Community Forest Management
Sharachchandra Lele, Shruti Mokashi, Anuja Anil Date, Atul Joshi Oxford Bibliographies in Environmental Science | November 22, 2024 Historically, some form of local management of forests existed in many parts of the world in the precolonial era. Enclosures, invasions, colonization, or policies of postcolonial states led to the takeover of most of these forests and […]
Modelling the Banni Social-ecological System Using Participatory System Dynamics for Building Insights on Invasive Species Management and Stakeholder Engagement
Kabir Sharma, Mihir Mathur, Ankila J. Hiremath , Abi T. Vanak, Ramya Ravi , Madhura Niphadkar, Ovee Thorat , Ninad Jagdish Journal of Environmental Management | November 19, 2024 Invasive species are a significant driver of environmental change in social-ecological systems (SES) globally. Given that SES are inherently complex adaptive systems (CAS), they continuously reorganize […]
‘Taming’ a Wicked Problem: Selective Problematisation of Issues of Urban Water Supply in Mumbai
Sachin Tiwale and Subodh Wagle Journal of Asian and African Studies | November 10, 2024 The lack of universal urban water access in the cities in the global south is a wicked problem. Using the case of Mumbai, this paper illustrates how consistently this wicked problem was chiselled and selectively problematised to turn it into […]
Strategies Beyond Borders: Timebanks in Classroom Settings
Pallavi Varma Patil Norrag Special Issue | October 29, 2024 In this paper, we discuss a pedagogy grounded in a theoretical framework that recognizes our historical moment—the end stage of coloniality that has shaped global and local social relations for the past 600 years. We share an initiative based on principles and practices that challenge […]
Invasive networks: An environmental history of the introduction of Prosopis juliflora to Banni grassland, India
Ramya Ravi, Siddhartha Krishnan Geoforum | October 28, 2024 Our paper explores invasive networks from 1819 to present-day Banni grassland, Kutch, Gujarat, focusing on Prosopis juliflora’s invasion. Colonial transport of valuable plants boosted imperial power but alterned native ecosystems, leaving invasive species as a legacy. Only a few transferred plants became invasive, with patterns shaped […]
A multi-gene phylogeny of the Asian kukri snakes (Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826): Sharpening the blade of the second largest serpent radiation (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae)
Justin L. Lee , Platon V. Yushchenko , Chatmongkon Suwannapoom , Parinya Pawangkhanant , L. Lee Grismer , Tan Van Nguyen j k , V. Deepak , Surya Narayanan , Sandeep Das , Thy Neang , H.T. Lalremsanga, Jian-Huan Yang , Daniel Jablonski , Mustafa Erkaya , Gernot Vogel , Aaron M. Bauer , Nikolay […]
Rapid declines in freshwater gastropods in Pune city, India
Akash Bagade, Mihir R. Kulkarni, Saurabh Khandare, Abhay Khandagle, N. A. Aravind, Yugandhar Shinde & Sameer M. Padhye Biodiversity | October 23, 2024 We studied freshwater gastropod fauna in a heavily urbanized region in tropical India, across a range of habitat types. A total of 16 species were found from a two-year survey, which is […]
Description of a New Species of Potter Wasp (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) From Northeast India
Femi E Benny, Ranjith AP, Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan Entomon | October 1, 2024 A team of entomologists from the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) has discovered a new species of potter wasp from Arunachal Pradesh in India’s Eastern Himalayas. The new species, Pseumenes siangensis, named after the Siang Valley where […]
Stopover by Migrant Montagu’s Harriers in the Thar Desert is Determined by Vegetation Greenness and Grasshopper Abundance but Not Locust Outbreaks
T Ganesh , Arjun Kannan , Prashanth M.B. , Abhishek Samrat Journal Of Arid Environments | September 20, 2024 The Thar Desert in the Indian sub-continent is prone to outbreaks of desert locusts during passage of migratory birds. We tracked Montagu’s harriers to determine if their desert stopover duration is affected by the availability of […]
Seeking a Multi-dimensional Approach to Understand Agricultural Commodity Expansion in Asian Tropics
Anushka Rege, Manan Bhan, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Sheetal Patil, Indira Singh, Wenxiu Xu, Siyan Zeng Biotropica | September 16, 2024 Agricultural commodity expansion into natural and semi-natural ecosystems in Asia is a multi-dimensional sustainability challenge posing a threat to natural and human capital. At the symposium pertaining to agricultural commodity landscapes organized at the 59th meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology […]
