Budhaditya DasAmbedkar University Delhi | AUD · School of Human Ecology
Budhaditya Das
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
Budhaditya Das teaches at the School of Human Ecology at Ambedkar University Delhi. Budhaditya works in the fields of human ecology, environmental history and environmental policy and governance. He teachers and researches on themes of indigeneity and identity, land and rural change, communities and forests, land acquisition and displacement and social impact assessments.
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July 2012 - December 2015
January 2012 - December 2015
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Publications (17)
In the forested landscapes of central India, elite anxieties around extinction threats to charismatic carnivores has brought about a deeply exclusionary conservationist turn in state territoriality. This article draws a conceptual distinction between territoriality for extraction (TE) and territoriality for conservation (TC) in forested landscapes,...
The thought piece for Institute for Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) reviews the state of Social Impact Assessments (SIA) in India. It underlines the possibilities and challenges associated with the practice of SIA in the context of the national safeguard legislation for involuntary acquisition, The Right to Fair Compensation and Tran...
Dispossession of rural populations to create inviolate Protected Areas for biodiversity conservation is a shared concern in BRICS countries. This article explores the distinctive ideology, institutions, and actors that constitute the regime of dispossession for conservation (DfC) in India’s tiger reserves. It investigates the reasons for the regime...
Environmental Law, Policy and Governance is a 4-credit compulsory semester course offered to MA students of Environment and Development at the School of Human Ecology, Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), Delhi, India. The course outline is published as a public resource under the Creative Commons Attribution License
India is transitioning to a more stringent legal framework for land acquisition and rehabilitation of those displaced by development. The new law, enacted in 2013, replaced a century-old law on land acquisition and has greater safeguards for ensuring prior consent, justice and economic well-being of displaced peoples. This chapter presents a case s...
This is a Social Impact Assessment report for an elevated highway project, created for the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, India as a mandatory requirement under the Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Rehabilitation Act, 2013A
Over the past few years, the West Bengal government and its law enforcement agencies used repression against the tribals in Lalgarh on the pretext of acting against the Maoists. This resulted in a genuine resistance movement since November 2008, which has reacted not only to state repression, but had also taken matters of livelihood and development...
