Integrated approaches for adaptive resilience-based management of forests

This Tata Trusts funded project is the first socio-ecological assessment of conservation and wellbeing in the eastern Himalayas that rigorously combines ecosystem functioning and human functioning and capabilities. The freedoms that forest dwellers and dependents have in carrying out their day to day activities hold much conservation significance.

This project demonstrates how and why wellbeing assessments in and around protected ecosystems can go beyond livelihood approaches that narrowly and singularly reduce forest dependence to income. This interdisciplinary study has been accommodated as a full panel in the Human Development and Capabilities Association (HDCA) conference, Cape Town, 2017.