Chandi, Manish. Review of Conservation from the Margins by Umesh Srinivasan and Nandini Velho (eds), Conservation & Society 17, no. 2 (2019): 222-23. https://doi.org/10.4103/cs.cs_18_110.
Srinivasan, Umesh, and Nandini Velho (eds). Conservation from the Margins. Hyderabad: Orient Black Swan, 2018.
Over the past two decades, a large number of books on nature conservation in India have emerged, incorporating academic work, advocating people’s participation and joint management, using visual media for coffee tables, as directories and through folklore and fiction; as Mahesh Rangarajan rightly points out in his foreword, “conservation in India is at a crossroads.” This book Conservation from the margins coalesces social and ecological research conducted across landscapes and waterscapes, focussing on the need to engage with community much more than we often do. (Excerpt from the book review)
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