41 BALLYGUNJE TERRACE, KOLKATA 700029, WEST BENGAL
KolkataWest Bengal700029
India
I am an environmental sociologist, working on the politics of Protected Area conservation and joint forest management. I have recently submitted my thesis entitled 'Conservation politics, communities and survival crisis in the protected areas of Sundarban, West Bengal'.
GLP Member Amrita Sen and GLP Fellow Harini Nagendra published in the Journal of Land Use Science, discussing the growing body of literature that examines environmental placemaking and arguing that this literature contributes significant explanatory power to land change science, by helping understand the motivations that act as precursors to shape both proximate drivers of land change, and responses to them.
