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Deepa Kylasam Iyer is a researcher working on land issues in South Asia. She completed an M.Phil. in International Development as a Cambridge Trust -Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Her most recent work on land rights, 'Property Rights Through Social Movements: The Case of Plantations in Kerala, India' was published in the Journal of Land and Rural Studies (Sage). Deepa is also a poet and her first book of poetry, 'Turning Thirty and Other Poems' was published by Authorspress, New Delhi in October 2016.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6The Case of the IT Park: Analysing the International Tech Park, Bangalore through the Eco Industrial Approach in Urban Planning
Eco-industrial approach to urban planning views a component in the urban system in relation to others through spill over. IT Parks as a subsystem has a number of organic relations with the macro environment of local economy and ecology. The paper examines the case of one IT park as conceptualised as a self sufficient unit in the city of Bangalore and the way interactions have taken place in a span of two decades. The study uses both primary and secondary data for analysis.
REGULATING ECO-SENSITIVE ZONES ANALYSING INDIAN LAWS BASED ON WESTERN GHATS ECOLOGY PANEL REPORT
The monograph examines the recommendations of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel on making the Western Ghats eco sensitive zones in the light of Indian environment laws. The Indian environment debate of conservation and protection of biodiversity has been sustained by post colonial response that has two major opposing strands. The first is the cultural opposition characterised by the indigenous people of their homestead, religious and livelihood rights. The second is the opposition within the political and legal framework that has taken the judicial and policy making route.
Property Regimes in India: A Study of Political Determinants of Structural Factors
The stated objective of land policy in India has shifted from redistribution through land reform to ownership through land acquisition in the period between 1950 and 2014. Sub-national governments that dealt with land policy had the option to exercise a mix of redistribution and acquisition based on historical factors, social demands and political convictions. This paper makes two related arguments by tracing the path of land reforms in the states of India. The first is that there are four types of property regimes that emerged out of India at the sub-national level.
LAND USE AND AGRARIAN RELATIONS
The article reviews changing land use relations in India and calls for a comprehensive land use policy.
Regulation in a crony capitalist state: The case of planning laws in Bangalore
The city of Bangalore came up with a draft structural plan 2031 to accommodate the emerging challenges of urban growth, congestion and environmental concerns through planning and regulation. In the decade 2000-2010, when the city opened itself to the booming IT industry, its developmental response to the pressures of growth has been through policy measures like airport relocation, introduction of metro rail, satellite township development, traffic improvement projects and revenue layout development.
PROPERTY RIGHTS THROUGH SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: THE CASE OF PLANTATIONS IN KERALA, INDIA
Globally, increased investor interest in land is confronting various types of political mobilisations from communities at the grassroots level. This paper examines the case study of a land occupation movement called Chengara struggle in the largest corporate plantation in southern India. The movement is led by the historically dispossessed scheduled caste and scheduled tribe communities. The objective of the study is to understand the type of institutional transformation of property rights that the movement is calibrating.