Publications 2024-25
Books
2025 Grassroot Warriors: Lessons from a community renowned for its commitment to protect nature, by Prof. Mukul Sharma, Published 25 February 2025.
2024 Dalit Ecologies: Caste and Environment Justice, Cambridge University Press. by Prof. Mukul Sharma
2024 Green and Saffron: The RSS, Modi, and Indian Environmental Politics, revised and new edition, Permanent Black, Ranikhet and Ashoka University. by Prof. Mukul Sharma
2024 Green Pioneers: Ramachandra Guha traces India’s environmental consciousness through its first ecologists, by Prof. Mukul Sharma, Published 31 October 2024.
Journal articles and book chapters
2025 ‘Modi the “Solar Superman”: Hindutva, Climate Change and Renewable Energy,’ India Review, 24:1, 2025, pp. 55-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2025.2454795 by Prof. Mukul Sharma
2025 The importance of quantifying selection climates: predictable and unpredictable variation in predation risk and the implications for prey responses, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Vol 292 Issue 2051, 2025. by Dr. Manvi Sharma.
2025 Identifying leverage points for sustainability in India’s shark supply chains, Marine Policy, Vol. 173, 106580, 2025. by Dr. Divya Karnad.
2025 Separating Historical Catches Among Pygmy Blue Whale Populations Using Recent Song Detections, Marine Mammal Science, First published 19 March 2025. by Dr. Divya Karnad.
2024 Folklore, Religion, Ecology: Dina-Bhadri and the Politics of Dalit Environmental Movements. In Becoming Earthlings: Religion, Ecology, and Politics, ed. Y. T. Vinayaraj, Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society (CISRS), 82-120. by Prof. Mukul Sharma
2024 Encounter rates and active nests of raptors in the Indian trans-Himalaya: towards a long-term monitoring program, Indian Birds, Vol 20 No 3, 2024. by Dr. Manvi Sharma.
2024 Predicting and reducing potential parasite infection between migratory livestock and resident Asiatic ibex of Pin valley, India. Journal of Biosciences. 2024 by Dr. Manvi Sharma.
2024 Can livestock grazing dampen density-dependent fluctuations in wild herbivore populations? Journal of Applied Ecology 61,1243-1254, 2024 by Dr. Manvi Sharma.
2024 Social clues in risky pools: Perceived conspecific rivals modify individual mosquito oviposition decisions in response to larval predation and competition. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology. by Dr. Manvi Sharma.
2024 Marine Fisheries, in Oxford Handbook (Chapter 22), pp. 427–442, Published 18 July 2024. by Dr. Divya Karnad.
2024 Global status and research priorities for rhino rays, Endangered Species Research, 53:49–66, 2024. by Dr. Divya Karnad.
2024 Fisher insights into rhino ray status, utilisation, and conservation at five major fishing harbours in India, 2024. by Dr. Divya Karnad.
2024 Learning from the past: collaborating across times for landscape management for Conservation, Quaternary Environments and Humans, Vol. 2, Issue 6, December 2024, 100032. by Dr. Meghna Agarwala.
2024 Understanding the presence of Cannabis across the Holocene in Central India, Quaternary Environments and Humans, Vol. 2, Issue 6, December 2024, 100032. by Dr. Meghna Agarwala.
2024 Land degradation and development in India: Status quo, challenges and opportunities, Land Degradation & Development, First published 19 March 2024. by Dr. Meghna Agarwala.
Publications
2025 Females use multiple cues to assess competition for egg-laying decisions. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.28.635106. 2025. by Dr. Manvi Sharma.
2024 Social clues in risky pools: Perceived conspecific rivals strongly modify individual oviposition decisions in response to larval predation and competition, bioRxiv, doi: 10.1101/2024.07.03.602002, 2024. by Dr. Manvi Sharma.
2024 Getting Curious: Shark Conservation through Education Programmes with InSeason Fish, Shark News – the official IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Shark Specialist Group (SSG) magazine, 2024 by Dr. Divya Karnad.
2024 Between the city lords and the deep blue sea, People’s Archive of Rural India, 2024. by Dr. Divya Karnad.
2024 The global status of sharks, rays, and chimaeras, IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Shark Specialist Group, Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, ISBN 978-2-8317-2318-1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.59216/ssg.gsrsrc.2024. by Dr. Divya Karnad (as contributing author).
Projects and Grants 2024-25
2025 Dr. Manvi Sharma, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies GRANT- Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant from ANRF (Anusandhan National Research Foundation) for Himalayan carnivores work. AWARDED- February 2025
2025 Dr. Divya Karnad, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies GRANT- The Bay of Bengal Programme – BIMREN grant for research on India and Bangladesh Fisheries. AWARDED- March 2025
2024 Dr. Meghna Agarwala, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies GRANT- Building synergies between biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and rural prosperity through community forest governance, Funded by Swedish Research Council, 2023–2026.
2024 Dr. Meghna Agarwala, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies GRANT-Using past analogues to understand the role of fire and climate change in Central India, Funded by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) – POWER Grant, 2021–2024.
2024 Dr. Meghna Agarwala, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies GRANT- Quantifying teak age to understand impact of climate stress, Funded by Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability (3CS), 2021–2024.
Presentations 2024-25
Topic of Presentation, Faculty Name, Organisation/place of presentation, date of presentation
2024 Touch, Smell, Taste in Its Environmental and Justice Aspect, Keynote Lecture, International Conference on ‘Climate Crisis and the Question of Justice,’ Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 15 November. by Prof. Mukul Sharma
2024 Dalit Ecologies: Caste and Environment Justice, Book Talk, International Dalit Solidarity Network, Oslo, 28 October. by Prof. Mukul Sharma
2024 Green and Saffron, Book Discussion, Shanghvi Library, Ashoka University, 19 September. by Prof. Mukul Sharma
2024 Dalit Ecologies: My World is a Different World, Book Talk, Department of Environmental Studies, Ashoka University, 17 September.
by Prof. Mukul Sharma
2024 Dalit Ecologies: Caste and Environment Justice, Book Talk, School of Liberal Studies, BML Munjal University, Gurgaon, 11 September. by Prof. Mukul Sharma
2024 Conceptualising Dalitbahujan Anthropocene: Nek Chand, Displacement, Waste, and Rocks for Environmental Imaginations, Book Workshop on Transformations and the Politics of Environmental Change in India: A Critical Engagement of the Anthropocene, Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies (REES), Routledge UK, 17 May. by Prof. Mukul Sharma
2024 Ambedkar Relevance in Indian Environmental Thought, In conversation with Ashish Kothari, ‘From Yesterday towards Tomorrow’ series, Vikalp Sangam, 30 March. by Prof. Mukul Sharma
2024 Modi, Hindu Nationalism and Climate Politics, Panelist on Saffron Energy? Hindu Nationalism and Low-carbon Energy Development in India, Political Ecologies of the Far Right Conference, Uppsala University, Sweden, 11 January. by Prof. Mukul Sharma
2024 Homeland, Cows and Climate Change: the Visualisation of Environmental Issues by the Far Right in India, Panelist on Visualising Far-Right Environments: Communication and the Politics of Nature, Political Ecologies of the Far Right Conference, Uppsala University, Sweden, 12 January. by Prof. Mukul Sharma
Featured in the media 2024-25
2025 “A Sensory Theory of Environmental Justice,” public lecture at Tokyo College, University of Tokyo on July 23, 2025. Tokyo College YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrx9rKYp6X8&pp=0gcJCa0JAYcqIYzv by Prof. Mukul Sharma
2024 ‘Promoting Yoga or Vegetarianism ignores the culture and perspective of lower caste,’ Crossroads Podcast series, in Czech and English, Prague, 13 December, https://denikalarm.cz/2024/12/propagace-jogy-nebo-vegetarianstvi-ignoruje-kulturu-a-perspektivu-nejnizsich-kast-rika-mukul-sharma/; https://share.transistor.fm/s/bfbb85d0 by Prof. Mukul Sharma
2024 ‘Green Pioneers’, Book Review, OPEN, 31 October 2024, https://openthemagazine.com/lounge/books/green-pioneers/ by Prof. Mukul Sharma
