Democratizing Forest Governance in India
Edited by Sharachchandra Lele and Ajit Menon
Author Information
Sharachchandra Lele, Senior Fellow, Centre for Environment and Development, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru,Ajit Menon, Associate Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies
Sharachchandra Lele is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Environment and Development, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru.
Ajit Menon is Associate Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies.
Contributors:
Ajit Menon is Associate Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies; Arshiya Bose is a member of Kalpavriksh and a doctoral student at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge; Ashish Kothari is a founder-member of the Indian environmental group Kalpavriksh; Dhrupad Choudhury is the Regional Programme Manager of ICIMOD's Regional Programme on Adaptation to Change; Kanchi Kohli is researcher, writer, and campaigner working on environmental, forest, and biodiversity governance in India; Kundan Kumar completed his PhD in Resource Development from Michigan State University and is now an Assistant Professor in Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto; Madhu Sarin has worked for over 30 years on community based natural resource governance by gender-equal and democratic community institutions; Manju Menon is the Program Director of the Namati-CPR Environment Justice Program and a member of Kalpavriksh; Neema Pathak Broome is a member of Kalpavriksh and coordinates the Conservation and Livelihoods programme in the organization; Nitin D. Rai is a Fellow at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore; Prakash Kashwan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at University of Connecticut, Storrs; Sagari R. Ramdas is Director of Anthra-Hyderabad, a resource group that works with peasant, pastoralist and adivasi communities, particularly women, on environment and social justice concerns in the context of food sovereignty; Sharachchandra (Sharad) Lele is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Environment and Development, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru; Shiba Desor is a member of Kalpavriksh, based in Pune. She works on issues of conservation and livelihoods, with a focus on policy and practice related to community based governance of forests; Shomona Khanna is an advocate practicing in the Supreme Court of India and the Delhi High Court; Viren Lobo is currently Executive Director of SPWD and has been engaged in action research on various issues related to livelihoods, governance, and ecology of natural resources.