STEPS Working Paper 75 by Shilpi Srivastava and Lyla Mehta Download this paper (PDF) In recent years, the notion of the nexus has gained immense traction in the domain of…
Not Another Nexus? Critical Thinking on the New Security Convergence in Energy, Food, Climate and Water
India’s Risks: Democratizing the Management of Threats to Environment, Health, and Values
A prospective superpower, India is still grappling with a host of risks that threaten to hamper its progress. These range from environmental threats caused by GM crops and pollution; dangers…
Special issue: Water grabbing? Focus on the (re)appropriation of finite water resources
Special issue of the journal Water Alternatives, edited by Lyla Mehta, Gert Jan Veldwisch and Jennifer Franco Recent large-scale land acquisitions for agricultural production (including biofuels), popularly known as ‘land grabbing’,…
Community-based Natural Resource Management in South Asia
NGOs today, as part of civil society, have come to play a prominent role in South Asia in the context of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). This book examines the…
Managing complex adaptive systems – A co-evolutionary perspective on natural resource management
The overexploitation of natural resources and the increasing number of social conflicts following from their unsustainable use point to a wide gap between the objectives of sustainability and current resource…