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Jeetesh Rai

Publications (7)

Inequality, Injustice and India’s Forgotten People

Jeetesh Rai & Smriti Soni · Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International · 2019

It is the Boston Consulting Group’s 15th annual report called ‘Winning the Growth Game: Global Wealth 2015’ that has been extensively reported by the media persons in India. This report came just one year after the Global Wealth Databook 2014 from Credit Suisse wherein the pictur...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v21i330128

Poverty, Vulnerability, Non-timber Forest Products and Rural Livelihood: An Indian Experience

Jeetesh Rai · Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International · 2019

Poverty, vulnerability as well as rural livelihoods are all complex and dynamic themes making it difficult to achieve. Households may respond differently to risk depending on factors such as the household’s socio-economic class, its lifecycle stage, its exposure to risk, its asse...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v21i230124

Colonial History and Geography have been the Main Determinants of Africa’s Poor Economic Growth: An Experience of Lost Decades (1980-2000)

Jeetesh Rai · Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International · 2019

Many states in Africa have experienced particularly painful growth trajectories and transitions to post-independence democracy. In particular many writers have noted the ‘lost decades’ for democratic consolidation and economic growth in Africa between 1980 and 2000. Current perce...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v20i230102

Why are Narratives that Place the Blame for Deforestation on the Rural Poor so Pervasive and so Persistent?

Jeetesh Rai · Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International · 2019

Deforestation is a prominent issue in the call for global environmental sustainability whose status transcends the realm of environmental studies and extends to the broader domains of public policy and popular concern. Deforestation issues are complex, and narratives provide the...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v20i130099

Displacement versus Co-existence in Human-Wildlife Conflict Zones: An Overview

Jeetesh Rai · Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International · 2019

Wildlife presents both a threat and a resource to humans. Protected areas offer the best protection for conserving biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide. Despite more than half protected areas around the world being established on indigenous land natives are generally prohibited...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v19i430093

Understanding Poverty-Environment Relationship from Sustainable Development Perspectives

Jeetesh Rai · Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International · 2019

Many observers conceptualize the environment-poverty link as “downward spiral,” with population growth and social exclusion leading to environmental deterioration. However, recent micro and small scale existential study challenges this model, showing striking heterogeneity in nat...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v19i130077

Approaches to Environmental Decision Making through Human-environment Relationship Perspectives

Jeetesh Rai & Smriti Soni · Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International · 2019

The environment, in its natural sense, often refers to our biophysical surroundings and man is in continuous interaction with it for its very existence. However, man-environment relationship has many dimensions- physical, social, economic, political, and even temporal- in terms o...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JGEESI/2018/46256