Regional Political Ecologies and Environmental Conflicts in India

This book focuses on the regional political ecologies (RPEs) of environmental conflicts in India. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of Political Ecology and South Asian Environmental Studies.

List of contents

1.Introduction: Understanding Regional Political Framings of Environmental Conflicts in India 2. Heritage or Basic Human Rights? Politics of Environmentalism Surrounding the Adi Ganga in Kolkata 3. The Opportunities and Challenges of Transboundary Conservation: Solutions in Adaptive Management 4. Riverbank Erosion and Inter-Community Relationships in Majuli: Political Implications of a Changing Landscape in Assam 5. A Regional Political Ecology of the Changing Cityscape and the Crisis of Conservation of the East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW), India 6. Land Ownership and Ecological Knowledge Production from a Gender and Power Dynamics Perspective in a Village in Nagaland 7. Political Ecology of Natural Resource Governance in Chhattisgarh, India: Critical Ethnographic Reflections on the Vulnerable Livelihoods of the Scheduled Tribes in Bastar

About the author

Sarmistha Pattanaik is Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Faculty of Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) and Centre for Urban Science and Engineering (C-USE), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.
Amrita Sen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.

Summary

This book focuses on the regional political ecologies (RPEs) of environmental conflicts in India. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of Political Ecology and South Asian Environmental Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Sarmistha Sen Pattanaik
• Assisted by: Sarmistha Pattanaik (Editor), Amrita Sen (Editor), Sen Amrita (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032417820
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3241782-0
• No. of pages: 130
• Series: Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Applied ecology, Conservation of the environment, Environmental policy & protocols, Human Geography, Environmental policy and protocols