Below are presentations from the Environment in India and China: Histories and Innovations conference at The New School (Nov. 30 – Dec. 1, 2012).
Session I – Ecology
Kamaljit Bawa, India, China and the Environment
Steward Pickett, Meaning, Model, and Metaphor in Ecological Science as Tools for Interacting with Innovators
Lu Zhi, Integrating Science and Traditional Culture into Conservation Policies on the Tibetan Plateau
Session II – History
Ranjan Chakrabarti, Writing Environmental History of Asia: Climate, Water and the Issue of Sustainability
Judith Shapiro, Nature-Conquest in Revolutionary China: Lessons for China’s Search for Sustainability
Donald Hughes, Environmental History in China and India
Session III – Innovations
Sanjay Chaturvedi, Struggles for Innovation: The Chipko Movement in Retrospect
Shikui Dong, Adaptive Management for Sustainable Resource Use
Victoria Marshall, Designing Urban Environmental Activism
Nidhi Srinivas, Politics of Innovation: Cases from India and China