Shruti Tambe
Biographic Data
| ID | 173510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shruti Tambe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shruti |
| FAMILY NAME | Tambe |
| SIGNATURE | TAMBE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Forest Management |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9477-0011 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Community forest legislation in India: Rights-based polycentrism or responsibilization
Bridging science, policy and practice for sustainability: Towards a conceptual framework
Compensatory afforestation policy in India: An analysis using an ecorestoration lens
India is on track to meet the Bonn Challenge pledge by showcasing its ambitious compensatory afforestation programme. But a question remains regarding the extent to which this programme has achieved the restoration of degraded forests. Using the lens of ecological restoration, mitigation hierarchy and compensatory conservation, the performance of compensatory afforestation policy in India is analyzed. It was found that this policy has significant…
India's environmental policy standoff: Reimagining stakeholder engagement spaces
Various stakeholders from science, policy and practice aspire to shape public policy. What are the engagement spaces they operate in, and what are the characteristics of these spaces and the implications for effective policy making? The literature on the public policy formulation process in developing countries is sparse, and this study attempts to bridge this gap. We analyzed India's recent environmental policy making engagements using the lens …
Building sustainability in the Eastern Himalaya: Linking evidence to action
Research Trends: Evidence-based policy for bamboo development in India: From “supply push” to “demand pull”
Coupling a ladder to the safety net: Reinventing MGNREGA for asset creation
India’s rural employment act (MGNREGA), the world’s largest public works programme, is designed to guarantee wage employment as a statutory right. It is viewed by many as a drain on the public exchequer, as wages are paid but durable assets are not created. Can this safety net be restructured to double up as a ladder of opportunity for the poor without altering its entitlement-based framework? This article shows that implementing four sets of int…
Post-earthquake housing reconstruction in the Sikkim Himalaya: Approaches, Challenges, and Lessons Learnt
The Himalayan state of Sikkim, India was hit by an earthquake in 2011 that caused widespread devastation. This article reports on the housing reconstruction project in the state, focusing on three questions: what are the key planning decisions, what are the main implementation challenges, and what are the lessons learnt? The findings indicate that key planning decisions need to be taken on implementation mechanisms, financing strategies, benefici…
Measuring the effectiveness of social audits: Experiences from Sikkim, India
India has devolved development funds totalling US$46 billion to 240,000 village self-governments. Social audits are emerging as the main tool to ensure their accountability. This article reports on research that analysed panel data of social audits from 2013 to 2015, along with the evolving policy framework. The research found that irregularities were only in the material component and had declined from 1.74% to 0.40% of expenditure, and that wor…
Sexual Incitement, Spectatorship and Economic Liberalization in Contemporary India
In this essay we seek to trouble the easy conflation of sexual and economic liberalism in contemporary India. Even as new regimes of consumption connect narratives of economic freedom with sexual freedom, there remain many constraints on women's ability to express sexuality in creative and autonomous, rather than obligatory and scripted, ways. Focusing on two recent episodes – proposals to ban cheerleaders in cricket performances in Maharashtra a…
Managing Rural Development in the Mountain State of Sikkim, India: Experiences, Innovative Approaches, and Key Issues
Rural development is a vast sector that encompasses infrastructure creation, sustainable livelihoods, and decentralized governance. Mountain landscapes, with their inherent constraints of remoteness, sensitive ecosystem, and marginality, pose unique challenges to rural development. We undertook an assessment of the evolution of development themes and rural development progress made in the mountain state of Sikkim over the past decade. We found th…
Reviving Dying Springs: Climate Change Adaptation Experiments From the Sikkim Himalaya
Mountain springs emanating naturally from unconfined aquifers are the primary source of water for rural households in the Himalayan region. Due to the impacts of climate change on precipitation patterns such as rise in rainfall intensity, reduction in its temporal spread, and a marked decline in winter rain, coupled with other anthropogenic causes, the problem of dying springs is being increasingly felt across this region. This study was taken up…
The Alpine Vegetation of the Khangchendzonga Landscape, Sikkim Himalaya
The alpine vegetation of the Sikkim Himalaya has received limited attention despite being a part of the Eastern Himalaya global biodiversity hotspot. The current study undertaken in the third highest landscape in the world—the Khangchendzonga National Park (KNP)—provides information on the different alpine vegetation communities and aspects of their ecology. The transverse spurs from the unique north–south Khangchendzonga range result in a landsc…
Ecology, Economics, and Equity of the Pastoral Systems in the Khangchendzonga National Park, Sikkim Himalaya, India
The Khangchendzonga National Park is a part of the eastern Himalaya global biodiversity hotspot and is located in the Sikkim state of India. Increasing livestock populations coupled with the government policy to ban grazing and its selective implementation resulted in conflict. Hence we undertook this multidisciplinary study involving consultations with traditional resource users, field surveys, and remote sensing. We found that in the greater Hi…
Collective Subjectivity, Democracy and Domination: The MJVA in Marathwada, India
Indian independence in 1947 came in the context of uneven capitalist development. The postcolonial state's nation-building agenda included social justice and socialism, and modernization following western models for triggering 'internal colonialisms', thus increasing erstwhile inequalities on different geographical scales. Marathwada subregion, which has a feudal background, was integrated into the Indian Republic in 1948. The movement Marathwada…
Collective Subjectivity, Democracy and Domination: The MJVA in Marathwada, India
Indian independence in 1947 came in the context of uneven capitalist development. The postcolonial state's nation-building agenda included social justice and socialism, and modernization following western models for triggering 'internal colonialisms', thus increasing erstwhile inequalities on different geographical scales. Marathwada subregion, which has a feudal background, was integrated into the Indian Republic in 1948. The movement Marathwada…
Research Trends: Evidence-based policy for bamboo development in India: From “supply push” to “demand pull”
Coupling a ladder to the safety net: Reinventing MGNREGA for asset creation
India’s rural employment act (MGNREGA), the world’s largest public works programme, is designed to guarantee wage employment as a statutory right. It is viewed by many as a drain on the public exchequer, as wages are paid but durable assets are not created. Can this safety net be restructured to double up as a ladder of opportunity for the poor without altering its entitlement-based framework? This article shows that implementing four sets of int…
Measuring the effectiveness of social audits: Experiences from Sikkim, India
India has devolved development funds totalling US$46 billion to 240,000 village self-governments. Social audits are emerging as the main tool to ensure their accountability. This article reports on research that analysed panel data of social audits from 2013 to 2015, along with the evolving policy framework. The research found that irregularities were only in the material component and had declined from 1.74% to 0.40% of expenditure, and that wor…
Collective Subjectivity, Democracy and Domination: The MJVA in Marathwada, India
Indian independence in 1947 came in the context of uneven capitalist development. The postcolonial state's nation-building agenda included social justice and socialism, and modernization following western models for triggering 'internal colonialisms', thus increasing erstwhile inequalities on different geographical scales. Marathwada subregion, which has a feudal background, was integrated into the Indian Republic in 1948. The movement Marathwada…
Ecology, Economics, and Equity of the Pastoral Systems in the Khangchendzonga National Park, Sikkim Himalaya, India
The Khangchendzonga National Park is a part of the eastern Himalaya global biodiversity hotspot and is located in the Sikkim state of India. Increasing livestock populations coupled with the government policy to ban grazing and its selective implementation resulted in conflict. Hence we undertook this multidisciplinary study involving consultations with traditional resource users, field surveys, and remote sensing. We found that in the greater Hi…
The Alpine Vegetation of the Khangchendzonga Landscape, Sikkim Himalaya
The alpine vegetation of the Sikkim Himalaya has received limited attention despite being a part of the Eastern Himalaya global biodiversity hotspot. The current study undertaken in the third highest landscape in the world—the Khangchendzonga National Park (KNP)—provides information on the different alpine vegetation communities and aspects of their ecology. The transverse spurs from the unique north–south Khangchendzonga range result in a landsc…
Managing Rural Development in the Mountain State of Sikkim, India: Experiences, Innovative Approaches, and Key Issues
Rural development is a vast sector that encompasses infrastructure creation, sustainable livelihoods, and decentralized governance. Mountain landscapes, with their inherent constraints of remoteness, sensitive ecosystem, and marginality, pose unique challenges to rural development. We undertook an assessment of the evolution of development themes and rural development progress made in the mountain state of Sikkim over the past decade. We found th…
Reviving Dying Springs: Climate Change Adaptation Experiments From the Sikkim Himalaya
Mountain springs emanating naturally from unconfined aquifers are the primary source of water for rural households in the Himalayan region. Due to the impacts of climate change on precipitation patterns such as rise in rainfall intensity, reduction in its temporal spread, and a marked decline in winter rain, coupled with other anthropogenic causes, the problem of dying springs is being increasingly felt across this region. This study was taken up…
Sexual Incitement, Spectatorship and Economic Liberalization in Contemporary India
In this essay we seek to trouble the easy conflation of sexual and economic liberalism in contemporary India. Even as new regimes of consumption connect narratives of economic freedom with sexual freedom, there remain many constraints on women's ability to express sexuality in creative and autonomous, rather than obligatory and scripted, ways. Focusing on two recent episodes – proposals to ban cheerleaders in cricket performances in Maharashtra a…
Measuring the effectiveness of social audits: Experiences from Sikkim, India
India has devolved development funds totalling US$46 billion to 240,000 village self-governments. Social audits are emerging as the main tool to ensure their accountability. This article reports on research that analysed panel data of social audits from 2013 to 2015, along with the evolving policy framework. The research found that irregularities were only in the material component and had declined from 1.74% to 0.40% of expenditure, and that wor…
Post-earthquake housing reconstruction in the Sikkim Himalaya: Approaches, Challenges, and Lessons Learnt
The Himalayan state of Sikkim, India was hit by an earthquake in 2011 that caused widespread devastation. This article reports on the housing reconstruction project in the state, focusing on three questions: what are the key planning decisions, what are the main implementation challenges, and what are the lessons learnt? The findings indicate that key planning decisions need to be taken on implementation mechanisms, financing strategies, benefici…
Coupling a ladder to the safety net: Reinventing MGNREGA for asset creation
India’s rural employment act (MGNREGA), the world’s largest public works programme, is designed to guarantee wage employment as a statutory right. It is viewed by many as a drain on the public exchequer, as wages are paid but durable assets are not created. Can this safety net be restructured to double up as a ladder of opportunity for the poor without altering its entitlement-based framework? This article shows that implementing four sets of int…
Building sustainability in the Eastern Himalaya: Linking evidence to action
Research Trends: Evidence-based policy for bamboo development in India: From “supply push” to “demand pull”
India's environmental policy standoff: Reimagining stakeholder engagement spaces
Various stakeholders from science, policy and practice aspire to shape public policy. What are the engagement spaces they operate in, and what are the characteristics of these spaces and the implications for effective policy making? The literature on the public policy formulation process in developing countries is sparse, and this study attempts to bridge this gap. We analyzed India's recent environmental policy making engagements using the lens …
Compensatory afforestation policy in India: An analysis using an ecorestoration lens
India is on track to meet the Bonn Challenge pledge by showcasing its ambitious compensatory afforestation programme. But a question remains regarding the extent to which this programme has achieved the restoration of degraded forests. Using the lens of ecological restoration, mitigation hierarchy and compensatory conservation, the performance of compensatory afforestation policy in India is analyzed. It was found that this policy has significant…
Community forest legislation in India: Rights-based polycentrism or responsibilization
Bridging science, policy and practice for sustainability: Towards a conceptual framework
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