Ambika Aiyadurai

Biographic Data

ID81409
NAMEAmbika Aiyadurai
GIVEN NAMESAmbika
FAMILY NAMEAiyadurai
SIGNATUREAIYADURAI A
AFFILIATIONSIndian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
ORCID0000-0002-8934-9211
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT5
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Thinglhang Lou: Linkages Between Swidden, Culture, and Ecology in Manipur, Northeast India

    Open AccessThanglienmang Haokip, Ambika AiyaduraiARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2023

    Emerging human ecological discussions bring forth literature and studies from marginalised groups and indigenous communities whose knowledge about nature and subsistence livelihood practices have long been seen as ‘non-scientific’ and, therefore, unworthy of serious research. As a result, perceptions of swidden cultivation as ‘destructive’ to ecosystems are changing, and studies now focus on the interlinkages of swidden farmers with land, animals…

  • Reconsidering the role of the built environment in human–wildlife interactions

    Open AccessChristopher Serenari, Ambika AiyaduraiARTICLEPeople and Nature2021

    In facing our greatest challenges, researchers have questioned where the ‘wild things’ will reside in the future, and large carnivores have been a primary focal area. The built environment plays a critical role in the propagation of countless species including carnivores; however, contemporary conceptualizations of human–nature relations do not satisfactorily attend to where the built environment should be placed within existing human–nature rela…

  • Using theory and evidence to design behaviour change interventions for reducing unsustainable wildlife consumption

    Open AccessHunter L Doughty, Kathryn Oliver et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2021

    Efforts to shift unsustainable human behaviour are at the crux of many conservation interventions, particularly when addressing illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade. These efforts, often in the form of behaviour change interventions, have proven largely unable to counteract this pervasive issue, however, leading to calls for more robust intervention designs. In behavioural science fields like public health, design processes that integrate huma…

  • Everyday conservation: A study of actors and processes in an elephant conservation project in Assam, India

    Sayan Banerjee, Ambika AiyaduraiARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2021References: 5

    Existing studies on community-based conservation in India, while highlighting the results and effectiveness of conservation interventions fail to engage with the underlining social processes emerging from the interactions among conservation actors. This article demonstrates conservation as a social process in which the actors interact with each other daily. We use the notion of 'Everyday Conservation' to highlight that actors use their resources,…

  • Targeted values: The relevance of classical Chinese philosophy for illegal wildlife demand reduction campaigns

    Open AccessLaura Thomas-Walters, Hubert Cheung et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2020

    The illegal wildlife trade is a global conservation priority, prompting a rise in interventions aimed at reducing the demand for wildlife products. Research shows that designing campaigns to target the values held by a specific audience is an effective way to alter their behaviour. However, many demand reduction campaigns are grounded in the perspective of Western morality. This is problematic when the recipients of these campaigns frequently res…

  • Exploring landowners' perceptions, motivations and needs for voluntary conservation in a cultural landscape

    Open AccessGonzalo Cortés‐Capano, Tuuli Toivonen et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2020

    While efforts to reverse the current global environmental crisis increase, we are still experiencing unprecedented rates of species' extinctions. Traditional cultural landscapes can potentially play an important role for biodiversity conservation globally. However, these landscapes are threatened by pressures from global to local socio‐economic drivers of change. Many cultural landscapes across the world occur on private land where landowners' en…

  • Intervener trustworthiness predicts cooperation with conservation interventions in an elephant conflict public goods game

    Open AccessZachary Baynham‐herd, Nils Bunnefeld et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2020

    Conservation conflicts exist in complex socio‐ecological systems and are damaging to both people and wildlife. There is much interest in designing interventions to manage them more effectively, but the importance of who does the intervening remains underexplored. In particular, conflicts are influenced by perceptions of the trustworthiness of natural resource managers and conservation organizations. However, experimental studies of how the differ…

  • Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas

    Open AccessAmbika AiyaduraiARTICLEConservation and Society2020

  • Bird conservation from obscurity to popularity: A case study of two bird species from Northeast India

    Open AccessAmbika Aiyadurai, Sayan BanerjeeARTICLEGeoJournal2019Cited by: 1References: 6

  • Tigers are Our Brothers: Understanding Human-Nature Relations in the Mishmi Hills, Northeast India

    Open AccessAmbika AiyaduraiARTICLEConservation and Society2016Cited by: 11References: 13

    Human-nature relations are diverse, multifaceted and often contradictory, especially the relationships with animals. Mishmi people living on the Sino-India border claim tigers to be their brothers and take credit for tiger protection as they observe taboos against hunting tigers. Drawing on this notion of relatedness with tigers, local residents of the Dibang Valley question the governments' recent plans to declare the Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary i…