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Arun Agrawal's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Masters Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Political Science Delhi University

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According to Wikipedia, Arun Agrawal is a political scientist and the Samuel Trask Dana Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. Agrawal is the coordinator for the International Forestry Resources and Institutions network and does research in Africa and South Asia.

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Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation (1999) (2912)
Common Property Institutions and Sustainable Governance of Resources (2001) (1955)
Dismantling the Divide Between Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge (1995) (1911)
Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects (2005) (1224)
Recentralizing while decentralizing: How national governments reappropriate forest resources (2006) (895)
Accountability in decentralization: A framework with South Asian and West African cases (1999) (888)
Collective Action, Property Rights, and Decentralization in Resource Use in India and Nepal (2001) (841)
Changing Governance of the World's Forests (2008) (758)
Sustainable governance of common-pool resources: Context, methods, and politics (2003) (636)
Trade-offs and synergies between carbon storage and livelihood benefits from forest commons (2009) (609)
Does REDD+ Threaten to Recentralize Forest Governance? (2010) (588)
The role of local institutions in adaptation to climate change (2008) (587)
Social and Ecological Synergy: Local Rulemaking, Forest Livelihoods, and Biodiversity Conservation (2011) (551)
Environmentality : Community, intimate government, and the making of environmental subjects in Kumaon, India (2005) (536)
Explaining success on the commons: Community forest governance in the Indian Himalaya (2006) (462)
Decentralization and Participation: The Governance of Common Pool Resources in Nepal’s Terai (2005) (457)
Governance regime and location influence avoided deforestation success of protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon (2013) (440)
Indigenous knowledge and the politics of classification (2002) (419)
Conservation and Displacement: An Overview (2009) (364)
Local institutions and adaptation to climate change. (2010) (358)
Forest commons and local enforcement (2008) (330)
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (2011) (323)
Forests, Governance, and Sustainability: Common Property Theory and its Contributions (2007) (310)
Environmentality (2005) (306)
Patronage or Participation? Community‐based Natural Resource Management Reform in Sub‐Saharan Africa (2008) (294)
Poverty, Development, And Biodiversity Conservation: Shooting in the Dark? (2016) (284)
Climate Adaptation , Local Institutions , and Rural Livelihoods (2008) (280)
Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge: Some Critical Comments (2014) (226)
Group Size and Collective Action (2001) (201)
Engage key social concepts for sustainability (2016) (195)
Governance for the Environment: Environmental governance and political science (2009) (189)
Adapting to Climate Change: Climate adaptation, local institutions and rural livelihoods (2009) (183)
Carbon, forests and the REDD paradox (2010) (182)
Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to a Sustainable Future (2012) (182)
Inequalities, institutions, and forest commons (2011) (175)
Using community forest managementto achieve REDD+ goals (2009) (172)
Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community among a Migrant Pastoral People (1999) (166)
Enhancing the sustainability of commodity supply chains in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes (2013) (151)
Climate adaptation, local institutions, and rural livelihoods: A comparative study of herder communities in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, China (2013) (141)
A Greener Revolution in the Making?: Environmental Governance in the 21st Century (2007) (141)
COLLECTIVE ACTION, PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND DEVOLUTION IN FOREST AND PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT (1999) (134)
Who are forest-dependent people? A taxo nomy to aid livelihood and land use decision-making in forested regions (2016) (134)
Studying the commons, governing common-pool resource outcomes: Some concluding thoughts (2014) (132)
2 Common Resources and Institutional Sustainability (2009) (126)
State formation in community spaces? Decentralization of control over forests in the Kumaon Himalaya, India (2001) (121)
Enhancing the relevance of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways for climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability research (2013) (119)
Biodiversity, Governance, and the Allocation of International Aid for Conservation (2013) (117)
Building Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Less Developed Countries (2013) (113)
Reductions in deforestation and poverty from decentralized forest management in Nepal (2019) (103)
Forest contributions to livelihoods in changing agriculture-forest landscapes☆ (2017) (96)
Biodiversity conservation and livelihoods in human-dominated landscapes: Forest commons in South Asia (2010) (96)
Fourteen Years of Monitoring Community-Managed Forests: Learning from IFRI's Experience (2007) (91)
Decentralization and Environmental Conservation: Gender Effects from Participation in Joint Forest Management (2006) (91)
Global forest restoration and the importance of prioritizing local communities (2020) (90)
Political Science and Conservation Biology: a Dialog of the Deaf (2006) (87)
Deforestation and timber production in Congo after implementation of sustainable forest management policy (2016) (85)
Adaptive management in transboundary protected areas: The Bialowieza National Park and Biosphere Reserve as a case study (2000) (85)
Livelihoods and poverty (2014) (83)
Understanding the Social and Ecological Outcomes of PES Projects: A Review and an Analysis (2013) (82)
Impacts of Climate Change on Public Health in India: Future Research Directions (2011) (82)
Common property theory and resource governance institutions: strengthening explanations of multiple outcomes (2011) (79)
Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations, and Rule in India (2002) (78)
Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives . Edited by Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes, and Alan Bicker. Reading, UK: Harwood Academic Publishers, xii, 356 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). (2001) (78)
Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development Interventions (2015) (77)
Governing agriculture-forest landscapes to achieve climate change mitigation (2014) (76)
Local Institutions and Climate Change Adaptation (2008) (75)
Stakeholder engagement and biodiversity conservation challenges in social-ecological systems: Some insights from biosphere reserves in western Africa and France (2016) (71)
The data not collected on community forestry (2016) (71)
Bridging the practitioner-researcher divide: Indicators to track environmental, economic, and sociocultural sustainability of agricultural commodity production (2017) (70)
Interactions between organizations and networks in common-pool resource governance (2013) (68)
An upside to globalization: International outmigration drives reforestation in Nepal (2018) (67)
100 Key Research Questions for the Post‐2015 Development Agenda (2016) (66)
Livelihoods and Poverty : Climate change 2014: impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. Part A: global and sectoral aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2014) (66)
Pathways to transformational change in the face of climate impacts: an analytical framework (2017) (65)
Against mono-consequentialism: Multiple outcomes and their drivers in social–ecological systems (2011) (64)
Regional Modernities - The Cultural Politics of Development in India (2003) (62)
A novel framework for analyzing conservation impacts: evaluation, theory, and marine protected areas (2017) (61)
Community forest management and REDD (2015) (61)
Linking Management Effectiveness Indicators to Observed Effects of Protected Areas on Fire Occurrence in the Amazon Rainforest (2013) (60)
The Regulatory Community (2001) (59)
Group Size and Collective Action: Third-Party Monitoring in Common-Pool Resources (2008) (58)
State Involvement and Forest Co-Governance: Evidence from the Indian Himalayas (2007) (54)
Why “indigenous” knowledge? (2009) (50)
Conservation Finance: Moving beyond donor funding toward an investor-driven approach (2014) (46)
The Number and Spatial Distribution of Forest-Proximate People Globally (2020) (45)
Beyond Rewards and Punishments in the Brazilian Amazon: Practical Implications of the REDD+ Discourse (2017) (43)
Population pressure = forest degradation: an oversimplistic equation? (1995) (42)
Exploratory analyses of local institutions for climate change adaptation in the Mongolian grasslands: An agent-based modeling approach (2013) (40)
Setting priorities to avoid deforestation in Amazon protected areas: are we choosing the right indicators? (2013) (40)
Brazil's National Environmental Registry of Rural Properties: Implications for Livelihoods (2017) (39)
Scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture: Transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil (2019) (39)
Between Resistance and Revolution: Cultural Politics and Social Protest (1999) (37)
Classification des savoirs autochtones : la dimension politique (2002) (37)
Editorial overview: Forest governance interventions for sustainability through information, incentives, and institutions (2018) (35)
Recentralizing while Decentralizing: How (2006) (35)
Carbon, biodiversity, and livelihoods in forest commons: synergies, trade-offs, and implications for REDD+ (2016) (34)
Mobility and cooperation among nomadic shepherds: The case of theRaikas (1993) (33)
Clean energy transitions and human well-being outcomes in Lower and Middle Income Countries: A systematic review (2021) (33)
Cool Heads for a Hot World – Social Sciences Under a Changing Sky (2012) (32)
Matching and mechanisms in protected area and poverty alleviation research (2014) (31)
Forest-linked livelihoods in a globalized world (2020) (30)
Decentralization in Nepal: A Comparative Analysis : A Report on the Participatory District Development Program (1998) (28)
Whither South Asian Pastoralism? an Introduction (2004) (28)
Capital, labor, and gender: the consequences of large-scale land transactions on household labor allocation (2020) (27)
Landscape sustainability science in the drylands: mobility, rangelands and livelihoods (2020) (27)
National socioeconomic surveys in forestry: Guidance and survey modules for measuring the multiple roles of forests in household welfare and livelihoods (2016) (26)
Economics: A positive side of disaster (2011) (25)
Place, Conservation, and Displacement (2009) (25)
Equity in environmental governance: perceived fairness of distributional justice principles in marine co-management (2021) (23)
Towards a revolution in sustainability education: Vision, architecture, and assessment in a case-based approach (2016) (23)
Clarifying the landscape approach: A Letter to the Editor on “Integrated landscape approaches to managing social and environmental issues in the tropics” (2017) (23)
Climate policy processes, local institutions, and adaptation actions: mechanisms of translation and influence (2013) (23)
Stripe Review of Social Sciences in the CGIAR (2009) (22)
The Politics of Development and Conservation: Legacies of Colonialism1 (1997) (21)
The Decentralizing State: Nature and Origins of Changing Environmental Policies in Africa and Latin America, 1980-2000 (2001) (21)
Foreign capital, forest change and regulatory compliance in Congo Basin forests (2014) (20)
Responses to climate and economic risks and opportunities across national and ecological boundaries: changing household strategies on the Mongolian plateau (2013) (20)
Insufficient research on land grabbing (2016) (20)
The community vs. the market and the state: Forest use inUttarakhand in the Indian Himalayas (1996) (20)
Social nature : resources, representations, and rule in India (2001) (19)
CHASER: An Innovative Satellite Mission Concept to Measure the Effects of Aerosols on Clouds and Climate (2013) (19)
The Politics of Indigenous Knowledge (2005) (19)
Spatial patterns of large‐scale land transactions and their potential socio‐environmental outcomes in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Liberia, and Peru (2020) (18)
Governing the Coastal Commons: Communities, Resilience and Transformation (2017) (18)
Mobility and control among nomadic shepherds: The case of theraikas. II (1994) (17)
Mobilizing rural institutions : a comparative study of rural institutions for improving governance and development - Afghanistan, Ethiopia, India, Vietnam, and Yemen (2009) (17)
The effects of trainings in soil and water conservation on farming practices, livelihoods, and land-use intensity in the Ethiopian highlands (2019) (17)
Carbon emissions from the global land rush and potential mitigation (2021) (16)
Harnessing employment-based social assistance programmes to scale up nature-based climate action (2020) (16)
Fragmenting forests: the double edge of effective forest monitoring (2012) (15)
Common property, forest management and the Indian Himalaya (2001) (15)
Deforestation and timber production in Congo after implementation of sustainable management policy: A response to Karsenty et al. (2017) (2018) (14)
Strengthening Causal Inference through Qualitative Analysis of Regression Residuals: Explaining Forest Governance in the Indian Himalaya (2011) (13)
Resilience and equity: Quantifying the distributional effects of resilience-enhancing strategies in a smallholder agricultural system (2020) (13)
Understanding smallholders’ intended deforestation behavior in the Brazilian Cerrado following environmental registry (2016) (13)
Building interdisciplinary frameworks: The importance of institutions, scale, and politics (2011) (12)
Governance and REDD: a reply to Wunder (2010) (12)
Profits on the Move: The Economics of Collective Migration among the Raika Shepherds in India (1998) (12)
Synthesizing evidence in sustainability science through harmonized experiments: Community monitoring in common pool resources (2021) (11)
Experimental approaches in development and poverty alleviation (2020) (11)
What are the biophysical, institutional, and socioeconomic contextual factors associated with improvements in livelihood and environmental outcomes in forests managed by communities?: A systematic review protocol (2015) (10)
Social assistance programs and climate resilience: reducing vulnerability through cash transfers (2020) (9)
Interventions for achieving sustainability in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes (2013) (9)
National socioeconomic surveys in forestry (2016) (9)
Are Global Land Grabs Ticking Socio-environmental Bombs or Just Inefficient Investments? (2019) (9)
Assessing model equifinality for robust policy analysis in complex socio-environmental systems (2020) (8)
Shepherds and Their Leaders Among the Raikas of India (1997) (8)
Working governance for working land (2018) (7)
Evidence on Wealth-Improving Effects of Forest Concessions in Liberia (2019) (7)
Area-based development, local institutions and climate adaptation : a comparative analysis from West Africa and Latin America (2011) (7)
Operational Large-Area Land-Cover Mapping: An Ethiopia Case Study (2020) (7)
Levers for alleviating poverty in forests (2021) (6)
mutual funds emerging trends and prospects (1999) (6)
Research trends: Responsibilization in natural resource governance (2020) (6)
From environmental governance to governance for sustainability (2022) (5)
Acknowledgment of Reviewers, 2016 (2016) (5)
A National Adaptation Programme of Action: Ethiopia’s responses to climate change (2016) (5)
Environment, Community, Government (2010) (5)
Chapter 18. Sustainable Governance of theMongolian Grasslands: Comparing Ecological and Social-Institutional Changes in the Context of Climate Change in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China (2013) (5)
Fôrets tropicales : Communautés, gouvernement intime et sujets de l'environnement au Kumaon. Inde (2005) (5)
Successful Collective Action among Village Forest Management Institutions in the Indian Himalayas (1996) (5)
Introduction: Agrarian Environments (2000) (5)
Transitioning to more sustainable, low-emissions agriculture in Brazil (2016) (4)
Reply to Ternström et al.: Challenges of studying multiple outcomes simultaneously (2010) (4)
The role of human and social capital in earthquake recovery in Nepal (2021) (4)
Chapter 13: Livelihoods and poverty (2014) (4)
Ecosystem Services in a Transitional Forest Landscape: Shifting Trajectories in Southeast Michigan, USA (2018) (4)
Decentralizing while centralizing: An explanation of China's collective forestry reform since the 1980s (2020) (4)
Mobilizing Rural Institutions for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Development CASE STUDY – PANI PANCHAYATS IN ORISSA (INDIA) (2008) (4)
Costing adaptation through local institutions village survey results : Ethiopia (2011) (4)
Way ahead - Post Covid-19 Lockdown in India (2020) (4)
Introduction: in favour of indeterminacy (2002) (3)
Mobilizing Rural Institutions for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Development CASE STUDY - RURAL INSTITUTIONS IN ORISSA (INDIA) (2008) (3)
Book Review : Decentralization in Nepal : A Comparative Analysis (2019) (3)
A review of indicators used to ass the sustainability of agricultural commodity production. Review paper for the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility (2015) (3)
Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge : Some Critical Comments 1 (2006) (3)
The Impact of Climate Change on Public Health in India: Future Research Directions (2011) (2)
Mobilizing Rural Institutions for Improving Governance and Development (2008) (2)
Levers for Alleviating Poverty in Forests and Tree-Based Systems (2020) (2)
Let the farmer decide: examining smallholder autonomy in large-scale land acquisitions with an agent-based model (2021) (2)
Guardians of the Forests: How Should an Indigenous Community in Eastern Bolivia Defend Their Land and Forests under Increasing Political and Economic Pressures? (2019) (2)
Exploring Environmental Attitudes and Forest Program Uptake with Nonindustrial Private Forest Owners in Michigan (2020) (2)
Environmental Capacity-Building: India’s Democratic Politics and Environmental Management (2002) (2)
Radical interventions for climate-impacted systems (2022) (2)
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Information Diffusion and Provenance in Online Social Media Networks (2013) (1)
Land-use changes associated with large-scale land transactions in Ethiopia (2021) (1)
Introduction. Plaidoyer pour l'indétermination (2002) (1)
MUKKUVAR MODERNITY: DEVELOPMENT (2005) (1)
Impacts of large-scale land acquisitions on smallholder agriculture and livelihoods in Tanzania (2022) (1)
Translating Climate Policy Processes into Local Adaptation Priorities: Institutions, Mechanisms, and Outcomes (2009) (1)
Sustainable and just energy transition in the Global South (2022) (1)
The Great Intergenerational Robbery: A Call for Concerted Action Against Environmental Crises (2022) (1)
Introduction: The Politics of Nature and the Making of Environmental Subjects (2012) (1)
Indigenous stewardship for habitat protection (2023) (1)
Methods for Studying Rural Institutions, Networks, and Capacity in the Developing World : Mobilizing Rural Institutions (2008) (1)
Making Environmental Subjects: Intimate Government (2012) (1)
Geistiges Eigentum und ‚indigenes‘ Wissen: Weder Gans noch goldene Eier (1998) (1)
Patenting gene fragments. (1993) (1)
flooding and mudslides. A case history of a rural community documents how recovery from that event produced socio-economic improvement. (2011) (0)
Véron, René. Real Markets and Environmental Change in Kerala, India: A New Understanding of the Impact of Crop Markets on Sustainable Development. Aldershot UK: Ashgate, 1999, 196 pp., $64.95 (2001) (0)
Acknowledgment to reviewers—2017 (2017) (0)
Brogan & Partners Impacts of Climate Change on Public Health in India : Future Research Directions (2011) (0)
Community participation and adaptation to change in biosphere reserves (2017) (0)
Reviewers List, 2012 Volume 21 (2012) (0)
Acknowledgment of Reviewers, 2018 (2018) (0)
Struggles over Kumaon’s Forests, 1815–1916 (2012) (0)
Community-driven development, social capital, and empowerment : conceptual and operational links (2003) (0)
EMERGING TRENDS IN FOREST CERTIFICATION THE ROLE OF CHAIN OF CUSTODY SYSTEMS (2002) (0)
Inside the Regulatory Community (2012) (0)
Futures of conservation funding: Can Indonesia sustain financing of the Bird’s Head Seascape? (2022) (0)
Acknowledgment of Reviewers, 2017 (2017) (0)
Books of Note (2010) (0)
APSR EXTERNAL REVIEWERS, 2013–2014 (2014) (0)
IK Monitor 4(1) Reactions to Agrawal (2004) (0)
Carbon, forests and the REDD paradox ChrisSandbrook ,F redNelson ,W illiamM. Adamsand ArunAgrawal (2011) (0)
Gendered impacts of large-scale land acquisitions in Western Ethiopia By Forests and Livelihoods : Assessment , Research and Engagement ( FLARE ) (2017) (0)
Dzuds, droughts, and livestock mortality in Mongolia (2015) (0)
Chapter-17 Fungal Infections of CNS (2007) (0)
Transboundary Protected Areas and Adaptive Management (2011) (0)
Community driven initiatives to improve the management of safe water infrastructure in rural bangladesh (2020) (0)
Decentralized forest management simultaneously reduced deforestation and poverty in Nepal (2019) (0)
Books and monographs received (2000) (0)
Lost in Deventer (2014) (0)
The International Forestry Resources and Institutions Research Program: An Elinor Ostrom Creation (2010) (0)
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PAPERS (2009) (0)
Review : Decentralization in Nepal : A Comparative Analysis (2019) (0)
Forests of Statistics: Colonial Environmental Knowledges (2012) (0)
India: damages (2011) (0)
Appendix 1 supplementary (2016) (0)
Climate change, degradation, and land acquisitions: evaluating inequalities among competing interests for suitable cropland in Ethiopia (2023) (0)
Governmentalized Localities: The Dispersal of Regulation (2012) (0)
NSF Political Science Program Awards and AAAS Political Scientist Electees (2011) (0)
POLARISATIONSVERHALTEN VON FE‐NI‐CR‐LEG. IN KONZENTRIERTEN NATRIUMHYDROXIDLOESUNGEN IM TEMPERATURBEREICH 25‐150 GRAD (1973) (0)
Low-cost informational intervention reduced drinking water arsenic exposure in Bangladesh (2023) (0)
Book Reviews : VINAY KUMAR SRIVASTAVA, Religious Renunciation of a Pastoral People, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1997, pp. 314 (1999) (0)
Concession Forestry Modeling (Version 1) (2014) (0)
External evaluation of the Rural Poverty and Environment (RPE) Program Initiative of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) : final report (2008) (0)
INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF RIGHTS AND RESOURCES INITIATIVE: COALITION-BUILDING, STRATEGY AND LAND TENURE ADVOCACY (2022) (0)
Social Power and Everyday Class Relations: Agrarian Transformation in North Bihar. By Anand Chakravarti. New Delhi: Sage Press, 2001. Pp. 311. (2003) (0)
Let’s not Miss the Forest for the Trees: A reply to Pinto et al. Forests 2017, 8(7), 230 (2017) (0)
Engaging the Forests and Livelihoods Community (2018) (0)
A REVIEW OF INDICATORS USED TO ASSESS THE SUSTAINABILITY OF COMMODITY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION (2016) (0)
Key Emerging Issues for Forests and Livelihoods in the 21st Century - June 2019 (2019) (0)
The carbon cost of agricultural production in the global land rush (2023) (0)
Indigenous decision-making and hierarchy in migrating pastoralist collectives - the Raika of western India. (2003) (0)
Assessing trends on tree species diversity and biomass change across human-dominated tropical forests (2018) (0)
1 Draft : cite at your own risk Institutional Sustainability and the Management of Common Resources (2008) (0)
Community perceptions of ecotourism from Arslanbob , Kyrgyz Republic (2019) (0)
In the empirical work we study the efforts of different villages in Kumaon in the Indian Himalaya to protect their forests. Many villages have organized community-level forest councils which help residents use and protect forest resources in accordance with rules (2008) (0)
Combining socioeconomic and biophysical data to identify people-centric restoration opportunities (2023) (0)
Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability in South Asia (2013) (0)

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