Background
Divya Gupta is an environmental social scientist and interdisciplinary scholar. Her work bridges natural resource governance, development and justice in South Asia. Her research spans diverse themes, including democratic decentralization, adaptation to global change, and rights-based approaches to conservation. Her empirical work in India and Nepal investigates how systemic marginalization and climate-related changes interact to create and amplify vulnerabilities in forested landscapes.
She collaborates with scholars, practitioners, activists and community members to explore circumstances in which the networks of multiple actors and organizations create synergies for the emergence of just and sustainable governance practices for addressing the complexities of global change.
Education
- Ph.D., Ohio State University
Research Interests
Multi-actor and multi-level governance
Decentralization
Resource rights
Collaboration
Institutional analysis
Knowledge co-production
Teaching Interests
- ENVI 225: International Environmental Policy
- ENVI 340: Natural Resource Equity in the Global South
- ENVI 481: Earth Justice
