Esha Shah Editor & Author

Ajit Menon is Associate Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies. He was formerly a Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development (CISED), Bangalore. His research interests include the political economy of natural resource management, environmental politics and decentralized governance in India. Praveen Singh is Visiting Fellow at CISED. A historian, his area of interest is the history of flood control and agro-ecological change in the Indian floodplains during the colonial and post-independence period. Esha Shah is Research Fellow with the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. She was formerly a Fellow at CISED. She has authored a book Social Designs: Tank Irrigation Technology and Agrarian Transformation in Karnataka. Esha is an environmental engineer turned social scientist whose main research interest involves anthropology and history of science and technology. Her recent research activities include politics of knowledge generation, risk and uncertainty of new and emerging technologies in developing societies, and history of the green revolution. Sharachchandra Lélé is Coordinator and Senior Fellow at CISED which he co-founded. He has held senior positions at the Pacific Institute of SIDES and Tata Energy Research Institute, and was a Bullard Fellow at Harvard University. He is also a founder-member of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics and has served on its Executive Committee. His work spans conceptual issues in sustainable development and sustainability, and institutional, economic, ecological and technological issues in forest, energy and water resource management. Suhas Paranjape is Visiting Fellow at CISED and Senior Fellow with the Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM), Pune. He is also founding member of the Lok Vidnyan Sanghatana. His interests cover the area of water, energy and biomass resources. He has co-authored a number of books in these areas: Sustainable Technology: Making the Sardar Sarovar Project Viable; Banking on Biomass: A New Strategy for Sustainable Prosperity Based on Renewable Energy and Dispersed Industrialisation; Watershed Based Development: A Source Book and the forthcoming Water Conflicts in India: A Million Revolts in the Making. K J Joy is Senior Fellow with SOPPECOM. An activist-researcher, Joy has been a Fullbright Scholar at University of California, Berkeley, and a Visiting Fellow at CISED. His research interests centre around people’s institutions for natural resource management. He has coauthored a number of books on water, watershed and energy issues, including Sustainable Technology: Making the Sardar Sarovar Project Viable; Banking on Biomass: A New Strategy for Sustainable Prosperity Based on Renewable Energy and Dispersed Industrialisation; Watershed Based Development: A Source Book and the forthcoming Water Conflicts in India: A Million Revolts in the Making.