The focus of most analyses of environmental struggles and discourses in colonial and
postcolonial India is on rural and forest areas, and on subalterns versus elites. Recently …

Highlights•Carbon forest finance often fails for political reasons.•Forest finance cannot
address systematic environmental injustices.•Finance opportunities are vulnerable to …

Economists studying environmental collective action and green governance have paid little
attention to gender. Research on gender and green governance in other disciplines has …

Would enhancing women's presence in community institutions of forest governance improve
resource conservation and regeneration? This paper focuses on this little addressed …

In developing countries in particular, services are often delivered through unorthodox
organisational arrangements that cannot simply be dismissed as relics of …

China, India and Viet Nam have recently experienced forest transitions from net
deforestation to net reforestation as many European countries and US states underwent in …

Using primary data collected randomly from 244 households across 11 villages located in
and around the Similipal Tiger Reserve in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, this study …

International concern about illegal forestry activities has grown markedly (see Chapter 1).
There are good reasons for concern. Illegal forestry activities deprive governments of billions …

How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection
and social justice? Why do some countries perform much better than others on this front …

In this paper, we investigate the context within which struggles for environmental justice are
taking place in India. We explore the ways in which postcolonial patterns of government and …