Fluid landscapes, sovereign nature: Conservation and counterinsurgency in Indian-controlled Kashmir

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Bhan ◽  
Nishita Trisal
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Environmental Restoration ◽  
Citizen Activism

This article analyzes how environmentalism reinscribed violent forms of state sovereignty in the disputed region of Kashmir in the aftermath of a decade-long uprising against Indian rule. After the return of an elected government, six years after its suspension in 1990, environmental restoration legitimized new forms of state and nature making in Kashmir. Nature rather than territory emerged as an arena of citizen activism, which further strengthened the state's ability to regulate the use and management of Kashmir's water resources. State and civic bodies deployed discourses of history and restoration to create new and imagined ecologies based on visions of nostalgia, commerce, and esthetics. By undermining place-based understandings of nature and ecology, discourses of environmental stewardship and conservation ended up fostering violent mechanisms of social and political control.

Preaching Conservation to Andean Pentecostal Communities: A Case of Engaging Key Stakeholders of Religious Communities in Peruvian Tropical Forests

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Oscar Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Peruvian Andes ◽  
Creation Care ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Pentecostal Churches

In Latin America, Pentecostal churches have an important presence in local Andean communities. I explored the opinions that rural people of the Pentecostal faith in the Peruvian Andes have on nature and conservation and tested the Evangelical principle of Creation Care as an effective method to approach them and get them interested in conservation issues. I attended special meetings of rural Pentecostal churches in Huanuco, Peru, in 2012 and 2013; the congregations allowed me to share the importance of nature conservation, and Creation Care facilitated this communication. I discuss the details of one of the events where I participated as an invited speaker to talk about nature conservation. For those who wish to foster a dialogue with Pentecostals and Evangelical residents of the Andes on the rationale for environmental stewardship, I recommend becoming familiar with the principle of Creation Care and looking for its application in specific environmental problems of the region.

Wetland Ecosystems in Hungary’s Nature Conservation Areas and Problems Relating to their Economic Utilization, from the Aspect of Nature Conservation

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Hajnalka Hegedűs
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Wetland Ecosystems ◽  
The World

If our current way of life is to be kept sustainable, particular attention must be paid to the management of the world around us – including our environmental conditions, natural resources and assets, and particularly the available water resources – and to the protection of natural elements that are, for whatever reason, of crucial importance for all of us. The aims and methods of the necessary protection are, however, not always compatible with farming activities and forms of land use that have been practiced, in some cases, for centuries. This article describes some of the incompatibilities and conflicts between various forms of farming and the relatively new domestic nature conservation activities, with a focus on Hungary’s nature conservation areas and particularly its wetland ecosystems. This is followed by a discussion of problems associated with such conflicts and proposals for resolving them.

scholarly journals Environmental stewardship as a new form of fisheries governance

2007 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 786-792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim S. Gray ◽  
Jenny Hatchard
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
Precautionary Approach ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Fisheries Governance ◽  
International Environmental Politics ◽  
New Form

Abstract Gray, T. S., and Hatchard, J. 2007. Environmental stewardship as a new form of fisheries governance. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: 786–792. Environmental stewardship is a form of governance that reflects the rising tide of influence on fisheries management exerted by environmental principles such as marine protected areas, the ecosystem-based approach, and the precautionary approach. First, we assess the extent to which environmental stewardship has moved beyond the level of rhetoric, whereby regulators pay lip service to such principles, and has reached such a level of power that environmental priorities hold sway over the decision-making process. In other words, we consider how far environmental stewardship has infiltrated the political system by constructing a powerful network of governance, including what is known in the international environmental politics literature as an “epistemic community”. Second, we establish the foundational conception on which this environmental stewardship rests: is it nature conservation or is it sustainable development? Elements of both conceptions are found in most of the sources of the environmental stewardship mode of fisheries governance (though in differing proportions), but there is a threat to the fishing industry if the nature conservation conception becomes dominant. The best strategy for industry is to embrace the sustainable development conception of environmental stewardship and to demonstrate that the objectives of the nature conservation conception can and must be accommodated within the overarching conception of sustainable development. Otherwise, industry could find itself increasingly marginalized in fisheries decision-making by a top-down imposition of nature conservationist environmental stewardship imperatives.

scholarly journals The Historical Thar Desert of India

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Manisha Choudhary
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Social Organisation ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Thar Desert ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scarce Water ◽  
History Of

Desert was a ‘no-go area’ and the interactions with it were only to curb and contain the rebelling forces. This article is an attempt to understand the contours and history of Thar Desert of Rajasthan and to explore the features that have kept the various desert states (Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Barmer, Bikaner etc.) and their populace sustaining in this region throughout the ages, even when this region had scarce water resources and intense desert with huge and extensive dunes. Through political control the dynasts kept the social organisation intact which ensured regular incomes for their respective dynasties. Through the participation of various social actors this dry and hot desert evolved as a massive trade emporium. The intense trade activities of Thar Desert kept the imperial centres intact in this agriculturally devoid zone. In the harsh environmental conditions, limited means, resources and the objects, the settlers of this desert were able to create a huge economy that sustained effectively. The economy build by them not only allowed the foundation and formation of the states, it also ensured their continuation and expansion over the centuries. The continuity of the Rajput states in the Thar Desert is sufficient indicators of the fact that this desert was nourishing all of them efficiently.   Received: 2 May 2021 / Accepted: 15 June 2021 / Published: 8 July 2021

A quarter century of Water Resources Research

1990 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
George H. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Quarter Century
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