Suhas paranjape iit madras

He has been part of the research team of the part film serial "Bharat ki Chhaap" on the history of science and technology in the Indian subcontinent rom the stone age to the present, and along with Swatija Manorama and Chayanika Shah has authored the companion book to the film serial with the same name.

Suhas paranjape iit madras

His historical analysis of the development of classes and resistance in the Shahade area has been published in the then Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. His book in Marathi introducing Marx's Capital has won the award for the best writing on economics of that year. He has also dabbled in creative writing and one of his short stories earned a mention in Ram Kolarkar's Short stories of the year when it was published and recently, the Marathi re-telling of adiwasi fables that he and Swatija Manorama have coauthored has won this year's Modak suhas paranjape iit madras of the Marathi Sahitya Parishad for the best translation work into Marathi.

Tata Institute of Social Sciences. SINCE This book examines the theory and practice of NGO-driven CBNRM within the framework of emerging critiques of dominant discourses of development, the micro-politics of decentralisation and the projection of community development. The book breaks new ground by contextualising these critiques using six detailed cases of CBNRM initiatives.

They seek to understand the insights into CBNRM that intervening agencies generate through their work, by examining the outcomes of the interventions and the strategies used to achieve them. The book concludes that though these CBNRM efforts have made significant contributions to livelihood enhancement, the results gained are limited in the equitable access to benefits, sustainability of resource use, and in terms of democratic decentralisation.

Papers by Suhas Paranjape. Equity, Access and Allocations: A Review. Legitimacy and cooperation: A framed field experiment. Decentralization of irrigation management to local communities is often claimed to improve perfor The argument is that decentralization enhances the perceived legitimacy of irrigation management, which in turn increases the willingness of water users to cooperate and contribute to irrigation management.

To test this hypothesis, we collected information about water users' legitimacy perceptions in five villages alongside an irrigation channel in Maharashtra, India. In two of the villages, the irrigation department is in charge of irrigation management, while in the other three villages, this task has been decentralized to local water users associations WUAs.

To assess the impact of legitimacy perceptions on cooperation, we used survey-based indicators of perceived legitimacy to explain three outcomes, each of which partly reflects the willingness of water users to cooperate and contribute to irrigation management: 1 water users' self-reported charge payments, 2 WUA-reported charge payments, and 3 water users' behavior in a field experiment that was framed in terms of irrigation management.

Our results show that legitimacy perceptions differ between the two types of villages as well as between WUA members and non-members, but these differences do not explain any of the three outcomes. Nonmembers contribute significantly less under the irrigation frame as compared to WUA members, but game behavior is not correlated with self-reported or WUA-reported charge payments.

We conclude that decentralization of irrigation management may enhance legitimacy perceptions but this has no effect on the willingness of water users to contribute to irrigation management. Download Edit. During the last decades the scientific research has increasingly developed modelling tools to han Concerning water pollution, modelling approaches have been developed ranging from simple statistical regressions to complex models.

Watershed models have been developed firstly to deepen the understanding of water cycle and pollution dynamics, as they provide a simplified conceptualization of the processes involved, and then they have been progressively more used to evaluate the impacts on water quality of management options, mitigation measures and possible global changes.

In addition, models have been employed for planning monitoring network and spatially target plans of intervention. So far modelling has been exclusively used by the scientific and practitioner communities. However, there is a shift to a combined used of models by the scientific, practitioner and stakeholders. Effective scientific research needs to address questions relevant for stakeholders and decision makers and to include their values and perspectives in the knowledge production process.

This idea is at the basis of the participatory watershed modelling. Differently from the traditional one, participatory watershed modelling includes public and decision makers in the modelling process to support decisions involving complex environmental questions.