Preface
Introduction - Ajit Menon, Praveen Singh, K.J. Joy and Suhas
Paranjape
Hivre Bazar: A ′Model′ Watershed Experiment?
Utthan′s Work in Nathugadh, Gujarat - Suhas Paranjape and Esha
Shah
Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Gopalpura, Rajasthan
- Esha Shah and Praveen Singh
Community-based Natural Resource Management in Bhutan: The Case of
the Lingmuteychhu Watershed - Ajit Menon and K.J. Joy
Community-Based Natural Resource Management in the Central
Himalayas: The Work of the Doodha Toli Lok Vikas Sansthan -
Sharachchandra Lele and Praveen Singh
Sustainable Livelihoods in Riverine Charlands: The Case of Gona
Chetona
Conclusion - Praveen Singh and Suhas Paranjape
Bibliography
Index
Ajit Menon is Associate Professor at the Madras Institute of
Development Studies. He was formerly a Fellow at the Centre for
Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development (CISED),
Bangalore. His research interests include the political economy of
natural resource management, environmental politics and
decentralized governance in India.
Praveen Singh is Visiting Fellow at CISED. A historian, his area of
interest is the history of flood control and agro-ecological change
in the Indian floodplains during the colonial and post-independence
period.
Esha Shah is Research Fellow with the Institute of Development
Studies, University of Sussex. She was formerly a Fellow at CISED.
She has authored a book Social Designs: Tank Irrigation Technology
and Agrarian Transformation in Karnataka. Esha is an environmental
engineer turned social scientist whose main research interest
involves anthropology and history of science and technology. Her
recent research activities include politics of knowledge
generation, risk and uncertainty of new and emerging technologies
in developing societies, and history of the green revolution.
Sharachchandra Lélé is Coordinator and Senior Fellow at CISED which
he co-founded. He has held senior positions at the Pacific
Institute of SIDES and Tata Energy Research Institute, and was a
Bullard Fellow at Harvard University. He is also a founder-member
of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics and has served on
its Executive Committee. His work spans conceptual issues in
sustainable development and sustainability, and institutional,
economic, ecological and technological issues in forest, energy and
water resource management.
Suhas Paranjape is Visiting Fellow at CISED and Senior Fellow with
the Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management
(SOPPECOM), Pune. He is also founding member of the Lok Vidnyan
Sanghatana. His interests cover the area of water, energy and
biomass resources. He has co-authored a number of books in these
areas: Sustainable Technology: Making the Sardar Sarovar Project
Viable; Banking on Biomass: A New Strategy for Sustainable
Prosperity Based on Renewable Energy and Dispersed
Industrialisation; Watershed Based Development: A Source Book and
the forthcoming Water Conflicts in India: A Million Revolts in the
Making.
K J Joy is Senior Fellow with SOPPECOM. An activist-researcher, Joy
has been a Fullbright Scholar at University of California,
Berkeley, and a Visiting Fellow at CISED. His research interests
centre around people’s institutions for natural resource
management. He has coauthored a number of books on water, watershed
and energy issues, including Sustainable Technology: Making the
Sardar Sarovar Project Viable; Banking on Biomass: A New Strategy
for Sustainable Prosperity Based on Renewable Energy and Dispersed
Industrialisation; Watershed Based Development: A Source Book and
the forthcoming Water Conflicts in India: A Million Revolts in the
Making.
The book attempts to analyse the potential as well as limitations
of NGO-driven CBNRM endeavours across agro-climatic regions of
South Asia with emphasis on four intrinsically linked normative
concerns, namely sustainability, livelihood enhancement, equity and
democratic decentralization…consists of well-written chapters based
on rigorous synthesis of CBNRM case studies, which will serve as
good references for students, researchers and practitioners in the
years to come.
*Current Science*
The book is based on thorough research and gives valuable insights
into the NGOs-led CBNRM besides listing some innovative experiments
by these agencies. It not only gives a critical theoretical
perspective within a comparative framework of the diverse forms of
works undertaken by these NGOs but also presents a perspective on
the future role and aspirations of these NGOs.
*The Tribune*
The authors attempt at comprehending the outcomes in terms of
livelihood enhancement, sustainability, equity and
democratization.
*The Book Review*
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