Harini Nagendra

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Harini Nagendra is a Professor of Sustainability at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India. She is an ecologist who uses satellite remote sensing coupled with field studies of biodiversity, archival research, institutional analysis, and community interviews to examine the factors shaping the social-ecological sustainability of forests and cities in the south Asian context. Prof. Nagendra is a recipient of a 2013 Elinor Ostrom Senior Scholar award for her research and practice on issues of the urban commons. She has over 150 research publications, and has also published a large number of articles for public dissemination in newspapers, magazines and blogs. Her book 'Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future (Oxford University Press India, April 2016) examines the transformation of human-nature interactions in Bangalore from the 6th century CE to the present, addressing the implications of such change for the urban sustainability of fast-growing cities in the global South.

Experience

• present Professor of Sustainability, Azim Premji University

Education

• 1998 Indian Institute of Science, PhD/ Ecological Sciences

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