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International Law and Global Governance Centre
Monday
30
September
Arpitha-Kodiveri

Book Launch: Governing Forests

Author: Arpitha Kodiveri , Discussants: Stella James, Marie Petersmann and Rahul Ranjan, Moderator: Lys Kulamadyil
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ABOUT THE BOOK

The nations of the Global North are responding to the climate change emergency with emissions trading schemes and alternative sources of energy. Meanwhile, nations of the Global South, still emerging from historical exploitation under colonialism, face decisions about natural resource use that are, for traditional owners and inhabitants of resource-rich lands, often a matter of life or death. Environmental lawyer and legal scholar Arpitha Kodiveri has worked alongside many of India's forest-dwelling communities and describes how they bear the cost of both rapacious mining development and increasing pressure for forest land to be set aside for environmental conservation. Despite these challenges, Kodiveri shows how the traditional owners and inhabitants of forest areas are driving creative solutions in forest law. Hope can be found here, in each community's unique vision of co-governance, expressed in the language of care and repair.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Arpitha Kodiveri is an environmental law and justice scholar and assistant professor of political science at Vassar College. Her work focuses on the role of law in the context of redressing climate harms faced by indigenous communities in South Asia. Her previous research examines land conflicts and legal mobilization by forest-dwelling communities in India. She has worked as an environmental lawyer supporting Adivasi and forest-dwelling communities in India. She is the recipient of the Hans Kelsen Fellowship at the EUI and the Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship. 

 

DISCUSSANTS

Stella James, Environmental Lawyer and Social Justice Advocate

Marie Petersmann, LSE Law School, London School of Economics

Rahul Ranjan, Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh

 

MODERATOR

Lys Kulamadayil, Geneva Graduate Institute

This book launch is co-hosted by the Global Governance Centre

This event is part of the ‘Law by Colour Code: Locating Race and Racism in International Law’ project funded by the Swiss National Sciences Foundation (SNSF)

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