Sharachchandra Lele
Biographic Data
| ID | 3706536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharachchandra Lele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharachchandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Lele |
| SIGNATURE | LELE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
RED 2024 (wl 1512)-Intro-EPW Review of Environment and Development
without abstract
RED 2024-(wl 7737)-Democratizing Forest governance: Challenges old and new
Sixteen years after the Forest Rights Act 2006 came into effect and promised to become a game-changer in forest governance in India, the progress on the ground has been highly uneven. Only three states have recognized a significant number of Community Forest Resource Rights (CFRRs), and only one of them (Maharashtra) has enabled their operationalization. While the outcomes in Maharashtra have been impressive, violations abound elsewhere. Conseque…
RED 2024-(wl 6197)-Luxury Consumption in India: Exploring the Environmental, Social, and Cultural Dimensions of Affluence
Luxury consumption, so far seen as a problem of the Global North, is now growing dramatically in India. We explore its complex dynamics, including definitions, drivers, impacts and responses. Luxury consumption has both material and symbolic value, and is driven by various aspirations, amplified by social media. Environmental consequences include heightened carbon emissions, water depletion, air pollution, and biodiversity loss. The psychological…
Marketing of NTFPs by forest-dependent communities in Maharashtra, India: Alternative models for state support
Water, air pollution and carbon footprints of conspicuous/luxury consumption in India
How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration
Ecosystem restoration is an important means to address global sustainability challenges. However, scientific and policy discourse often overlooks the social processes that influence the equity and effectiveness of restoration interventions. In the present article, we outline how social processes that are critical to restoration equity and effectiveness can be better incorporated in restoration science and policy. Drawing from existing case studie…
Diverse values of nature for sustainability
Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being 1,2 , addressing the global biodiversity crisis 3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understandin…
Hundreds of millions of people in the tropics need both wild harvests and other forms of economic development for their well-being
of millions of people in the tropics harvest ''wild'' common-pool resources d Wild harvests are correlated with high relative well-being in remote and poor areas d Access to infrastructure, cities, assets, and skills also increase well-being overall d The well-being of many people relies on both wild resources and economic development
Silvicultural Practices in the Management of Diospyros melanoxylon (Tendu) Leaf Production: Options and Trade-offs
A multi-pronged approach to source attribution and apportionment of heavy metals in urban rivers
Satellite evidence on the trade-offs of the food-water–air quality nexus over the breadbasket of India
Promoting a responsive state: The role of NGOs in decentralized forest governance in India
Community Forest Resource (CFR) Rights recognized under India's Forest Rights Act transfers collective rights and responsibilities to forest dwelling communities for sustainable use of their customary forests. However, just like any other decentralization reform that adopts a rights-based approach, the implementation of the Forest Rights Act has been poor, as the rights and responsibilities are transferred without ensuring communities' capability…
Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South
Environment and Well-Being
Critical considerations on NLR’s eco-strategy debate from the perspective of the Global South. Is the Northern focus on reducing carbon emissions blinkered about more pressing human and environmental needs
Democratizing Forest Governance in India
Rethinking Sustainable Development
The challenge for sustainable development thinking is to bring ... somewhat disparate perspectives into at least a dialogue, if not a convergence
Ecosystem Services: Origins, Contributions, Pitfalls, and Alternatives
The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has taken the environmental science and policy literature by storm, and has become almost the approach to thinking about and assessing the nature-society relationship. In this review, we ask whether and in what way the ES concept is a useful way of organising research on the nature-society relationship. We trace the evolution of the different versions of the concept and identify key points of convergence and…
Disaggregated economic impact analysis incorporating ecological and social trade-offs and techno-institutional context: A case from the Western Ghats of India
Jatropha plantations for biodiesel in Tamil Nadu, India: Viability, livelihood trade-offs, and latent conflict
The political ecology ofJatrophaplantations for biodiesel in Tamil Nadu, India
Jatropha curcas is promoted internationally for its presumed agronomic viability in marginal lands, economic returns for small farmers, and lack of competition with food crops. However, empirical results from a study in southern India revealed that Jatropha cultivation, even on agricultural lands, is neither profitable, nor pro-poor. We use a political ecology framework to analyze both the discourse promoting Jatropha cultivation and its empirica…
Practicing Interdisciplinarity
We explore the practical difficulties of interdisciplinary research in the context of a regional- or local-scale project. We posit four barriers to interdisciplinarity that are common across many disciplines and draw on our own experience and on other sources to explore how these barriers are manifested. Values enter into scientific theories and data collection through scientists' hidden assumptions about disciplines other than their own, through…
Locating Local Elites in Negotiating Access to Forests: Havik Brahmins and the Colonial State 1860-1920
This paper is an exploration of how colonial forest policy in Uttara Kannara district of present day Karnataka was critically shaped by the interests of the Havik Brahmin community. Despite the protests of the forest department, the Havik community was provided a remarkably generous forest settlement to enable their production of areca nut, a high revenue earner for the revenue department. We explore the contours of the debates of the time and th…
The political ecology ofJatrophaplantations for biodiesel in Tamil Nadu, India
Jatropha curcas is promoted internationally for its presumed agronomic viability in marginal lands, economic returns for small farmers, and lack of competition with food crops. However, empirical results from a study in southern India revealed that Jatropha cultivation, even on agricultural lands, is neither profitable, nor pro-poor. We use a political ecology framework to analyze both the discourse promoting Jatropha cultivation and its empirica…
Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South
Promoting a responsive state: The role of NGOs in decentralized forest governance in India
Community Forest Resource (CFR) Rights recognized under India's Forest Rights Act transfers collective rights and responsibilities to forest dwelling communities for sustainable use of their customary forests. However, just like any other decentralization reform that adopts a rights-based approach, the implementation of the Forest Rights Act has been poor, as the rights and responsibilities are transferred without ensuring communities' capability…
Satellite evidence on the trade-offs of the food-water–air quality nexus over the breadbasket of India
Locating Local Elites in Negotiating Access to Forests: Havik Brahmins and the Colonial State 1860-1920
This paper is an exploration of how colonial forest policy in Uttara Kannara district of present day Karnataka was critically shaped by the interests of the Havik Brahmin community. Despite the protests of the forest department, the Havik community was provided a remarkably generous forest settlement to enable their production of areca nut, a high revenue earner for the revenue department. We explore the contours of the debates of the time and th…
Locating Local Elites in Negotiating Access to Forests: Havik Brahmins and the Colonial State 1860-1920
This paper is an exploration of how colonial forest policy in Uttara Kannara district of present day Karnataka was critically shaped by the interests of the Havik Brahmin community. Despite the protests of the forest department, the Havik community was provided a remarkably generous forest settlement to enable their production of areca nut, a high revenue earner for the revenue department. We explore the contours of the debates of the time and th…
Practicing Interdisciplinarity
We explore the practical difficulties of interdisciplinary research in the context of a regional- or local-scale project. We posit four barriers to interdisciplinarity that are common across many disciplines and draw on our own experience and on other sources to explore how these barriers are manifested. Values enter into scientific theories and data collection through scientists' hidden assumptions about disciplines other than their own, through…
Jatropha plantations for biodiesel in Tamil Nadu, India: Viability, livelihood trade-offs, and latent conflict
The political ecology ofJatrophaplantations for biodiesel in Tamil Nadu, India
Jatropha curcas is promoted internationally for its presumed agronomic viability in marginal lands, economic returns for small farmers, and lack of competition with food crops. However, empirical results from a study in southern India revealed that Jatropha cultivation, even on agricultural lands, is neither profitable, nor pro-poor. We use a political ecology framework to analyze both the discourse promoting Jatropha cultivation and its empirica…
Rethinking Sustainable Development
The challenge for sustainable development thinking is to bring ... somewhat disparate perspectives into at least a dialogue, if not a convergence
Ecosystem Services: Origins, Contributions, Pitfalls, and Alternatives
The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has taken the environmental science and policy literature by storm, and has become almost the approach to thinking about and assessing the nature-society relationship. In this review, we ask whether and in what way the ES concept is a useful way of organising research on the nature-society relationship. We trace the evolution of the different versions of the concept and identify key points of convergence and…
Disaggregated economic impact analysis incorporating ecological and social trade-offs and techno-institutional context: A case from the Western Ghats of India
Democratizing Forest Governance in India
Promoting a responsive state: The role of NGOs in decentralized forest governance in India
Community Forest Resource (CFR) Rights recognized under India's Forest Rights Act transfers collective rights and responsibilities to forest dwelling communities for sustainable use of their customary forests. However, just like any other decentralization reform that adopts a rights-based approach, the implementation of the Forest Rights Act has been poor, as the rights and responsibilities are transferred without ensuring communities' capability…
Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South
Environment and Well-Being
Critical considerations on NLR’s eco-strategy debate from the perspective of the Global South. Is the Northern focus on reducing carbon emissions blinkered about more pressing human and environmental needs
Satellite evidence on the trade-offs of the food-water–air quality nexus over the breadbasket of India
A multi-pronged approach to source attribution and apportionment of heavy metals in urban rivers
How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration
Ecosystem restoration is an important means to address global sustainability challenges. However, scientific and policy discourse often overlooks the social processes that influence the equity and effectiveness of restoration interventions. In the present article, we outline how social processes that are critical to restoration equity and effectiveness can be better incorporated in restoration science and policy. Drawing from existing case studie…
Diverse values of nature for sustainability
Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being 1,2 , addressing the global biodiversity crisis 3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understandin…
Hundreds of millions of people in the tropics need both wild harvests and other forms of economic development for their well-being
of millions of people in the tropics harvest ''wild'' common-pool resources d Wild harvests are correlated with high relative well-being in remote and poor areas d Access to infrastructure, cities, assets, and skills also increase well-being overall d The well-being of many people relies on both wild resources and economic development
Silvicultural Practices in the Management of Diospyros melanoxylon (Tendu) Leaf Production: Options and Trade-offs
Water, air pollution and carbon footprints of conspicuous/luxury consumption in India
RED 2024 (wl 1512)-Intro-EPW Review of Environment and Development
without abstract
RED 2024-(wl 7737)-Democratizing Forest governance: Challenges old and new
Sixteen years after the Forest Rights Act 2006 came into effect and promised to become a game-changer in forest governance in India, the progress on the ground has been highly uneven. Only three states have recognized a significant number of Community Forest Resource Rights (CFRRs), and only one of them (Maharashtra) has enabled their operationalization. While the outcomes in Maharashtra have been impressive, violations abound elsewhere. Conseque…
RED 2024-(wl 6197)-Luxury Consumption in India: Exploring the Environmental, Social, and Cultural Dimensions of Affluence
Luxury consumption, so far seen as a problem of the Global North, is now growing dramatically in India. We explore its complex dynamics, including definitions, drivers, impacts and responses. Luxury consumption has both material and symbolic value, and is driven by various aspirations, amplified by social media. Environmental consequences include heightened carbon emissions, water depletion, air pollution, and biodiversity loss. The psychological…
Marketing of NTFPs by forest-dependent communities in Maharashtra, India: Alternative models for state support
Geography (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works)