Ashish Kothari

Ashish Kothari began working on environment and development issues in his school days in 1978-79, as one of the founders of Kalpavriksh, an Indian environmental NGO. He coordinates Kalpavriksh's programme on Alternatives.

A graduate in Sociology, Ashish has taught environment at the Indian Institute of Public Administration in the 1990s, and been guest faculty at several universities, institutes, and colleges.

He has been Co-Chair of the IUCN Inter-commission Strategic Direction on Governance, Equity, and Livelihoods in Relation to Protected Areas (TILCEPA) (1999-2008), and in the same period a member of the Steering Committees of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), and IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy (CEESP). He has served on the Board of Directors of Greenpeace International and Greenpeace India. He has also been on the steering group of the CBD Alliance and the ICCA Consortium.

Ashish has served on the Indian Government’s Environmental Appraisal Committee on River Valley Projects, and Expert Committees to formulate India’s Biological Diversity Act and National Wildlife Action Plan. He coordinated India's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan process, and was co-coordinator of the Activist-Academic Co-Generation of Knowledge on Environmental Justice (www.acknowlej.org) global project,

Ashish has been active with a number of people’s movements, including Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) and Beej Bachao Andolan (Save the Seeds Movement). He helps coordinate the Vikalp Sangam (Alternatives Confluence, www.vikalpsangam.org) process in India and the Global Tapestry of Alternatives globally (https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org). He helps run the website and associated list of Radical Ecological Democracy (www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org).

He is the author or editor of over 30 books (including Churning the Earth: Making of Global India; Alternative Futures: India Unshackled; and Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary), and over 400 articles.

For more details, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashish_Kothari, and http://ashishkothari51.blogspot.in

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