Conflict, Negotiations and Natural Resource Management

Maarten Bavinck is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and president of the International Commission on Legal Pluralism. Amalendu Jyotishi is Associate Professor at Amrita School of Business, Amrita University, India and Coordinator of Asian Initiatives on Legal Pluralism.

Preface 1. Introduction: The Legal Pluralism Perspective 2. Law-breakers and Law-makers: Critical Legal Pluralism, Normative Subjects and Ecological Regimes in India 3. The Godavarman Judgment: Erasing the Plurality of Land Use in Gudalur, Nilgiris 4. Unearthing the Roots of Statutory Forest Law: Iron Smelting and the State in Pre- and Early Colonial India 5. Land, Law and Resistance: Legal Pluralism and Tribal Conflicts over Land Alienation in Odisha 6. Community Rights and Statutory Laws: Politics of Forest in Uttarakhand, Himalayas 7. Handling Fishery Conflicts in the Context of Legal Pluralism - A Case-Study Analysis of Street-Level Bureaucracy in Tamil Nadu, India 8. A Political Ecology of Legal Plural Disconnection in the Marine Fishery of Junagadh District, Gujarat, India 9. Institutional Pluralism, Multilevel Arrangements and Polycentrism: The Case of Chilika Lagoon, India 10. Legal Pluralism and the Governability of Fisheries and Coastal Systems in the World - A Conceptual Enquiry