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The chapters cover the topics of social conflict, socioeconomic inequalities, ethnic animosity, and natural resources accessibility, and more in the Indian Subcontinent and Africa to address issues and find sustainable and productive ways for international and regional communities to cohabitate and collaborate harmoniously.
Papers presented at a seminar organised by the Centre for Development Alternatives in Ahmadābād, India)
Tribal communities in western India, as elsewhere in the country, have been facing increasing marginalisation and poverty. This is so despite a relatively better record of social movements and work by civil society organisations among them and their political inclusion. Further, the existing literature on tribals focuses more on their socio-cultural situation and less on their economic and human development. Addressing this gap in scholarship, this volume details the processes of tribal development and associated challenges in Gujarat, often viewed as a high-growth economy. Rich in interdisciplinary, empirical analyses, the book comprehensively addresses three important aspects of tribal dev...
This book presents a perspective of network analysis as a tool to find and quantify significant structures in the interaction patterns between different types of entities. Moreover, network analysis provides the basic means to relate these structures to properties of the entities. It has proven itself to be useful for the analysis of biological and social networks, but also for networks describing complex systems in economy, psychology, geography, and various other fields. Today, network analysis packages in the open-source platform R and other open-source software projects enable scientists from all fields to quickly apply network analytic methods to their data sets. Altogether, these appli...
This Volume Presents A Unique Interdisciplinary Assembly Of Thoughts In Which Agricultural Scientists, Fisheries Scientists, Forestry Experts, Alternative Medicine Systems Experts, Environmental And Resource Economists Among Others Have Addressed Their Tasks Focussing On Institutions As A Crosscutting Theme In Their Writings On Sustainable Use Of Common Pool Resources.
CELEBRATING THE MAHATMA'S RELEVANCE TODAY Contributors include: Ela Gandhi • Tushar Gandhi • RA Mashelkar • Anil Kakodkar • Brenda Gourley • Radhakrishnan Pillai • Kumar Ketkar • Rohini Hattangadi • Rajkumar Hirani • Bharat Dabholkar A collection of exceptional think pieces by some of the brilliant minds of our time Compiled and edited by noted scholar Rajan Welukar, Gandhi@150 explores the relevance of Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas in today’s world and the impact of his philosophy across a wide spectrum of areas such as religion, economics, science, education, the arts and health and development. In this book, the contributors explain how certain Gandhian concepts can be used...
First hand reports on author's experiences in rural development, watershed management, forest management, and irrigation in Gujarat, India.
Transformations in rural India have ushered in water and fodder scarcity that have increased the drudgery of rural women's lives. Additionally, rural women face greater livelihood insecurity on account of market forces and liberalization policies. Food insecurity is a concern as well. Women of the poorest classes of marginalized Dalit and tribal communities bear much of the brunt of these insecurities, even as they also face severe restrictions on mobility and myriad forms of violence. Due to greater participation of civil society organizations engaged in gender transformative approaches and participatory development, some favorable outcomes have developed, but these are hardly sufficient to address the scale and dimensions of the problem. It is against this backdrop that Rural Women and Development in India examines the concerns of livelihood and food insecurity, efficacy of micro-credit, and other kinds of interventions that challenge rural Indian women's lives.