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About the Authors Editors Seema Purushothaman is Professor at Azim Premji University, and Adjunct Faculty at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) in Bangalore. Her research interests include sustainability, livelihoods and production landscapes, investigating how they link to food and agrarian crises using ecological economics and policy research. E-mail: [email protected] Rosa Abraham is a Ph.D. scholar at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. She previously worked at ATREE as Senior Research Associate, on issues relating to ecosystem services. For her Ph.D., she is working on the linkages between distributional outcomes and the informal economy. E-mail: [email protected] Contributors Neha Ambastha is from the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, and was working with Madhya Pradesh District Poverty Initiatives Project before joining ATREE where she worked as Research Associate. E-mail: [email protected] Soubadra Devy is Fellow at the Suri Sehgal Centre for Conservation Science at ATREE. Her interests include various aspects of conservation biology and ecological interactions. Her main fi eld of research is pollination ecology of wild and cultivated plants with particular focus on the sustenance of plant-pollinator/animal interactions in human dominated landscapes. E-mail: [email protected] B. Dhanya is currently Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, Karnataka. With a Masters degree in Environment Science and Management, she has since been working on interdisciplinary issues pertaining to environment and rural livelihoods. Her specifi c areas of interest include sustainable agriculture, socio-economic-ecological analysis of S. Purushothaman and R. Abraham (eds.), Livelihood Strategies 209 in Southern India: Conservation and Poverty Reduction in Forest Fringes, DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-1626-1, © Springer India 2013 210 About the Authors agricultural/ agroforestry systems and policy issues in natural resource governance. E-mail: [email protected] Elisabeth Gsottbauer is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) in Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain. She was earlier an intern at ATREE where she worked on exploring the use of fi scal instruments for promoting conservation. E-mail: [email protected] Priya Gupta has a diverse academic background with a Bachelors degree in Mathematics and a Masters in Natural Resources Management. Having worked with WWF-India, she is currently pursuing Ph.D. from National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, looking at the land, livelihood and conservation issues of the tribal communities in India. E-mail: [email protected] Benson Issac is a faculty member at Azim Premji University, Bangalore. Closely associated with Samvada, a Bangalore-based NGO, he has done extensive work in sensitising and mobilising youth around social change and in alternative livelihoods while contributing to the body of knowledge around youth studies. Exploring the politics of knowledge and traditional livelihoods, especially handicrafts, has also been a signifi cant area of his engagement. E-mail: [email protected] Gladwin Joseph is Professor at Azim Premji University and senior Adjunct Faculty at ATREE. With a background in forestry science, his current interests include biodiversity, livelihoods and ecological farming in the fringe geographies. E-mail: [email protected] Sham Kashyap has a multi-disciplinary academic background. He has Masters Degrees in Computer Science and Agricultural Economics. Sham has worked in the development sector in various capacities including that of social scientist, policy analyst, subject matter expert, trainer and Panchayat Development Offi cer. His research interests include Agricultural Policy Analysis, Computer Aided Policy Simulation models and Decentralized Rural Governance Systems. At GRAAM, Sham currently coordinates projects related to technology for development and health governance systems. E-mail: [email protected] A. Kavitha is a senior researcher at ATREE, Bangalore. She has been working towards conservation and sustainable management of natural resources and studying the livelihood pattern of forest dependent communities. Involved in conservation education programs, her current interests lie in looking into the Land development and Environmental Management in the urban fringes. E-mail: [email protected] M.C. Kiran headed the Eco-informatics Lab at ATREE before joining International Water Management Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka. E-mail: [email protected] Siddhartha Krishnan , a sociologist, is Fellow at ATREE affi liated to the Suri Sehgal Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation. E-mail: [email protected] Sharachchandra Lele is Senior Fellow and Convener of the Centre for Environment and Development and Programme Leader – Forest and Governance. His research About the Authors 211 interests include conceptual issues in sustainable development and sustainability, analyses of institutional, economic, ecological, and technological issues in forest, energy, and water resource management and methodology of interdisciplinary research. E-mail: [email protected] Akai Mao worked as Research Associate with ATREE Bangalore looking at eco- tourism models around Bangalore and its vicinities. E-mail: [email protected] Sheetal Patil is Resource Person in the Research Center at Azim Premji University, Bangalore. Before this she worked with ATREE as Senior Research Associate. With formal training in engineering and computer applications, her current involvements in research are in study of policy and market linkages and drivers of agrarian dynamics in rural, peri-urban and urban areas. At the Research Center, she is involved in studies that explore the gaps, challenges and strengths of public preschools with focus on nutritional and health care and education functions and primary schools with focus on comparing the learning levels with that of private schools in same areas. E-mail: [email protected] Nitin Rai is Fellow at the Center for Environment and Development, ATREE, Bangalore. His research incorporates ecological science, history of landscape transformation, cultural ecology and local knowledge. Such integrated studies might challenge current narratives that view nature as static and human presence in forests as being inimical to biodiversity. These are being explored in association with the indigenous community in the Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka. E-mail: [email protected] Poosanavel Saravanan has a background in agro-forestry, coordinates ATREE’s Community Conservation Center at Natham, Tamil Nadu. E-mail: [email protected] Tarsh Thekaekara works with The Shola Trust, an NGO involved with research and conservation initiatives at the interface of people and wildlife in the Nilgiris, Tamilnadu. At present he is involved in understanding the spatial and temporal spread of Lantana camara and how local communities can be encouraged to ‘use’ the problem. He is also trying to better understand the human-elephant relation- ships, and how people are able to continue to live alongside these large and dangerous mammals. E-mail: [email protected] Thomas F. Thornton is Director of the Master’s degree programme in Environmental Change and Management at Oxford’s School of Geography & the Environment and a Senior Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute. A social anthropologist by training, he has worked for more than two decades with indigenous groups in North America and Eurasia. His main research interests are in human ecology, adaptation, local and traditional ecological knowledge, conservation, coastal and marine environments, conceptualizations of space and place, and the political ecology of resource management among the indigenous peoples and states. E-mail: [email protected] 212 About the Authors Nishita Vasanth works with The Shola Trust. E-mail: [email protected] Kanmani Venkateswaran , a graduate from Kenyon College, Ohio, worked as Research Associate at ATREE. She currently works as Research Intern with Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre in Zambia. E-mail: [email protected] Index A C Adaptive livelihood , 9 CAFNET , 102 Agricultural shift , 29, 30 Capital Agriculture human-made , 113, 114, 119–120, 122–123 irrigated , 3, 20, 150, 171 natural , 110, 111, 113, 114, 121, 124, 189 rainfed , 5, 19–20, 23, 25, 26, 29, 35, 116 social , 12, 62, 110, 112–114, 118, 123, Agroforestry , 92–94, 166, 169, 171, 196, 197 124, 128, 190, 205 Alternative livelihood , 53, 150 Carbon sequestration , 100–102, 138, 170–171 Amruth mahal kavals , 139, 140, 143 Cash economy , 63, 67 Anaikatty , 4, 8, 13, 157–173 Cashew , 9, 20–26, 28–30, 90 Arabica , 90–92 Caste , 8–9, 15, 36–43, 47, 112, 125, 149, 205 Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology Casual labour , 43, 62, 164 and the Environment (ATREE) , 22, 53, Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary (CWS) , 34 54, 115, 199 CBO. See Community based organisation Attappady , 4 (CBO) CDM. See Clean development mechanism (CDM) B Cereals , 20, 22, 199 Bamboo , 2, 5, 14, 38, 57, 63, 115, 116, CES. See Compensation for ES (CES) 175–186, 193–196, 202 Cess , 14, 92, 103, 173, 176, 177, 180, Bandipur , 50 182–186 Bangalore , 5, 7, 11, 33–36, 71–86, 149, Chembakolli , 49, 50, 53, 54, 56–58, 63 182, 186 Chickmagalur (CHM) , 139, 148 Bannerghata , 34 Chinnamalaiyur