Qualifications: M.Sc. Environmental Studies, TERI University, New Delhi, 2011

E-mail: marianne@dakshin.org

Profile: As Assistant Director at Dakshin, I support the Director and Associate Director with the long-term vision and strategy for the institution, institutional fundraising, administration as well as facilitate coordination between the three programmes. Apart from this my research and interventions focus on issues around coastal governance and fishworker networks. I work closely with other environmental organisations and fishworker unions to carry out training and workshops on coastal laws and governance mechanisms.

Projects:

Intervention

• Advocacy support to National Campaign for Protection of Coasts (NCPC)
• Communicating legal information to fishing communities
• Environmental Law Omnibus—an open access online repository on environmental laws in India
• Fisher community participation in coastal regulation
• Governance and leadership in fishing communities in Ramanathapuram district, Tamil Nadu

Dakshin Publications

Reports

• A dialogue on managing Karnataka’s fisheries
  College of Fisheries, Mangalore and Dakshin Foundation  2012

Outreach Material

• Coastal Regulation Zone – Tamil and English bilingual handbook
  Dakshin Foundation and Namati-Centre for Policy Research Environmental Justice Program  2013
• CRZ 2011 pocket card – Tamil and English
  Dakshin Foundation and Namati-Centre for Policy Research Environmental Justice Program  2013
• Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 – a handbook for fishing communities – Tamil and English 2013
• Coastal Regulation Zones – Bengali and English bilingual handbook
  Dakshin Foundation and Namati-Centre for Policy Research Environmental Justice Program  2014

Others

Popular articles

• Manuel, M and Sridhar, A (2012), Coastal and marine systems are under continuous development threat. Do the coastal regulation policies need more teeth?, The Hindu Survey of The Environment 2012