Common lands are not wastelands
What are common lands? What is the state of common lands in India? This has to do with the expansion of economic activities, human encroachment, land conversions, along with increasing environmental pollution. Policy makers tend to look at commons as wastelands and weak community rights over common...
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| author | ElDidi, Hagar Khurana, Ritika Zhang, Wei Jadav, Maheshkumar Kalidas Guha, Chiranjit Priyadarshini, Pratiti Guo, Zhe Sandhu, Harpinder Nagendra, Harini Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. |
| author_browse | ElDidi, Hagar Guha, Chiranjit Guo, Zhe Jadav, Maheshkumar Kalidas Khurana, Ritika Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Nagendra, Harini Priyadarshini, Pratiti Sandhu, Harpinder Zhang, Wei |
| author_facet | ElDidi, Hagar Khurana, Ritika Zhang, Wei Jadav, Maheshkumar Kalidas Guha, Chiranjit Priyadarshini, Pratiti Guo, Zhe Sandhu, Harpinder Nagendra, Harini Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. |
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| description | What are common lands? What is the state of common lands in India?
This has to do with the expansion of economic activities, human encroachment, land conversions, along with increasing environmental pollution. Policy makers tend to look at commons as wastelands and weak community rights over commons and eroding local institutions governing commons have also contributed to their degradation. Further, conservation policies that focus on expanding protected areas have led to shrinking of common lands marginalising communities who depend on them.
The paper discusses the findings of an assessment of the spatial extent and usage of officially recognised common lands across districts in India, using 2011 Census of India data and Household Census data. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1493572025-02-13T17:15:28Z Common lands are not wastelands ElDidi, Hagar Khurana, Ritika Zhang, Wei Jadav, Maheshkumar Kalidas Guha, Chiranjit Priyadarshini, Pratiti Guo, Zhe Sandhu, Harpinder Nagendra, Harini Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. common lands land degradation livelihoods rural areas What are common lands? What is the state of common lands in India? This has to do with the expansion of economic activities, human encroachment, land conversions, along with increasing environmental pollution. Policy makers tend to look at commons as wastelands and weak community rights over commons and eroding local institutions governing commons have also contributed to their degradation. Further, conservation policies that focus on expanding protected areas have led to shrinking of common lands marginalising communities who depend on them. The paper discusses the findings of an assessment of the spatial extent and usage of officially recognised common lands across districts in India, using 2011 Census of India data and Household Census data. 2024-06-09 2024-07-31T20:48:17Z 2024-07-31T20:48:17Z Opinion Piece https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149357 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136556 Open Access India Water Portal ElDidi, Hagar; Khurana, Ritika; Zhang, Wei; Jadav, Maheshkumar Kalidas; Guha, Chiranjit; Priyadarshini, Pratiti; et al. 2024. Common lands are not wastelands. India Water Portal blog post. First published online June 9, 2024. https://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/common-lands-are-not-wastelands |
| spellingShingle | common lands land degradation livelihoods rural areas ElDidi, Hagar Khurana, Ritika Zhang, Wei Jadav, Maheshkumar Kalidas Guha, Chiranjit Priyadarshini, Pratiti Guo, Zhe Sandhu, Harpinder Nagendra, Harini Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Common lands are not wastelands |
| title | Common lands are not wastelands |
| title_full | Common lands are not wastelands |
| title_fullStr | Common lands are not wastelands |
| title_full_unstemmed | Common lands are not wastelands |
| title_short | Common lands are not wastelands |
| title_sort | common lands are not wastelands |
| topic | common lands land degradation livelihoods rural areas |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149357 |
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