Tag: India
New Research – Participatory Security as Form of Control: Kaziranga National Park, India
Fanari, Eleonora – Ph.D. Candidate, Institute de Ciència y Tecnologia Ambientals Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, Spain. Abstract ‘More security, more conservation’ is the mantra utilised by the Indian forest service …
Struggles for just conservation: an analysis of India’s biodiversity conservation conflicts
Author: Eleonora Fanari New publication Struggles for just conservation: an analysis of India’s biodiversity conservation conflicts by EnvJustice team member, Eleonora Fanari. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.5214 Abstract The protection of the Earth’s remaining biodiversity continues to be …
Webinar: The hidden side of conservation: voices from the ground.
Wildlife and forest conservation policies violate the basic rights of local and indigenous communities that inhabit protected areas, in addition to displacing them and criminalizing their struggles in the name …
Paving the way for the next pandemic
By Brototi Roy and Nick Meynen.The lockdown from one pandemic is being used in India to pave the way for the next, with a controversial plan to clear extremely valuable …
Indigenous Indian people face forest eviction
By Nick Meynen and Eleonora Fanari. There’s a global outcry as India’s Supreme Court evicts over a million vulnerable people from forest under the guise of protecting wildlife.The Bengal tiger has …
Ecological Distribution Conflicts in India. Some Insights on the Role of Violence
By Joan Martinez-Alier and Brototi Roy.The term Ecological Distribution Conflicts(EDCs) was coined about 20 years ago by ecological economists (Martinez-Alier and O‟Connor 1996) to describe social conflicts born from the …
Indian authorities accused of ‘drowning the homes of 40,000 families’
By Nick Meynen. This article has been published by Common Dreams on 4 August and by The Ecologist on 8 August. The Sardar Sarovar Dam in India is already one of …
Is sand the new oil? The global battle for sand is getting ugly
[LONGREAD]By Nick Meynen. Dubai is a fairytale world. Back in 1995 a jeep brought me to a region where you do not want to run out of fuel: Rub’ al …
Niyamgiri hills defender awarded with Goldman Environmental Prize
By Nick Meynen. Two men coming all the way from the Indian jungle admired the most sacred site of London: St. Paul’s Cathedral. They checked the rock quality, deemed it perfect …
Buddhist monk killed in resistance to dam project in India
By Joan Martinez-Alier. Public protests against the construction of dams in the Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh in North East India have been going on for some years. In the whole …
The project ENVJUSTICE has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 695446)