Modernizing Nature: Forestry and Imperial Eco-development, 1800-1950.

This book provides historic background to contemporary forest use conflicts. It, and other publications in its wake, constitute the first systematic attempt to map the intellectual continuities between continental Europe and the rest of the world, on the contested legacies of modern, state based, natural resource management agendas.

 

Ecological Visionaries / Ecologized Visions (edited with Peter Taylor).
Special Issue of Environment and History. Vol.3 No.2., 1997.

This special issue includes essays that explore the complex inter-relationships between ecological scientists and the wider environmental movement, and explore new directions of research on ecology and society. The contributions include discussions of the wilderness debate, the ecological visions of the Frankfurt school, the influential publications, The Ecologist and Our Common Future, Kenneth Boulding and the General Systems Community, and Eugene and Howard Odum and their visions of agro-ecology.

 

Technological Disasters and Developing Societies: the case of Bhopal

This project resulted in four substantive publications on various facets of the world’s worst industrial accident: ‘Disaster, Development and Governance: Reflections on the “lessons” from Bhopal.’ Environmental Values. 11 (2002). pp. 369 – 94. ' Missing Expertise, Categorical Politics and Chronic Disasters – the Case of Bhopal.’ In Susanna Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith (eds.) Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster. pp. 237 - 260. School of American Research (SAR) Press, Santa Fe and James Currey, Oxford. 2002. ‘What Disasters tell us about Environmental Violence: The Case of Bhopal.’ In M. Watts and N. Peluso (eds.), Violent Environments pp. 380-398. NY: Cornell University Press. 2001. ‘Bhopal: Vulnerability, Routinization, and the Chronic disaster.’ In A. Oliver-Smith and S. Hoffman (eds.), The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective, pp. 257-277. NY: Routledge. 1999.

 

Science and Democracy (edited with Sheila Jasanoff).
Special Issue of Environmental Values. Vol. 11., No.3., August 2002.

This special issue collects some of the salient papers presented at a conference organized by the co-editors at Cornell University in 1996. The essays present case studies from India, Kenya, Peru, and the United States, that highlight contemporary conflicts and debates surrounding technology, modernity, and democratic public choices in contexts ranging from natural resource conflicts to environmental disasters.

This edited anthology collects some of the salient writings of Amulya Reddy, one of India’s leading scholars of energy policy. It has articles on technology choice, renewable energy and development alternatives. It is being published by Orient Longman, and is due in Fall, 2006.