Sustenance, Security and Suffrage: An Essay on Environmental Justice.

This book manuscript, now close to completion, explores the contributions of modern environmental thought to development and democratic theory. It presents a neglected genealogy of modern environmentalism, from its origins in early enlightenment through to the early twenty first century. In doing so, it explores the contributions made by this tradition to the understanding of poverty and quality of life.

Genealogies of Environmentalism: Clarence J. Glacken on Nature, Culture and History. (Co-edited with Michael Watts).

This edited anthology compiles several rare and unpublished works on the history of environmental thought by the eminent geographer, Clarence Glacken. The essays span the period that starts with the French Revolution and ends with the Second World War. The manuscript is being edited and is expected to be published by the University of California Press.

Ecologies of Hope: The Prospect of New Development Hybrids

This project, now almost complete, is based on a National Science Foundation Grant on environmental governance. Expected to be published in 2007, following a School of American Research Advanced Short Seminar, it will be book edited by Rajan and will involve members of his research lab (Anna Zivian, Dustin Mulvaney, Ben Weil, Roopali Phadke, Ariane deBremond, and Chris Bacon), and a group of leading expert scholars, who will serve as commentators. It will consist of an inter-connected set of case studies from India, Africa and the Americas, exploring emergent ‘successful’ frameworks of resource use and management and asking questions about the replicability and scalability of these models.

Mobilizing Science: Ecological Risk and Public Policy – the Case of Genetically Engineered Organisms.

This interdisciplinary project, with colleagues Deborah Letourneau and Dennis Kelso and graduate students, Anna Zivian, Joy Hagen and Dustin Mulvaney, examines the scope of scientific research conducted on the ecological risks of genetically engineered organisms.