"The Project Tiger Crisis in India: Moving Away from the Policy and Economics of Selectivity"
This paper discusses the economic and philosophical inadequacies that have characterized the Project Tiger scheme in India.
This paper discusses the economic and philosophical inadequacies that have characterized the Project Tiger scheme in India.
This issue of RCC Perspectives offers insights into similarities and differences in the ways people in Asia have tried to master and control the often unpredictable and volatile environments of which they were part
Ursula Münster shows us in her essay on silenced and silent practices of avian care in a postcolonial conservation landscape of South India, that care is never innocent, it plays out within established hierarchies and power relations, and it can reinforce long traditions of imperialism and exclusion.
The authors of this volume explore the potential value and challenges of the Rights of Nature concept by examining legal theory, politics, and recent case studies.
Brara relates a story of contemporary India in the process of transition, where legal approaches to Nature are changing.
The author seeks to bring together environmental anthropology and history to frame the place of forests in humans’ lives, from a political ecology point of view. He does this by reflecting on his personal experiences in Northeast India, Kenya, and Sweden.
Manish Chandi reviews the book Conservation from the Margins, edited by Umesh Srinivasan and Nandini Velho.