Research and teaching emphases are on the politics of international development and environmental conservation, with a focus on institutional change, property rights, poverty, and biodiversity. 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 current projects include other developing countries in Africa and Latin America. Coordinator of research related to the International Forestry Resources and Institutions Program with collaborative research in south Asia, east Africa, and parts of Latin America.

Awards & Grants:
2007-11: NSF, CNH: “Environmental Governance, Forests, and Logging Concessions: The Effects of Institutional Complexity on Forest Systems, Cover and Change in Central Africa.” (1,497K) 2006-09: NSF: “HSD Supplemental Grant Proposal on Human Environmental Systems Interactions.” (44K) 2006-09: MacArthur Foundation “Training and Capacity Building for IFRI” (305K). 2005-08: Program in Human-Environmental Systems Interactions. National Science Foundation. (with Co-PI’s: Dan Brown and Rick Riolo). (497K)

Research Interests:
Political Economy, Environmental Governance, Community-Based Conservation, Indigenous Knowledge, Decentralization, Local Governance, Institutional Analysis

Current/Recent Research Projects:
- Environmental Subjects - Environmental Policy Decentralization - International Forest Resources and Institutions - Logging, NGOs, and Forest Cover in Congo

Teaching Interests:
Developmental Studies, Environmental Governance and Policy, Political Economy, Institutions and Resources, Local Governance

Current/Recent Teaching:
International Environmental Policy Institutions and Resources Environmental Governance

Selected Publications:
Forthcoming. Institutions, co-governance, and forests in the Indian Himalaya. Studies in Comparative International Development. (with Ashwini Chhatre) Forthcoming (2007). A Greener Revolution in Making? Environmental Governance in the 21st Century.” Environment Forthcoming (2007). Forests, Governance, and Sustainability: Common Property Theory and its Contributions. International Journal of the Commons 1(1). 2006: Decentralization/Recentralization: How National Governments Maintain Control over Forest Resources. World Development (with Anne Larson and Jesse Ribot). 2006: (with Maria Carmen Lemos) Environmental Governance. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 2006. Political Science and Conservation Biology: The Dialog of the Deaf? Conservation Biology 20(3): 681-82 (with Elinor Ostrom). 2006. Explaining Success on the Commons: Community Forest Governance in the Indian Himalaya. World Development. (with Ashwini Chhatre) 2005. Environmentality: Technologies of Government and Political Subjects (Duke University Press; Oxford University Press, Delhi). rpt. 2006. 2005. Decentralization and participation: The governance of common pool resources in Nepal's Terai. World Development 33(7): 1101-14 (with Krishna Gupta). 2005. Environmentality: Community, intimate government and environmental subjects in Kumaon, India. Current Anthropology 46(2), April 2005 (Substantially shortened version in French published in July ----2005 as Communautés, gouvernement rapproché et sujets de l’environnement au Kumaon, Inde. Anthropologie et Societe. 29(2).