01246nam a22001337a 4500 533205 533205 260429b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Narayanan, N.C. 60322 Walking the razor’s edge: Politics of ecological governance in Kerala Economic & Political Weekly 61(13), Mar 28, 2026: p.13-17 Kerala’s From Forest to Sea: People’s Environmental Charter (2026), prepared by a coalition of environmental groups, is one of the most substantive environmental policy frameworks produced by civil society in the state in recent years. Ecological degradation is no longer presented only as biodiversity loss but as a driver of rising public costs. There is a shift from a conservation frame to a climate-resilience frame, thereby connecting ecological protection to outcomes that governments and planners already care about: water security, flood reduction, agricultural productivity and infrastructure durability. The Charter creates an important foundation for ecological governance in Kerala while identifying the harder work that remains.-Reproduced https://www.epw.in/journal/2026/13/commentary/walking-razors-edge.html Economic & Political Weekly AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 408375 IIPA IIPA 2026-04-29 61(13), Mar 28, 2026: p.13-17 AR138716 2026-04-29 AR