Shilpi Srivastava
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shilpi Srivastava |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shilpi |
| FAMILY NAME | Srivastava |
| SIGNATURE | SRIVASTAVA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9046-2756 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Transformative environments
Climate change uncertainties, particularly at the local level, remain one of the central challenges to the sustainability of societies and ecosystems.Despite advances in climate science, significant uncertainties persist regarding the scale, intensity and impacts of climatic change (Dessai and van der Sluijs, 2007; Mehta et al, 2021b), and how these get compounded with other intersecting crises (Leach et al, 2021).These uncertainties are especial…
The praxis of transformation and adaptation to climate change
This article aims to examine and further develop the concept of praxis – processes to critique the status quo and search for alternatives – in relation to transformative adaptation to climate change. The need for transformative change to support climate change adaptation is clear. However, there are gaps in our understanding of connections between, on the one side, individual and household-level action, and on the other, the broader structural ch…
Compounding care burdens
As rapid climate change is increasing the occurrence of extreme weather events, there is a noticeable increase in co-located hazards which refer to climate events that overlap or occur concurrently (e.g. droughts followed by floods or overlapping with heatwaves). Regions that are historically unaccustomed to these patterns of high variability are now struggling to adapt to these unpredictable variations. Drawing on evidence from the ANTICIPATE pr…
Transformation in the context of uncertainty and compounding effects
The paper explores how deliberate transformation may arise from ‘below’ in marginal environments with high levels of climatic uncertainty. • Using the lens of transformation as praxis, we highlight pathways and practices that facilitate or impede transformative change. • Using a transdisciplinary approach, the focus is on exploring pathways to transformation drawing on bottom-up approaches. • We attempt to co-produce hybrid knowledge(s) combining…
The social life of mangroves
This article explores the convergence of neoliberal development and mangrove conservation in marginal environments, which are becoming the new resource frontiers. We focus on Kutch, a border district in western India and highlight how the contested trajectories of accelerated and aggressive industrialisation and its convergence with state and corporate-led conservation programmes are shaping the social life of mangroves on the Kutchi coast. We fo…
The Political Ecology of Covid-19 and Compounded Uncertainties in Marginal Environments
In this paper, we use a political ecology lens to look at how COVID-19 adds to a set of existing uncertainties and challenges faced by vulnerable people in the marginal environments of coastal India. Over the last few decades, local people have been systematically dispossessed from resource commons in the name of industrial, urban and infrastructure development or conservation efforts, leading to livelihood loss. We build on our current research …
Climate Justice for Whom? Understanding the Vernaculars of Climate Action and Justice in Marginal Environments of India
As calls for climate action gain momentum, governments and international organisations are committing to ambitious climate targets and scaling up their climate action. In this article, we argue that to address climate change, ‘just’ climate action is required which moves away from portraying local communities as ‘victims’ and/or ‘beneficiaries’ and focuses on investing in their social and material capabilities so that they determine their futures…
Understanding regulatory cultures
This article uses the concept of regulatory cultures to understand the (dis)embedding of “independent” water regulation in India. It analyzes the specific case of the Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority and explores how discourses and practices (1990–2015) shaped the regulatory development in the water sector. By documenting the practices of meaning‐making of “independent” regulation, the paper queries the process(es) of subnational …
Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change
Nature‐based solutions (NbS)—solutions to societal challenges that involve working with nature—have recently gained popularity as an integrated approach that can address climate change and biodiversity loss, while supporting sustainable development. Although well‐designed NbS can deliver multiple benefits for people and nature, much of the recent limelight has been on tree planting for carbon sequestration. There are serious concerns that this is…
Transformation as praxis
This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed in the ongoing TAPESTRY project which is part of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme. We debate how the notion of transformation may be conceptualized from ‘below’ in marginal environments that are especially marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties. We propose the notion of transformation as praxis — where the focus is on b…
Toward transformative climate justice
Calls for climate justice abound as evidence accumulates of the growing social and environmental injustices aggravated or driven by climate change. There is now a considerable and diverse literature on procedural, distributional and intergenerational dimensions, including questions of recognition in climate justice. Yet its meaning, scope and practical implications are still contested. Importantly, the broader landscape within which climate justi…
Pastoralists Without Pasture
Scarcity and uncertainty loom large over the landscape of Kutch, an arid to semi-arid district in western India, where pastoralism has been practised for generations. Despite its clear potential to tackle the dryland dynamics, the tradition of pastoralism in Kutch has been systematically denigrated and marginalised in the district over the years. Drawing on research conducted in eastern Kutch, and along the coast, this article shows how pastorali…
Introduction
In this introduction, we discuss some of the common issues and experiences expressed in the seven articles of this IDS Bulletin. This issue is a platform for IDS PhD researchers to reflect on their fieldwork experiences, including research-related challenges, as well as cultural and personal encounters along the way. The authors also develop theoretically-informed arguments about their research findings. As editors, we offer further reflections o…
Swajaldhara
For the last two decades and more, nations, international organisations and civil society, both local and global, have been rallying for the cause of ‘efficient’ and ‘equitable’ water supply and distribution. To this end, the New Delhi Statement, a precursor to the Dublin Statement, in many ways marks the first step in reforming the water sector. This article explores how ideas of community ownership and participation lauded in the New Delhi Stat…
Toward transformative climate justice
Calls for climate justice abound as evidence accumulates of the growing social and environmental injustices aggravated or driven by climate change. There is now a considerable and diverse literature on procedural, distributional and intergenerational dimensions, including questions of recognition in climate justice. Yet its meaning, scope and practical implications are still contested. Importantly, the broader landscape within which climate justi…
Pastoralists Without Pasture
Scarcity and uncertainty loom large over the landscape of Kutch, an arid to semi-arid district in western India, where pastoralism has been practised for generations. Despite its clear potential to tackle the dryland dynamics, the tradition of pastoralism in Kutch has been systematically denigrated and marginalised in the district over the years. Drawing on research conducted in eastern Kutch, and along the coast, this article shows how pastorali…
The social life of mangroves
This article explores the convergence of neoliberal development and mangrove conservation in marginal environments, which are becoming the new resource frontiers. We focus on Kutch, a border district in western India and highlight how the contested trajectories of accelerated and aggressive industrialisation and its convergence with state and corporate-led conservation programmes are shaping the social life of mangroves on the Kutchi coast. We fo…
Transformation as praxis
This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed in the ongoing TAPESTRY project which is part of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme. We debate how the notion of transformation may be conceptualized from ‘below’ in marginal environments that are especially marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties. We propose the notion of transformation as praxis — where the focus is on b…
Understanding regulatory cultures
This article uses the concept of regulatory cultures to understand the (dis)embedding of “independent” water regulation in India. It analyzes the specific case of the Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority and explores how discourses and practices (1990–2015) shaped the regulatory development in the water sector. By documenting the practices of meaning‐making of “independent” regulation, the paper queries the process(es) of subnational …
The Political Ecology of Covid-19 and Compounded Uncertainties in Marginal Environments
In this paper, we use a political ecology lens to look at how COVID-19 adds to a set of existing uncertainties and challenges faced by vulnerable people in the marginal environments of coastal India. Over the last few decades, local people have been systematically dispossessed from resource commons in the name of industrial, urban and infrastructure development or conservation efforts, leading to livelihood loss. We build on our current research …
Swajaldhara
For the last two decades and more, nations, international organisations and civil society, both local and global, have been rallying for the cause of ‘efficient’ and ‘equitable’ water supply and distribution. To this end, the New Delhi Statement, a precursor to the Dublin Statement, in many ways marks the first step in reforming the water sector. This article explores how ideas of community ownership and participation lauded in the New Delhi Stat…
Introduction
In this introduction, we discuss some of the common issues and experiences expressed in the seven articles of this IDS Bulletin. This issue is a platform for IDS PhD researchers to reflect on their fieldwork experiences, including research-related challenges, as well as cultural and personal encounters along the way. The authors also develop theoretically-informed arguments about their research findings. As editors, we offer further reflections o…
Pastoralists Without Pasture
Scarcity and uncertainty loom large over the landscape of Kutch, an arid to semi-arid district in western India, where pastoralism has been practised for generations. Despite its clear potential to tackle the dryland dynamics, the tradition of pastoralism in Kutch has been systematically denigrated and marginalised in the district over the years. Drawing on research conducted in eastern Kutch, and along the coast, this article shows how pastorali…
Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change
Nature‐based solutions (NbS)—solutions to societal challenges that involve working with nature—have recently gained popularity as an integrated approach that can address climate change and biodiversity loss, while supporting sustainable development. Although well‐designed NbS can deliver multiple benefits for people and nature, much of the recent limelight has been on tree planting for carbon sequestration. There are serious concerns that this is…
Transformation as praxis
This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed in the ongoing TAPESTRY project which is part of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme. We debate how the notion of transformation may be conceptualized from ‘below’ in marginal environments that are especially marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties. We propose the notion of transformation as praxis — where the focus is on b…
Toward transformative climate justice
Calls for climate justice abound as evidence accumulates of the growing social and environmental injustices aggravated or driven by climate change. There is now a considerable and diverse literature on procedural, distributional and intergenerational dimensions, including questions of recognition in climate justice. Yet its meaning, scope and practical implications are still contested. Importantly, the broader landscape within which climate justi…
The Political Ecology of Covid-19 and Compounded Uncertainties in Marginal Environments
In this paper, we use a political ecology lens to look at how COVID-19 adds to a set of existing uncertainties and challenges faced by vulnerable people in the marginal environments of coastal India. Over the last few decades, local people have been systematically dispossessed from resource commons in the name of industrial, urban and infrastructure development or conservation efforts, leading to livelihood loss. We build on our current research …
Climate Justice for Whom? Understanding the Vernaculars of Climate Action and Justice in Marginal Environments of India
As calls for climate action gain momentum, governments and international organisations are committing to ambitious climate targets and scaling up their climate action. In this article, we argue that to address climate change, ‘just’ climate action is required which moves away from portraying local communities as ‘victims’ and/or ‘beneficiaries’ and focuses on investing in their social and material capabilities so that they determine their futures…
Understanding regulatory cultures
This article uses the concept of regulatory cultures to understand the (dis)embedding of “independent” water regulation in India. It analyzes the specific case of the Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority and explores how discourses and practices (1990–2015) shaped the regulatory development in the water sector. By documenting the practices of meaning‐making of “independent” regulation, the paper queries the process(es) of subnational …
The social life of mangroves
This article explores the convergence of neoliberal development and mangrove conservation in marginal environments, which are becoming the new resource frontiers. We focus on Kutch, a border district in western India and highlight how the contested trajectories of accelerated and aggressive industrialisation and its convergence with state and corporate-led conservation programmes are shaping the social life of mangroves on the Kutchi coast. We fo…
The praxis of transformation and adaptation to climate change
This article aims to examine and further develop the concept of praxis – processes to critique the status quo and search for alternatives – in relation to transformative adaptation to climate change. The need for transformative change to support climate change adaptation is clear. However, there are gaps in our understanding of connections between, on the one side, individual and household-level action, and on the other, the broader structural ch…
Compounding care burdens
As rapid climate change is increasing the occurrence of extreme weather events, there is a noticeable increase in co-located hazards which refer to climate events that overlap or occur concurrently (e.g. droughts followed by floods or overlapping with heatwaves). Regions that are historically unaccustomed to these patterns of high variability are now struggling to adapt to these unpredictable variations. Drawing on evidence from the ANTICIPATE pr…
Transformation in the context of uncertainty and compounding effects
The paper explores how deliberate transformation may arise from ‘below’ in marginal environments with high levels of climatic uncertainty. • Using the lens of transformation as praxis, we highlight pathways and practices that facilitate or impede transformative change. • Using a transdisciplinary approach, the focus is on exploring pathways to transformation drawing on bottom-up approaches. • We attempt to co-produce hybrid knowledge(s) combining…
Transformative environments
Climate change uncertainties, particularly at the local level, remain one of the central challenges to the sustainability of societies and ecosystems.Despite advances in climate science, significant uncertainties persist regarding the scale, intensity and impacts of climatic change (Dessai and van der Sluijs, 2007; Mehta et al, 2021b), and how these get compounded with other intersecting crises (Leach et al, 2021).These uncertainties are especial…
Geography (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Climate change (6 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)