Environmental and Ecological Sustainability Through Indigenous Traditions

Binay Kumar Pattnaik is currently working in the Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India as a senior professor. He has worked as the Director (VC) of Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. With three and half decades of experience in teaching and research at both IIT Bombay and IIT Kanpur, he has contributed handsomely to the area of social studies in science and technology, globalization and social movement studies. So far he has written and edited ten books including guest edited volumes of a few prestigious academic journals. That apart, his scholarly contributions include more than four dozen research papers in refereed journals of repute and articles in edited books. He has travelled extensively both inside and outside India to deliver lectures, keynote/ valedictory addresses and organize international sessions and symposia. Besides, he is a committed teacher andresearch guide of reputation

Ecological bases of Indian Traditions: Search for an Indigenous Vision.- Forests, folklores and religion: understanding Embedded ‘ecological wisdom’ in the Sundarbans, West Bengal, India.- Governing the Commons with Traditional knowledge and Practices: Lessons from Bishnoi community of India.- Cultural Practices of the Totonacs of Veracruz Vrs Neoliberal Reforms : A case for the recovery of the sacred.- The Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy and Sustainability: Achieving A Sustainable Environment from the Thai Perspective.- Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation: An Approach to Epistemic Fairness and New Citizenship in Mexico.- Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Farming Practices among the Naga Tribes: A Reappraisal of their Worldviews.- Partnering with the Mountains for Reclaiming their Land: Conflict between Indigenous and the Capitalist Perspectives.- Sustainability and Ecological Intervention: Comparing Geoengineering and Amazonian Shamanism.- From Nature, to Nature: Articulating the discourse of environmental sustainability in a Chhau Dance community of West Bengal.- Practicing sustainable Irrigation management through Indigenous Knowledge: Experiences from Sri Lanka.- Indigenous knowledge in Agricultural Production.- Indigenous Seed Conservation Practices in Western Himalaya: A Case Study of Mandakini Valley, Uttarakhand, India.- Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India.- Ethnobiological perspective to Bioresource conservation among the Indian communities.- Sustainability as a social encounter – A Dialogue among heterogenous knowledge systems for the management of forest in the Gran Chaco wetlands of Argentina.