Arun Agrawal
Samuel Trask Dana Professor, Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability, Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, Professor of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy
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Arun Agrawal’s research and teaching emphases are on the politics of international development, institutional change and environmental conservation. He has written extensively on 1) indigenous knowledge, 2) community-based conservation, 3) common property, 4) population and resources, and 5) environmental identities. Recent interests include the decentralization of environmental policy (especially forestry and wildlife), and the emergence of environment as a subject of human concern. Geographical focus on South Asia although recent projects include other developing countries in Africa and Latin America.
- Liao, Chuan, Jung, Suhyun, Brown, Daniel G., Arun Agrawal. 2024. Does land tenure change accelerate deforestation? A matching-based four-country comparison. Ecological Economics 215:108011.
- Liao, Chuan, Arun Agrawal. 2024. Towards a science of 'land grabbing'. Land Use Policy 137:107002.
- Fischer, Harry W., Chhatre, Ashwini, Duddu, Apurva, Pradhan, Nabin, Arun Agrawal. 2023. Community forest governance and synergies among carbon, biodiversity and livelihoods. Nature Climate Change 13:1340-1347.
- Liao, Chuan, Liu, Juan, Arun Agrawal. 2023. Sustainability governance for agrarian transformation under climate change. Sustainability Science 19:361-372.
- Arun Agrawal, James Erbaugh, Nabin Pradhan. 2023. The Commons. Annual Reviews 48
- Agrawal, Arun, Entwistle, Julia, Brown, Daniel G., Chesterman, Nathan S, Chambers, Matthew C, Liu, Hsiao-Chin . 2019. The effects of trainings in soil and water conservation on farming practices, livelihoods, and land-use intensity in the Ethiopian highlands. Land Use Policy 87:104051.
- Agrawal, Arun, Oldekop, Johan A, Sims, Katharine R. E., Karna, Birendra K, Whittingham, Mark J. 2019. Reductions in deforestation and poverty from decentralized forest management in Nepal. Nature Sustainability 2(5):421-428.
- Agrawal, Arun, Hajjar, R , Newton, P , Adshead, D , Bogaerts, M , Maguire-Rajpaul, V A, Pinto, L F. G., McDermott, C L, Milder, J C, Wollenberg, E . 2019. Scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture: Transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil. Journal of Cleaner Production 206:124-132.
- Agrawal, Arun, Hajjar, Reem , Ayana, Alemayehu N, Rutt, Rebecca , Hinde, Omer , Liao, Chuan , Keene, Stephanie , Bandiaky-Badji, Solange . 2019. Capital, labor, and gender: the consequences of large-scale land transactions on household labor allocation. The Journal of Peasant Studies :1-23.
- Agrawal, Arun, Brown, Daniel G., Sullivan, Jonathan A. 2019. Are Global Land Grabs Ticking Socio-environmental Bombs or Just Inefficient Investments?. One Earth 1(2):159-162.