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Chhatre, Ashwini
Associate Professor, Economics and Public Policy
Chair-IRB; Executive Director-BIPP
Email ashwini_chhatre@isb.edu
Website https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5VNx4fAAAAAJ
Overview
Background in Economics, graduate training in Political Science, and longstanding engagement with scholarship in Comparative Politics, Ecological Economics, Human Geography, Environmental Anthropology, Landscape Ecology, Environmental History, and Public Policy.
Experience
Academic
- 2020 - Present: Associate Professor, Indian School of Business
- 2019 - Present: Chair-IRB, Indian School of Business
- 2017 - Present: Executive Director, Bharti Institute of Public Policy, Indian School of Business
- 2017 - Present: Associate Professor of Public Policy, Indian School of Business
- 2015 - Present: Adjunct Professor,Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2017 - 2019: Executive Director, Digital Identity Research Initiative, Indian School of Business
- 2014 - 2017: Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Professor, Indian School of Business
- 2013 - 2015: Associate Professor,Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2011 - 2015: Affiliate Faculty, Program in Ecology,Evolution,and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2009 - 2015: Faculty Fellow, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana
- 2007 - 2013: Assistant Professor,Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2010 - 2011: Associate Fellow,Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2006 - 2007: Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science,Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government,Harvard University
Professional
- 2015 - 2018: Editor-in-Chief, World Development Perspectives
- 2014 - 2017: Director of Research, Revitalizing Rainfed Agriculture Network, India
- 2009 - 2014: Senior Editor, Conservation Letters
In the Media
September 29, 2020: Biodiversity Challenged in K'taka's Coffee Belts, The Economics Times.
August 26, 2020: Local comunities can help curb climate change:Study, Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad.
September 25, 2020: Indian School of Business holds the first Open Data Conclave; keynote addresses by Durga Prasad Misra, India Education Diary.
August 26, 2020: 300 million world over can have their forests restored:Study, The Hindu, Hyderabad.
June 1, 2020: Hitting Restart, The New Indian Express.
September 27, 2020: Brew and biodiversity: Over to small coffee farmers, The New Indian EXpress.
August 26, 2020: Empower local communities for extensive forest restoration and climate change mitigation: Study, News Chant.
August 26, 2020: Empower local communities for extensive forest restoration and climate change mitigation: Study, News Today.
October 21, 2020: Forests: A Profitable Restoration Mantra, Business Line.
September 29, 2020: Labour Shortage May Hit Biodiversity in Western Ghats: Study, The Tiimes of India.
August 26, 2020: Empower local communities for extensive forest restoration and climate change mitigation: Study, The Indian Express.
June 11, 2020: Rebooting India, CNN News18.
August 8, 2020: BSchools want students to solve India's chronic problems, The Times of India.
August 25, 2020: Empower local communities for extensive forest restoration and climate change mitigation: Study, The Indian Express.
August 25, 2020: ‘Empower local communities for effective & extensive forest restoration and climate change mitigation’ : Global Study, India Education Diary.
August 25, 2020: Restoring The World’s Forests Requires Partnering With Local Communities, Scienmag.
August 14, 2020: ISB Launches Web Portal On Economic Data, Deccan Chronicle.
March 23, 2019: Omidyar Network: Doing good is the b, Fortune India.
August , 2019: Less Rice, Please! The Food Solution for Climate Resilience, ISBInsight.
November 1, 2018: An imaginary friend, The Indian Express.
July 16, 2018: Aadhaar Has Helped Indian Government To Save Rs. 90,000 Crore: UIDAI, Dazeinfo Briefs.
October 6, 2018: ISB, Tenure Facility work with forest Communitiesto collect data, The Times of India.
November 12, 2018: Enrolment mostly covered, UIDAI to focus on updates, Hindustan Times.
June , 2016: Impact of climatic conditions on GDP, ISB Insight.
July , 2016: Crop diversification to reduce exposure to climatic changes: Associated risks and mitigation strategies, ISB Insight.
July , 2016: Climate and society: Beyond general circulation models, ISB Insight.
July , 2016: From apple juice to garlic pickle: climate change adaptation in the Himalayas., ISB Insight.
July , 2015: Impact of motivational crowding in sustainable development interventions, ISB Insight.
July , 2014: Global drivers of the uneven expansion of renewable energy, ISB Insight.
Research & Publications
Published Papers
Agrawal, Arun.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Gerber, Elisabeth.,Kurli, Varnitha. (forthcoming) "Material Incentives in Sustainable Development Interventions: Evidence for Skepticism", Fischer, Harry.,Sohoni, Milind.,Devalkar, Sripad.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (forthcoming) "Institutional Networks and Self-organized Adaptation to Climate Change", Fleischman, Forrest.,Basant, Shishir.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Coleman, Eric.,Fischer, Harry.,Gupta, Divya.,Güneralp, Burak.,Kashwan, Prakash.,Khatri, Dil.,Muscarella, Robert.,Powers, Jennifer.,Ramprasad, Vijay.,Rana, Pushpendra.,Solorzano, Claudia.,Veldman, Joseph. (2020) "Pitfalls of tree planting show why we need people-centered natural climate solutions", Bioscience , 70 (11), 947-950 Gassner, Anja.,Dobie, Philip.,Harrison, Rhett.,Vidal, Adriana.,Somarriba, Eduardo.,Pythoud, Francois.,Kumar, Chetan.,Laumonier, Yves.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2020) "Making the post-2020 global biodiversity framework a successful tool for building biodiverse, inclusive, resilient and safe food systems for all", Environmental Research Letters , 15 Robbins, Paul.,Tripurareni, Vaishnavi.,Karanth, Krithi.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2020) "Coffee, trees, and labor: Political economy of biodiversity in commodity agroforests", Annals of the Amercian Association of Geographers Gupta, Divya.,Fischer, Harry.,Shreshtha, Suchita.,Shoaib Ali, Syed.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Devkota, Kamal.,Fleischman, Forrest.,Khatri, Dil B..,Rana, Pushpendra. (2020) "Dark and bright spots in the shadow of the pandemic: Rural livelihoods, state support, and local governance in India and Nepal", Erbaugh, James.,Pradhan, Nabin.,Adams, James.,Oldekop, Johan.,Agrawal, Arun.,Brockington, Daniel.,Pritchard, Rose.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2020) "Global Forest Restoration and the Importance of Prioritizing Local Communities.", Nature Ecology and Evolution Chhatre, Ashwini.,Gokpinar, Bilal.,Bhardwaj, Deepanshi. (2020) "Service Providers and Technology Adoption : Evidence from Aadhaar Enabled Payment System in India", Brockington, Daniel.,Adams, William.,Agarwal, Bina.,Agrawal, Arun.,Büscher, Bram.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2019) "Working governance for working land (letter)", Science , 362 (6420), 1257 Matthew R., Smith.,DeFries, Ruth.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Ghosh-Jerath, Suparna.,S Myers, Samuel. (2019) "Zinc deficiency in India estimated from dietary intake: Past, present, and future", Food and Nutrition Bulletin , 40 (1), 26-40 Kyle Frankel, Davis.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Rao, Narasimha D.,Singh, Deepti.,DeFries, Ruth. (2019) "Sensitivity of grain yields to historical climate variability in India", Environmental Research Letters , 14 Li, Lingchao.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Liu, Jinlong. (2019) "Multi-scale Drivers and Multiple Pathways to China's Forest Transition", Forect Policy and Economics , 106 Kyle Frankel, Davis.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Ghosh-Jerath, Suparna.,Mridul, Anvi.,Poblete-Cazenave, Miguel.,Pradhan, Nabin.,Rao, Narasimha D..,Singh, Deepti.,DeFries, Ruth. (2019) "Assessing the sustainability of post-Green Revolution cereals in India", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 116 (50), 25034-25041 DeFries, Ruth.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Davis, Kyle.,Dutta, Arnab.,Fanzo, Jessica.,Jerath, Suparna.,Myers, Samuel.,Rao, Narasimha.,Smith, Matthew. (2018) "Opportunities to reduce iron deficiency anemia from re-introducing coarse cereals in the Indian diet", Food and Nutrition Bulletin , 39 (3), 377-392 Davis, Kyle.,Chiarelli, Davide.,Rulli, Maria.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Richter, Brian.,Singh, Deepti.,DeFries, Ruth. (2018) "Alternative cereals can improve water use and nutrient supply in India", Science Advances , 4 (7), eaao1108 Fischer, Harry.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2017) "Assets, livelihoods, and the ‘profile approach’for analysis of differentiated social vulnerability in the context of climate change", Environment and Planning A , 48 (4), 789-807 Li, Lingchao.,Liu, Jinlong.,Cheng, Baodong.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Dong, Jiayun.,Liang, Wenyuan. (2017) "Effects of economic globalization and trade on", The Forestry Chronicle , 93 (2), 171-179 Chhatre, Ashwini.,Lakhanpal, Shikha.,Prasanna, Satya. (2017) "Heritage as weapon: Contested geographies of conservation and culture in the Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area, India", Annals of the American Association of Geographers , 107 (2), 456-464 Rana, Pushpendra.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2017) "Beyond Committees: Hybrid Forest Governance for Equity and Sustainability", Forest Policy and Economics , 78 (1), 40-50 Chhatre, Ashwini.,Devalkar, Sripad.,Seshadri, Sridhar. (2016) "Crop Diversification and Risk Management in Indian Agriculture", Decision , 43 (2), 167-179 Songsermsawas, Tisorn.,Baylis, Kathy.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Michelson, Hope. (2016) "Can peers improve agricultural revenue?", World Development , 83, 163–178 Rana, Pushpendra.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2016) "Rules and exceptions: Regulatory challenges to private tree felling in northern India", World Development , 77, 143-153 Chhatre, Ashwini.,Devalkar, Sripad.,Seshadri, Sridhar. (2016) "Crop diversification and risk management in Indian agriculture", Decision , 43 (2), 167-179 Karanth, Krithi.,Sankararaman, Vishnupriya.,Dalvi, Shashank.,Srivathsa, Arjun.,Parameshwaran, Ravishankar.,Sharma, Sushma.,Robbins, Paul.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2016) "Producing diversity: Avian richness and abundance in Agroforests of India’s Western Ghats", Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Robbins, Paul.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Karanth, Krithi. (2015) "Political ecology of commodity agroforests and tropical biodiversity", Conservation Letters , 8 (2), 77–85 Agrawal, Arun.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Gerber, Elisabeth. (2015) "Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development Interventions", American Political Science Review , 109 (3), 470-487 Sivapalan, M.,Konar, M.,Srinivasan, V.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Wutich, A.,Scott, C.A.,Wescoat, J.L.,Rodríguez-Iturbe.I. (2014) "Socio-hydrology:Use-inspired water sustainability science for the Anthropocene", Earth’s Future , 2, 225 – 230 Harry, Fischer.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2013) "Environmental Citizenship,Gender,and the Emergence of a New Conservation Politics", Geoforum , 50, 10-19 Chhatre, Ashwini.,Lakhanpal, Shikha.,Larson, Anne.,Nelson, Fred.,Ojha, Hemant.,Rao, Jagdeesh. (2012) "Social Safeguards and Co-benefits in REDD A Review of the Adjacent Possible", Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability , 4 (6), 654-660 Agrawal, Arun.,Perrin, Nicolas.,Benson, Catherine.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Kononen, Minna. (2012) "Climate Policy Processes, Local Institutions,and Adaptation Actions:Mechanisms of Translation and Influence", WIREs Climate Change , 3 (6), 565-579 Persha, Lauren.,Agrawal, Arun.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2011) "Social and Ecological Synergy:Local Rulemaking,Forest Livelihoods,and Biodiversity Conservation", Science , 331, 1606-1608 Agrawal, Arun.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2011) "Against mono-consequentialism: Multiple outcomes and their drivers in social-ecological systems", Global Environmental Change , 21 (1), 1-3 Agrawal, Arun.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2011) "Strengthening Causal Inference through Qualitative Analysis of Regression Residuals:Explaining Forest Governance in the Indian Himalaya", Environment and Planning A , 43 (2), 328-346 Agrawal, Arun.,Nepstad, Daniel.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2011) "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation", Annual Review of Environment and Resources , 373-396 Persha, Lauren.,Fischer, Harry.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Agrawal, Arun.,Benson, Catherine. (2010) "Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in Human-Dominated Landscapes:Forest Commons in South Asia", Biological Conservation , 143 (12), 2918-2925 Chhatre, Ashwini.,Agrawal, Arun. (2009) "Synergies and Trade-offs between Carbon Storage and Livelihood Benefits from Forest Commons", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 106, 17667-17670 Jesse, Ribot.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Lankina, Tomila. (2008) "Institutional Choice and Recognition in the Formation and Consolidation of Local Democracy", Conservation and Society , 6 (1), 1-11 Agrawal, Arun.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Hardin, Rebecca. (2008) "Changing Governance of World’s Forests", Science , 320, 1460-62 Chhatre, Ashwini.,Agrawal, Arun. (2008) "Forest Commons and Local Enforcement", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 105 (36), 13286-13291 Chhatre, Ashwini. (2008) "Political Articulation and Accountability in Decentralization:Theory and Evidence from India", Conservation and Society , 6 (1), 12-21 Agrawal, Arun.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2007) "Institutions, Co-Governance, and Forests in the Indian Himalayas", Comparative Studies in International Development , 42 (1-2), 67-86 Chhatre, Ashwini.,Agrawal, Arun. (2006) "Explaining Success on the Commons: Community Forest Governance in the Indian Himalayas", World Development , 34 (1), 149-166 Chhatre, Ashwini.,Saberwal, Vasant. (2006) "Democracy,Development,and (Re-)Visions of Nature:Rural Conflicts in the Western Himalayas", Journal of Peasant Studies , 33 (4), 687:706 Chhatre, Ashwini.,Saberwal, Vasant. (2005) "Political Incentives for Biodiversity Conservation", Conservation Biology , 19 (2), 310-317 Saberwal, Vasant.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2003) "Parbati and the Tragopan: Conservation and Development in the Great Himalayan National Park", Himalayan Research Bulletin , 21 (2), 79-88 Chhatre, Ashwini. (2003) "Territorialization, Resistance,and the Mirage of Permanent Boundaries", Himalayan Research Bulletin , 21 (2), 15-25 Chhatre, Ashwini. (2003) "The Mirage of Permanent Boundaries: Politics of Forest Reservation in the Western Himalayas, 1875-97", Conservation and Society , 1 (1), 137-159 Gadgil, Madhav.,Rao, P.R. Sheshagiri.,Ghate, Utkarsh.,Pramod, P.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2000) "New Meanings for Old Knowledge: The People’s Biodiversity Registers Programme", Ecological Applications , 10 (5), 1307-1317 Chhatre, Ashwini. (1996) "A Socio-ecological Basis for Natural Resource Management: The Forest Bill Debate", Economic and Political Weekly , 31 (18), 1084-1090 Chhatre, Ashwini. (1994) "Missing the Woods as well as the Trees", Economic and Political Weekly , 29 (38), 2473-74
Books and Monographs
Lakhanpal, Shikha.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2018) "For the Environment, Against Conservation: Conflict between biodiversity protection and renewable energy in India", Earthscan Publications Persha, Lauren.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Agrawal, Arun.,Ostrom, Elinor. (2012) "Managing Forest Commons in Africa", Oxford University Press Ojha, Hemant.,Persha, Lauren.,Chhatre, Ashwini. (2009) "Seeing the Forest through the Trees:Community Forestry", Washington DC: International Food Policy Research Institute Chhatre, Ashwini.,Saberwal, Vasant. (2006) "Democratizing Nature:Politics,Conservation,and Development in India", Oxford; New Delhi:Oxford University Press Chhatre, Ashwini. (1997) "Towards a Pro-people Forest Legislation: The Forest Bill Campaign", Experiences of Advocacy in Environment and Development. Lucknow, India: Development Support Initiative. Chhatre, Ashwini. (1996) "Joint Forest Management: Beyond the Rhetoric.", Drafting a People's Forest Bill: The Forest Dweller-Social Activist Alternative. New Delhi: Indian Social Institute.
Conference Proceedings
Chhatre, Ashwini.,Songsermsawas, Tisorn.,Baylis, Katherine. (2015) "Effects of Peers on Agricultural Productivity in Rural Northern India", Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Chhatre, Ashwini.,Agrawal, Arun. (2010) "Reply to Ternström et al.:Challenges of studying multiple outcomes simultaneously", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 107 (E53)
Other
Brockington, Daniel.,Adams, William.,Agarwal, Bina.,Agrawal, Arun.,Büscher, Bram.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Duffy, Rosaleen.,Fletcher, Robert.,Oldekop, Johan A.. (2018) "Working governance for working land (letter).", Science Chhatre, Ashwini.,Persha, Lauren.,Hemant, Hemant. (2009) "Community Forestry in Nepal:A Policy Innovation for Local Livelihoods", International Food Policy Research Institute Discussion Paper
Working Papers
Harry, Fischer.,Sohoni, Milind.,Devalkar, Sripad.,Chhatre, Ashwini. "Rural institutions, social networks, and self-organized adaptation to climate change" Chhatre, Ashwini.,Deo, Sarang.,Pradhan, Nabin. "Heterogenous climate impacts across the yield distribution of monsoon rice in India" Deepti, Singh.,Karambelas, Alexandra.,Davis, Kyle.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Kinney, Patrick.,DeFries, Ruth. "Compounding human health impacts of climate change, air quality and agricultural activities" Singh, Deepti.,Karambelas, Alexandra.,Davis, Kyle.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Kinney, Patrick.,DeFries, Ruth. "A systems framework to assess the compound human health impacts of climate change, air quality, and agriculture" Harry, Fischer.,Agrawal, Arun.,Chhatre, Ashwini.,Duddu, Apurva.,Pradhan, Nabin. "Joint distribution of multiple benefits from forest commons" Karanth, Krithi.,Srivathsa, A.,Sankararaman, V.,Dalvi, S.,Parameshwaran, R.,Sharma, S.,Robbins, Paul.,Chhatre, Ashwini. "Diversity Amidst Production: Amphibian Richness andDistribution Patterns in India’s Commodity Agroforests"