UCSC

Environmental Studies

Research and Writing

Ravi Rajan’s research addresses three broad and

inter-related themes:

1. Environmental History and Values
   

2. With a focus on the socio-ecological consequences of modernization,
   

3. and on the relationship between environment and human rights.
   

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6. Risk and Disaster Management
   

7. With a focus on the mitigation of risk and vulnerability pre and post natural and technological disasters, and on the social, economic, and environmental consequences of emerging technologies.
   

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10. Green Governance and Entrepreneurship
    

With a focus on the design of new, adaptive, institutions – governmental, non-governmental, and corporate, and frameworks of assessment and accountability.

Rajan’s goal is to conduct and nurture rigorous research that can anticipate and respond to the next generation of policy challenges. His approach is borne out of the conviction that good public policy can only be made on the foundation of a sound understanding of social and cultural contexts and of history. He therefore draws upon the methodologies of disciplines such as analytical philosophy, environmental and economic history, geography, sociology and anthropology.

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