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Lele, Sharachchandra and Sahu, Geetanjoy (2025) Democratising Forest Governance: Challenges Old and New. Economic & Political Weekly, 60 (2). pp. 40-47.

Aredath, Gautam and Lele, Sharachchandra (2024) Empower communities to fix forest governance. The Hindustan Times.

Bhar, Soumyajit and Lele, Sharachchandra and Min, Jihoon and Rao, Narasimha D. (2024) Water, air pollution and carbon footprints of conspicuous/luxury consumption in India. Ecological Economics, 218. p. 108104. ISSN 09218009

Wells, Geoff J and Ryan, Casey M. and Das, Anamika and Attiwilli, Suman and Poudyal, Mahesh and Lele, Sharachchandra and Schreckenberg, Kate and Robinson, Brian E. and Keane, Aidan and Homewood, Katherine M. and Jones, Julia PG. and Torres-Vitolas, Carlos A. and Fisher, Janet A. and Ahmad, Sate and Mulligan, Mark and Dawson, Terence P. and Adams, William and R, Siddappa Setty and Daw, Tim M. (2024) Hundreds of millions of people in the tropics need both wild harvests and other forms of economic development for their well-being. One Earth, 7 (2). pp. 311-324.

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Lele, Sharachchandra (2023) An uphill struggle to grow the Forest Rights Act. The Hindu.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2023) Fading green: Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill is rich in rhetoric, but dilutes regulations to protect green cover. The Indian Express.

Pascual, Unai and Balvanera, Patricia and Anderson, Christopher B. and Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca and Christie, Michael and Gonzalez-Jimenez, David and Martin, Adrian and Raymond, Christopher M. and Termansen, Mette and Vatn, Arild and Athayde, Simone and Baptiste, Brigitte and Barton, David N. and Jacobs, Sander and Kelemen, Eszter and Kumar, Ritesh and Lazos, Elena and Mwampamba, Tuyeni H. and Nakangu, Barbara and O'Farrell, Patrick and Subramanian, Suneetha M. and van Noordwijk, Meine and Ahn, SoEun and Amaruzaman, Sacha and Amin, Ariane M. and Arias-Arévalo, Paola and Arroyo-Robles, Gabriela and Cantú-Fernández, Mariana and Castro, Antonio J. and Contreras, Victoria and De Vos, Alta and Dendoncker, Nicolas and Salamin, Nicolas and Engel, Stefanie and Eser, Uta and Faith, Daniel P. and Filyushkina, Anna and Ghazi, Houda and Gomez-Baggethun, Erik and Gould, Rachelle K. and Guibrunet, Louise and Gundimeda, Haripriya and Hahn, Thomas and Harmáčková, Zuzana V. and Hernández-Blanco, Marcello and Horcea-Milcu, Andra-Ioana and Huambachano, Mariaelena and Lutti Hummel Wicher, Natalia and İskender Aydın, Cem and Islar, Mine and Koessler, Ann-Kathrin and Kenter, Jasper O. and Kosmus, Marina and Lee, Heera and Leimona, Beria and Lele, Sharachchandra and Lenzi, Dominic and Mannetti, Lelani M. and Merçon, Juliana and Sofía Monroy-Sais, Ana and Mukherjee, Nibedita and Muraca, Barbara and Muradian, Roldan and Murali, Ranjini and Nelson, Sara H. and Nemogá-Soto, Gabriel R. and Ngouhouo-Poufoun, Jonas and Niamir, Aidin and Nuesiri, Emmanuel and Nyumba, Tobias O. and Özkaynak, Begüm and Palomo, Ignacio and Pandit, Ram and Pawłowska-Mainville, Agnieszka and Porter-Bolland, Luciana and Quaas, Martin and Rode, Julian and Rozzi, Ricardo and Sachdeva, Sonya and Samakov, Aibek and Schaafsma, Marije and Sitas, Nadia and Ungar, Paula and Yiu, Evonne and Yoshida, Yuki and Zent, Eglee (2023) Diverse values of nature for sustainability. Nature.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2023) Value articulation in environmental appraisal: which values, whose values, and how valued? Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 63. p. 101294. ISSN 18773435

Lele, Sharachchandra and Bene, Daniela Del and Avcı, Duygu and Roa-Avendaño, Tatiana and Roy, Brototi and Sahu, Geetanjoy and Harris, Maureen and Moore, Deborah (2023) Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 64: 101346. ISSN 1877-3435

Lele, Sharachchandra and R, Venkat Ramanujam (2023) Never-ending injustice: Forest Villages of Madhya Pradesh. Hindustan Times.

Mokashi, Shruti and Lele, Sharachchandra (2023) Estimating the potential of community forest rights: What makes implementation challenging. Down To Earth.

Löfqvist, Sara and Kleinschroth, Fritz and Bey, Adia and Ariane de, Bremond and DeFries, Ruth and Dong, Jinwei and Fleischman, Forrest and Lele, Sharachchandra and Martin, Dominic A and Messerli, Peter and Meyfroidt, Patrick and Pfeifer, Marion and Rakotonarivo, Sarobidy O and Ramankutty, Navin and Ramprasad, Vijay and Rana, Pushpendra and Rhemtulla, Jeanine M. and Ryan, Casey M. and Guimarães Vieira, Ima Célia and Wells, Geoff J and Garrett, Rachael D. (2023) How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration. BioScience, 73 (2). pp. 134-148.

Date, Anuja and Hiremath, Ankila J. and Joshi, Atul and Lele, Sharachchandra (2023) Silvicultural Practices in the Management of Diospyros melanoxylon (Tendu) Leaf Production: Options and Trade‑offs. Economic Botany. pp. 1-18.

Bhar, Soumyajit and Lele, Sharachchandra and Rao, Narasimha D. (2022) Beyond income: correlates of conspicuous and luxury consumption in India. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 18 (1). pp. 142-157. ISSN 1548-7733

Balasubramanya, Soumya and Brozović, Nicholas and Fishman, Ram and Lele, Sharachchandra and Wang, Jinxia (2022) Managing irrigation under increasing water scarcity. Agricultural Economics, 53 (6). pp. 976-984. ISSN 0169-5150

Löfqvist, Sara and Kleinschroth, Fritz and Bey, Adia and de Bremond, Ariane and DeFries, Ruth and Dong, Jinwei and Fleischman, Forrest and Lele, Sharachchandra and Martin, Dominic A. and Messerli, Peter and Meyfroidt, Patrick and Pfeifer, Marion and Rakotonarivo, Sarobidy O. and Ramankutty, Navin and Ramprasad, Vijay and Rana, Pushpendra and Rhemtulla, Jeanine M. and Ryan, Casey M. and Guimarães Vieira, Ima Célia and Wells, Geoff J. and Garrett, Rachael D. (2022) How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration. BioScience, 73 (2).

Date, Anuja and Lele, Sharachchandra (2022) Decolonising Decentralised Governance Insights from the Forests of Maharashtra. Economic & Political Weekly, 28.

Ivanova, Maria and Lele, Sharachchandra (2022) Fifty years after UN environment summit, researchers renew call for action. Nature.

Jamwal, Priyanka and Nayak, Divya and Urs, Praveen Raje and Thatey, Mohamed Zuhail and Gopinath, Malavika and Idris, Mohammad and Lele, Sharachchandra (2022) A multi-pronged approach to source attribution and apportionment of heavy metals in urban rivers. Ambio, 51. pp. 2182-2200.

Meyfroidt, Patrick and de Bremond, Ariane and Ryan, Casey M. and Archer, Emma and Aspinall, Richard and Chhabra, Abha and Camara, Gilberto and Corbera, Esteve and DeFries, Ruth and Díaz, Sandra and Dong, Jinwei and Ellis, Erle C. and Erb, Karl-Heinz and Fisher, Janet A. and Garrett, Rachael D. and Golubiewski, Nancy E. and Grau, H. Ricardo and Grove, J. Morgan and Haberl, Helmut and Heinimann, Andreas and Hostert, Patrick and Jobbágy, Esteban G. and Kerr, Suzi and Kuemmerle, Tobias and Lambin, Eric F. and Lavorel, Sandra and Lele, Sharachchandra and Mertz, Ole and Messerli, Peter and Metternicht, Graciela and Munroe, Darla K. and Nagendra, Harini and Nielsen, Jonas Østergaard and Ojima, Dennis S. and Parker, Dawn Cassandra and Pascual, Unai and Porter, John R. and Ramankutty, Navin and Reenberg, Anette and Roy Chowdhury, Rinku and Seto, Karen C. and Seufert, Verena and Shibata, Hideaki and Thomson, Allison and Turner, Billie L. and Urabe, Jotaro and Veldkamp, Tom and Verburg, Peter H. and Zeleke, Gete and zu Ermgassen, Erasmus K. H. J. (2022) Ten facts about land systems for sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (7). ISSN 0027-8424

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Jamwal, Priyanka and Nayak, Divya and Urs, Praveen Raje and Thatey, Mohamed Zuhail and Gopinath, Malavika and Idris, Mohammad and Lele, Sharachchandra (2022) A multi-pronged approach to source attribution and apportionment of heavy metals in urban rivers. Ambio, 51. pp. 2182-2200.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Jamwal, Priyanka and Menon, Mahesh (2021) Challenges in Regulating Water Pollution in India Standards, Monitoring, Enforcement and Accountability. Economic and Political Weekly, 56 (52). pp. 46-52.

Sahu, Geetanjoy and Lele, Sharachchandra (2021) Environmental Regulation and Governance. Economic and Political Weekly, 56 (52). pp. 36-37.

Singha, Mrinal and Dong, Jinwei and Ge, Quansheng and Metternicht, Graciela and Sarmah, Sangeeta and Zhang, Geli and Doughty, Russell and Lele, Sharachchandra and Biradar, Chandrashekhar and Zhou, Sha and Xiao, Xiangming (2021) Satellite evidence on the trade-offs of the food-water–air quality nexus over the breadbasket of India. Global Environmental Change, 71. p. 102394. ISSN 09593780

Martin, Maria A. and Sendra, Olga Alcaraz and Bastos, Ana and Bauer, Nico and Bertram, Christoph and Blenckner, Thorsten and Bowen, Kathryn and Brando, Paulo M. and Rudolph, Tanya Brodie and Büchs, Milena and Bustamante, Mercedes and Chen, Deliang and Cleugh, Helen and Dasgupta, Purnamita and Denton, Fatima and Donges, Jonathan F. and Donkor, Felix Kwabena and Duan, Hongbo and Duarte, Carlos M. and Ebi, Kristie L. and Edwards, Clea M. and Engel, Anja and Fisher, Eleanor and Fuss, Sabine and Gaertner, Juliana and Gettelman, Andrew and Girardin, Cécile A.J. and Golledge, Nicholas R. and Green, Jessica F. and Grose, Michael R. and Hashizume, Masahiro and Hebden, Sophie and Hepach, Helmke and Hirota, Marina and Hsu, Huang-Hsiung and Kojima, Satoshi and Lele, Sharachchandra and Lorek, Sylvia and Lotze, Heike K. and Matthews, H. Damon and McCauley, Darren and Mebratu, Desta and Mengis, Nadine and Nolan, Rachael H. and Pihl, Erik and Rahmstorf, Stefan and Redman, Aaron and Reid, Colleen E. and Rockström, Johan and Rogelj, Joeri and Saunois, Marielle and Sayer, Lizzie and Schlosser, Peter and Sioen, Giles B. and Spangenberg, Joachim H. and Stammer, Detlef and Sterner, Thomas N.S. and Stevens, Nicola and Thonicke, Kirsten and Tian, Hanqin and Winkelmann, Ricarda and Woodcock, James (2021) Ten new insights in climate science 2021: a horizon scan. Global Sustainability, 4. ISSN 2059-4798

Lele, Sharachchandra and Mokashi, Shruti (2021) Mapping the potential of Community Forest Resource Rights in central India. Mongabay.

Pascual, Unai and Adams, William M. and Díaz, Sandra and Lele, Sharachchandra (2021) Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism. Nature Sustainability, 4. pp. 567-572.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2021) Thematic Section: Biodiversity Revisited From wildlife-ism to ecosystem-service-ism to a broader environmentalism. Environmental Conservation, 48. pp. 5-7.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Broome, Neema Pathak and Joshi, Atul and Chettri, Akshay and Tatpati, Meenal and Mokashi, Shruti (2020) Critical Wildlife Habitat: What is it, how should it be implemented, and how is it being pushed through? Critical Wildlife Habitat.

Jacobs, Sander and Zafra-Calvo, Noelia and Gonzalez-Jimenez, David and Guibrunet, Louise and Benessaiah, Karina and Berghöfer, Augustin and Chaves-Chaparro, Juliana and Díaz, Sandra and Gomez-Baggethun, Erik and Lele, Sharachchandra and Martín-López, Berta and Anne Masterson, Vanessa and Merçon, Juliana and Moersberger, Hannah and Muraca, Barbara and Norström, Albert and O’Farrell, Patrick and Ordonez, Jenny C. and Prieur-Richard, Anne-Hélène and Rincón-Ruiz, Alexander and Sitas, Nadia and Subramanian, Suneetha M. and Tadesse, Wubalem and Noordwijk, Meine van and Pascual, Unai and Balvanera, Patricia (2020) Use your power for good: plural valuation of nature – the Oaxaca statement. Global Sustainability, 3. pp. 1-7.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2020) Afforestation: Who Decides? One Earth, 3.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Joshi, Atul and Upadhyay, Purnima (2020) Hardline conservationists fail to see possibilities of people-wildlife coexistence. The Indian Express.

Zafra-Calvo, Noelia and Balvanera, Patricia and Pascual, Unai and Merçon, Juliana and Martín-López, Berta and van Noordwijk, Meine and Mwampamba, Tuyeni Heita and Lele, Sharachchandra and Ifejika Speranza, Chinwe and Arias-Arévalo, Paola and Cabrol, Diego and Cáceres, Daniel M. and O'Farrell, Patrick and Subramanian, Suneetha Mazhenchery and M, Soubadra Devy and Krishnan, Siddhartha and Carmenta, Rachel and Guibrunet, Louise and Kraus-Elsin, Yoanna and Moersberger, Hannah and Cariño, Joji and Díaz, Sandra (2020) Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South. Global Environmental Change, 63. p. 102115. ISSN 09593780

Lele, Sharachchandra (2020) Environment and Well-being: A perspective from the Global South. New Left review, 123. pp. 41-63.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2020) Managing water: Paradigm shift needed. Deccan Herald.

Gupta, Divya and Lele, Sharachchandra and Sahu, Geetanjoy (2020) Promoting a responsive state: The role of NGOs in decentralized forest governance in India. Forest Policy and Economics, 111. p. 102066. ISSN 13899341

Kutty, Roshni and Lele, Sharachchandra and R, Siddappa Setty and Kodiveri, Arpitha (2019) India’s Forest Rights Act, 2006 Stuck in a Maze of Bureaucratic Interpretations? Indian Journal of Social Work, 80 (4). pp. 439-460.

Kutty, Roshni and Lele, Sharachchandra (2019) Forgotten histories or deliberate ignorance? Deccan Herald.

Lele, Sharachchandra and MD, Madhusudan (2019) There’s little evidence to show FRA is leading to large-scale deforestation. Hindustan Times.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Heble, Nakul (2019) Changes in pollution board undermine accountability. Deccan Herald.

Patil, Vikram and Thomas, Bejoy K and Lele, Sharachchandra and Eswar, Meghana and Srinivasan, Veena (2019) Adapting or Chasing Water? Crop Choice and Farmers' Responses to Water Stress in Peri-Urban Bangalore, India. Irrigation and Drainage, 68 (2). pp. 140-151.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2019) Reforms in India’s forest sector stuck in reverse gear. Down To Earth.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2019) The Wood for the Trees. India Today.

Rai, Nitin D and Lele, Sharachchandra (2019) On Practising Sustainability Science: Challenges in Teaching and Research: Practicing and Teaching Sustainability under the Shadow of Multiple Hegemonies. Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal, 2 (2). pp. 37-40. ISSN 2581-6152

Kurian, Amit and Lele, Sharachchandra and Nagendra, Harini (2019) Farms or Forests? Understanding and Mapping Shifting Cultivation Using the Case Study of West Garo Hills, India. Land, 8 (133). pp. 1-26.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2019) Understanding Current Forest Policy Debates through Multiple Lenses: The Case of India. Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal, 2 (2). pp. 21-30. ISSN 2581-6152

Dubash, Navroz K. and Khosla, Radhika and Kelkar, Ulka and Lele, Sharachchandra (2018) India and Climate Change: Evolving Ideas and Increasing Policy Engagement. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 43 (1). pp. 395-424. ISSN 1543-5938

Lele, Sharachchandra and Kashyap, Sham and Purushothaman, Seema (2018) Status paper on the Common Lands in Karnataka Karnataka. Status paper on the Common Lands in Karnataka Karnataka.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Badiger, Shrinivas and Thomas, Bejoy K (2018) Together, we can dam the destruction. Deccan Chronicle.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Sengupta, Mrinalini Bakshi (2018) From lakes as urban commons to integrated lake-water governance: the case of Bengaluru’s urban water bodies. South Asian Water Studies, 8 (1).

Kuttuva, Pradeep and Lele, Sharachchandra and Mendez, Gara Villalba (2018) Decentralized Wastewater Systems in Bengaluru, India: Success or Failure? Water Economics and Policy, 04 (02). p. 1650043. ISSN 2382-624X

Lele, Sharachchandra (2018) Smoke in the woods. The Hindu.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2018) Ecology, Economy and Society. INSEE Journal, 1 (1). pp. 113-115.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Madhyastha, Karthik and Sulagna, Swati and Dhavamani, R. and Srinivasan, Veena (2018) Match, don't mix: implications of institutional and technical service modalities for water governance outcomes in south Indian small towns. Water Policy, 20 (S1). pp. 12-35. ISSN 1366-7017

Lele, Sharachchandra (2018) Decentralise lake management. Deccan Chronicle.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Srinivasan, Veena and Thomas, Bejoy K. and Jamwal, Priyanka (2018) Adapting to climate change in rapidly urbanizing river basins: insights from a multiple-concerns, multiple-stressors, and multi-level approach. Water International, 43 (2). pp. 281-304. ISSN 0250-8060

Lele, Sharachchandra and Srinivasan, Veena and Thomas, Bejoy K. and Jamwal, Priyanka (2018) Adapting to climate change in rapidly urbanizing river basins:insights from a multiple-concerns, multiple-stressors, andmulti-level approach. Water International, 43 (2). pp. 281-304. ISSN 1941-1707

Lele, Sharachchandra and Madhyastha, Karthik and Sulagna, Swati and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Srinivasan, Veena (2018) Match, don’t mix: implications of institutional and technical service modalities for water governance outcomes in south Indian small towns. Water Policy, 20 (S1): wp2018002.

Shibani, Shibani and Lele, Sharachchandra and Heble, Nakul (2018) Appellate Authorities Under Pollution Control Laws In India: Powers, Problems And Potential. LEAD Journal (Law, Environment and Development Journal). ISSN 1746-5893

Lele, Sharachchandra and Sengupta, Mrinalini Bakshi (2018) From lakes as urban commons to integrated lake-water governance: The case of Bengaluru's urban water bodies. SAWAS: South Asian Water Studies, 8 (1).

Penny, Gopal and Srinivasan, Veena and Dronova, Iryna and Lele, Sharachchandra and Thompson, Sally (2018) Spatial characterization of long-term hydrological change in the Arkavathy watershed adjacent to Bangalore, India. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22. pp. 595-610. ISSN 1607-7938

Lele, Sharachchandra (2017) Unable to see the bamboo for the trees. The Hindu.

Srinivasan, Veena and Lele, Sharachchandra and Krishnaswamy, Jagdish and Jamwal, Priyanka (2017) Poke me: Rallying to protect our rivers is great. But let’s get the science right. The Economic Times.

Srinivasan, Veena and Lele, Sharachchandra (2017) From Groundwater Regulation to Integrated Water Management. Economic and Political Weekly, 52 (31). pp. 107-114.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Srinivasan, Veena (2017) Death knell for citizen-led lake governance. Deccan Herald.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2017) Forest Governance From Co-option and Conflict to Multilayered Governance? Economic and Political Weekly, 52 (25-26). pp. 55-58.

Thomas, Bejoy K and Lele, Sharachchandra and Srinivasan, Veena and Jamwal, Priyanka (2017) Rethinking resilience in urbanizing river basins. Seminar, 694.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2017) ET By Invite ­ Investing Crores but Passing the Buck. Economic Times.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2017) Investing Crores but Passing the Buck. The Economic Times.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2017) Sustainable Development Goal 6: watering down justice concerns. WIREs Water: e1224.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Srinivasan, Veena (2016) Focusing on the Essentials Integrated Monitoring and Analysis of Water Resources. Economic and Political Weekly, 51 (52). pp. 47-50.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Kuttuva, Pradeep and Heble, Nakul (2016) BWSSB's wrong approach. Deccan Herald.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Kuttuva, Pradeep and Heble, Nakul (2016) BWSSB’s wrong approach. Deccan Herald.

Srinivasan, Veena and Lele, Sharachchandra (2016) Why we must have water budgets. The Hindu.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Jamwal, Priyanka and Srinivasan, Veena (2016) Managing our lakes and sewage. Deccan Herald.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2015) Water: A Quintessential Public Good that Needs Public Solutions. Fundamatics, 2.

Lakerveld, Roan P. and Lele, Sharachchandra and Crane, T.A. and Fortuin, K.P.J. and Springate-Baginski, O. (2015) The social distribution of provisioning forest ecosystem services: Evidence and insights from Odisha, India. Ecosystem Services, 14. pp. 56-66. ISSN 22120416

Lakerveld, Roan P. and Lele, Sharachchandra and TA, Crane and KPJ, Fortuin and O, Springate-Baginski (2015) The social distribution of provisioning forest ecosystems ervices: Evidence and insights from Odisha,India. Ecosystem Services, 14. pp. 56-66.

Srinivasan, Veena and S, Thompson and K, Madhyastha and G, Penny and K., Jeremiah and Lele, Sharachchandra (2015) Why is the Arkavathy River drying? A multiple-hypothesis approach in a data-scarce region. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19 (4). pp. 1905-1917. ISSN 1607-7938

Jamwal, Priyanka and T. Md., Zuhail and Urs, Praveen Raje and Srinivasan, Veena and Lele, Sharachchandra (2015) Contribution of sewage treatment to pollution abatement of urban streams. Current Science, 108 (4). pp. 677-685.

Srinivasan, Veena and Kumar, Suresh and Chinnasamy, Pennan and Sulagna, Swati and D., Sakthivel and P., Paramasivam and Lele, Sharachchandra (2014) Water Management in the Noyyal River Basin A Situation Analysis. Environment And Development.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2013) Rethinking Sustainable Development. Current History, 112 (757). pp. 311-316. ISSN 0011-3530

AC, Bhagabati and A, Vaidyanathan and Baviskar, Amita and Kothari, Ashish and Patankar, Bharat and Shah, Ghanshyam and KJ, Joy and Chopra, Kanchan and R Iyer, Ramaswamy and S, Janakarajan and Kak, Sanjay and Lele, Sharachchandra and Iyengar, Sudarshan and Paranjape, Suhas and ., Vimalbhai (2013) Dialogue Needed on Sardar Sarovar. Economic and Political Weekly, 49 (37). p. 5.

Srinivasan, Veena and Thomas, Bejoy K and Jamwal, Priyanka and Lele, Sharachchandra (2013) Climate vulnerability and adaptation of water provisioning in developing countries: approaches to disciplinary and research-practice integration. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 5 (3-4). pp. 378-383. ISSN 18773435

Krishnaswamy, Jagdish and Bonell, Michael and Venkatesh, Basappa and Purandara, Bekal K. and KN, Rakesh and Lele, Sharachchandra and MC, Kiran and Reddy, Veerabasawant and Badiger, Shrinivas (2013) The groundwater recharge response and hydrologic services of tropical humid forest ecosystems to use and reforestation: Support for the “infiltration-evapotranspiration trade-off hypothesis”. Journal of Hydrology, 498. pp. 191-209. ISSN 00221694

Lele, Sharachchandra and Srinivasan, Veena (2013) Disaggregated economic impact analysis incorporating ecological and social trade-offs and techno-institutional context: A case from the Western Ghats of India. Ecological Economics, 91. pp. 98-112. ISSN 09218009

Lele, Sharachchandra and Springate-Baginski, Oliver and Lakerveld, Roan and Deb, Debal and Dash, Prasad (2013) Ecosystem Services: Origins, Contributions, Pitfalls, and Alternatives. Conservation and Society, 11 (4). pp. 343-358.

Krishnaswamy, Jagdish and Bonell, Michael and Venkatesh, Basappa and Purandara, Bekal K. and Lele, Sharachchandra and MC, Kiran and Reddy, Veerabasawant and Badiger, Shrinivas and KN, Rakesh (2012) The rain–runoff response of tropical humid forest ecosystems to use and reforestation in the Western Ghats of India. Journal of Hydrology, 472-47. pp. 216-237. ISSN 00221694

Heller, Elizabeth and Rhemtulla, Jeanine M. and Lele, Sharachchandra and Kalacska, Margaret and Badiger, Shrinivas and Sengupta, Raja and Ramankutty, Navin (2012) Mapping Crop Types, Irrigated Areas, and Cropping Intensities in Heterogeneous Landscapes of Southern India Using Multi-Temporal Medium-Resolution Imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 78 (8). pp. 815-827. ISSN 00991112

Lele, Sharachchandra (2012) Buying our way out of environmental problems? Current Conservation, 6 (1).

Lele, Sharachchandra (2011) Thinking about and responding to Climate Change Why and how should we care? Teacher Plus.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Menon, Ajit (2011) Draft NEP 2004: a flawed vision. Seminar.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2011) Rereading the interdisciplinary mindscape: a response to Redford. Oryx, 45 (3). pp. 331-332. ISSN 0030-6053

Lele, Sharachchandra and Kurian, Amit (2011) Interdisciplinary analysis of the environment: insights from tropical forest research. Environmental Conservation, 38 (2). pp. 211-233. ISSN 0376-8929

Lele, Sharachchandra (2011) Dynamic Sustainabilities: Technology, Environment, Social Justice. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Kothari, Ashish and ., Roma and Saikia, Arupjyoti and Rebbapragada, Ravi and Kiro, Vasavi and Ete, Jarjum (2011) Misreading the Issues and the Landscape. Economic and Political Weekly, 46 (22). pp. 107-108.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2011) Rethinking forest governance: Towards a perspective beyond SFM, the Godavarman case and FRA. The Hindu Survey Of The Envlronment.

Ariza-Montobbio, Pere and Lele, Sharachchandra (2010) Jatropha plantations for biodiesel in Tamil Nadu, India: Viability, livelihood trade-offs, and latent conflict. Ecological Economics, 70 (2). pp. 189-195. ISSN 09218009

Ariza-Montobbio, Pere and Lele, Sharachchandra and Kallis, Giorgos and Martinez-Alier, Joan (2010) The political ecology of Jatropha plantations for biodiesel in Tamil Nadu, India. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 37 (4). pp. 875-897. ISSN 0306-6150

Lele, Sharachchandra and Wilshusen, Peter and Brockington, Dan and Seidler, Reinmar and Bawa, Kamaljit S (2010) Beyond exclusion: alternative approaches to biodiversity conservation in the developing tropics. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2 (1-2). pp. 94-100. ISSN 18773435

Lele, Sharachchandra and Dubash, Navroz K and Dixit, Shantanu (2010) A Structure for Environment Governance: A Perspective. Economic and Political Weekly, 45 (6). pp. 13-16.

Montobbio, Pere Ariza and Lele, Sharachchandra and Kallis, Giorgos and Martinez-Alier, Joan (2010) The political ecology of Jatropha plantations for biodiesel in Tamil Nadu, India. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 37 (4). pp. 875-897.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2009) Watershed services of tropical forests: from hydrology to economic valuation to integrated analysis. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 1 (2). pp. 148-155. ISSN 18773435

Rosencranz, Armin and Lele, Sharachchandra (2008) Supreme Court and India’s Forests. Economic and Political Weekly, 43 (5).

Lele, Sharachchandra (2007) A ‘Defining’ Moment for Forests? Economic and Political Weekly, 42 (25). pp. 2379-2383.

KJ, Joy and Shah, Amita and Paranjape, Suhas and Badiger, Shrinivas and Lele, Sharachchandra (2006) Issues in Restructuring. Economic and Political Weekly, 41 (27-28). pp. 2994-2996.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2006) Linking Ecology, Economics, and Institutions of Village-level Forest Use in the Karnataka Western Ghats. Biodiversity.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Norgaard, Richard B. (2005) Practicing Interdisciplinarity. BioScience, 55 (11). p. 967. ISSN 0006-3568

Bawa, Kamaljit S. and Kress, John W. and Nadkarni, Nalini M. and Lele, Sharachchandra (2004) Beyond paradise–meeting the challenges in tropical biology in the 21st century. Biotropica, 36 (4). pp. 437-446.

Bawa, Kamaljit S and Kress, W. John and Nadkarni, Nalini M. and Lele, Sharachchandra (2004) Beyond Paradise—Meeting the Challenges in Tropical Biology in the 21 st Century. Biotropica, 36 (3). pp. 276-284. ISSN 0006-3606

Saberwal, Vasant and Lele, Sharachchandra (2004) Locating Local Elites in Negotiating Access to Forests: Havik Brahmins and the Colonial State 1860-1920. Studies in History, 20 (2). pp. 273-303. ISSN 0257-6430

Menon, Ajit and Lele, Sharachchandra (2003) The Common Property Resource Digest. Quarterly Publication Of The International Association For The Study Of Common Property, 64.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2001) Pixelising the Commons” and “Commonising the Pixel”: Boon or Bane. The Common Property Resource Digest, 58. pp. 1-3.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2000) Godsend, Sleight Of Hand, Or Just Muddling Through: Joint Water And Forest Management In India. Natural Resource perspectives, 53.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Gopalakrishnan, Rajashekar and Hegde, Venkataramana R. and Kumar, Prevish G. (1998) Meso-scale analysis of forest condition and its determinants: A case study from the Western Ghats region, India. Current Science, 75 (3).

Lele, Sharachchandra (1996) Darkness under LAMPS. Deccan Herald.

Lele, Sharachchandra (1987) Improved Algorithms for Reservoir Capacity Calculation Incorporating Storage-Dependent Losses and Reliability Norm. Water Resources Research, 23 (10). pp. 1819-1823.

Book Section

Lele, Sharachchandra (2024) Forest Management and Conservation Regime. In: The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India. Oxford Handbooks . Oxford University Press, pp. 465-486. ISBN 9780198884682

Barton, David N. and Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca and Lazos Chavero, Elena and Noordwijk, Meine van and Engel, Stefanie and Girvan, Alexander and Hahn, Thomas and Leimona, Beria and Lele, Sharachchandra and Muradian, Roldan and Niamir, Aidin and Özkaynak, Begüm and Pawlowska-Mainville, Agnieszka and Ungar, Paula (2022) Value expression in decision-making. In: Methodological Assessment Report on the Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. IPBES.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Krishnaswamy, Jagdish (2019) Climate Change and India’s Forests. In: India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Developm. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, pp. 477-497. ISBN 978-0-19-949873-4

Lele, Sharachchandra (2019) From elite wildlife-ism and ecosystem service jugglery to an inclusive environmentalism. In: Seeds of change: provocations for a new research agenda’, Biodiversity Revisited Symposium Conference Proceedings 11-13 September 2019, Vienna, Austria. MAVA Foundation, the NOMIS Foundation and WWF, Vienna, pp. 96-99.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Brondizio, Eduardo S. and Byrne, John and Mace, Georgina M. and Martinez-Alier, Joan (2018) Framing the Environment. In: Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity. Strüngmann Forum Reports, 23 . MIT Press., Cambridge, MA, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9780262038966

Wutich, Amber and Cardenas, Juan-Camilo and Lele, Sharachchandra and Pahl-Wostl, Claudia and Rauschmayer, Felix and Schleyer, Christian and Suhardiman, Diana and Tallis, Heather and Zwarteveen, Margreet (2018) Integrating Sustainability, Justice, and Diversity? Opportunities and Challenges for Inclusively Framing Water Research. In: Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 23, series . MIT Press, Cambridge, MA:, pp. 251-288. ISBN 9780262038966

Srinivasan, Veena and Lele, Sharachchandra (2018) Managing river basins Re-examining the biophysical basis. In: India’s Water Futures. Routledge India, London, pp. 37-56. ISBN 9780429423529

Lele, Sharachchandra and Sahu, Geetanjoy (2017) Environmental governance in future India: Principles, structures, and pathways. In: Alternative Futures India Unshackled. Paranjoy Guha Thaku ta for Authors Up Front Publishing Services Private Limited, pp. 46-62. ISBN 978-81-933924-7-8

Jamwal, Priyanka and Lele, Sharachchandra (2017) Addressing pollution in urban rivers: Lessons from the Vrishabhavathy river in Bengaluru. In: Transcending boundaries: Reflecting on twenty years of action and research at ATREE. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, pp. 105-113.

Badiger, Shrinivas and Lele, Sharachchandra (2017) Contested waterscapes: Land use change, decentralised interventions and complex impacts. In: Transcending boundaries: Reflecting on twenty years of action and research at ATREE. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, pp. 148-155.

R, Siddappa Setty and Lele, Sharachchandra and Aggarwal, Safia (2017) Non-timber forest products, livelihoods and sustainability: What have we learnt? In: Transcending boundaries Reflecting on twenty years of action and research at ATREE. ATREE, Bangalore, pp. 10-19.

Srinivasan, Veena and Lele, Sharachchandra and Thomas, Bejoy K and Jamwal, Priyanka (2017) Whose river? The changing waterscape of the upper Arkavathy under urbanisation. In: Transcending boundaries: Reflecting on twenty years of action and research at ATREE. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, pp. 122-130.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2017) Why do we care? Unpacking the ‘environmental’ in our environmental science. In: Transcending boundaries: Reflecting on twenty years of action and research at ATREE. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, pp. 172-177.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Menon, Ajit (2014) Epilogue. In: Democratizing Forest Governance in India. Oxford University Press, pp. 402-414. ISBN 9780198099123

Lele, Sharachchandra and Menon, Ajit (2014) Introduction: Forest Governance beyond Joint Forest Management, Godavarman, and Tigers. In: Democratizing Forest Governance in India. Oxford University Press, pp. 1-22. ISBN 9780198099123

Menon, Ajit and lobo, viren and Lele, Sharachchandra (2014) The Commons and Rural Livelihoods Shifting Dependencies and Supra-local Pressures. In: Democratizing Forest Governance in India. Oxford, pp. 376-401.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2014) What is Wrong with Joint Forest Management? In: Democratizing Forest Governance in India. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198099123

Lele, Sharachchandra (2013) Environmentalisms, justices and the limits of Ecosystem Services Frameworks. In: The Justices and Injustices of Ecosystems Services. Routledge, London, pp. 119-139. ISBN 978-0-415-82539-9 (hbk)

Lele, Sharachchandra and Purushothaman, Seema and Kashyap, Sham (2013) Village Commons, Livelihoods and Governance: An Assessment of Karnataka’s Experience. In: Livelihood Strategies in Southern India: Conservation and Poverty Reduction in Forest Fringes,. Springer India, India, pp. 135-156.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2012) Economics Incentives for Forest Management: Products in Hand or Services in the Bush? In: Deeper Roots of Historical Injustice: Trends and Challenges in the Forests of India. Rights and Resources Initiative, Washington, DC, pp. 101-124. ISBN 978-0-9833674-5-1

Lele, Sharachchandra and Patil, Iswar and Badiger, Shrinivas and Menon, Ajit (2011) Forests, Hydrological Services, and Agricultural Income: A Case Study from the Western Ghats of India. In: Environmental Valuation in South Asia. Cambridge University Press, pp. 141-169.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2011) Climate change and the Indian environmental movement. In: The Indian environmental movement. Oxford University Press, pp. 208-215.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Gadgil, Ashok (2010) India. In: Climate Change Science and Policy. Island Press, pp. 323-331. ISBN 978-1-59726-566-9

Lele, Sharachchandra and Pattanaik, Manoj and Rai, Nitin D (2010) NTFPs in India: Rhetoric and Reality. In: Wild Product Governance. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781849775199

Lele, Sharachchandra (2009) Reflections on lnterdisciplinarity in Environmental Economics in India. In: Handbook of Environmental Economics in India. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Lele, Sharachchandra and KS, Murali and Bawa, Kamaljit S (2008) Community enterprise for conservation in India: Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Sanctuary. In: Community enterprise for conservation in India. Sage Publications.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2008) Interdisciplinarity as a three-way conversation: Barriers and possibilities. In: The Contested Commons: Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists. Blackwell, London, pp. 187-207.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2004) Beyond State-Community Polarisations and Bogus "Joint"Ness: Crafting Institutional Solutions for Resource Management. In: Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict. Kluwer Academic Publishers., Netherlands, pp. 283-303. ISBN 978-1-4020-2857-1

Sills, Erin O. and Lele, Sharachchandra and Holmes, Thomas P. and Pattanayak, Subhrendu K. (2003) Nontimber Forest Products in the Rural Household Economy. In: Forests in a Market Economy. Forestry Sciences. Kluwer Academic Publishers., Printed in The Netherlands., pp. 259-281.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Srinivasan, Veena and Bawa, Kamaljit S (2001) Returns to investment in conservation: Disaggregated benefit-cost analysis of the creation of a wildlife sanctuary. In: Tropical Ecosystems: Structure, Diversity and Human Welfare. Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical Ecosystems. Oxford-IBH, New Delhi, pp. 31-33.

Lele, Sharachchandra (1999) Sustainable Use of Biomass Resources: Objectives, Criteria and Recipes. In: Criteria and Indicators of Sustainability in Rural Development. UNESCO, pp. 94-108.

Bawa, Kamal S. and Lele, Sharachchandra and KS, Murali and Ganesan, Balachander (1999) Monitoring a Community-based Project. In: Extraction of non-timber forest products in the forests of Biligiri Rangan Hills, India. Biodiversity Support Program, World Wildlife Fund, pp. 89-102.

Lele, Sharachchandra and R. Rao, Jagannath (1996) Re-lighting LAMPS: A draft Action Plan for Revitalizing the Tribal Cooperatives in Karnataka. In: Strategies for the Models of Tomorrow. Institute of Rural Management Anand, pp. 92-105.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Rao, Jagannath R. (1996) Whose Co-operatives and whose produce? The Case of LAMPS in Karnataka. In: Strategies for the Models of Tomorrow. Institute of Rural Management Anand, pp. 53-91.

Monograph

Mokashi, Shruti and Lele, Sharachchandra (2021) Community Forest Rights recognition in Chhattisgarh State: Progress and Challenges. Project Report. ATREE, Bengaluru.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Broome, Neema Pathak and Joshi, Atul and Chettri, Akshay and Tatpati, Meenal and Mokashi, Shruti (2020) Critical Wildlife Habitat: What is it, how should it be implemented, and how is it being pushed through? Technical Report. ATREE, Bangalore.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Khare, Arushi and Mokashi, Shruti (2020) Estimating and Mapping CFR Potential For Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Maharashtra. Project Report. ATREE.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2019) A Forest of Misconceptions. Working Paper. Living Media India Limited.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Ramanujam, R. Venkat and Rai, Jeetesh (2015) Co-Operative Procurement and Marketing of Tendu leaves in Madhya Pradesh: Image and Reality. Discussion Paper. ATREE, Bangalore.

Srinivasan, Veena and Kumar, Suresh and Chinnasamy, Pennan and Sulagna, Swati and D., Sakthivel and P., Paramasivam and Lele, Sharachchandra (2014) Water management in the Noyyal River basin: A situation analysis. Discussion Paper. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environme, Bangalore.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Srinivasan, Veena and Jamwal, Priyanka and Thomas, Bejoy K and Eswar, Meghana and T. Md., Zuhail (2013) Water management in Arkavathy basin: A situation analysis. Environment and Development Discussion Paper No.1. Discussion Paper. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore.

Lele, Sharachchandra and T, Jayaraman (2011) Equity in the Context of Sustainable Development: Note for UN-GSP. Documentation. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore.

Lele, Sharachchandra and Patil, Iswar and Badiger, Shrinivas and Menon, Ajit and Kumar, Rajeev (2008) The Economic Impact of Forest Hydrological Services on Local Communities: A Case Study from the Western Ghats of India. Working Paper. South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), Bangalore.

KJ, Joy and Shah, Amita and Paranjape, Suhas and Badiger, Shrinivas and Lele, Sharachchandra (2006) Reorienting the Watershed Development Programme in India. Discussion Paper. FORUM FOR WATERSHED RESEARCH AND POLICY DIALOGUE, Bangalore.

Lele, Sharachchandra and AK, Kiran Kumar and Shivashankar, Pravin (2005) Joint Forest Planning and Management in the Eastern Plains Region of Karnataka: A Rapid Assessment. Technical Report. CISED, Bangalore.

Lele, Sharachchandra (2004) Decentralising Governance of Natural Resources in India: A review. Project Report. Report submitted to UNDP DRYLAND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, NAIROBI.

AS, Shrinidhi and Lele, Sharachchandra (2001) Forest tenure regimes in the Karnataka Western Ghats : a compendium. Working Paper. Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.

Conference or Workshop Item

Srinivasan, Veena and Lele, Sharachchandra and Thomas, Bejoy K and Jamwal, Priyanka (2016) Panel: Water for growing cities – the impacts of urbanization and climate change at the watershed scale. In: The transition from water scarcity to water pollution in Thippagondanahalli Halli catchment, India, January 4-7, 2016, Bangalore, India.

Jamwal, Priyanka and Lele, Sharachchandra and Menon, Mahesh (2016) Rethinking water quality standards in the context of urban rivers. In: Eighth INSEE Biennial Conference, 2016, Bengaluru “Urbanization and the Environment”, Bengaluru.

Jamwal, Priyanka and Thomas, Bejoy K and Lele, Sharachchandra and Srinivasan, Veena (2014) Addressing water stress through wastewater reuse: Complexities and challenges in Bangalore, India. In: Proceedings of the Resilient Cities 2014 Congress, 5th Global Forum on Urban Resilience & Adaptation,, 29-31 May 2014, Bonn, Germany.

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