“We do not want a solar power generation plant here. Our animals and nature will be destroyed. We eat rotis made of bajra and drink ghi; we are content. This will finish if the plant is constructed here.” An old farmer told us angrily during a recent phase of fieldwork in western Rajasthan. On another day, another village resident explained why some people seemed willing to give their land away to renewable energy projects: “a farmer who earns one lakh rupees annually from his land calculates that he could earn two lakh rupees if he leases his land to the company.”

Ecology, Economy and Society (EES) began its humble but hopeful journey with its inaugural issue in April 2018. The founding editors were renowned professors Jayanta Bandopadhyay, Kamal Bawa, and Kanchan Chopra, each of them a doyen in their domain. They brought their years of experience of building the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) to an aspiring journal that aimed “to highlight and provide examples of…diverse approaches to the study the links between ecology, economy, and society” (Chopra 2018, page 3). As it happens in the journey of every institution, the founding editors have now handed over the baton to a team comprising Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, and Pranab Mukhopadhyay. These editors represent the next generation of INSEE members.