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Madhav Gadgil

December 31, 2022

For the environmental report, see Gadgil Commission.

Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil (born 24 May 1942) is an Indian ecologist,[1] academic, writer, columnist and the founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences,[2] a research forum under the aegis of the Indian Institute of Science.[3] He is a former member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India and the Head of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) of 2010, popularly known as the Gadgil Commission.[4][5] He is a recipient of the Volvo Environment Prize and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri in 1981 and followed it up with the third highest award of the Padma Bhushan in 2006.[6]

Madhav Gadgil
Madhav Gadgil
Born (1942-05-24) 24 May 1942 (age 80)
Pune, Maharashtra
NationalityIndian
Alma materPune University
Mumbai University
Harvard University
Known forGadgil Commission
People Biodiversity Register in India
AwardsPadma Shri
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
Rajyotsava Prashasthi
Harvard Centennial Medal
Volvo Environment Prize
Padma Bhushan
H. K. Firodia award
Georgescu-Roegen Award
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
Georgescu-Roegen Award
Vikram Sarabhai Award
Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar Award
Scientific career
FieldsEcology, Conservation Biology, Human Ecology, Ecological history
InstitutionsHarvard University
Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Academic career

Gadgil was born on 24 May 1942[7] in Pune, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. His parents were Pramila and Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil, a Cambridge scholar,[8] economist, former director of the Gokhale Institute and the author of the Gadgil formula.[9] He graduated in biology from Fergusson College of the University of Pune in 1963, and secured a master's degree in zoology from the Mumbai University in 1965.[10][11]

Harvard years

Gadgil was encouraged to join Harvard University by Giles Mead, then curator of fishes at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Initially intending to do research under Mead, Gadgil later changed subjects by hearing lectures of E. O. Wilson, "the brightest young star in the ecology-evolution end of biology at Harvard at that time," and subsequently did his doctoral research on mathematical ecology and fish behaviour, under the guidance of William Bossert,[8] one of Wilson's former students.[12]

It earned him a PhD in 1969.[13] Subsequently, he received a Fellowship from IBM to continue his work as a research fellow at the Harvard Computing Center and simultaneously worked as a lecturer of biology at the university for two years.[13]

Return to India

He returned to India in 1971[14] and took up a job as a scientific officer at Agharkar Research Institute of the Maharashtra Association for Cultivation of Science, Pune where he stayed for two years.[10] In 1973, he joined the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, starting an association that would stretch for over thirty years, superannuating from the institute as its chairman in 2004.[10] During this period, he established two research centres at IISc, the Centre of Theoretical Studies and the Centre for Ecological Studies.[13] He also worked as a visiting professor at Stanford University (1991) and the University of California, Berkeley (1995). After his retirement from IISc, he went back to Pune in 2004 to resume his association with Agharkar Research Institute[10] and holds the Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi chair of the visiting research professor at the University of Goa.[15][16]

In 1976, when the Government of Karnataka decided to look into protecting the bamboo resources of the state, Gadgil was asked to conduct a study, which is reported to have influenced the government to curb the subsidies provided to forest based industries.[17] A decade later, in 1986, he was appointed as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to Prime Minister of India, a post he held till 1990.[17] During this period, he assisted the efforts to establish the first biosphere reserve in the country at the Nilgiris in 1986.[17] In 1998, he was appointed the chairman of the Science and Technology Advisory Panel of Global Environment Facility, an agency under the United Nations. He held the chair till 2002. He also served as a member of the environmental education panel of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and as a member of the National Advisory Council.[18] He is a member of the National Tiger Conservation Authority[17] and is the chairman of the committee proposing Environmental Education Curriculum at School level.[19] In 2010, when the Government of India constituted an expert panel, Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP), to examine the ecological issues related to the Western Ghats, he was selected as the chairman of the panel.[20]

Personal life

Gadgil, an active sportsman during his college years, held the Maharashtra State Junior and Pune University high jump records in 1959 and 1961 respectively. He has also represented Pune University at the All India University Athletic meet.[21] He is married to Sulochana Gadgil, a noted meteorologist and a Harvard scholar, whom he met during his Fergusson College years.[14] The couple has a daughter, who is a journalist cum Spanish teacher, and a son, a mathematician.[11][14] The family lives in Pune, his home town. His life story has been recorded in a biographical book, Vidnyanyatri – Dr. Madhav Gadgil, written in Marathi by A. P. Deshpande.[22]

Legacy

 
Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve
 
Poomparai village in the foothills of Western Ghats.

One of the major contributions of Gadgil is his effort towards the preservation of ecology of India. His early researches in the 1980s have helped in the identification of the Nilgiris as the first biosphere reserve in India.[17] As the chairman of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP), which later came to be known as the Gadgil Commission, he submitted a report in 2011,[23] marking around 64 percent of the Western Ghats region as Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA).[18] The report attracted support and dissension,[24] the environmentalists welcoming the recommendations and the state governments of the neighbouring states and the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church of Kerala disapproving it.[20][23] This paved way for the subsequent Kasturirangan Commission, which diluted the recommendations to a level more acceptable to the state governments.[18] He has been credited by many with the introduction of quantitative investigations of ecology and animal behaviour in India and for including humans as a vital part of ecosystems.[17][25] His contributions, as a member of the draft committee, has been reported in the preparation of the Biological Diversity Act 2002[26] and the manual he prepared for the People's Biodiversity Registers has been accepted by the National Biodiversity Authority.[21] He is still associated with the Authority in the preparation of a biodiversity inventory at the local bodies' level.[21]

Gadgil is known to have done extensive researches in the areas of population biology, conservation biology, human ecology and ecological history. His researches have been documented by over 250 scientific articles,[10] published in various journals and magazines.[27] He developed a penchant for writing at an early age and his first publication was a series of ten articles on animal behaviour, published in Srishtidnyan, a Marathi language science magazine, when he was studying in the 10th standard.[17] His doctoral thesis is reported to have been a citation classic.[17][28] He published his first book in English, This Fissured Land, a book on the ecological history of India, in 1992.[29] The next book, Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India,[30] again co-authored by Ramachandra Guha, was released in 1995, followed by Nurturing Biodiversity: An Indian Agenda, a book co-authored by P. R. Seshagiri Rao, in 1998.[31] In 2005, he published two books, Diversity : The cornerstone of life[32] and Ecological Journeys.[33] As a part of his responsibilities as a Pew Fellow in Conservation and the Environment,[34] he has contributed towards the preparation of People's Biodiversity Registers and has published a manual, People's Biodiversity Registers: A Methodology Manual.[35][36] Some of his books have been translated into many languages and serve as texts for academic studies.[24] He has also published two books,[15] Nisarganiyojan Lokasahabhagane being one among them,[28] and over 40 articles in Marathi and handled a fortnightly column on natural history, in The Hindu, from 1999 till 2004.[21] He handles a monthly column in the Marathi daily, Sakal.[21]

Books
  • Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha (1992). This Fissured Land. Oxford University Press India. p. 312. ISBN 9780198077442.
  • Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha (1995). Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India. Routeledge. p. 223. ISBN 978-0415125246.
  • Madhav Gadgil, P. R. Seshagiri Rao (1998). Nurturing Biodiversity: An Indian Agenda. Centre for Environment Education. p. 163. ISBN 9788186385135.
  • Madhav Gadgil (2005). Diversity : The cornerstone of life. Vigyan Prasar. p. 64. ISBN 8174800263.
  • Madhav Gadgil (2005). Ecological Journeys. Orient Blackswan. p. 257. ISBN 9788178241128.
  • Madhav Gadgil (2013), Science, democracy and ecology in India. Nehru Memorial Museum & Library ISBN 978-8187614760 [37]

Awards and recognition

 
Dr. Madhav Gadgil and Col. Ashwin Baindur at Wikidata workshop in Pune on 18 September 2017

The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) elected him as their Fellow in 1984.[10] Six years later, the two other major science academies of India, The Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS)[7] and the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), followed suit by electing him as a Fellow in 1990.[38] He is Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), an honorary Fellow of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) and a recipient of the National Environment Fellowship of the Ministry of Environment and Forests for his field research in the Western Ghats.[39] He was elected as a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1991[40] and he serves as a member of the British Ecological Society and Ecological Society of America.[3][39]

The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 1981[6] and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an autonomous government agency awarded him Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest Indian award in the Science and Technology sector, in 1986.[41] In between, in 1983, the Government of Karnataka honoured him with Rajyotsava Prashasthi, their second highest civilian award.[21] His alma mater, Harvard University, presented him with the Harvard Centennial Medal, an annual honour given to its alumni for their achievements in their respective field of service, in 2002.[42] The next year, he shared the 2003 Volvo Environment Prize of the Volvo Environment Prize Foundation, with Muhammad Yunus, the social entrepreneur from Bangladesh.[43]

Gadgil received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award from the Government of India in 2006[6] and the H. K. Firodia award of the H. K. Firodia Foundation reached him a year later, in 2007.[44] The Central University of Orissa honoured him with the degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) in 2013[25] and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) recognised the contributions of the Western Ghats Ecology Experts Panel (WGEEP) and its chairman with the Georgescu-Roegen Award in 2014.[45] The University of Southern California awarded him the John and Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 2015, which he shared with Jane Lubchenco, a Distinguished Professor of Oregon State University,[24] making him the second Indian, after M. S. Swaminathan, to receive the Prize.[46] He is also a recipient of the Vikram Sarabhai Award and Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar Award.[21]

He received the Fergusson Gaurav Puraskar 2019, for being an Outstanding Alumnus from his Alma Mater, Fergusson College on 6 January 2019.

Eponymy

Elaeocarpus gadgilii, is a tree species described in 2021 from the Nelliampathy hills in Palakkad district of Kerala, India named in honour of him. [47]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gadgil, Madhav. "My Fundays". The telegraph. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Centre for Ecological Sciences". Indian Institute of Science. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  3. ^ a b "HONORARY MEMBERSHIP AWARD" (PDF). Ecological Society of America. 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  4. ^ "FDI does not benefit any country". ReDiff Business. 27 July 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  5. ^ (PDF). Ministry of Environment and Forests. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  6. ^ a b c (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  7. ^ a b "IAS Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  8. ^ a b Gadgil, M. (September 1993). "In love with life". Seminar (409): 25–30.
  9. ^ . Saharakar Bharati. 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  10. ^ a b c d e f "INSA Fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  11. ^ a b Ramachandra Guha (2006). How Much Should a Person Consume?: Environmentalism in India and the United States. University of California Press. p. 262. ISBN 9780520248038.
  12. ^ (Michael L. Lewis 2003, pp. 109–137)
  13. ^ a b c "2015 Tyler Laureates". University of Southern California. 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  14. ^ a b c Sulochana Gadgil (2015). "My tryst with the monsoon" (PDF). Indian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  15. ^ a b "Visiting Research Professor". University of Goa. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  16. ^ "Madhav Gadgil to file Goa's ecological history". VN. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  17. ^ a b c d e f g h "Indian Institute of Astrophysics profile". Indian Institute of Astrophysics. 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  18. ^ a b c "Why India must protect the Western Ghats from getting lost". Hindustan Times. 2 February 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  19. ^ "User profile". Encyclopedia of Earth. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  20. ^ a b "Gadgil committee recommendations on Western Ghats ideal, practical: Experts". Times of India. 29 August 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  21. ^ a b c d e f g "National Institute of Engineering profile" (PDF). National Institute of Engineering. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  22. ^ A. P. Deshpande. . Rajhans Prakashan. ISBN 9788174345516. Archived from the original on 29 June 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  23. ^ a b "Vested interests harm Western Ghats". Deccan Herald. 28 March 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  24. ^ a b c "Tyler Prize". University of Southern California. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  25. ^ a b "Central University of Orissa DSc". 2013. Odisha Samachar. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  26. ^ "People's Biodiversity Registers". Centre for Ecological Sciences. 2006. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  27. ^ "IAS Open Access Repository". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  28. ^ a b "National Institute of Ecology profile". National Institute of Ecology. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  29. ^ Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha (1992). This Fissured Land. Oxford University Press India. p. 312. ISBN 9780198077442.
  30. ^ Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha (1995). Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India. Routeledge. p. 223. ISBN 978-0415125246.
  31. ^ Madhav Gadgil, P. R. Seshagiri Rao (1998). Nurturing Biodiversity: An Indian Agenda. Centre for Environment Education. p. 163. ISBN 9788186385135.
  32. ^ Madhav Gadgil (2005). Diversity : The cornerstone of life. Vigyan Prasar. p. 64. ISBN 8174800263.
  33. ^ Madhav Gadgil (2005). Ecological Journeys. Orient Blackswan. p. 257. ISBN 9788178241128.
  34. ^ "PEW Fellow". The PEW Charitable Trusts. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  35. ^ "KVIFF Honours". Kirloskar Vasundhara. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.[permanent dead link]
  36. ^ Madhav Gadgil (2006). "Ecology is for the People: A Methodology Manual for People's Biodiversity Register" (PDF). Centre for Ecological Sciences. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  37. ^ "CPPR Quarterly Lecture Series- Prof. Madhav Gadgil".
  38. ^ . National Academy of Sciences India. 2015. Archived from the original on 21 October 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  39. ^ a b "Honorary Fellow ATBC". Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  40. ^ "Foreign Associate". [U.S. National Academy of Sciences. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  41. ^ "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  42. ^ "Harvard Centennial Medal". Harvard University. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  43. ^ "Volvo Environment Prize". The Volvo Environment Prize Foundation. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  44. ^ . H K Firodia Foundation. 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  45. ^ "Georgescu-Roegen Award". The Energy and Resources Institute. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  46. ^ "Indian ecologist Madhav Gadgil, US scientist Jane Lubchenco share 2015 Tyler Prize". Zee News. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  47. ^ Manoharan, M.A., Prabhukumar, K.M., Arjun, S.K., Jose, S. and Veerankutty, S., 2021. Elaeocarpus gadgilii (Elaeocarpaceae), a new species from Western Ghats (India). Phytotaxa, 489(1), pp.87-93.

Further reading

  • Michael L. Lewis (2003). "Modern Ecology Comes to India". Inventing Global Ecology: Tracking the Biodiversity Ideal in India, 1947–1997. Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-1540-5.
  • (PDF). Ministry of Environment and Forests. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  • Madhav Gadgil (2006). "Ecology is for the People: A Methodology Manual for People's Biodiversity Register (Full Text)" (PDF). Centre for Ecological Sciences. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  • A. P. Deshpande. . Rajhans Prakashan. ISBN 9788174345516. Archived from the original on 29 June 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  • Gadgil, M. (September 1993). "In love with life". Seminar (409): 25–30.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Madhav Gadgil.
  • "Home Page on IISc". Faculty home page. Indian Institute of Science. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  • . Students in conversation with Dr. Madhav Gadgil and Dr. Amit Bhaduri- YouTube video. Goa University. 31 January 2014. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2015.

December 31, 2022
madhav, gadgil, environmental, report, gadgil, commission, madhav, dhananjaya, gadgil, born, 1942, indian, ecologist, academic, writer, columnist, founder, centre, ecological, sciences, research, forum, under, aegis, indian, institute, science, former, member,. For the environmental report see Gadgil Commission Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil born 24 May 1942 is an Indian ecologist 1 academic writer columnist and the founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences 2 a research forum under the aegis of the Indian Institute of Science 3 He is a former member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India and the Head of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel WGEEP of 2010 popularly known as the Gadgil Commission 4 5 He is a recipient of the Volvo Environment Prize and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri in 1981 and followed it up with the third highest award of the Padma Bhushan in 2006 6 Madhav GadgilMadhav GadgilBorn 1942 05 24 24 May 1942 age 80 Pune MaharashtraNationalityIndianAlma materPune UniversityMumbai UniversityHarvard UniversityKnown forGadgil CommissionPeople Biodiversity Register in IndiaAwardsPadma ShriShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and TechnologyRajyotsava PrashasthiHarvard Centennial MedalVolvo Environment PrizePadma BhushanH K Firodia awardGeorgescu Roegen AwardTyler Prize for Environmental AchievementGeorgescu Roegen AwardVikram Sarabhai AwardIshwarchandra Vidyasagar AwardScientific careerFieldsEcology Conservation Biology Human Ecology Ecological historyInstitutionsHarvard UniversityCentre for Ecological Sciences Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Contents 1 Academic career 1 1 Harvard years 1 2 Return to India 2 Personal life 3 Legacy 4 Awards and recognition 5 Eponymy 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksAcademic career EditGadgil was born on 24 May 1942 7 in Pune in the western Indian state of Maharashtra His parents were Pramila and Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil a Cambridge scholar 8 economist former director of the Gokhale Institute and the author of the Gadgil formula 9 He graduated in biology from Fergusson College of the University of Pune in 1963 and secured a master s degree in zoology from the Mumbai University in 1965 10 11 Harvard years Edit Gadgil was encouraged to join Harvard University by Giles Mead then curator of fishes at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Initially intending to do research under Mead Gadgil later changed subjects by hearing lectures of E O Wilson the brightest young star in the ecology evolution end of biology at Harvard at that time and subsequently did his doctoral research on mathematical ecology and fish behaviour under the guidance of William Bossert 8 one of Wilson s former students 12 It earned him a PhD in 1969 13 Subsequently he received a Fellowship from IBM to continue his work as a research fellow at the Harvard Computing Center and simultaneously worked as a lecturer of biology at the university for two years 13 Return to India Edit He returned to India in 1971 14 and took up a job as a scientific officer at Agharkar Research Institute of the Maharashtra Association for Cultivation of Science Pune where he stayed for two years 10 In 1973 he joined the Indian Institute of Science IISc Bengaluru starting an association that would stretch for over thirty years superannuating from the institute as its chairman in 2004 10 During this period he established two research centres at IISc the Centre of Theoretical Studies and the Centre for Ecological Studies 13 He also worked as a visiting professor at Stanford University 1991 and the University of California Berkeley 1995 After his retirement from IISc he went back to Pune in 2004 to resume his association with Agharkar Research Institute 10 and holds the Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi chair of the visiting research professor at the University of Goa 15 16 In 1976 when the Government of Karnataka decided to look into protecting the bamboo resources of the state Gadgil was asked to conduct a study which is reported to have influenced the government to curb the subsidies provided to forest based industries 17 A decade later in 1986 he was appointed as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to Prime Minister of India a post he held till 1990 17 During this period he assisted the efforts to establish the first biosphere reserve in the country at the Nilgiris in 1986 17 In 1998 he was appointed the chairman of the Science and Technology Advisory Panel of Global Environment Facility an agency under the United Nations He held the chair till 2002 He also served as a member of the environmental education panel of the National Council of Educational Research and Training NCERT and as a member of the National Advisory Council 18 He is a member of the National Tiger Conservation Authority 17 and is the chairman of the committee proposing Environmental Education Curriculum at School level 19 In 2010 when the Government of India constituted an expert panel Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel WGEEP to examine the ecological issues related to the Western Ghats he was selected as the chairman of the panel 20 Personal life EditGadgil an active sportsman during his college years held the Maharashtra State Junior and Pune University high jump records in 1959 and 1961 respectively He has also represented Pune University at the All India University Athletic meet 21 He is married to Sulochana Gadgil a noted meteorologist and a Harvard scholar whom he met during his Fergusson College years 14 The couple has a daughter who is a journalist cum Spanish teacher and a son a mathematician 11 14 The family lives in Pune his home town His life story has been recorded in a biographical book Vidnyanyatri Dr Madhav Gadgil written in Marathi by A P Deshpande 22 Legacy Edit Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve Poomparai village in the foothills of Western Ghats One of the major contributions of Gadgil is his effort towards the preservation of ecology of India His early researches in the 1980s have helped in the identification of the Nilgiris as the first biosphere reserve in India 17 As the chairman of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel WGEEP which later came to be known as the Gadgil Commission he submitted a report in 2011 23 marking around 64 percent of the Western Ghats region as Ecologically Sensitive Area ESA 18 The report attracted support and dissension 24 the environmentalists welcoming the recommendations and the state governments of the neighbouring states and the Syro Malabar Catholic Church of Kerala disapproving it 20 23 This paved way for the subsequent Kasturirangan Commission which diluted the recommendations to a level more acceptable to the state governments 18 He has been credited by many with the introduction of quantitative investigations of ecology and animal behaviour in India and for including humans as a vital part of ecosystems 17 25 His contributions as a member of the draft committee has been reported in the preparation of the Biological Diversity Act 2002 26 and the manual he prepared for the People s Biodiversity Registers has been accepted by the National Biodiversity Authority 21 He is still associated with the Authority in the preparation of a biodiversity inventory at the local bodies level 21 Gadgil is known to have done extensive researches in the areas of population biology conservation biology human ecology and ecological history His researches have been documented by over 250 scientific articles 10 published in various journals and magazines 27 He developed a penchant for writing at an early age and his first publication was a series of ten articles on animal behaviour published in Srishtidnyan a Marathi language science magazine when he was studying in the 10th standard 17 His doctoral thesis is reported to have been a citation classic 17 28 He published his first book in English This Fissured Land a book on the ecological history of India in 1992 29 The next book Ecology and Equity The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India 30 again co authored by Ramachandra Guha was released in 1995 followed by Nurturing Biodiversity An Indian Agenda a book co authored by P R Seshagiri Rao in 1998 31 In 2005 he published two books Diversity The cornerstone of life 32 and Ecological Journeys 33 As a part of his responsibilities as a Pew Fellow in Conservation and the Environment 34 he has contributed towards the preparation of People s Biodiversity Registers and has published a manual People s Biodiversity Registers A Methodology Manual 35 36 Some of his books have been translated into many languages and serve as texts for academic studies 24 He has also published two books 15 Nisarganiyojan Lokasahabhagane being one among them 28 and over 40 articles in Marathi and handled a fortnightly column on natural history in The Hindu from 1999 till 2004 21 He handles a monthly column in the Marathi daily Sakal 21 BooksMadhav Gadgil Ramachandra Guha 1992 This Fissured Land Oxford University Press India p 312 ISBN 9780198077442 Madhav Gadgil Ramachandra Guha 1995 Ecology and Equity The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India Routeledge p 223 ISBN 978 0415125246 Madhav Gadgil P R Seshagiri Rao 1998 Nurturing Biodiversity An Indian Agenda Centre for Environment Education p 163 ISBN 9788186385135 Madhav Gadgil 2005 Diversity The cornerstone of life Vigyan Prasar p 64 ISBN 8174800263 Madhav Gadgil 2005 Ecological Journeys Orient Blackswan p 257 ISBN 9788178241128 Madhav Gadgil 2013 Science democracy and ecology in India Nehru Memorial Museum amp Library ISBN 978 8187614760 37 Awards and recognition Edit Dr Madhav Gadgil and Col Ashwin Baindur at Wikidata workshop in Pune on 18 September 2017 The Indian National Science Academy INSA elected him as their Fellow in 1984 10 Six years later the two other major science academies of India The Indian Academy of Sciences IAS 7 and the National Academy of Sciences India NASI followed suit by electing him as a Fellow in 1990 38 He is Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences TWAS an honorary Fellow of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation ATBC and a recipient of the National Environment Fellowship of the Ministry of Environment and Forests for his field research in the Western Ghats 39 He was elected as a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1991 40 and he serves as a member of the British Ecological Society and Ecological Society of America 3 39 The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 1981 6 and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR an autonomous government agency awarded him Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology the highest Indian award in the Science and Technology sector in 1986 41 In between in 1983 the Government of Karnataka honoured him with Rajyotsava Prashasthi their second highest civilian award 21 His alma mater Harvard University presented him with the Harvard Centennial Medal an annual honour given to its alumni for their achievements in their respective field of service in 2002 42 The next year he shared the 2003 Volvo Environment Prize of the Volvo Environment Prize Foundation with Muhammad Yunus the social entrepreneur from Bangladesh 43 Gadgil received the Padma Bhushan the third highest civilian award from the Government of India in 2006 6 and the H K Firodia award of the H K Firodia Foundation reached him a year later in 2007 44 The Central University of Orissa honoured him with the degree of Doctor of Science Honoris Causa in 2013 25 and The Energy and Resources Institute TERI recognised the contributions of the Western Ghats Ecology Experts Panel WGEEP and its chairman with the Georgescu Roegen Award in 2014 45 The University of Southern California awarded him the John and Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 2015 which he shared with Jane Lubchenco a Distinguished Professor of Oregon State University 24 making him the second Indian after M S Swaminathan to receive the Prize 46 He is also a recipient of the Vikram Sarabhai Award and Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar Award 21 He received the Fergusson Gaurav Puraskar 2019 for being an Outstanding Alumnus from his Alma Mater Fergusson College on 6 January 2019 Eponymy EditElaeocarpus gadgilii is a tree species described in 2021 from the Nelliampathy hills in Palakkad district of Kerala India named in honour of him 47 See also Edit India portal Environment portal Ecology portalThis Fissured Land Gadgil Commission National Biodiversity Authority National Council of Educational Research and Training National Advisory Council National Tiger Conservation Authority Agharkar Research Institute Sulochana Gadgil Dhananjay Ramchandra GadgilReferences Edit Gadgil Madhav My Fundays The telegraph Retrieved 11 January 2012 Centre for Ecological Sciences Indian Institute of Science 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 a b HONORARY MEMBERSHIP AWARD PDF Ecological Society of America 2015 Retrieved 7 October 2015 FDI does not benefit any country ReDiff Business 27 July 2012 Retrieved 7 October 2015 Report of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel PDF Ministry of Environment and Forests 2015 Archived from the original PDF on 20 September 2015 Retrieved 7 October 2015 a b c Padma Awards PDF Ministry of Home Affairs Government of India 2015 Archived from the original PDF on 15 October 2015 Retrieved 21 July 2015 a b IAS Fellow Indian Academy of Sciences 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 a b Gadgil M September 1993 In love with life Seminar 409 25 30 Shri Dhananjayrao Gadgil Saharakar Bharati 2015 Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 Retrieved 10 October 2015 a b c d e f INSA Fellow Indian National Science Academy 2015 Retrieved 7 October 2015 a b Ramachandra Guha 2006 How Much Should a Person Consume Environmentalism in India and the United States University of California Press p 262 ISBN 9780520248038 Michael L Lewis 2003 pp 109 137 a b c 2015 Tyler Laureates University of Southern California 2015 Retrieved 7 October 2015 a b c Sulochana Gadgil 2015 My tryst with the monsoon PDF Indian Academy of Sciences Retrieved 11 March 2021 a b Visiting Research Professor University of Goa 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 Madhav Gadgil to file Goa s ecological history VN 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 a b c d e f g h Indian Institute of Astrophysics profile Indian Institute of Astrophysics 2015 Retrieved 7 October 2015 a b c Why India must protect the Western Ghats from getting lost Hindustan Times 2 February 2014 Retrieved 7 October 2015 User profile Encyclopedia of Earth 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 a b Gadgil committee recommendations on Western Ghats ideal practical Experts Times of India 29 August 2014 Retrieved 7 October 2015 a b c d e f g National Institute of Engineering profile PDF National Institute of Engineering 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 A P Deshpande Vidnyanyatri Dr Madhav Gadgil Rajhans Prakashan ISBN 9788174345516 Archived from the original on 29 June 2020 Retrieved 8 October 2015 a b Vested interests harm Western Ghats Deccan Herald 28 March 2014 Retrieved 8 October 2015 a b c Tyler Prize University of Southern California 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 a b Central University of Orissa DSc 2013 Odisha Samachar Retrieved 8 October 2015 People s Biodiversity Registers Centre for Ecological Sciences 2006 Retrieved 8 October 2015 IAS Open Access Repository Indian Academy of Sciences 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 a b National Institute of Ecology profile National Institute of Ecology 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 Madhav Gadgil Ramachandra Guha 1992 This Fissured Land Oxford University Press India p 312 ISBN 9780198077442 Madhav Gadgil Ramachandra Guha 1995 Ecology and Equity The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India Routeledge p 223 ISBN 978 0415125246 Madhav Gadgil P R Seshagiri Rao 1998 Nurturing Biodiversity An Indian Agenda Centre for Environment Education p 163 ISBN 9788186385135 Madhav Gadgil 2005 Diversity The cornerstone of life Vigyan Prasar p 64 ISBN 8174800263 Madhav Gadgil 2005 Ecological Journeys Orient Blackswan p 257 ISBN 9788178241128 PEW Fellow The PEW Charitable Trusts 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 KVIFF Honours Kirloskar Vasundhara 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 permanent dead link Madhav Gadgil 2006 Ecology is for the People A Methodology Manual for People s Biodiversity Register PDF Centre for Ecological Sciences Retrieved 8 October 2015 CPPR Quarterly Lecture Series Prof Madhav Gadgil NASI Fellow National Academy of Sciences India 2015 Archived from the original on 21 October 2014 Retrieved 8 October 2015 a b Honorary Fellow ATBC Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 Foreign Associate U S National Academy of Sciences 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Council of Scientific and Industrial Research 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 Harvard Centennial Medal Harvard University 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 Volvo Environment Prize The Volvo Environment Prize Foundation 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 H K Firodia awards H K Firodia Foundation 2015 Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 Retrieved 8 October 2015 Georgescu Roegen Award The Energy and Resources Institute 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 Indian ecologist Madhav Gadgil US scientist Jane Lubchenco share 2015 Tyler Prize Zee News 25 March 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 Manoharan M A Prabhukumar K M Arjun S K Jose S and Veerankutty S 2021 Elaeocarpus gadgilii Elaeocarpaceae a new species from Western Ghats India Phytotaxa 489 1 pp 87 93 Further reading EditMichael L Lewis 2003 Modern Ecology Comes to India Inventing Global Ecology Tracking the Biodiversity Ideal in India 1947 1997 Ohio University Press ISBN 978 0 8214 1540 5 Report of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel PDF Ministry of Environment and Forests 2015 Archived from the original PDF on 20 September 2015 Retrieved 7 October 2015 Madhav Gadgil 2006 Ecology is for the People A Methodology Manual for People s Biodiversity Register Full Text PDF Centre for Ecological Sciences Retrieved 8 October 2015 A P Deshpande Vidnyanyatri Dr Madhav Gadgil Rajhans Prakashan ISBN 9788174345516 Archived from the original on 29 June 2020 Retrieved 8 October 2015 Gadgil M September 1993 In love with life Seminar 409 25 30 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Madhav Gadgil Home Page on IISc Faculty home page Indian Institute of Science 2015 Retrieved 8 October 2015 A dialougue on Development amp Environment Students in conversation with Dr Madhav Gadgil and Dr Amit Bhaduri YouTube video Goa University 31 January 2014 Archived from the original on 25 March 2016 Retrieved 8 October 2015 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Madhav Gadgil amp oldid 1102040739, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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