Sharachchandra Lele

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Sharachchandra Lele

Distinguished Fellow

Sharad’s research interests include conceptual issues in sustainable development and sustainability and the analysis of institutional, economic, ecological and technological issues in forest, energy and water resource management. He attempts to incorporate strong interdisciplinarity in his research and teaching, which straddles ecology, economics and political science. He is interested in understanding the interactions between the nature of environmental problems and the structures of governance used to address them and exploring the questions of law, science and bureaucratic accountability in the functioning of these structures.

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Action-research for CFR claim-making and CFR management in Bastar and Baiga Chak

Analysing the transformative potential of Community Forest Resource rights in Maharashtra

Capacity-building and technical support for CFR mapping in pilot CFR claim-making project in Telangana

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Capacity-building for resilience: Training for community forest resource management planning (CFRMP) in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh

Creation of a public WebGIS of the CFR potential maps for four central Indian states

Karnataka Water Policy draft 2019: Dissemination to wider public in Karnataka through Kannada

Securing Individual Forest Rights (IFR) for the forest villages of Madhya Pradesh using geospatial technology

Training, capacity development and decision-making support for CFR rights recognition in Bastar district

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How Do We Get to a More Sustainable Society?

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Sharachchandra Lele

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How Do We Get to a More Sustainable Society?

Empower Communities to Fix Forest Governance

Chapter: Forest Management and Conservation Regime

Nature’s Contribution to Poverty Alleviation, Human Wellbeing and the SDGs

Water, Air Pollution and Carbon Footprints of Conspicuous/luxury Consumption in India

An uphill struggle to grow the Forest Rights Act

Hundreds of Millions of People in the Tropics Need Both Wild Harvests and Other Forms of Economic Development for Their Well-being

CFR Management Plan Template prepared by ATREE & TISS (Hindi, version 2)

CFR Management Plan Template prepared by ATREE & TISS (English, version 2)

Values and Knowledges in Decision-making on Environmentally Disruptive Infrastructure Projects: Insights From Large Dams and Mines

C-20 conference in Tirupati lays stress on identifying traits of oneness – The Hindu

Estimating the potential of community forest rights: What makes implementation challenging

CFR Baiga Chak team’s presentation to the taskforce for implementation of PESA & FRA in Madhya Pradesh

Diverse Values of Nature for Sustainability

Value articulation in environmental appraisal: which values, whose values, and how valued?

Decolonising Decentralised Governance : Insights from the Forests of Maharashtra

Never-ending injustice: Forest villages of Madhya Pradesh

Silvicultural practices in the management of Diospyros melanoxylon (Tendu) leaf production: options and trade‑offs

How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration

Managing Irrigation Under Increasing Water Scarcity

(Hindi) Summary handouts on work done under Training, Capacity-building and Decision-Support for CFRR Recognition & Management in Bastar District

India’s rejection of global environment report ‘perilous’

A Multi-pronged Approach to Source Attribution and Apportionment of Heavy Metals in Urban Rivers

Fifty Years After Un Environment Summit, Researchers Renew Call for Action

Chapter 4. Value Expression in Decision-making.

Beyond income: correlates of conspicuous and luxury consumption in India

Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

Satellite Evidence on the Trade-offs of the Food-water–air Quality Nexus Over the Breadbasket of India

Ten New Insights in Climate Science 2021: a Horizon Scan

(Hindi) Community Forest Rights recognition in Chhattisgarh State: Progress and Challenges

Community Forest Rights recognition in Chhattisgarh State: Progress and Challenges

Mapping the Potential of Community Forest Resource Rights in Central India

Biodiversity and the Challenge of Pluralism

ESTIMATING AND MAPPING CFR POTENTIAL

CRITICAL WILDLIFE HABITAT (Hindi)

CRITICAL WILDLIFE HABITAT (English)

Karnataka StateWater Policy 2019

Co-operative procurement and marketing of tendu leaves in Madhya Pradesh: Image and reality

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