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Publications

Common Voices Newsletter

Common Voices is a monthly publication produced by the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) - the organisers of the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons (IASC) held in January 2011 at Hyderabad, India. The editors of Common Voices (Jagdeesh Rao of FES, Meera Anna Oommen and Aarthi Sridhar of Dakshin) [...]

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Reports

Precaution in coastal regulation: From principle to practice (click to download)

Planning for Vulnerability: The Hazards and Setbacks in Coastal Legislation (click to download)

Claims for Survival: Coastal Land Rights of Fishing Communities (click to download)

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Outreach Material

Policy brief: Bioshields (click to download)

Policy brief: Sea walls (click to download)

Policy brief: Sand dunes (click to download)

Sand in my Hands! An activity guide for children (click to download)

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Articles

The IUCN’s new clothes: an update on the Dhamra – turtle saga. (click to download)
Lenin, J. et al. 2009. Marine Turtle Newsletter 126: 2-5.

A little learning …: the price of ignoring politics and history. (click to download)
Shanker, K. et al. 2009. Marine Turtle Newsletter 124: 3-5.

Dhamra Port: How Environmental Regulatory Failure Fuels Corporate Irreverence. (click to download)
Rodriguez, S & A. Sridhar. 2008. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 8: 19-23.

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Recent Papers

Feagin, R.A. et al. 2010. Shelter from the storm? The use and misuse of coastal vegetation bioshields for managing natural disasters. Conservation Letters 3: 1-11.
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Mukherjee, N., F. Dahdouh-Guebas, V. Kapoor, R. Arthur, N. Koedam, A. Sridhar & K. Shanker. 2010. From bathymetry to bioshields: a review of post tsunami ecological research on India and its implications for policy. Environmental Management.
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Oommen, M.A. & K. Shanker. 2010. Shrewd alliances: mixed foraging associations between treeshrews, greater racket tailed drongos and sparrowhawks on Great Nicobar Islands, India. Biology Letters 6: 304-307.
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Books

Conservation Biology: A Primer for South Asia
Bawa, K.S., R. Primack and M.A. Oommen (2011). Universities Press.

Marine turtles of the Indian subcontinent
Shanker, K. & B.C. Choudhury (Editors). 2006. Universities Press, Hyderabad. India. Pp 416.

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