Livelihood Strategies in Southern India

Preface.- 1. Introduction Seema Purushothaman, Rosa Abraham.- 2. Adaptive Livelihood Strategies in the Karandhai malai forests, Tamil Nadu Kanmani Venkateswaran, Siddhartha Krishnan, Poosanavel Saravanan, M.C. Kiran and S.C. Gladwin Joseph.- 3. Livelihood Strategies of Peripheral Communities in Kanakapura, Karnataka Kavitha A., S.C. Gladwin Joseph, and Nitin D. Rai.- 4. Land Use Practices and Policies to Reduce Poverty - Lessons from Annaikatty in the Western Ghats.- Seema Purushothaman.- 5. Reconciling Conservation and Livelihoods with Fiscal Instruments - An Assessment of Bamboo in Karnataka Seema Purushothaman, Elisabeth Gsottbauer and Sheetal Patil.- 6. Reconciling Conservation and Livelihoods - The Role of Integrating Diverse Institutions Seema Purushothaman.- 7. Adaptive Livelihood Strategies - Community-Driven Ecotourism near Bangalore Seema Purushothaman, Benson Isac, Akai Mao and Priya Gupta.- 8. Reconciling Conservation and Livelihoods - The Role of SHGs in M.M. Hills, Karnataka Seema Purushothaman, Dhanya B. and Sheetal Patil.- 9. Village Commons, Livelihoods and Governance in Karnataka - An Assessment Sharachandra Lele, Seema Purushothaman and Sham Kashyap.

Seema Purushothaman is Professor, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India. She was previously a Fellow of the Land, Water and Livelihoods Programme at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bengaluru.

Rosa Abraham is pursuing her PhD at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, India. She was earlier with ATREE as a senior research associate.