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Arun Agrawal

arun agrawal
Samuel Trask Dana Professor
Sustainability and Development
Food Systems
Conservation + Restoration
arunagra@umich.edu
(734) 647-5948

About

Arun Agrawal, PhD, emphasizes the politics of international development, institutional change, and environmental conservation in his research and teaching. He has written critically on indigenous knowledge, community-based conservation, common property, population resources, and environmental identities. Agrawal is the coordinator for the International Forestry Resources and Institutions network and is currently carrying out research in central and east Africa as well as South Asia. Since 2013, Agrawal has served as the editor-in-chief of World Development and his recent work has appeared in Science, PNAS, Conservation Biology, Development and Change, among other journals. Preceding his work at U-M, Agrawal was educated at Duke University, the Indian Institute of Management, and Delhi University and has held teaching and research positions at Yale, Florida, McGill, Berkeley, and Harvard among other universities. 

Publications

  • Oldekop, Johan A., Sims, Katharine R. E., Karna, Birendra K., Whittingham, Mark J., Agrawal, Arun. 2019. Reductions in deforestation and poverty from decentralized forest management in Nepal. Nature Sustainability.
  • Agrawal, A., L. Wollenberg, and L, Persha. 2014. Governing Mitigation in Agriculture-Forest Landscapes. Global Environmental Change. 29: 270-326.
  • Agrawal, A., L. Wollenberg, and L, Persha. 2014. Governing Mitigation in Agriculture-Forest Landscapes. Global Environmental Change. 29: 270-326.
  • Agrawal, A. 2005. Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects (Duke University Press; Oxford University Press, Delhi). rpt. 2006.
  • Sivaramakrishnan, K. and A. Agrawal. 2003. Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development. Stanford University Press.
  • Agrawal, A. 1999. Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community among a Migrant Pastoral People. Durham NC: Duke University Press. (Jointly published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi).

Research
  • 2015-18: (Co-PI) Large-Scale Land Transactions as Drivers of Land-Cover Change in SubSaharan Africa. NASA. 891K (With Dan Brown, PI).
  • 2014-15: (PI) Integrating forest commons and global datasets. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) 153K.
  • 2014-18: (PI) Forest Dependence and effectiveness of forest interventions to support livelihoods. Department for International Development. 3.1M.
  • 2014-16 (PI) International Institute for Education (State Department). Climate change mitigation, avoided deforestation and commodity agriculture. Global Innovation Initiative. 250K (with P. Newton and L. Wollenberg)
  • 2013: (PI): Enhancing causal inference for forest commons outcomes, Rights and Resources Initiative (60K)
Education

PhD, Duke University (political science)

MA, Duke University (political science)

MBA, Indian Institute of Management (development administration and public policy)

BA, Delhi University (history)

Affiliations
  • Coordinator: International Forestry Resources and Institutions Program (2006- Present)
  • Member, NSF-IGERT (National Science Foundation-Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) evaluation panel (2010)
  • Member, Fellowship selection panel, ACLS (2009-2011)
In the News
U-M SEAS Announces New Sustainability and Development Degree Specialization
October 13, 2020

SEAS Announces New Sustainability and Development Degree Specialization

The U-M School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) has received approval from the Rackham Executive Board to establish a new degree specialization focused on...

Global forest restoration and the importance of empowering local communities
August 24, 2020

Global forest restoration and the importance of empowering local communities

ANN ARBOR— Forest restoration is a crucial element in strategies to mitigate climate change and conserve global biodiversity in the coming decades, and much of the focus...

April 1, 2020

U-M to launch online master’s-level programs in environment, public health, social work

ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan continues to expand its portfolio of online programs with the support of the Center for Academic Innovation, launching three new...

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