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Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences
I have longstanding experience of undertaking participatory and ethnographic work on community based forest management, indigenous environemntal knowledge and the management , gender-environment relations agrarian change and the collection and marketing of non-timber forest produce in India. OUtside India, I have worked on rainwater harvesting in Tanzania and the restoration of tropical peatlands in SE Asia. My research has placed particular attention to political ecology of natural resource management, intra- and inter-community variations in environmental knowledge possession and management capacity and the socio-cultural importance of forests.
My research interests lie mainly at the interface between environment and development. Since 2001, I have been undertaking research in Uttar Pradesh (in collaboration with Dr Kathleen Baker of King's… read more
My research interests lie mainly at the interface between environment and development. Since 2001, I have been undertaking research in Uttar Pradesh (in collaboration with Dr Kathleen Baker of King's College London) on agrarian change in the post Green Revolution period. This has, in turn, fed into research on alternative household energy systems and the socio-economic and gendered geographies of dung with a particular emphasis on how the redistribution of dung (including human excreta) within the agriculture/household energy/livestock-rearing nexus can help to address declining yields and water pollution from chemical fertilizers as well as health and socioeconomic issues relating to indoor air pollution, poor sanitation and inadequate household energy supplies. Outside India, recent research has focused mainly on rainwater harvesting in Tanzania and the restoration of tropical peatland in SE Asia to promote sustainable natural resource use and reduce carbon emissions.
I have been undertaking research in India since 1989 and have worked extensively on environment-development issues in India including community-based forest management, gender-environment relations, the production and management of non-timber forest products (project funded by the Department for International Development), technology transfers and the displacement of indigenous agro-ecological knowledges. Particular emphasis has been placed on the displacement of indigenous agro-ecological knowledge, the gendered political ecology of natural resource management, intra- and inter-community vari8ations in environmental knowledge possession and management capacity and the socio-cultural importance of forests and its influence on community-based resource management. Most of this research has been carried out in the States of Jharkhand and Orissa.
In addition to continuing my research on agrarian change in Bulandshar and forest use/management and gender relations in Jharkhand, I am currently involved in researching sustainable energy technologies and energy from waste initiatives in developing countries. I am a member of the EPSRC INTERACT CALL 6 funded UK-India sustainable energy network workshop and have recently applied to ESRC/Dfid for research to undertake collaborative research in sustainable rural energy with other members of the network.
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