Climate Justice, democratic forest governance and the rights of Adivasis in India

博士研究将调查在气候正义中嵌入土著认识论的可能性。原住民是印度的土著社区，居住在靠近森林的地方。他们在印度宪法中被归类为表列部落。政治经济学和本土复兴理论将用于发展气候正义的跨学科分析框架。只有将气候正义与民主森林治理一起理解，才能在阿迪瓦西背景下实现气候正义。因此，该研究将开发一个分析框架，将气候正义理解为“民主森林治理”。在研究期间，它将审查印度的气候法律和政策是否复制了现有的剥削和剥夺阿迪瓦西人土地和森林的结构。这项研究有可能支持赋予阿迪瓦西斯人宪法赋予的分散森林治理的权利，并促进印度的可持续性。印度拥有世界上7- 8%的生物多样性。

The PhD research will investigate the possibility of embedding Adivasi epistemologies in climate justice. Adivasis are the indigenous communities of India that live in close proximity to forests. They are classified as Scheduled Tribes in the Constitution of India. Political economy and indigenous resurgence theories will be used to develop an interdisciplinary analytical framework on climate justice. Climate justice can be attained in the Adivasi context only when it is understood along with democratic forest governance. So, the research will develop an analytical framework that understands climate justice as "democratic forest governance." During the research, it will be examined whether the existing structures of exploitation and dispossession of Adivasis from their land and forests are reproduced by climate laws and policies in India. The research has the potential to support the granting of Adivasis constitutional rights to decentralised forest governance and to promote sustainability in India, which is home to 7-8 percent of the world's biodiversity.