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Deb, Debal 2008. Sacred ecosystems of West Bengal, pp. 117-126. In: A K Ghosh (ed.), Status of Environment in West Bengal: A Citizens’ Report. ENDEV Society for Environment and Development. Kolkata.[Download pdf]

 Deb, Debal 2008. Joint forest management, pp. 96-104. In: A K Ghosh (ed.), Status of Environment in West Bengal: A Citizens’ Report. ENDEV Society for Environment and Development. Kolkata.[Download pdf]

Deb, Debal 2007.
Sacred Groves of West Bengal: A Model of Community Forest Management. Working Paper No 8. Understanding Livelihood Impacts of Participatory Forest Management Implementation in India and Nepal. (Ser. Ed. Oliver Springate-Baginski). University of East Anglia, Norwich. Overseas Development Group. [Download pdf]

Deb, Debal 2006. Flowering asynchrony can maintain genetic purity in rice landraces. Current Science (Bangalore) 91: 155-157.

Borromeo, E. and Debal Deb 2006. Future of Rice: Examining long term sustainable solutions for rice production. Greenpeace International. Amsterdam & Bangalore.

Deb, Debal 2006. Development against freedom and sustainability. Capitalism Nature Socialism (New York) 17: 49-70. [doi: 10.1080/10455750600874555]

Deb, Debal 2005. Seeds of Tradition, Seeds of Future: Folk Rice Varieties of Eastern India. RFSTE. New Delhi. [Read review in HoneyBee]

Spadoni, M. and Debal Deb 2005. “Ethnoecology of sacrd groves in West Bengal, India,”  pp. 143-160, In: Proceedings of Seminar on “Himalaya: Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development”. Cooperazione Italiana/ASIA Onlus/Zoological Museum. Rome.

Deb, Debal 2005. Unnayaner Pura Katha (An Archeology of Development, in Bengali). Nagarik Mancha. Kolkata.

Deb, Debal 2005. Water crisis in West Bengal, pp. 141-146. In: V. Shiva and K. Jalees (eds), Water and Women. RFSTE/National Commission for Women. New Delhi. Also available here.

Deb, Debal 2004. Industrial vs Ecological Agriculture. RFSTE. New Delhi.

Patrick Bateson, David Barker, Timothy Clutton-Brock, Debal Deb, Bruno D'udine, Robert A. Foley, Peter Gluckman, Keith Godfrey, Tom Kirkwood, Marta Mirazón Lahr, John Mcnamara, Neil B. Metcalfe, Patricia Monaghan, Hamish G. Spencer and Sonia E. Sultan 2004. Developmental plasticity and human health. Nature (London) 430: 419-421. [doi: 10.1038/nature02725]

Deb, Debal 2003. Sacred groves and Sacred ponds. Document for NBSAP. New Delhi. National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan.

Deb, Debal 2003. The non-use value of biodiversity and biophilia. Document for NBSAP.

A. K. Ghosh and Debal Deb 2002 (eds). Trainers' Training Manual for Sustainable Agriculture. Navdanya. New Delhi.

Deb, Debal 2001. The culture of conservation: sacred species and sacred habitats,  p. 35. In: V. Shiva and R. Holla-Bhar (eds),  An Ecological History of Food and Farming in India. vol. 1. Research Foundation for Science Technology & Ecology: New Delhi

Deb, Debal and K C Malhotra 2001.Conservation ethos in local traditions: the West Bengal heritage. Society and Natural Resources (Pullman, WA) 14: 711-724. [Download pdf]

Deb, Debal 2001. “An inventory of plant food resources from Bengal.” pp. 293 to 298. In: V. Shiva and R. Holla-Bhar (eds), An Ecological History of Food and Farming in India. Vol. 1. Research Foundation for Science Technology & Ecology: New Delhi.

Deb, Debal 2001. “Bengal Famines.” pp. 76 to 81. In: V. Shiva and R. Holla-Bhar (eds), An Ecological History of Food and Farming in India. vol. 2. Research Foundation for Science Technology & Ecology: New Delhi.

Deb, Debal 2000. Folk Rice Varieties of West Bengal: Agronomic and Morphological Characteristics. Vrihi/ Research Foundation for Science Technology & Ecology. New Delhi.

Deb, Debal 2000. Loot Hoye Jay Swadeshbhumi (Our Land is Being Plundered, in Bengali). Utsa Manush. Kolkata.

Deb, Debal 1999. “Wild and uncultivated plants and animals as food resource: the Bengal paradigm,” pp. 18-19 and 109-113. In: SANFEC Proceedings of South Asian Workshop on Uncultivated Food and Plants. 2-4 October 1999. Bishnupur, Bangladesh.

Deb, Debal 1999. “In search of the forgotten rice varieties.” Down To Earth (New Delhi) 35: 122-123. [Download pdf]

Deb, Debal and A.K. Ghosh 1999. “Land use practices in India: reinstatement and displacement of traditional knowledge.” In: B.B. Basu (ed), Proceedings of the National Colloquium on Natural Resource Management. School of Fundamental Research: Calcutta.

Deb, Debal, K Deuti and K C Malhotra 1997. Sacred grove relics as bird refugia Current Science (Bangalore) 73: 815-817.

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