Amit John KurienRV University · School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Amit John Kurien
Ph.D. Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies
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Introduction
My research is located at the convergence of environment change and rural societal dynamics focusing on the social and ecological dimensions of land-use change in swidden/jhum landscapes in NE India and similar mountain landscapes and societies. I also study its consequences for subsistence agroecology, socioeconomic differentiation, well-being, and livelihood sustainability. It is based on RS-GIS techniques and qual-quant social science research methods. I am an ecologist by early training.
Additional affiliations
November 2024 - present
November 2021 - February 2022
November 2022 - February 2023
Krea university
Position
- Visting Faculty
Education
August 2009 - March 2021
Field of study
- Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies
July 2003 - June 2005
Publications
Publications (9)
Esta contribución examina los retos y oportunidades que enfrentan las y los académicos en estudios agrarios críticos basados en o provenientes del Sur Global. Nuestro argumento es que, a pesar de las limitaciones históricas y estructurales, en la coyuntura actual convergen diversas crisis estructurales y un renovado interés en la economía política...
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced by critical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We argue that despite the historical and structural limitations, the critical juncture of convergence of crises and renewed interest in agrarian political economies offers an opportunity for fostering a diverse research agenda that...
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced by critical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We argue that despite the historical and structural limitations, the critical juncture of convergence of crises and renewed interest in agrarian political economies offers an opportunity for fostering a diverse research agenda that...
The paper describes and analyses the key changes that occurred in the rural sector following the spread of the pandemic, the imposition of the lockdown, and restriction of physical movement in the Garo Hills region of Meghalaya in Northeast India. It examines both the everyday challenges faced by smallholder farmers and also highlights the more sys...
Abstract of Article (Kurien et al. 2019 LAND):
Attempts to study shifting cultivation landscapes are fundamentally impeded by the difficulty in mapping and distinguishing shifting cultivation, settled farms and forests. There are foundational challenges in defining shifting cultivation and its constituent land-covers and land-uses, conceptualizing...
Attempts to study shifting cultivation landscapes are fundamentally impeded by the difficulty in mapping and distinguishing shifting cultivation, settled farms and forests. There are foundational challenges in defining shifting cultivation and its constituent land-covers and land-uses, conceptualizing a suitable mapping framework, and identifying c...
Tropical forest management is a quintessential interdisciplinary (ID) problem straddling the social-natural divide, and has attracted scholars from many disciplines. This paper is a review of the ID research on tropical forests with a view to understanding the challenges involved in doing ID environmental research in general and the manner in which...
Popular article on the natural history and wildlife conservation scenario in Cambodia
Questions
Questions (2)
I am looking to understand modifications that have been made in the new western models of agricultural restoration techniques (e.g. those that re-introduced fallowing as a key component) since there has been some effort to wean away from the long history of monoculture farming and soil productivity decline - at least in a few locations in Europe and so on. What are some good articles/reviews/case studies that are out there to understand these new western models better from perspectives of agriculture productivity, biodiversity etc.? Who are the good researchers in this area? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Specific interest is shifting cultivation mosaic landscapes, and estimation of density/occupancy of species in these areas
