Regional Political Ecologies and Environmental Conflicts in India

Sarmistha Pattanaik is Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Faculty of Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) and Centre for Urban Science and Engineering (C-USE), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. Amrita Sen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.

• 1.Introduction: Understanding Regional Political Framings of Environmental Conflicts in India 2. Heritage or Basic Human Rights? Politics of Environmentalism Surrounding the Adi Ganga in Kolkata 3. The Opportunities and Challenges of Transboundary Conservation: Solutions in Adaptive Management 4. Riverbank Erosion and Inter-Community Relationships in Majuli: Political Implications of a Changing Landscape in Assam 5. A Regional Political Ecology of the Changing Cityscape and the Crisis of Conservation of the East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW), India 6. Land Ownership and Ecological Knowledge Production from a Gender and Power Dynamics Perspective in a Village in Nagaland 7. Political Ecology of Natural Resource Governance in Chhattisgarh, India: Critical Ethnographic Reflections on the Vulnerable Livelihoods of the Scheduled Tribes in Bastar