Below are presentations from the Environment in India and China: Histories and Innovations conference at The New School (Nov. 30 – Dec. 1, 2012).

Session I – Ecology

Kamaljit Bawa, India, China and the Environment

Steward Pickett, Meaning, Model, and Metaphor in Ecological Science as Tools for Interacting with Innovators

Lu Zhi, Integrating Science and Traditional Culture into Conservation Policies on the Tibetan Plateau

Session II – History

Ranjan Chakrabarti, Writing Environmental History of Asia: Climate, Water and the Issue of Sustainability

Judith Shapiro, Nature-Conquest in Revolutionary China: Lessons for China’s Search for Sustainability

Donald Hughes, Environmental History in China and India

Session III – Innovations

Sanjay Chaturvedi, Struggles for Innovation: The Chipko Movement in Retrospect

Shikui Dong, Adaptive Management for Sustainable Resource Use

Victoria Marshall, Designing Urban Environmental Activism

Nidhi Srinivas, Politics of Innovation: Cases from India and China