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Rucha Ghate
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Name :
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Rucha Ghate (Ms.)
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Date of birth :
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17th June 1961
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Residential Address :
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106, K.T. Nagar, Katol Road, Nagpur- 440013, (M.S.), India.
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Office address :
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50, Kinkhede Layout, Bharat Nagar, Nagpur- 440033
Tel: +91-712- 2570690 (Res), 2555625 (Off)
Mobile: 09890085625
E-mail: ruchaghate@gmail.com
Web site: www.shodh-research.org
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Current Position :
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Director (Projects), SHODH: The Institute for Research and Development, Nagpur
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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS :
Teaching experience :
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Assistant Professor and Associate Professor, Post Graduate Teaching Department of
Economics, Nagpur University from Sept.1986 till December 2003. Papers taught: Environmental
Economics, Public Finance, Business Cycles, Management.
Visiting faculty :
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At the Summer School in Goa for undergraduate students of The College of William
and Mary, Virginia University, a course on ‘Environment and Development in Indian
context’, from May 28 to June 8, 2007.
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At Research Methods and Proposal writing training workshop at Mekong Institute Foundation,
Khon Kaen, Thailand, from 30th June to 5th July 2006.
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At Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, for two months (Sept-Oct. 2002). Awarded
with ‘teaching award 2003’, School of Environment, Resources and Development, for
outstanding teaching performance for the course ‘Research Design and Methods’.
Awards :
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Joint recipient of the first Karl Goran Maler scholarship for 2009. This scholarship
will allow the recipient to visit Beijer Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, for one month
in the year 2009, and write a paper in collaboration with a faculty member at the
Beijer Institute.
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Writing Fellowship, for one month at the University of Michigan, USA under the IFRI
program, 2009.
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Writing Fellowship, for two months at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, in 2004.
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Post-doctoral overseas fellowship in Environmental Economics under the World Bank
aided India Capacity building program, at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA,
from August 1999 to June 2000.
Consultancy: Evaluation, supervision and development :
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Short-term consultancy of the World Bank for co-authoring a paper for Kathmandu
Global Tiger Workshop under the Global Tiger Initiative under the theme – creating
local constituencies for tiger conservation: community incentives and alternative
livelihoods, 2009.
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Member of The Energy Research Institute team (as expert in institutional analysis)
for conducting ‘Situation Analysis of the poverty-ecosystem link in the Indo-Hindukush
region’, a project funded by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK, August
2007 to February 2008.
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Coordinator, Workshop on ‘Economic Development, poverty reduction and policy change:
environmental economics for policy makers’, organized by SANDEE, UNDP and UNEP,
at AIT Bangkok, Dec. 10-13, 2007.
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Member, working group on wildlife, biodiversity, traditional knowledge, and animal
welfare for the Environment and Forests sector for the 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-2012).
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Member, World Bank “Chhattisgarh Tribal Livelihoods Scoping Mission”, from 31st
March to 2nd April 2006.
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Member, World Bank supervisory Mission on ‘Andhra Pradesh Community Forest Management
(APCFM) Project’, from 8th to 19th December 2003.
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Member, World Bank supervisory Mission on ‘Kerala Forestry Project’, from 9th to
21st November 2003.
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Member, World Bank supervisory Mission on ‘Andhra Pradesh Community Forest Management,
(APCFM) Project’ from 16th to 28th February 2003.
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Consultant on an Indo-Dutch co-funded project entitled “Invariant dependency of
Common Property Resources at Different Stages of Development: A Case Study of Water
in India”, executed by CMDR, Dharwad, Karnataka.
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Forest Department granted evaluation study of thirty villages federated under Forest
Development Agency in Gadchiroli Forest Division; seventeen villages under Bramhapuri
division; and twenty seven villages under Central Chanda division, In Chandrapur
and Gadchiroli districts, Maharashtra State, India, 2005-2006.
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Guest Editor for South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics
(SANDEE), Newsletter (from No 7 to 18 and ongoing ).
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Co-edited special issues entitled “Environment and Development”, of Marathi Journal
Samaj Probadhan Patrika, Vol. 44/176, Oct-Dec. 2006 and Vol. 47/185, Jan-March,
2009.
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National consultant as Tribal Development specialist for World Bank funded project
on “Need assessment of forest-dependent people from three states of ‘tribal belt’
of Central India”.
Development Programs :
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Helped set-up a grain bank in a relocated village Bhagwanpur, in Chandrapur district,
in 2008.
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Conducted second awareness camp for the villagers of Botezari village located within
Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, in May 2006.
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Prepared a micro-plan for village Kondhegaon, Chandrapur district, and conducted
a workshop at the village on ‘alternate farm and off-farm livelihood options and
opportunities’, April 2006.
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Conducted an awareness camp for the villagers of Botezari village located within
Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, on 29th and 30th November 2005.
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Conducted a stakeholder workshop at village Mendha, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra
State as part of the project “Invariant dependency of Common Property Resources
at Different Stages of Development: A Case Study of Water in India”, on 22nd June
2005.
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Conducted a stakeholder workshop at village Rajapur, Tumsar district, Maharashtra
State as part of the project “Invariant dependency of Common Property Resources
at Different Stages of Development: A Case Study of Water in India”, on 21st June
2005.
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Organized and conducted a multi-stakeholder workshops for Orissa, Chhattisgarh,
and Madhya Pradesh under the World Bank funded project “Need assessment of forest
dependent people from three states of ‘tribal belt’ of Central India”, in 2005.
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One day interactive workshop organized for five villages on Tirbal Development Schemes,
at Mendha village, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra State, January 2004.
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Conducted five Environment Awareness camps sponsored by UNICEF for children of seven
villages in and around Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, each,of three days duration
in 1998; two training programs for primary teachers of Ashram Schools each of 5
days duration, Integrated Tribal Development Project (I.T.D.P.), Nagpur, 1998; one
training program for primary teachers of Ashram Schools of 3 days duration(.I.T.D.P.
Bhamaragarh), 1997; three training programs for primary teachers of Ashram Schools
each of 3 days duration( I.T.D.P. Gadchiroli), 1997.
Institutional affiliation :
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Secretary, SHODH: The Institute for Research and Development, Nagpur.
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Member, Steering Committee, International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI),
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, since May 2008.
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Fellow of South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE),
Nepal.
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Member of Nomination Committee of the International Association for the Study of
Common Property (IASCP), USA, from 2004-06.
Research experience :
Selected Publications :
A. Journals :
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‘Spectral Distance Decay: Assessing Species Beta-diversity by Quantile Regression’,
(with Duccio Rocchini, Harini Nagendra, and Brian S. Cade), Photogrammetric Engineering
& Remote Sensing, Vol. 75, No. 10, October 2009, pp. 1225–1230.
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‘Local institutions as mediators of the impact of markets on non-timber forest product
extraction in central India’, (jointly with D. Mehra and H. Nagendra), Environmental
Conservation, 36(1): 51-61, 2009.
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‘Aversion to Relocation: A Myth?’ (jointly with Kim Beazley), Conservation and Society,
Vol. 5, no. 3. 2007.
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‘Bureaucratic Strategies in Relocation’, Economic and Political Weekly, Nov. 10-16/17-23,
Vol. XLII (45 and 46), pp. 21-24, 2007.
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‘Role of monitoring in institutional performance’, (Joint) 2007, Current Conservation,
Issue no. 1, July 2007.
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‘Role of monitoring in institutional performance: forest management in Maharashtra,
India’, (Joint) 2006, Conservation and Society, Vol. 3(2), July-December. Pp. 509-532.
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‘Environmental Protection, Development and Rehabilitation: A case from Tadoba- Andhari
Tiger Reserve’, (in local language Marathi), Samaj Prabodhan Patrika, Vol.44, No.
176, Oct-Dec. 2006.
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‘People within parks-forest villages, land-cover change and landscape fragmentation
in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, India’, 2006, Applied Geography, 26, pp. 96-112.
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‘A Community case study: self-initiated forest management in Saigata’, 2007, FAO,
www.dgroups.org/groups/fao/landcoalition/docs/16w._Ghate_SHODH_India_comm_mgmt_WEB.pdf
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‘Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve: Relocation versus wildlife preservation’, Economic
and Political Weekly, Nov. 12th 2005, Vol. XL (46), pp. 4807-4809.
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‘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.
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“Creating Protected Areas: In Whose Interest, At What Cost?: A Case Study of Tadoba-Andhari
Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra”, (with Shree Bhagwan: in Proceedings of the National
Seminarcum-Consultation on Relocation of People from Protected Areas in India: Policy
and Process, 2003 (New Delhi: Council for Social Development).
B. In Edited books :
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‘Development Pathway’, (jointly with Roy Joyashree, Chhonda Bose, Ranjan Bose, Sarmistha
Das, Shobhankar Dhakal, Mitali Dasgupta, Saikat Sinha Roy, Manaswita Konar, Anoja
Wickramasinghe, Moumita Roy & Chetana Chaudhuri) In Global Environmental Changes
in South Asia: A Regional Perspective, edited by A. P. Mitra & C. Sharma, 2010,
Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi.
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‘Integrating Informal with Formal Forest Management Institutions for Sustainable
Collective Action in India’, (jointly with Deepshikha Mehra) In Decentralization,
Forests and Rural Communities edited by Edward Webb and Ganesh Shivkoti, 2008, Sage
Publications
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‘Good in Intention, Bad in Practice: Forest Development Agency: Nesting of JFM committees’,
(jointly with Deepshikha Mehra) in Joint Forest Management in India (Vol II), Edited
by P. Bhattacharya, A.K. Kandya, and K.N. Krishna Kumar, Aavishkar Publishers, Jaipur,
2008 (pp 519-533)
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‘A Tale of Three Villages: Practiced Forestry in India’, in Promise, Trust and Evolution
Managing the Commons of South Asia, Edited by Rucha Ghate, Narpat Jodha, and Pranab
Mukhopadhyay, Oxford Universtiy Press, U.K. 2008 (pp 122-143).
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‘Leadership in community initiated forest management’ in New Development Paradigms
& Challenges for Western and Central India (eds.) by R. Parthasarthy and Sudarshan
Iyengar, Concept Pub. Co.: New Delhi, 2006 (pp 429-473).
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‘Ashram schools in Nagpur division: a qualitative analysis’ (joint), in Studies
in Tribal, Rural and Urban Development (ed.) by Robin D. Tribhuwan. Delhi, Discovery,
vol.1. 2000.
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‘Andhari tiger sanctuary: a case study’, in Studies in Tribal, Rural and Urban Development
(ed.) by Robin D. Tribhuwan. Delhi, Discovery, vol. 1, 2000.
C. Books :
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2008, Common Property Water Resources: Dependence and Institutions in India’s Villages
(with Mishra, A., Nayantara Nayak and Pranab Mukhopadhyay), The Energy and Resources
Institute, India.
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2004 ‘Uncommons in the Commons: Community-initiated Forest resource management’,
Concept Publishing Co., New Delhi.
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1992, ‘Forest Policy and Tribal Development’, Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi
(with financial assistance from I.C.S.S.R., New Delhi).
D. Edited Book :
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2008, ‘Promise, Trust and Evolution: Managing the Commons of South Asia’ (with Narpat
Jodha and Pranab Mukhopadhyay), Oxford University Press, U.K.
Research studies: (last 5 years) :
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“Decentralization in Forest Management: Changing Incentives and Attitudes through
JFM”, funded by SANDEE, 2007-09.
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‘Does legislation-backed increased role of women in local governance affect gender
equity? A Comparative study of JFM institutions in Vidarbha region in Central India’,
Granted by ICSSR, New Delhi, India, 2007-09.
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‘Impact of Changed Forest Policy on Tribal Communities: A Revisit Study’, funded
jointly by University of Michigan (under National Science Foundation Grant) and
Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (from MacArthur grant) Bloomington,
2007-09.
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‘Enclosing Forests: bringing community together – social mobilization around natural
resource management for poverty alleviation’, an exploratory short study funded
by UNDP, New Delhi, 2008.
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“Forests-Based Sustainable Development: An exploratory study of Gadchiroli District”
(jointly with Vrikshamitra) sponsored by Oxfam, Australia, 2007.
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“Dependence on forest of communities on fringes of protected areas: A case of village
Kondegaon located outside Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve” 2006.
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“Alternate income opportunities and dependence on non-timber forest products” Funded
by Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, 2005-2006.
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Minor study on “Fact finding and mitigations measures: A study of tribal land alienation
and restoration in Jiwati Taluka, Chandrapur District”, 2005. “Impact Of Relocation
On Forest Dependent Communities: A Case of Protected Area Of Vidarbha Region In
Maharashtra State, India” funded by Workshop in Political theory and Policy Analysis,
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, 2004.
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“Water Scarcity: A Result of Non-Economic Pricing and Inefficient Management: A
Case Study of Nagpur City” funded by ICSSR, New Delhi. 2004
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‘Institutional structure and Sustainable collective action’ sponsored by SANDEE
(South Asian Network for Development of Environmental Economics), 2003.
Relevant Courses /Trainings Undertaken :
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‘Economic Tools for Conservation’, designed and implemented by Conservation Strategy
Fund (CSF), in partnership with the Nature Conservancy and the Center for Conservation
Biology at Stanford University (USA), between August 11 and 22, 2008.
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Course on Survey methods for Environmental Economists, Conducted by SANDEE from
1-6th Nov, 2004, at Bangalore, India.
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Training program conducted by International Forestry Resources and Institutions
(IFRI), Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington,
USA, Aug 30 to Oct. 29 1999.
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Trainers training program organized by UNICEF, Mumbai at Lonavala in April 1999.
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Summer School on Management of Common Property Resources, organized by Center for
Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management, Ahamdabad, between 4th
to 13th June 1997.
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U.G.C. sponsored Course in Advanced Studies, at National Institute of Advanced Studies,
Bangalore, between 6th Oct. and 2nd Nov. 1996.
Selected Conferences/Seminars/Workshops Attended and Papers Presented: (last five
years) :
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Colloquium presentation on ‘Decentralization: Panacea to Halt Degradation?’, at
the University of Kansas at Lawrence USA, April, 2009.
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Round Table organized by Environmental Studies Program, University of Kansas at
Lawrence USA, on August 25, 2008.
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‘Alternate Income Opportunities And Dependence On Non-Timber Forest Products’, (jointly
with Deepshikha Mehra, and Harini Nagendra) was presented at ISEE conference New
Delhi, December 2006.
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‘Relocation blues: compromises locals have to make for conservation’ presented at
the 11th biennial IASCP conference at Bali, June 19-23, 2006.
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‘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.
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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.
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‘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.
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“Traditional and non-traditional indigenous informal institutions in forest management”
to be presented at “Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors”,
Helsinki, Finland, September 16-18, 2004.
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Attended Workshop and conference organized by International Forestry Resources and
Institutions (IFRI) August 2004 at Oaxaca, Mexico.
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“Ensuring ‘Collective Action’ In ‘Participatory’ Forest Management” presented at
the 10th IASCP biennial conference “The Commons in the Age of Global Transition:
Challenges Risks and Opportunities”, Oaxaca, Mexico, August 2004.
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