Introduction: Development, economic growth and sustainable development, Basic ecosystem ecology
Environmentalism, Environmental Movement, Environmentalism in the global south
Approaches to environment: Ecofeminism, Feminist political ecology, Marxism and ecology
Debates on environmental ethics
Deep ecology, Gandhi and ecology, Social ecology
Religion, environment and conservation: Religion, environment and historical roots of ecological crisis
Biodiversity conservation ethics in Buddhism and Hinduism, Christian religion in the age of ecological crisis
Natural resource management, Common property vs. private property, Livelihoods, forests, and conservation
Displacement, dispossession and development
Conservation-induced displacement, Environment impact assessment and national rehabilitation & resettlement policy, Dispossession and land acquisition
Mainstream development trajectory: Strengthening or weakening of indigenous peoples
Mining, development, and indigenous people, Competing visions of development along the Narmada, Dams, development, and resistance: case studies
Gender and development
Development theory and gendered approach to development, Gender, environment & sustainable development
Environment and climate change
Climate change interventions and policy framework, Eastern Himalayas and climate change
Belief and knowledge systems, biodiversity conservation and sustainability
Ecological knowledge, biodiversity conservation and sustainability
Traditional religion and conservation of nature in Northeast India
Case study
Local knowledge in the environment-development discourse
Indigenous knowledge, environment and development, Relevance of indigenous knowledge: case study