Dr. Prakash Kashwan
Associate Professor of Political Science;
Biographical information
Dr. Prakash Kashwan is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Research Program on Economic and Social Rights, Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs. His teaching, research, and scholarship focuses on environmental and climate justice, climate action, biodiversity conservation, including global conservation. In recent years, he has devoted significant time to pursue community and public engagement on these topics.
Dr. Kashwan is the author of the widely reviewed and acclaimed book Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2017), Editor of Climate Justice in India (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming), Co-Editor of the journal Environmental Politics, and the Co-founder of Climate Justice Network.
He was a member of the global expert group for Scoping of Transformative Change Assessment at the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a member of the Academic Working Group (AWG) on International Governance of Climate Engineering (2016 –18), a Senior Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance (ESG) Project, a member of the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN), and an external faculty affiliate of the Ostrom Workshop. Dr. Kashwan is also the vice-chair of the Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ISA). In addition to nearly two dozen scholarly publications, his research has been cited in national and international media, including the New York Times, Deutsche Welle, Huffington Post, the U.S. National Public Radio (NPR), Scientific American, and, Down to Earth. Dr. Kashwan has written several influential commentaries for popular venues, such as the Conversation, the Guardian, Al-Jazeera and the Washington Post.