Edited books
  • 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.

Conservation philosophy

Research papers
  • 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.
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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.
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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.

Coastal and Marine Conservation

Research papers
  • Kottillil, S., T. Gupta, M. Muralidharan, C. Rao and K. Shanker (2022) Post Capture Survival Rate of Bamboo Sharks, Chiloscyllium arabicum and Chiloscyllium griseum. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.​
  • Gupta, T., H. Booth, W. Arlidge, C. Rao, M. Manoharakrishnan, N. Namboothri, K. Shanker and E.J. Milner-Gulland (2020) Mitigation of elasmobranch bycatch in trawlers: A case study in Indian fisheries. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 571. [PDF]
  • Gupta, T., M. Manuel, M. Manoharakrishnan, N. Namboothri and K. Shanker (2019) Impact of fisheries bycatch on coastal and marine conservation and livelihoods. Journal of Governance 18: 55-63.
  • Jaini, M., S Advani, K. Shanker, M.A. Oommen and N. Namboothri (2017) Worlds apart: How history, culture, infrastructure and export markets shape fisheries in India’s oceanic islands. Environmental Conservation 45: 41-48.
  • Mukherjee, N., K. Shanker, N. Koedam & F. Dahdouh-Guebas (2014) Governance of coastal plantations in southern India: long term ecological vision or short-term economic opportunity? Acta Oecologica.
  • Mukherjee, N., F. Dahdouh-Guebas, V. Kapoor, R. Arthur, N. Koedam, A. Sridhar & K. Shanker (2010) From bathymetry to bioshields: a review of post tsunami ecological research on India and its implications for policy. Environmental Management 46: 329-339.
  • Feagin, R.A., N. Mukherjee, K. Shanker et al. (2010) Shelter from the storm? The use and misuse of ‘bioshields’ in managing for natural disasters on the coast. Conservation Letters 3:1-11.
  • Mukherjee, N., B. Muthuraman and K. Shanker (2009) Bioshields and ecological restoration in tsunami affected areas in India. In: Integrated Coastal Zone Management (eds. E. Dahl, E. Moskness and J. Stottrup). Wiley Blackwell Publishing.

Notes and commentaries
  • Mukherjee, N., N. Namboodiri, S. Rodriguez, A. Sridhar, D. Subramaniam and K. Shanker (2008) Making Disasters: Post-Tsunami Coastal Rehabilitation and Management. Hindu Survey of the Environment.