India
Irula - Soliga - Toda - Kota - Kurumba - Paniya - Kattunayakan
Paliyan - Maravar - Konar
Irula
Soliga
Toda
Kota
Kurumba
Paniya
Kattunayakan
Paliyan
The Paliyans are a tribal community living in the South Western Ghats in South India across the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Traditionally these communities were nomadic hunter-gatherers, honey hunters and foragers and the collection of non-Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) provide a major livelihood strategy currently.
Maravar
The Maravars are a traditional warrior community that is native to southern and central Tamil Nadu. The work currently both as landholders and labourers and their major livelihood includes paddy and banana cultivation.
Konar
The Konars are an ancient herding community found throughout the state of Tamil Nadu. They co-occur with grasslands in southern Tamil Nadu, which had a large historical range. They migrate seasonally to paddy fallows during summer using vehicles to transport lambs and penning materials. This penning provides plays a vital ecosystem service through soil fertilisation.
Team Members
BIO
Chandni Singh is a researcher and faculty member at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), Bangalore. Her research examines the human dimensions of global environmental change and disasters, focusing on drivers of differential vulnerability, linkages between climate change adaptation and development, and behavioural aspects of climate adaptation. She is a Lead Author on the IPCC Assessment Report 6, Contributing Author on the IPCC's Special Report on 1.5 Degrees, and serves on the editorial boards of Regional Environmental Change and Climate and Development. She dreams of writing a novel one day, which has nothing to do with climate change!
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Climate change adaptation
Migration
Livelihood dynamics
Vulnerability
Ms. Prathigna Poonacha Kodira
ppoonacha@iihs.ac.in
Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Prathigna Poonacha is a researcher and faculty member at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. Her research is broadly in the area of climate change adaptation, especially in urban and peri-urban geographies. She is also interested in the design and delivery of multi-stakeholder participatory processes for governance and decision making. Her past work and research experience span across several sectors including urban planning, built environment, heritage conservation and development policy. Currently, apart from work, Prathigna is busy learning to parent her two young children.
Climate change adaptation
Gendered dynamics
Multi-stakeholder participatory processes for governance
Milind Bunyan is a forest ecologist with research interests in invasive alien species, landscape ecology and RS-GIS. Through his research, Milind promotes the use of applied research that addresses challenges in socio-ecological systems. Milind works as the Coordinator of the ATREE Academy. He holds a PhD in Forest Resources and Conservation from the University of Florida (Gainesville) and an M.Sc. in Forestry from the Forest Research Institute (Dehradun). On any given day, Milind would rather be watching a war movie or reading a Tintin.
Invasive alien species
Landscape Ecology
Forest Ecology
Dr. Soubadra Devy
soubadra@atree.org
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Soubadra Devy is a tropical ecologist with broad interests around understanding impacts of various drivers on biodiversity and ecosystem services change and its linkage with human wellbeing. She works mostly in protected areas as well as in human-dominated landscapes of two biodiversity hotspots in India- the Western Ghats and Eastern Himalayas. She combines ecology studies with interdisciplinary work to understand how human dominated systems such the pastoral lands and cityscapes can be made `sustainable landscapes' that promote biodiversity while providing livelihood and ecosystems services.
Ecologist working on social ecological aspects of communities
Ecosytem services
Dr Anita Varghese
anita@keystone-foundation.org
Keystone Foundation
Biodiversity
Indigenous People
Climate Change
Dr Jyotsna Krishnakumar
jyotsna@keystone-foundation.org
Keystone Foundation
Community Wellbeing
Political Ecology
Miss Hapreet Kaur
hkaur@iihs.ac.in
Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Harpreet's research is at the intersections of climate change, livelihoods, and social structures. In her earlier research projects, she has focussed on understanding livelihood and other transitions in peri-urban Bangalore, and on agrarian knowledge systems in Karnataka.
Social Impacts of Climate Change
Social Differentiation
Livelihoods
Miss Jasmitha Arvind
jasmithaa@iihs.ac.in
Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Jasmitha Arvind is a researcher working on climate change resilience and disaster recovery at the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS)
Political ecology
Environmental justice
Climate Change resilience
Urban Futures
Mr M Mathivanan
mathi@atree.org
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Mathivanan is a Senior Research Associate in ATREE's Agasthyamalai Community Conservation Centre
Socio-ecological Aspects