معرفی
Arun Agrawal is the Pulte Family Professor of Development Policy at the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, where he also serves as the inaugural director of the Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative. His work bridges political science, environmental studies, and development policy with a global reach.
His research focuses on environmental politics, sustainable development, governance, and the political economy of institutional change. He explores community-based conservation, Indigenous knowledge systems, common property regimes, agrarian transformations, and sustainability governance. His interdisciplinary approach integrates qualitative fieldwork with quantitative analysis, particularly in the Global South.
Agrawal’s recent publications reflect a strong trajectory in climate justice, land governance, migration and adaptation, and the use of machine learning for sustainability. His work appears in leading journals such as Science, PNAS, Nature Climate Change, and Nature Sustainability, indicating a high-impact, policy-relevant research agenda.
Scientific Awards and Recognition:
- Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- Support from the MacArthur Foundation
- Support from the Ford Foundation
- Support from the Moore Foundation
Agrawal has secured significant research funding from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Defense (Minerva Research Initiative), UK development cooperation agency, and other global foundations. He serves on the editorial board of PNAS and other interdisciplinary journals, and he mentors students and leads large-scale sustainability research initiatives. His prior academic appointments include positions at the University of Michigan, Yale, UC Berkeley, Harvard, and McGill.
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