Special collection
Transformative Environments: Climate Change Uncertainties, Marginality and Locally-Driven Transformative Change in India and Bangladesh
Global Social Challenges Journal vol 5, issue 1, May 2026
Guest Edited by Lyla Mehta, Synne Movik and Shilpi Srivastava
available open access
Links to individual articles
Editorial: Transformative environments: climate change uncertainties, marginality and locally driven transformative change in India and Bangladesh
Lyla Mehta, Synne Movik and Shilpi Srivastava
The praxis of transformation and adaptation to climate change: contestations in uncertain ‘marginal’ environments
Authors: Shilpi Srivastava, Lars Otto Naess, Mahmuda Akter, Shibaji Bose, Ketaki Bhadgaonkar, Jai Bhadgaonkar, Synne Movik, Upasona Ghosh and Devanathan Parthasarathy
Navigating livelihoods and uncertainty: well-being and identity struggles in four coastal places in India and Bangladesh
Terry Cannon, Hans Nicolai Adam, Jai Bhadgaonkar, Ketaki Bhadgaonkar, Shibaji Bose, Adiba Bintey Kamal, Pallab De, Rohit Jha and Sanjib Mondal
Reframing socio–environmental relations in coastal Mumbai and Kutch, India
Synne Movik, Lyla Mehta, Vinita Damodaran, Debi Goenka, Nobuhito Ohte and Pankaj Joshi
The potential of participatory visual methods in exploring transformation from below
Shibaji Bose, Rohit Jha, Lyla Mehta, Mahmuda Akter, Ketaki Bhadgaonkar, Adiba Bintey Kamal, Anindita Saha, Jai Bhadgaonkar, Mihir Bhatt, Upasona Ghosh, Mahendra Bhanani, Pankaj Joshi, Amad Padyer, Vaskar Mondal, Debasish Mukhopadhyay and Amitava Roy
Co-production and transformative change: lessons and challenges
Lyla Mehta, Nathan Oxley, Shibaji Bose, Mihir Bhatt, Nobu Ohte, Pankaj Joshi, Synne Movik and Mahendra Banani
Other publications
Transformation in the context of uncertainty and compounding effects: Insights from marginal environments in India and Bangladesh
Devanathan Parthasarathy, Shilpi Srivastava, Lyla Mehta, Shibaji Bose, Synne Movik (2025) Global Environmental Change
Reframing socio–environmental relations in coastal Mumbai and Kutch, India
Authors: Synne Movik, Lyla Mehta, Vinita Damodaran, Debi Goenka, Nobuhito Ohte and Pankaj Joshi (2025) Global Social Challenges Journal
Validation of Traditional Pastoralist Practices Based on Ecological Observations of a Camel Herding Community and Coastal Mangrove Forests of Kutch, Gujarat, India
Nobuhito Ohte, Kai Yamamoto, Rohit Jha, Shilpi Srivastava, Pankaj Joshi, Mahendra Bhanani, Ranit Chatterjee, Kenlo Nishida Nasahara and Lyla Mehta (2025) Community Science
Claiming space: Contested coastal commons in Mumbai
Synne Movik, Hans Nicolai Adam and A. Alankar (2023) Geoforum
The Political Ecology of COVID-19 and Compounded Uncertainties in Marginal Environments
Lyla Mehta, D. Parthasarathy, Justin Pickard and Shilpi Srivastava (2022) Frontiers in Human Dynamics
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation
Srivastava, S., Mehta, L., Naess, L.O. (2022) Nature Climate Change
Climate Justice for Whom? Understanding the Vernaculars of Climate Action and Justice in Marginal Environments of India
Srivastava, S. ;Bose, S.; Parthasarathy, D. & Mehta, L. (2022), IDS Bulletin 53. 101-124
BOOK: The Politics of Climate and Uncertainty in India
Mehta, L., Srivastava, S. and Nicolai Adam, H. (eds) (2021), Routledge
Key Considerations: India’s Deadly Second COVID-19 Wave: Addressing Impacts and Building Preparedness Against Future Waves
Social Science in Humanitarian Action (SSHAP) briefing, June 2021
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?
Adam, H. and Movik, S. (2021) World Development
The Social Life of Mangroves: Neoliberal Development and Mangrove Conservation in the Changing Landscape of Kutch
Srivastava, S. and Mehta, L. (2021) Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Towards transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda
Newell, P.; Srivastava, S.; Naess, L.O.; Torres Contreras, G. and Price, R. (2021) Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change
Seddon, N. et al (2021) Global Change Biology
Transformation as praxis: responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, April 2021
Covid-19, Uncertainty, Vulnerability and Recovery in India
SSHAP briefing, November 2020
Challenging the Environment: Uncertain Pathways to Transformation in/for India
D Parthasary, Les Cahiers d’Outre-Mer, (2020) 281: 5-16
COVID-19, Uncertainty, Vulnerability and Recovery in India
Justin Pickard, Lyla Mehta, Shilpi Srivastava and Mihir Bhatt (2020), SSHAP In Focus paper
TAPESTRY 