Conference Programme

November 6, Monday
14:30 onwards	Registration	Registration for Conference/collection of conference kit for already Registered participants Office at Aravalli Guest House, GF (near reception)
19:30–21:30	Dinner	Dining area
November 7, Tuesday For the pre-conference participants
07:30–9:00	Breakfast	Dining area
09:00–17:30	Pre-conference Workshop	Researching in Ecological Economics *A Pre-conference Workshop organized by INSEE* Conference Room 1
09:00-09:05	0.1 Welcome	Welcome: Joy Elamon
09:05–09:15	0.2 Introduction	Introduction and Welcome: Saudamini Das
09:15–11:00	0.3 Session 1	Primary data from Field surveys – questionnaire designing and sampling Santadas Ghosh
11:00–11:30	Tea & Snacks	Outside Conference Room 1
11:30–13:00	0.4 Session 2	Primary data from Field surveys – operational challenges in survey implementation Santadas Ghosh
13:00–14:00	Lunch	Dining Area
14:00–15:30	0.5 Session 3	Planning ecological economics research in Tropical Forests Susmita Dasgupta
15:30–15:45	Tea & Snacks	Outside Conference Room 1
15:45–17:15	0.6 Session 4	Executing ecological economics research in Tropical Forests Susmita Dasgupta
17:15–17:30	0.7 Closing remarks	Closing Remarks: Kalyan Das
20:00–21:30	Dinner	Dining area
November 7, Tuesday For the conference participants [other than pre-conference participants]
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07:30–09:00	Breakfast	Dining area
10:00 onwards	Registration	Registration for Conference/collection of conference kit for already Registered participants Office at Aravalli Guest House, GF (near reception)
11:00–11:30	Tea & Snacks	Outside Conference Room 1
13:00–14:00	Lunch	Dining area
15:30–15:45	Tea & Snacks	Outside Conference Room 1
20:00–21:30	Dinner	Dining area
For members of Executive Committee and General Body of INSEE
17:30–18:30	EC Meeting	41st Meeting of Executive Committee of Indian Society for Ecological Economics Nattukuttam Hall
18:30–20:00	GBM	14th Meeting of General Body of Indian Society for Ecological Economics Seminar Hall I
20:00–21:30	Dinner	Dining area
November 8, Wednesday
07:30–09:00	Breakfast	Dining area
09:00–10:30	1.1 Panel Discussions	Parallel Panel discussions details
10:30–11:00	Tea & Snacks	Outside Auditorium
11:00–13:00	1.2 Inauguration	Inaugural Session details Auditorium
13:00–14:00	Lunch	Dining area
14:00–16:00	1.3. Parallel Sessions	Presentations Conference Room 1 details \| Conference Room 2 details Conference Room 3 details \| Conference Room 4 details
16:00–16:30	1.4. Poster Session	Photo Exhibition and Tea Break details Outside Auditorium
16:30–18:00	1.5. Keynote addresses	Keynote addresses, comments, discussion details Auditorium
18:00 –19:00	1.6. Workshop	details Conference Room 1
19:00–20:30	1.7. Cultural Programme	Kerala Kathakali Performance Auditorium
20:30–21:30	Dinner	Dining Area (Hosted by Director, Kerala Institute of Local Administration)
November 9, Thursday
07:30–09:00	Breakfast	Dining area
09:00–10:30	2.1 Panel discussions	Parallel Panel discussions details
10:30–11:00	Tea & Snacks	Outside Seminar Hall 1
11:00–13:00	Parallel Sessions	Presentations Conference Room 1 details \| Conference Room 2 details Conference Room 3 details \| Conference Room 4 details
13:00–14:00	Lunch	Dining area
14:00–16:00	Parallel Sessions	Presentations Conference Room 1 details \| Conference Room 2 details Conference Room 3 details \| Conference Room 4 details
16:00–16:30	2.4. Poster Session	Photo Exhibition and Tea Break Outside Auditorium
16:30–18:00	2.5 Panel discussions	Parallel Panel discussions details
18:00 –19:00	2.6. Learning Game	Learning Game and Discussion Session details
19:00–20:00	2.7. Cultural Programme	Bamboo Symphony Auditorium
20:00–22:00	Dinner	Dining area (Hosted by Care Earth Trust)
November 10, Friday
07:30–09:00	Breakfast	Dining area
9:30–11:00	3.1 Keynote Address	Keynote addresses, comments, discussion details Auditorium
11:10–11:30	Tea & Snacks	Outside Auditorium
11:30–13:30	Parallel Sessions	Presentations Conference Room 1 details \| Conference Room 2 details Conference Room 3 details \| Conference Room 4 details
13:30–14:30	Lunch	Dining area
14:30–16:00	3.3 Panel Discussions	Parallel Panel discussions details
16:00–16:30	3.4. Poster Session	Poster Session, Photo Exhibition and Tea Break Outside Auditorium
16:30–17:45	3.5 Valedictory Function	Valedictory Session details Auditorium
17:45–18:15	High Tea	Outside Auditorium
20:00–21:30	Dinner	Dining area
November 11, Saturday
Check out by 12:00 noon	Departures	Departures of Conference Participants

November 8, Wednesday \| 14:00–15:30 Session 1.3.1: Terrestrial and Wetland Ecosystems Chair: K N Ninan
Presenter	Paper
Mihir Mathur and Kabir Sharma	Modelling the economics of grassland degradation in Banni, India, using system dynamics
Manjula M, Girigan Gopi and Vipindas	Wetland paddy ecosystems and amphibian diversity: need for compensating conservation
Dayakar Peddi	Economic cost of land degradation in India
Chandan Singha	Analysing adoption of soil conservation measures in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India
Bijayashree Satpathy	Conservation, poverty and livelihood: study in Similipal wildlife sanctuary

November 8, Wednesday \| 14:00–15:30 Session 1.3.2: Impacts of Climate Change and Adaptation by farmers 1 Chair: J B Rajan
Presenter	Paper
Subir Sen	Rainfall and agricultural productivity: empirical analysis of possible relationship
Ajay Kumar Singh, K G S Narayanan and Pritee Sharma	Influence of climate variability on sugarcane farming in India: an application of stochastic frontier production approach
Md. Mahedi Hasan, Mohammad Tauhidul Islam and Nigar Sultana	Climate change and its impact on agricultural production in Bangladesh: Geo-statistical Analysis of spatial and temporal variations
Chandan Kumar Jha et al	Migration as adaptation strategy to cope with climate change: a study of farmers’ migration in Bihar
Narendra N Dalei	Do we need a climate change adaptation policy in agriculture sector in Indian state of Odisha?

November 8, Wednesday \| 14:00–15:30 Session 1.3.3: Fuelling Challenges Chair: Balachandra Patil
Presenter	Paper
Dhanyashree Bhuvandas and Haripriya Gundimeda	Transport fuel elasticity estimation to understand the impacts of energy subsidy reform in India: a household study
Prantika Das and Haripriya Gundimeda	Direct and indirect impact pathways of biofuels in developing countries: A meta-analysis of literature evidences
Vandana Maurya	Conflicting dilemmas of energy saving in Indian domestic sector: efficiency vs. conservation
Madalsa Singh and P Balachandra	Distributed hybrid electricity system for energy access, livelihoods, and empowerment

November 8, Wednesday \| 14:00–15:30 Session 1.3.4: SDGs and Global South 1 Urban challenges in sanitation Chair: Bejoy K Thomas
Presenter	Paper
Debasree Bose and Arijita Dutta	the country progressing towards sustainable development goal?
NC Narayanan	Technology choice and institutional options in urban sanitation: towards a protocol for town level sanitation planning
Indranil De	Urban sanitation, co‐financing and the myth of co‐production: the case of Indian slums
Rakesh Kumar Sharma and Vibhor Sood	Waste management in the Himalayan hill city Shimla: concerns for ecology, economics and governance
Shivani Wadehra and Arabinda Mishra	Enabling institutions to achieve efficient waste management
Anita Pinheiro	Urban food system transitions and socio-ecological resilience in Kerala

November 9, Thursday \| 11:00–13:00 Session 2.2.1: Perceptions and Behavioural responses Chair: L Venkatachalam
Presenter	Paper
Monalisa Ghosh et al.	What affects the willingness to pay for arsenic safe drinking water? A case study in rural West Bengal
Prajna Paramita Mishra	Economic valuation of a recreation model: challenges and way forward
Varadarajan Raghupathy and G Uma	Perception of stakeholders on the maintenance of irrigation tanks in Sivagangai district of Tamil Nadu
Maya K	Trust and life satisfaction: evidence from India
Claudia Lemke, Rita Bergmann and Dennis A. Ostwald	Evidence-based sustainability reporting: condensing the integral sustainability of individual economic agents, branches and economies into the sustainability index NAX

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November 9, Thursday \| 14:00–15:30 Session 2.3.1: Politics, Resistance and Movements Chair: T P Kunhikannan
Presenter	Paper
P Omkar Nadh	Politics of pollution: a case of Godavari mega aqua food park in west Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh
Deepika Swami and Devanathan Parthasarathy	Increasing water vulnerability of Indian megacity, Mumbai: interconnected web of politics and policies
Ramesh Dheeravath	Ecology and capitalism at the crossroads: a case study of Telangana
Arpita Bisht and Julien-François Gerber	Ecological distribution conflicts over mineral extraction in India: an overview
Joan Martinez-Alier	The EJOLT project (2011-15) and the EnvJustice project (2016-21) at the ICTA UAB, Barcelona

November 10, Friday \| 11:30–13:30 Session 3.2.1: Livelihood Chair: Amita Shah
Presenter	Paper
Dhanya B et al.	Ecosystem services and agricultural livelihoods: an analysis of trade-offs in peri-urban Bangalore
Pradyot Ranjan Jena and Bibhu Prasad Nayak	Can third party certification programs improve livelihoods and reduce food insecurity: an empirical study from southern India
Sneha G and Gopakumar Viswanathan and Amalendu Jyotishi	Role and movement pattern of women entrepreneurs in the fish value chain: a micro level study in India
Krishna Malakar, Trupti Mishra and Anand Patwardhan	Drivers of adaptation decisions in marine fishing community of Mumbai, India
Harshan Tee Pee	Agricultural production and income in a disaster year: findings from the study of Melanjippattu village affected by cyclone Thane

November 9, Thursday \| 11:00–13:00 Session 2.2.3: Conservation Chair: Jayshree Vencatesan
Presenter	Paper
Trupthi Narayan and Pankaj Sekhsaria	Media reporting on the protected areas in Maharashtra - a thematic analysis
Indrani Roy Chowdhury	Dual control of forests in a federal structure
Sulochana Pednekar	Collective action and eco-tourism under different institutional framework- comparison of turtle nesting sites in Goa and Maharashtra
Binilkumar Amarayil Sreeraman and Konthoujam Gyanendra Singh	Conservation vs. livelihood: stakeholder preferences over the improved conservation of Loktak lake in Manipur, India

November 9, Thursday \| 11:00–13:00 Session 2.2.4: SDG and Global South 2 Urban challenges in housing and waste Chair: Sunny George
Presenter	Paper
Saji M Kadavil	Conservancies and conservation: women forest protection group in the Western Ghats of Kerala
Deep Jyoti Francis and Anita Pinheiro	Local community knowledge and revival of mangroves in two districts of Kerala: the role of collective action
Lisa Mariam Varkey	An economic assessment of trends in land-use-land-cover data of Kuttanad wetland ecosystem, Kerala and investment measures adopted for its sustainable development
Anitha V	Pilgrim tourism and ecological sustainability of Pampa river in Kerala
Michael Sinclair, Andrea Ghermandi, Sheela A. Moses, Sabu Joseph	Using geotagged photos from social media to value the recreational benefits of Kerala’s wetlands in India

November 9, Thursday \| 14:00–15:30 Session 2.3.2: Aquatic Ecosystems Chair: A Gopalakrishnan (TBC)
Presenter	Paper
Jyothis Sathyapalan	Economic value of biodiversity loss: a case study of by-catch from Andhra Pradesh marine fishery
Pankaj Sekhsaria	The ecology and history of the Andaman Islands: bottom up and through the lens of fiction
Lucy M Turner et al	An interdisciplinary risk assessment: harmful microbes, shellfish, climate change and urbanisation in Mangalore, southwest India
Md. Hafiz Iqbal	Choice modeling and its application to Sundarbans mangrove forest preservation
Farid Ahmed	First-and second-order adaptation to salinity and water logging: case of coastal embankment in Satkhira district, Bangladesh

November 9, Thursday \| 14:00–15:30 Session 2.3.3: Institutions for governance of 'commons' Chair: P S Easa
Presenter	Paper
Anindita Roy Saha and Grace Charles Muangirwa	Participatory forest management and the role of institutions in Tanzania: a survey
S Gunakar	Role of collective action and governance in implementing sustainable fishing practices: a case study of Karnataka marine fisheries
S Krithi	What constitutes the ‘commons’ in water? A case study of irrigation systems in Puducherry district
Tapas Kumar Sutradhar and Santadas Ghosh	Self governance of fishermen in Sundarban: a case study
Jingjing Cai and Hang Xiong	An agent-based Simulation of cooperation in the use of irrigation systems