In this article I analyze the practice and politics of classifying a tiger as a 'man-eater'in South
India to explore what doing so reveals more broadly about the relations between animal life …

There is a growing recognition of the importance of conservation beyond protected areas, in
spaces of human-wildlife coexistence. Negative human-wildlife interactions are a key …

The paper analyzes the causes of the failure of Russian law to prevent illegal logging in its
effort to protect forests. It does not attempt to review all its rules and regulations. Instead, it …

Abstract The Nilgiri Hills in the Western Ghats of India constitute a region of high biological
and cultural diversity, and include an endangered shola forest-grassland mosaic ecosystem …

Land cover and land use have established effects on hazard and exposure to vector-borne
diseases. While our understanding of the proximate and distant causes and consequences …

The landscape of Gudalur, located in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu, India, has been shaped
and re-shaped by multiple waves of in-migration that date back to the mid-nineteenth …

This paper critically analyses the politics of claim-making, vis-à-vis, the Forest Rights Act by
illustrating how three distinct political actors in Gudalur, Tamil Nadu, have used the FRA. In …

Conflicts over natural resources abound in India, where much of the population is
dependent on these resources for their livelihoods. Issues of governance and management …

The forest-agricultural landscapes of the humid tropics are transforming in their physical and
socio-cultural spaces. Even though the processes of landscape transformation are highly …

Small farmers have been blamed for forest degradation in O'Valley, Gudalur. The state's
response to this perceived forest degradation in the post-colonial period has been to …