Harini Nagendra, harini.nagendra@gmail.com ,

    web page: http://mypage.iu.edu/~nagendra/

Harini is Asia Research Coordinator, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Changes (CIPEC), Indiana University. She is also Branco Weiss Fellow and Faculty Fellow of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE). Her doctoral research was on use of satellite imagery to assess species diversity. Her present research interests are landscape ecology, local and regional drivers of land use, and biodiversity and forest change in community forests and parks. She has published extensively in national and international journals.

Pranab Mukhopadhyay, pmkolkata@yahoo.com

Pranab is currently working as Environmental Economist of South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE). Earlier he was teaching Economics at Goa University, India. He graduated from Presidency College, Calcutta and his doctoral work at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has published in journals like the Environment and Development Economics and Economic and Political Weekly and in the past been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, Warwick University, UK and the Centre for Urban Economic Studies, Calcutta University.

Ashwin Bhouraskar, abhouraskar@worldbank.com

Ashwin is a consultant in the area of the environment and natural resource management, with a special interest in participatory approaches for biodiversity conservation and rural poverty reduction in South Asia and the developing world. He is currently working with the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group, where he has been evaluating the World Bank's assistance for the environment and renewable energy. In the past, Ashwin conducted research and capacity-strengthening on food security-related issues with the International Food Policy Research Institute. Ashwin is also an Honorary Fellow of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment.

Arabinda Mishra, m_arabinda@hotmail.com

Arabinda,  Associate  Professor, is a Ph.D. in Economics from the Sambalpur  University,  Orissa,  and  is  currently  teaching  Resource and Environmental Economics in the Department of Natural Resources, TERI University, New Delhi. He has conducted   a   number  of  research  projects  for  various  national  and international  sponsor agencies on themes relating to common property water resources,  forest  resources,  tribal  needs, power sector reform, natural resource  accounting,  national health accounts, drought impact assessment, trade  related environmental regulations. His current area of research interest is community-based natural resources management.