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River Basin Management

Conference
  • Approaches towards Inclusive and Futuristic River Basin Management: Drawing upon Learning of a Civil Society Initiative in Eastern India”. Paper presented at Workshop on Innovations in the Water Sector organized by United States–India Educational Foundation (USIEF)duringJanuary 20-23, 2009 at Pune, India
  • Deepening Crisis in Riparian Drinking Water: Can IFBRM (Inclusive & Futuristic Basin Resources Management) stall it? Invited Paper presented in National Workshop on “Climate change impacts on drinking water and sanitationIssues, Challenges and Adaptation measures” organized by WaterAid during December 4-5 2008, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
  • Towards Efficient and Improved Management of Basin Commons through Informed Choices: Experience of a Civil Society Initiative in Eastern India. Paper accepted for oral presentation in the 2007 International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC2007) North American regional meeting July 31 to August 3, 2007, in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  • Innovative Basin Resources Management (Ibrm) through Informed Choices: Experience of a Civil Society Initiative in Eastern India. Paper presented in the IWMI-TATA 6th Annual Partners’ Research Workshop held at IRMA, Gujarat, India during 8th -11th March 2007.
  • Impact of Sedimentation on Environmental flow and compounding Natural Hazard in the Lower catchments area(Deltaic Environment) of Baitarani River Basin, Orissa” in 3rd Yellow River Basin conference 2007, China.
  • Water Quality trends in the Baitarani River: Linkages & Influences on Development and Livelihoods Paper presented in 7th Water Asia 2006”.

Water

Conference
  • Water Justice in Hirakud: A Enquiry from Socio-Environmental Perspectives. Paper presented in Workshop on Water Justice in South Asia organized by jointly organized by Wageningen University, SOPPECOM and the FORUM for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India, held in Pune, Maharashtra, India from 18 to 22 April 2011.

Proceedings

  • From localized contestations to Terrains of Resistance: Water Conflicts making Statements around Odisha’s Landscapes, Invited paper presented in Odisha Environment Congress, organized in Bhubaneswar, India during 22nd – 24th December, 2010 (published in the Proceedings of the OEC, CED Trivandrum & HDF, Bhubaneswar, India; p123-138)

Land Rights

Conference
  • Tenure and Access Rights as Constraints to Community Watershed Development in Orissa, India, paper presented at "The Commons in an Age of Global Transition: Challenges, Risks and Opportunities," the Tenth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Oaxaca, Mexico, August 9-13, 2004 http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/archive/00001536/

Journal

  • Status of Adivasis/Indegenous Peoples Land Sreies -1 Orissa; Aakar Books, Delhi, 56p; ISBN #: 9788190340328

Climate Change

Conference
  • Policy and Community influence on Tribal Food biodiversity and Implications on Vulnerability and Adaptation in Climate Change Context. Invited paper presented in Brainstorming Conference towards building a Consortium on Biodiversity Research in Eastern Himalayas and Eastern Ghats, organized by Department of Zoology, Calcutta University in association with WWF, India and UNESCO Asia at Chemchi, Sikkim, India during 9-11 April 2011.
  • Adaptive Food and Nutritional security in the Context of Climate Change: Tribal and Small Farmers in Rainfed Uplands Show the way? Paper prepared for circulation/presentation at Eastern Region Climate Change & Sustainable Agriculture Consultation on January 22 & 23, 2010 at Gram Vikas, Mohuda, Orissa
  • Choudhury P.R., (2008) Local Adaptation Practices to Climate Change. Invited paper presented at “Workshop On Climate Change” organized by Focus Orissa Forum on Climate Change during 15th And 16th November 2008 at Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Livelihoods

Conference
  • Addressing Externalities to Livelihoods Discourse :Making a Case for River Basin Based Livelihood Approach Transforming India1 (2) , 2008
  • Forest-route to poverty alleviation myths and realities in: Analysis of forest produce-livelihood linkages in three Indian states from market perspective” paper presented in the International Conference on Poverty Reduction and Forests: Tenure, Market and Policy Reforms organized by RECOFTC, 3-7 September 2007, Bangkok

Proceedings

  • Transforming lives and landscapes: Agroforestry Practices in the tribal uplands of the Eastern Ghats. Wasteland News. XVIII(3) 24-33

Watershed Management

Conference
  • The Common’s Path to Equity: Experience of a Tribal Hilly Watershed in Eastern India. Paper presented at the two-day national workshop on 'Gainers and Losers from Natural Resource Management in Watershed Projects' held at New Delhi, 3rd-4th April 2004 as part of World Bank funded-study on 'Watershed Externalities and the Role of Local Institutions'

Proceedings

  • Community participation in a tribal dominated micro-watershed project in Eastern ghats- a case study. Proceedings of International Conference on Integrated Water Resource Management for sustainable Development,19-21 December, 2000, New Delhi. pp 936-946