Edited books
Papers
Book chapters
Notes and commentaries
- Bhatt, J.R, A.A. Das and K. Shanker (eds.)(2018) Biodiversity and climate change: an Indian perspective. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India. New Delhi, India.
Papers
- Rudd, L.F., S. Allred, D. Biggs, J.G. Bright Ross, D. Hare, M. Nomusa Nkomo, K. Shanker, T. Allen, D. Biggs, A. Dickman, M. Dunaway, R. Ghosh, N. Thompson González, T. Kepe, M. M. Mbizah, S.L. Middleton, M.A. Oommen, K. Paudel, C. Sillero-Zubiri A. Dávalos (2021) Overcoming racism in the twin spheres of conservation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 11:21420.
- Oommen, M.A., R. Cooney, M. Ramesh, M. Archer, D. Brockington, B. Buscher, R. Fletcher, D.J. Natusch, A.T. Vanak, G. Webb and K. Shanker (2019) The fatal flaws of compassionate conservation. Conservation Biology 33: 784-787.
- Jojan, A., S. Dsouza, P. Mukerjee, C. Rao and K. Shanker (2018) Critiquing narrow critiques of Convention on Biological Diversity. Economic and Political Weekly 53(44): 16-18.
- Oommen, M.A., R. Cooney, M. Ramesh, M. Archer, D. Brockington, B. Buscher, R. Fletcher, D.J. Natusch, A.T. Vanak, G. Webb and K. Shanker (2019) The fatal flaws of compassionate conservation. Conservation Biology 33: 784-787. [PDF]
- Buscher, B. R. Fletcher, D. Brockington, C. Sandbrook, W.M. Adams, L. Campbell, C. Corson, W. Dressler, R. Duffy, N. Gray, G. Holmes, A. Kelly, E. Lunstrum, M. Ramutsindela and K. Shanker (2017) Doing Whole Earth Justice: reply to Cafaro et al. Oryx 51: 401.
- Buscher, B. R. Fletcher, D. Brockington, C. Sandbrook, W.M. Adams, L. Campbell, C. Corson, W. Dressler, R. Duffy, N. Gray, G. Holmes, A. Kelly, E. Lunstrum, M. Ramutsindela and K. Shanker (2017) Half Earth or Whole Earth: radical ideas for conservation and their implications. Oryx 44: 482-484. [PDF]
- Barber, P. et al. (2014) Advancing Biodiversity Research in Developing Countries: The Need for a New Paradigm. Bulletin of Marine Sciences 90: 187-210.
Book chapters
- Shanker, K. and M.A. Oommen (2021) The authoritarian biologist reloaded and deep ecology redux: conservation imperialism and the battle over knowledge, money and space. In: A Functioning Anarchy (Eds. N. Sundar and S. Raghavan). Penguin Random House, New Delhi.
- Bali, A. and K. Shanker (2019) Hunting stories and shady tales: the impact of legislation on wildlife conservation and tree preservation in a human dominated landscape in the Western Ghats, India. In: Wildlife Conservation in India: from policy to practice (Eds. Ghazala Shahabuddin and K. Sivaramakrishnan). Orient BlackSwan Publishers.
- Bhatt, J.R, A.A. Das, P. Hari Haran and K. Shanker (2018) The implications of climate change for Indian Biodiversity: an overview. In: Biodiversity and climate change: an Indian perspective. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (eds. J.R, Bhatt, A.A. Das and K. Shanker), Government of India. New Delhi, India.
- Shanker, K., S. Krishnan and M. Manuel (2018) Deconstructing the south: the politics of conservation in India. In: The anthropology of Conservation NGOs: rethinking the boundaries (Eds. P.B. Larsen and D. Brockington), pp. 267-273. Palgrave.
- Shanker, K., M.A. Oommen and N. Rai (2017) Changing natures: a democratic and dynamic approach to biodiversity conservation. In: India Futures (Eds. A. Kothari and K.J. Joy). Kalpavriksh.
Notes and commentaries
- Srinivasan, U. and K. Shanker (in review) Making nature count: Reflections on the Dasgupta Review. Ecology, Economy and Society 4: 5-12.
- Jojan, A., S. Dsouza, P. Mukerjee, C. Rao and K. Shanker (2018) Critiquing narrow critiques of Convention on Biological Diversity. Economic and Political Weekly 53(44): 16-18.
- Shanker, K., A. Hiremath and K.S. Bawa (2005) Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in India. PLOS Biology 3: 1878-1880.
- Madhusudhan, M.D., K. Shanker et al. (2006) Science in the wilderness: the predicament of scientific research in India’s wildlife reserves. Current Science 91: 1015 – 1019.