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Ashish Kothari

Environmental SustainabilitySocial Responsibility

#1most read in Climate Change

Ashish Kothari is a globally recognized environmentalist who has spent over 40 years of his career tackling key environmental and climate change related issues. Ashish is the Founder of Kalpavriksh, a non-profit organization working on environmental and social issues at a local, national and global levels. Besides this position, Ahsish has held several positions of leadership as a member of Steering Committees of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), and a coordinator for 'India’s National Biodiversity Strategy & Action Plan'. Ashish has also served on the Indian Government’s Environmental Appraisal Committee on River Valley Projects to formulate the Biological Diversity Act & National Wildlife Action Plan. Ashish has authored and edited over 30 books and 300 articles such as: “Environment and Human Rights”, and “Sharing Power”.

Ashish Kothari

#1most read in Climate Change

Ashish Kothari is a globally recognized environmentalist who has spent over 40 years of his career tackling key environmental and climate change related issues. Ashish is the Founder of Kalpavriksh, a non-profit organization working on environmental and social issues at a local, national and global levels. Besides this position, Ahsish has held several positions of leadership as a member of Steering Committees of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), and a coordinator for 'India’s National Biodiversity Strategy & Action Plan'. Ashish has also served on the Indian Government’s Environmental Appraisal Committee on River Valley Projects to formulate the Biological Diversity Act & National Wildlife Action Plan. Ashish has authored and edited over 30 books and 300 articles such as: “Environment and Human Rights”, and “Sharing Power”. ...see more

It did not stop the dam, but is it a failure? Lessons from India's Narmada Movement
Ashish Kothari
Ashish Kothari
Feb 23 2023
It did not stop the dam, but is it a failure? Lessons from India's Narmada Movement
Illuminem Voices · Environmental Sustainability · Social Responsibility
People’s movements have been challenging destructive infrastructure and industrial projects across the world, for decades. Ever since the unholy god of economic growth has seduced nearly every country, plain old colonial forms of landgrab and ‘accumulation by dispossession’ have changed garb, now coming in the disguise of ‘development’ that is supposedly for everyone’s good. But at thousands of sites, people whose lands and resources are being taken away for mining, expressways, industries, power stations, urban expansion, airports, sports complexes and the like, have and continue to protest and resist.

Recent publications

Highways to unsustainability
Ashish Kothari
Ashish Kothari
May 06 2022
Environmental Sustainability · Climate Change
Highways to unsustainability
Highways to unsustainability
In our efforts to be green, we must not greenwash
Ashish Kothari
Ashish Kothari
Dec 06 2021
In our efforts to be green, we must not greenwash
In our efforts to be green, we must not greenwash

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