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SUMMARY:Can Indigenous Political Representation Improve Forest Conservatio
 n? India’s Experience - Prof. Bina Agarwal\, University of Manchester
DTSTART:20250207T140000Z
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CONTACT:Diane Lister
DESCRIPTION:Can political representation by indigenous communities – who
 m many see as stewards of forests – enhance forest cover and biodiversit
 y conservation? Or would indigenous political control over forests catalys
 e greater extraction for revenue gains?  Does the level of representation 
 matter? This talk will address these under-researched questions\, drawing 
 on India’s uniquely multi-layered enactments which granted Scheduled Tri
 bes political representation\, and hence control over local forests\, in c
 onstituencies reserved for them in state assemblies and village councils. 
 Taking Chhattisgarh state as an example\, the presentation will use geospa
 tial technologies for assessing forest cover and decennial census data to 
 compare the state’s 20\,000-odd villages across reserved and unreserved 
 categories\, over 2001-2019\, differentiating between Assembly Constituenc
 y (AC) reservations and PESA (Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas) rese
 rvations. This study (co-authored with Shamindra Roy and Shiva Sharma) is 
 the first one globally to examine the conservation effect of indigenous po
 litical representation at multiple levels\, over two decades\, and will ha
 ve relevance for other countries with large forest areas and indigenous po
 pulations.\n\nFor further information and a link to register for a Zoom li
 nk\, see below:\nhttps://www.conservation.cam.ac.uk/events/joint-cri-ceenr
 g-crsd-seminar-prof-bina-agarwal
LOCATION:Main Seminar Room\, David Attenborough Building\, New Museums Sit
 e. Pembroke Street. Cambridge\, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB
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