) - 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
• Revisiting Environmental Economics: Concepts, Methods, and Policies: Review of Dodo J Thampapillai and Matthius Ruth, 2019. Environmental Economics: Concepts, Methods and Policies, London: Earthscan by Sengupta, Ramprasad (2020) - 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
• Karl-Göran Mäler: the Adi Guru of Environmental Economics by Das, Saudamini (2020) - 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
• Field notes from the Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE), Budapest, Hungary: 20–23 June 2017 by Gerber, Julien-François (2018) - 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
• Economics for the Everyday by Mahapatra, Aurko (2021) - 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

• The Forest Rights Act and the 2023 Amendment to the Forest Conservation Act by Ramakrishnan, Rajesh (2024) - 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
• De jure and De facto Land Management Approaches of Forest Officials: Reflections from the Field and Archives by Shashidharan, Nita (2025) - 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
• Women Headed Households in Agriculture: Report from West Bengal, India by Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala; Pattnaik, Itishree (2022) - 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
• 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 by Krishnan, Radhika (2020) - 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
• Measuring Impermanence: A Community Perspective on Char Land by Chakraborty, Gorky; Momin, Hassan (2023) - 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
• Identifying Urban Hotspots and Cold Spots in Delhi Using the Biophysical Landscape Framework by Gupta, Rupesh Kumar (2024) - “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

• Addressing Depletion in Alluvial Aquifers: Why Context Matters in Participatory Groundwater Management by Kumar, Partik; Srinivasan, Veena (2025) - 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
• The Economics of Common Pool Resources: A Review by Adhikari , Bhim (2021) - 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
• Agricultural Sustainability in the North Eastern Region of India: A Sustainable Livelihood Security Index (SLSI) Approach by Jain, Ankur ; Madhaba Sheekha, Neela ; Tanu, Sandip (2022) - 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
• Discontent, Conflict, Social Resistance and Violence at Non-metallic Mining Frontiers in India by Bisht , Arpita (2019) - 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
• Tides of Change in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands by Oommen , Meera Anna ; Ramesh , Madhuri (2019) - 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
• On Practising Sustainability Science: Challenges in Teaching and Research: Sustainability: Challenges in Teaching by Purushothaman, Seema (2022) - 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

• Understanding Human–Environment Interactions Using Multiple Dimensions by Krishnaswamy, Jagdish (2024) - 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
• The Forest Game: Field Experiments as a Means to Influence Mental Models by Thomas, Liya ; V, Sanoop ; Rodrigues , Vinita (2018) - 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
• Engaging the Forests and Livelihoods Community: The 3rd Annual FLARE Network Meeting by Agrawal , Arun ; Rutt, Rebecca ; Watkins , Cristy (2018) - 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

• Scenario of Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities: A Study of Pune, Visakhapatnam, and Tirupati by Ghosh, Poulomee; Bobba, Eshwar Reddy; Sai Sanjay Dodda; Vamsi Krishna Jasti; Sarvan Meka; Hasitha Reddy Vanga (2025) - 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
• Managing the Commons : Roles of Governance, Markets, and Communities by Dhavala, Kishore (2025) - 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
• 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 by Mishra, Arunika ; Das, Shreyasee ; Kasibhatta, Samhitha ; Chakrabarty, Himadri Shekhar (2022) - 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

• 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 by Balachandra , P. (2020) - 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
• India’s Energy Strategy for Inclusive Sustainable Development by Parikh, Kirit (2020) - 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
• Role of Energy Efficiency and Demand-side Management in India’s Clean Energy Transition by Paul, Seema; Khare, Amit; Chunekar, Aditya (2022) - 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
• Elements and Possible Constraints for a Smooth Energy Transition in India by Kacker, Rakesh ; Srivastava, Nidhi (2023) - 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
• Exergy Analysis: A Guide to Sustainability? by Chauhan, Tejasvi; Gaur, Vinod (2023) - 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
• Cooking with Modern Energy in Rural Households of India: A Cost–Benefit Analysis by Roy, Krittika (2024) - 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

• Environmental Literacy among Vegetable Farm Entrepreneurs and its Influence on Green Agricultural Production in Ghana by Osei, Charles Dwumfour (2025) - 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
• Review of Parisaranītiśatakam (Chinmaya International Foundation Shodha Sansthan, Adi Shankara Nilayam 2017) by Lele , Sharachchandra (2018) - [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
• Editorial: Some Insights on the Role of Violence by Martinez-Alier, Joan ; Roy , Brototi (2019) - 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

• Sustainable Management of Exotic Fish Biodiversity in Karnataka: Status, Challenges, and Threats by Chakma, Amie; P, Manikantan ; Chaudhary, Aditi (2024) - 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

• Revisiting Economic Costs of Arsenicosis: A PSM Approach by Chakraborty, Sanjana ; Mukherjee, Vivekananda (2020) - 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
• 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 by Sengupta, Reshmi ; Rooj, Debasis (2022) - 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

• 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 by Gupta, Ranjoy; Singh, Ranvir (2024) - 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
• An Integrated Framework for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Around the World by Liu, Jianguo (2018) - 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
• Women’s Role in Agriculture and Food Security: Learnings from Gujarat and West Bengal by Shah, Amita; Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala; Pattnaik, Itishree (2022) - 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
• Agroecological Impacts of Urban Demand for Fresh Vegetables: Preliminary Insights from Exploratory Surveys in Bengaluru by Purushothaman , Seema ; Puttur Sadashiva, Vidya; K.M., Dhanush (2022) - 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
• New Perspectives on Indian Agriculture by Bawa, Kamal ; Chopra, Kanchan (2022) - 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
• Food beyond Counting: Insights based on local knowledge from the field by Gupta, Ranjoy (2022) - 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

• An Indian perspective on One Health prescriptions by Ramesh , Madhuri ; Patil, Sheetal; Pradyumna, Adithya (2025) - 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
• Organic Farming in India : Catalysts that Can Help in Transition by Manjula , M.; Devi , P. Indira (2021) - [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
• On National Mineral Policy 2019 — balancing stakeholder interests and concerns: Editorial Note: Recognising Diverse Stakeholders in Mineral Policy — a Trajectory over Time by Nawn, Nandan (2020) - 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
• On National Mineral Policy 2019 — balancing stakeholder interests and concerns: A Business-friendly New Mineral Policy by Jain , Pradeep Kumar (2020) - 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
• On National Mineral Policy 2019 — balancing stakeholder interests and concerns: National Mineral Policy 2019: a Remedy as Bad as the Disease? by Kumar, S. Vijay (2020) - 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

• Eco-efficiency of Crop Production in Madhya Pradesh: A Directional Distance Function Approach by Khangar, Nihal; Thangavel, Mohanasundari (2025) - 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
• Crop Diversification for Sustainable Agriculture by Paroda, Raj (2022) - 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

• A Report on the National Workshop on “Strengthening National Capacity to Meet the Enhanced Transparency Framework of the Paris Agreement in Bangladesh” by Arfanuzzaman, Md.; Shaheduzzaman , Md. (2021) - 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
• When the “Field” Moves Online: Reflections on Virtual Data Collection during COVID-19 by Singh, Chandni ; Patil, Sheetal; Poonacha, Prathigna; Koduganti, Maitreyi; Sharma, Swarnika (2021) - 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
• Quantifying Air Pollution Vulnerability and its Distributional Consequences: some perspectives from Delhi by Gupta , Shivani ; Das , Sukanya ; Murty , M.N. (2019) - 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

• Tangled Web: Indigenous Rights and Spatial Politics in Mumbai by V, Chitra (2024) - 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
• Mobility Restrictions and the Control of COVID-19 by Perrings, Charles; Espinoza , Baltazar (2021) - 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

• Living In, and Thinking About, the World in Pandemic Times by Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala (2020) - 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
• 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. by Jain, Sarandha (2021) - 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
• Health Damages from Air Pollution: Evidence from Opencast Coal Mining Region of Odisha, India by Nayak, Tapaswini ; Roy Chowdhury , Indrani (2020) - 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

• The Post-COVID India: : Making science and technology socially and environmentally relevant by 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. (2020) - 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
• On Air Pollution: Regionalizing Air: On the Possibilities of Transborder Collaborations by Negi , Rohit (2018) - 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
• Sustainability Science Remains a Challenge for Academia by Bawa, Kamal (2022) - 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
• On Practising Sustainability Science: Challenges in Teaching and Research: Editorial Note: Sustainability Education: The Importance of Diversity by Nagendra, Harini (2022) - 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
• On Practising Sustainability Science: Challenges in Teaching and Research: The Current State and Challenges to Advancing Sustainability Science and Education by Hassan, Rashid (2022) - 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

• Extractive Economics and Ecological Rights by Bisht , Arpita (2025) - 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
• On National Mineral Policy 2019 — balancing stakeholder interests and concerns: Economic Opportunities and Environmental Challenges Offered by India’s New Mineral Policy by Ranjan , Ram (2020) - 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
• On National Mineral Policy 2019 — balancing stakeholder interests and concerns: Will Intergenerational Equity be Implemented? by Basu , Rahul (2020) - 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

• Why Regulations Come Up Short? : Some Observations from a Field Study of the Kanpur Leather Industry by Singh, Aparajita; Gundimeda, Haripriya (2020) - 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
• The Impact of Exposure to Air Pollutants among Traffic Police in Bihar: An Excerpt from the Field by Thakur, Barun Kumar ; Chakraborty, Tamali ; Ghosh, Ashok Kumar (2021) - 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
• On Air Pollution: Editorial Note by Dayal , Vikram (2018) - 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
• On Air Pollution: To Tackle Air Pollution, One Needs to be Grounded by Kothari, Ashish (2018) - 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
• On Air Pollution: Can We Use Delhi’s Air Pollution Crisis to Improve Agriculture? by Shyamsundar, Priya (2018) - 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
• 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) by Somanathan, Eswaran (2019) - 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

• Self-care or Delay in Seeking Healthcare: Reflections from the Field by Basappa, Shivanand Savatagi (2021) - 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

• 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. by Asher, Manshi (2020) - 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
• Global population size and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals by Dasgupta, Partha (2020) - 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

• Bringing and Being a ‘Kaim-bride’: A Note on Marriage and Migration in Assam Chars by Das, Sampurna (2023) - 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
• What Does ‘Gender’ Mean in Myanmar’s Rural Fishery Communities? by Ichikawa , Sayuri (2022) - 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
• Vulnerabilities and Resilience in post-Fani Chilika: Lessons from the Field by Bhattacharya , Shreyashi (2020) - 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

• Role and Scope of Environmental Models by Dasgupta, Purnamita (2022) - 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

• Fisheries Livelihoods and Governance: Lessons for Policy-making by Antony, Merlyn Maria (2025) - 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

• Building an Alliance on the Commons by Nagendra, Harini ; Ghate, Rucha (2022) - 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

• Revisiting Regulations : Air Pollution and Colonial Urbanism by Chauhan, Ayushi (2022) - 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

• The Vulnerability and Transformation of Indonesian Peatlands: Navigating Social-Ecological Tipping Points for Resilient Futures by Yunus, Mohammad (2024) - 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
• Reordering Nature: An Assessment of Colonial and Post-Colonial Forest Policy in Jalpaiguri and the Jungle Mahals by Toppo, Anju O.M. (2024) - 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

• Nature And Indigeneity: Towards An Environmental History of Adivasi Society by Dhar, Dipsita (2022) - 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

• On Climate Change: Climate Change: the Science by Watson , Robert (2018) - 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
• On Climate Change: Fiscal Measures When Climate Negotiations are not Feasible by Sterner, Thomas (2018) - 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

• Response: To the Comments by C.P. Geevan, Arun Dixit and Chandra Shekhar Silori by Mathur, Mihir; Sharma, Kabir (2019) - 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

• Legacy Waste Remediation in Karnataka: Field Assessments and the Promise of Biomining Technology by D.A., Kiran ; S.V., Pushkara ; R, Jitvan; H.K., Ramaraju (2024) - 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

• Seeds of Change: Report from a Conference on “Gender Equality through Agricultural Research for Development” by Pamphilon, Barbara (2022) - 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

• Nature and Socio-Economic Systems: A Narrative of Conflict and Adaptation by Chopra, Kanchan (2021) - 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

• Natural Resources Management Law: A Referencer by Ramesh, M K (2025) - 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

• The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are not an ‘empty space’ by Sekhsaria, Pankaj (2018) - 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

• 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) by Geevan , Chandanathil P. ; Dixit , Arun M. ; Silori , Chandra S. (2019) - 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

• The Making and Re-making of Adivasi Worlds by Choksi, Nishaant (2022) - 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

• 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 by Ao, Lanukumla (2020) - 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

• Narpat S. Jodha: Forever Restless by Mukhopadhyay, Pranab ; Ghate, Rucha (2020) - 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

• Large Dams, Adivasi Struggles, and Their Untold Stories by Somokanta, Thounaojam (2022) - 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

• Deconstructing Agricultural Revolutions by Deivendran, Muthuvel (2022) - 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

• On Forect Conservation: Editorial Note by Dayal, Vikram (2018) - 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

• Review of Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature (Simon & Schuster 2017) by Krishnan, Radhika (2018) - 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

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