CURRENT POSITION

• Senior Research Associate, SHODH
• Ph.D scholar, Nagpur University  

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  Tel:+91-712-2591142

  Email:deepshikha_mehra@hotmail.com,

           deepshikham@gmail.com  

1. M.Phil (Economics): 1995, Nagpur University, Department of Economics. Submitted dissertation entitled “Awareness of Economic rights of women in Nagpur city”
2. M.A. (Economics): 1993, Nagpur University, Department of Economics.
3. B.A.: 1991, Nagpur University, ‘St. Francis de Sales' (SFS) college.
4. Schooling: 1988, Central Board of Secondary Education, Central School, Nagpur.

TEACHING: As contributory lecturer for Public Economics at the Post-graduate Department of Economics, Nagpur University Campus, Nagpur.

1. Participated in training course on Environmental and Resource Economics organized by South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), Nepal, at Sri Lanka, between 17th June and 4th July 2004.
2. One Day pre-conference training on “Biodiversity for Social scientists” conducted by Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) at Indian Institute for Management, Kolkata on 17 th December 2003.
3. Eight weeks training in IFRI methodology under the International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) research program, Indiana University, USA - Asia Workshop, conducted at Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani, Thailand from 29th September to 21st November 2003.
4. Training workshop in ‘Econometrics for Environmental Economists' organized by South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), Nepal, at Bangladesh between 9th to 14th December 2002.

1. Received grant from International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) at School of Natural Resources and environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA for ‘Research and Writing fellowship’ from April-May 2007. IFRI Working paper no. W01-08, Jan 2008.

2. Received grant from Winrock International, New Delhi under its ‘forestry case study’ grant for case study entitled "Traditional ecological ethos and norms as an element of social capital and its role in forest management", Nov.2005-Feb 2006. Submitted the case study in the form of a paper (http://www.rupfor.org/casestudies.asp.)

3. Coordinated project entitled "Role of social capital in forest management: A revisit to five communities in Vidarbha region", granted by International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI), Indiana University, U.S.A. 2005-2006. 

4. Was team member of project entitled "dependence on forest of communities on fringes of protected areas: A case of village Wadala located outside Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve", December 2006.

5. Co-coordinated project entitled "dependence on forest of communities on fringes of protected areas: A case of village Kondegaon located outside Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve", June 2006.

6. Team member of project entitled "Alternate Income Opportunities And Dependence On Non-Timber Forest Products" covering three JFM villages. Was associated in data collection, analysis, and report-writing, 2004-2006.

7. Research and report writing team member of a minor-research study on "Land alienation and restoration of tribal rights on land in Jewati Taluka, Chandrapur District". July 2005

8. Was team member of FAO/World Bank funded project on "Need Assessment Of Forest Dependent People From Three States Of ‘Tribal Belt’ Of Central India", Feb-April 2005.

9. Research and report writing team member of Forest Department granted evaluation study of 17 JFM villages federated under Forest Development Agency (FDA) Bramhapuri forest divisions, Maharashtra State, India. 2006.

10. Was research and report-writing team member of Forest Department granted evaluation study of 30 JFM villages federated under Forest Development Agency (FDA) in Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra State, India in 2005-2006.
11. Coordinated project on "Socio-economic survey of five villages within Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve" in May-June 2005.
12. Was research and report-writing team member of Forest Department granted evaluation study of 30 villages federated under Forest Development Agency (FDA) in Wadsa forest division in 2005.
13. Was team member of a project entitled "Invariant Dependency on Common Property resources at Different Stages of Development - A Case Study of Water in India", Funded by Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Research (CMDR), India, under IDPAD, 2004-2006.
14. Coordinated study entitled "Impact Of Relocation On Forest Dependent Communities: A case of a PA from Vidarbha region of Maharashtra State, India" granted by International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI), Indiana University, U.S.A. Was the lead author of the report prepared in the form of a working paper. 2004.
15. Full time Research Assistant for a project entitled "Institutional structure and sustainable collective action" awarded by S.A.N.D.E.E (South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics), Nepal. Was associated in data collection, analysis and report-writing, 2001-2003.
16. Member of the report writing team for the project entitled "Institutional Arrangements Of Two Successful Self-Initiated Attempts In Forest Management In Maharashtra, India", granted by International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI), Indiana University, U.S.A. 2001.

1. (2008) ‘Good In Intention, Bad In Practice Forest Development Agency: Nesting Of JFM Committees', in Bhattacharya, P., Kandya, A.K., and Krishna Kumar, K.N. Joint Forest management in India, IIFM, Aavishkar Publishers: Bhopal, Jaipur, pp. 519-533 
2. (2008) ‘Integrating informal and formal forest management institutions for sustainable collective action in India’, (joint) in E.L. Webb and G. P. Shivkoti (eds.) Decentralization, Forests, and Rural communities: policy outcomes in south and Souteast Asia, Sage Publications, India.
3. (2006) ‘Forest degradation in forest reserves in India', Newsletter no. 13 (Fall), South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), Nepal.

4. (2006) "Traditional ecological ethos and norms as an element of social capital and its role in forest management: A case study". http://www.rupfor.org/casestudies.asp.

5. (2005) Relocation realities, Wasteland News , Vol. XX No.2, pp. 21-25.  

6. (2004) ‘Bane of Bangladesh: Arsenic', Newsletter no. 9 (September), South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), Nepal.
7. (2004) ‘The Land On Which Forest Stands Is Not Ours, So What? Forest Products Are Ours! A Study Of Three Collective Action Based Forest Regimes Without Land Tenure' in Forest, Trees and Livelihoods , 2004, Vol. 14 p.p.91-108.
8. (2003) Does Leadership Matter?: A Study Of Self-Initiated Forest Management From Central India, Asia - Pacific journal of rural development , 13,no.1, 2003, 89-104
9. (2001) ‘Do the Rural Women Really Know Their Rights? November 4, 2001, Navarashtra (local Daily).

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1. (2006) ‘Good In Intention, Bad In Practice Forest Development Agency: Nesting Of JFM Committees' (joint) in proceedings of national workshop on ‘JFM at cross roads: future strategy and action programme for institutionalizing community forestry', April 20 to 22, 2006, at IIFM, Bhopal. Pp. 444-458.

WORKING PAPER/REPORT

1. 2008 "Social capital and its performance in forest conservation in traditional and non-traditional communities: a revisit to five communities from Vidarbha region in Central India" IFRI Working paper No. W01-08, Jan 2008, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

2. ( 2006). “Traditional ecological ethos and norms as an element of social capital and its role in forest management: A case study”. Report No. 02-06, February, SHODH: The Institute for Research and Development, Nagpur
3. ( 2004) “Impact of relocation on forest dependent communities: A case of a Protected Area from Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India” Working paper no. 5-04, SHODH: The institute for Research and Development and IFRI, Indiana University, USA.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS/ MEETINGS

1. Attended meeting of ‘Narmada Abhayas Gat’ with focus on ‘Cooperative and women self-help groups’, Organized by Amhi Amchaya Arogya Sathi, at Yerandi, Kurkheda, Gadchiroli, 20th to 22nd July 2007.

2. ‘Alternate Income Opportunities And Dependence On Non-Timber Forest Products' to be presented at ISEE conference, New Delhi, December 2006 (accepted for presentation)
3. ‘Good In Intention, Bad In Practice Forest Development Agency: Nesting Of JFM Committees' Presented in national workshop on ‘JFM at cross roads: future strategy and action program for institutionalizing community forestry', April 20 to 22, 2006, at IIFM, Bhopal.
4. Participated in Women core group's state level discussion on “Joint forest management and need for equal participation of women in the State-level committee”, 5-6, Dec 2005.
5. ‘Creating Protected Areas: In Whose Interest, At What Cost? A Case Study Of Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra'. Presented in Seminar on “Making conservation work: attempting solutions to biodiversity loss in India”. Organized by Council for Social Development, New Delhi, from 11th to 12th March 2005.
6. ‘Significance of traditional indigenous institutions and practices in forest management: A case of two indigenous communities from Gadchiroli district from Maharashtra State in India.” Paper presented at the IASCP conference held at Oaxaca, Mexico – 9th to 13th August 2004.
7. ‘Ensuring ‘Collective Action' In ‘Participatory' Forest Management.” Paper presented at the IASCP conference held at Oaxaca, Mexico – 9th to 13th August 2004.
8. ‘Bio-diverse economic dependence of indigenous population: A study from Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra”, presented at Third Biennial Conference of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE), to be held at the Indian Institute of Management, between 18-20 December, 2003.
9. ‘Community-initiated forest management without land tenure: how feeble, how strong? A study of three case studies from Central India”, presented at ‘ RCSD Politics of the Commons: Articulating Development and Strengthening Local Practices', International conference at Chiang Mai, Thailand, between 11-14th July 2003. 

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• ‘O' level from DOE (Department of Electronics, Government of India) in the year 1997.
• Certificate in Business Professional Programming in the year 1994.