Applying political ecology to ecosystem services. Operationalizing an alternative approach to ecosystem services research, using an empirical case study in Odisha, India. Climate Change Mitigation and Development
What drives flowering, fruiting in Sikkim’s rhododendrons?
The Hindu | 16 February, 2019 Neems are in bloom and mango trees fruiting in many parts of India now, but what determines such seasonal changes? At least, in the Sikkim Himalaya temperature, day length and genetic relatedness between species determine when rhododendrons put out their first buds, flowers and fruits, finds a new study.
Invasion compounds an ecosystem-wide loss to afforestation in the tropical grasslands of the Shola Sky Islands
M. Arasumani, Danish Khan, C.K. Vishnudas, M. Muthukumar, Milind Bunyan, V.V. Robin Biological Conservation | February 15, 2019 Tropical montane habitats, including the Shola Sky Islands in the Western Ghats, host several threatened taxa of which, the global distributions are restricted to these mountain-tops. The rapidly increasing human footprint and the spread of invasive alien plants […]
Karnataka StateWater Policy 2019
Task Group on Water Policy (led by Mihir Shah, S V Ranganath and Sharachandra Lele). 2019. Recommendation submitted to GoK. Karnataka Jnana Aayoga (Karnataka Knowledge Commission), Bengaluru As in the rest of the country, the water crisis facing Karnataka is reaching unmanageable proportions. This is reflected in grave agrarian distress but also in acute shortage of […]
