IITKGP

Bhagirath Behera

Professor

Humanities and Social Sciences

+91-3222-283630

bhagirath@hss.iitkgp.ac.in

Research Areas

  • Environmental Economics
  • Development Economics
  • Natural Resource Economics
  • I have more than 15 years of research experience in the area of environmental and natural resource economics, specifically on the issue of sustainable use and management of natural resources and their economic and livelihood implications on local people particularly in the context of India and its neighboring countries. In recent years my research work has been on four key areas of environmental resources: water, energy, biodiversity, and climate change.
  • Explaining the Performance of State-Community Joint Forest Management in India. Behera, B By Ecological Economics 69 177-185 (2009)
  • Coal mining in Odisha: An analysis of impacts on agricultural production and human health. Hota, P and Behera, B. By The Extractive Industries and Society 2 683-693 (2015)
  • Institutional Analysis of Evolution of Joint Forest Management (JFM) in India: A New Institutional Economics (NIE) Approach Behera, B., Engel, S By Forest Policy and Economics 8 350-362 (2006)
  • Impact of Water Pollution on Rural Communities: An Economic Analysis Reddy, V. R., Behera, B. By Ecological Economics 58 520-537 (2006)
  • Household Collection and Use of Biomass Energy Sources in South Asia Behera, B., Rahut, D. B., Aryal, J., Ali, A By Energy 85 468-480. (2015)
  • Local Institutions, Collective Action and Forest Conservation: The case of Similipal Tiger Reserve in India Dash, M and Behera, B By Journal of Forest Economics 21 167-184 (2015)
  • A Critical Review of Impact of and Adaptation to Climate Change in Developed and Developing Economies Nath, P. K., Behera, B By Environment, Development and Sustainability 13 141-162 (2011)
  • Socio-Economic and Environmental Implications of Solar Electrification: Experience of Rural Odisha Mishra, P and Behera, B By . Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 56 953-964 (2016)
  • Household Energy Choice and Consumption Intensity: Empirical Evidence from Bhutan. Rahut, D. B., Behera, B., Ali, A By Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review 53 993-1009 (2016)
  • Opencast coal mining and sustainable local livelihoods in Odisha, India Hota, P and Behera, B By Mineral Economics 29 1-13 (2016)

Principal Investigator

  • Impact Evaluation Study on Social Sector Projects (Anganwadis) Assisted under Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) in West Bengal
  • Impact Evaluation Study on Social Sector Projects (Rural Drinking Water Supply) Assisted under Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) in Odisha

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Dried Fish Matters: Mapping the Social Economy of Dry Fish in South and South East Asia for Enhanced Well-being and Nutrition Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
  • Promoting Socially Inclusive and Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in West Bengal and Bangladesh Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR),
  • Rural Drinking Water Treatment and Health University of Edinburgh
  • UKIERI Study in India (SII1937) The University of Edinburgh

Ph. D. Students

Chandan Naik

Area of Research: Environmental Economics

Deepen Chettri

Area of Research: Environmental Economics

Munmun Mohapatra

Area of Research: Development Studies

Nayana Baral

Area of Research: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics

Rupesh Kumar Moharana

Area of Research: Environmental Economics

Sakir Laskar

Area of Research: Economic Geography

Sandip Chand

Area of Research: Environmental and Social Geography

Tiyasa Mishra

Area of Research: Environmental Economics

Uttam Das

Area of Research: Environmental and Social Geography