Publications

Multispecies ethnographies have begun to understand the sentient lives of nonhuman beings within increasingly human-dominated, ecological contexts of the Anthropocene, especially in India, where the close physical and emotional proximity of humans and macaques over centuries have led to intense interspecies behavioural exchanges and to slow, but irreversible, processes of synurbisation, wherein individual macaques have begun to adapt to urban ecologies. Drawing on our ongoing studies on the synurbisation of rhesus and bonnet macaque populations from across the country, I highlight, in this chapter, what living in altered socioecological environments might mean to both macaques and humans, and, in the process, reflect on the urban ecologies of our future.

The rare earth (RE) supply chains are going to face bottlenecks and possible disruptions owing to the volatile geopolitical environment in some of the critical and nodal countries and regions. Therefore, it is important to render resilience to the global rare earth supply chain network by augmenting an alternate supply source, primarily through the end-of-life (EoL) product recycling. Establishing a comprehensive manufacturing ecosystem capable of sourcing raw materials

uninterruptedly would help manufacture the finished products at globally competitive prices. This could unveil India’s potential to build a well-planned white goods production ecosystem while creating strategic capability through partnerships and building capacity by generating large-scale job opportunities. Various case studies emphasize the need for strategy-focused and demand-driven bottom-up assessments to firm up the national requirements so that a holistic national plan can be formulated around the core philosophy of resource adequacy and resource security.