As a practitioner I work with Indigenous communities, in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, with a focus on -Agriculture and forest based livelihoods; Environmental governance primarily through facilitating land rights as part of the Forest rights Act 2006; Community health and wellness; and Natural resource management with a focus on water, informed by conventional and traditional, indigenous knowledge and culture, in a sustainable and gender inclusive manner, with the goal of improving community well being. My research interests are in Natural resources and environmental management-Human Dimension; Community wellbeing assessments; Nature based solutions and developing integrated monitoring and assessment tools for composite planning; Natural resource markets and certification.