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Nagendra, Harini, July 02, 2014

Collection ID:
14-026
Date:
July 02, 2014
Scope Content:
Harini Nagendra is a professor of sustainability and coordinator of the Centre for Urban Sustainability at Azim Premji University in Bangalore India. Nagendra describes her personal background that lead her to contact Elinor Ostrom while pursing postdoctoral opportunities. She received a research position at the Center for the Study of Institutions, Populations and Environmental Change (CIPEC) focusing on human-nature interactions in Asia. Furthermore, she discusses her research in collaboration with Ostrom on Bangalore urban villages and their connections to lakes such as Lake Kaikondrahhalli. Later on Nagendra discusses Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize and her impact on future research. There is also discussion of Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom and Nagendra's connect with them. She goes onto describe their personalities and generosity, last memories, and the Ostroms' as collectors.
Place:
Bangalore, India, Lake Kaikondrahalli, India, and Nepal
  1. Center for Documentary Research and Practice
  2. Coming Together: An Oral History of the Ostroms and their Scholarly Impact on Problem Solving, 2014

Pradhan, Prachanda, June 25, 2014

Collection ID:
14-025
Date:
June 25, 2014
Scope Content:
Dr. Prachanda Pradhan is a leading scholar who has been promoting values and benefits of farmer managed irrigation system in Nepal and other developing countries. Pradhan begins the interview by discussing how he met Elinor Ostrom, her visit to Nepal and their roles in the Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems Promotion Trust. He further discusses his working relationship and personal relationship with Elinor Ostrom while collaboratively writing Improving Irrigation in Asia. Also mentioned is how Pradhan learned from Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom through the Ostrom Workshop and other methods.
Place:
Nepal
  1. Center for Documentary Research and Practice
  2. Coming Together: An Oral History of the Ostroms and their Scholarly Impact on Problem Solving, 2014