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India’s dog crisis warrants governance reimagination, less animal management
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Authors
Nishant Kumar 
,
Tim Coulson
Abstract
The Indian Supreme Court’s 2025 mandate to relocate millions of dogs exposed policy instability in cities where ecological realities, cultural practices, and institutional fragmentation collide. The crisis is less about animals and more about how urban governance fails to reconcile competing priorities, underscoring the collapse of the Indian coexistence model.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.32942/X2GW7K
Subjects
Behavior and Ethology, Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences, Population Biology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Keywords
Free-ranging dogs; Urban ecology; Anthropogenic resource subsidies; Zoonotic disease management; Environmental justice
Dates
Published: 2025-11-13 08:54
Last Updated: 2026-05-09 01:04
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CC-By Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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English
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