Ep 452: Harini Nagendra is Woolgathering and Ground Truthing

The city and nature do not need to be at odds with each other; and dreamers can be doers. Harini Nagendra joins Amit Varma in episode 452 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss her work in ecology, urban sustainability, detective fiction and the art of managing multitudes.

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Also check out:
1. Harini Nagendra at LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Google Scholar, Amazon, Substack, Azim Premji University and her own website.
2. Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities -- Harini Nagendra & Seema Mundoli.
3. Shades of Blue: Connecting the Drops in India's Cities -- Harini Nagendra & Seema Mundoli.
4. Nature in the City -- Harini Nagendra.
5. The Bangalore Detectives Club -- Harini Nagendra.
6. Insights on linking forests, trees, and people from the air, on the ground, and in the laboratory -- Elinor Ostrom & Harini Nagendra.
7. Polycentric governance of multifunctional forested landscapes -- Harini Nagendra & Elinor Ostrom.
8. Tree diversity, distribution, history and change in urban parks: studies in Bangalore, India -- Harini Nagendra & Divya Gopal.
9. From Bangalore's Lakes to Detective Mysteries -- Harini Nagendra interviewed on the Expressions Podcast.
10. If a city forgets itself, what lies ahead? -- Harini Nagendra interviewed on From the Marginlands.
11. Thinking ecologically about our urban future -- A talk by Harini Nagendra.
12. Our Cities are Designed For Men, By Men -- Harini Nagendra & Amrita Sen.
13. Where Have All the Women Gone? -- Episode 1 of Watching the Wheels.
14. Safety First: Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women — Girija Borker.
15. The Life and Music of Shubha Mudgal — Episode 426 of The Seen and the Unseen.
16. The Incredible Curiosities of Mukulika Banerjee — Episode 276 of The Seen and the Unseen.
17. The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande — Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen.
18. Elinor Ostrom at Wikipedia, Google Scholar and Econlib.
19. The Overcoat -- Nikolai Gogol.
20. The Age of the Partial Outsider — Janan Ganesh.
21. Earwitness to Place — Bernie Krause interviewed by Erin Robinsong.
22. What Our Genes and Phones Tell Us -- Episode 117 of Everything is Everything (on alternative data).
23. Silent Spring -- Rachel Carson.
24. Tragedy of the Commons -- Garrett Hardin.
25. The Logic of Collective Action -- Mancur Olson.
26. India Awakes -- The documentary presented by Johan Norberg about, among other things, the Forest Rights Act.
27. Barun Mitra, Philosopher and Practitioner — Episode 264 of The Seen and the Unseen.
28. The Hidden Life of Trees — Peter Wohlleben.
29. Ideas of India -- Shruti Rajagopalan's podcast.
30. Robin Hobb on Amazon.
31. Folktales From India -- Selected and edited by AK Ramanujan.
32. A Flowering Tree --And Other Oral Tales from India -- AK Ramanujan.
33. Mookajjiya Kanasugalu -- K Shivaram Karanth.

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Episode art: 'My City' by Simahina.