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Building upon peoples ecological knowledge: Framework for studying culturally embedded CPR Institutions
(2012-10-17)
We have earlier argued (Gupta 1990) that portfolio of activities evolved by household for adjusting with risks includes a combination of apparently rational strategies of livelihood. The portfolio is based on resources ...
Is the just systems also fairer? traversing the domain of knowledge, institutions, culture and ethics
(2010-07-20)
In this case he deals with the issue of Prior Informed Consent and the ethics underlying the knowledge exchange between formal and informal system. The criteria for assessing the adverse consequence from knowledge providers ...
Empowerment for sustainable development: building upon local creativity and entrepreneurship in Vulnerable environments
(2010-04-17)
A transition towards sustainable development requires recognition of the fundamental contradiction between the strategies which build upon what people do not know or have and the ones which take people s knowledge systems ...
Farmers innovations for sustainable resources management and conservation of biological diversity
(2010-03-28)
The agricultural transformation during green revolution is no more green in most developing countries. The declining productivity of inputs clearly points to the non-sustainable nature of current growth processes. While ...
Harnessing wisdom for managing watersheds: honey bee perspective on innovations, institutions and policies for marginal environments
(2010-07-22)
Participatory approaches for watershed management are now considered essential for sustainable natural resources
management and yet there is very little opportunity for intellectual participation by the people. This ...
Women and formal and informal science
(2010-07-26)
In this paper, we compare our insights from the formal scientific sector with our investigations in informal scientific sector. The effort to blend excellence in formal and informal scientific sectors would require overcoming ...
Building upon grassroots innovations: articulating social and ethical capital
(2010-01-18)
The healthy growth of democracy depends upon the emergence of decentralized, dispersed, polycentric spurs of social, ecological and economic entrepreneurship. Networking among these seemingly disparate cross currents some ...
Innovation, Investment, Enterprise: Generating Sustainable Livelihood at Grassroots through Honey Bee Philosophy
(2013-11-26)
In memory of Dr. C.V. Seshadri, a maverick scientist and a social change agent, it is suggested that a new model for sustainable livelihoods is followed. The ex-ante and ex-post transaction costs of innovators, investors ...
Values in Vogue: Institutional Pathways for Sustaining Grassroots Innovations for Creating Public Goods
(2013-11-27)
The institutional pathways through which grassroots struggles and initiatives can not only be articulated but also nurtured are crucial for inclusive development. It has been noted earlier that to institutionalize even a ...
Science and Technology for Inclusive Social Development in 12th Five Year Plan
(2013-11-26)
India has used science and technology for social development right from the beginning of planned development. The first time when television programmes were beamed through satellite, it was for education and not just ...