Paulami Banerjee

Paulami Banergee
PhD Candidate
Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Paulami’s Curriculum Vitae

Paulami’s research interests include environmental communication, human-environment relationships, community-based natural resource conservation, public participation and environmental policy.

Before coming to the U.S., she completed her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Geography from Presidency University, Kolkata, and the University of Calcutta, India.   Her research explores the impacts of government-initiated conservation programs on the livelihoods of rural communities in Sikkim – India’s northeastern state bordering Nepal, Tibet, and China. Through an ethnographic study of forest-based communities, her research looks at the impact of participatory forest management schemes on rural livelihoods among forest-dependent communities in Sikkim.

 

• Cristi C. Horton, Tarla Rai Peterson, Paulami Banerjee, and Markus J. Peterson, 2015. Credibility and advocacy in conservation science; in Conservation Biology.
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.12558/pdf
• Paulami Banerjee, Community Conversations on Conservation: A Case Study of Joint Forest Management in East Sikkim, India; in T. R. Peterson; H. Ljunggren; A. Feldpausch-Parker; K. Raitio (eds.) How communication practices contribute to construction/destruction of community, Routledge
• Joint Forest Management in India: A Case Study of East Sikkim, India; in M. S. Meisner; N. Sriskandarajah; S. P. Depoe (eds.), Communication for the Commons: Revisiting Participation and Environment: IECA & 2015 Conference Proceedings.
  https://theieca.org/conference/coce-2013-uppsala/conference-proceedings