Harini Nagendra
Bangalore
Harini Nagendra is a Professor of Sustainability at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India. She uses social and ecological approaches coupled with remote sensing to examine the factors shaping the sustainability of forests and cities in the south Asian context. Her books include “Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present and Future”, “Cities and Canopies: Trees of Indian Cities” (with Seema Mundoli), and “The Bangalore Detectives Club” historical mystery series set in 1920s colonial India.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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Economy, Employment, Environment. Can We Have It All?
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Connecting Nature and Culture in the Urbanising Global South: The Lakshmipuram Urban Cemetery, Bengaluru, India
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The goal is to mainstream Nature-based Solutions, by widening public acceptance and making it the standard and default practice of urban design. What will it take to get there?
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The City: Binding an Unbound Space
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From a Buzzword to a Standard: Challenges in Mainstreaming Nature-based Solutions in Urban Planning in the Global South
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Where Have All Our Gunda Thopes Gone? An Illustrated Story of Loss and Hope Around Peri-Urban Commons in Karnataka, India
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We Need an Ethical Code for Water
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How is the concept of “stewardship” and “care for local environments” expressed around the world?
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A Picture We Wished was Worth 1000 Words, But in Fact Only a Few
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Secular, Sacred, and Domestic—Living with Street Trees in Bangalore
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Smart cities are coming. Can they be as much about nature, health, and wellbeing as traffic flows, crime detection, and evermore efficient provision of utilities?
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What is one thing every ecologist should know about urban ecology?
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Of Flash Floods and a Lost Indian Waterscape
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Ecosystems for everyone: Who should have access to the myriad benefits of ecosystem services and urban nature? Everyone. Does everyone? No. How will we achieve this moral imperative?
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Re-culturing an Urban Collective Ethos of Sustainability
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To whom does a city’s nature belong? Is it a common pool resource, or a public good? And who decides?
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Linking Urban Science and Society—Putting Good Old Wine in a New Bottle
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Common threads: connections among the ideas of Jane Jacobs and Elinor Ostrom, and their relevance to urban socio-ecology
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Environmental Education and Advancing Urbanization
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The Revalorization of Urban Nature, for Good and Ill
