Docent

Harry Fischer

Institute: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Other affiliation: Department of Urban and Rural Development
Research area: Agriculture rural development & food security, Environment and climate change
Research region: Asia-Pacific, Global
Open to collaboration with: Media, Other researchers, Practitioners and policy makers

Other experience

Collaboration with civil society organisations
Lecturing and workshops
Statistical analysis
Survey creation and analysis

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Publications

Limited effects of tree planting on forest canopy cover and rural livelihoods in Northern India

Nature Sustainability
Decentralization and the governance of climate adaptation: Situating community-based planning within broader trajectories of political transformation

World Development
Forest livelihoods and a “green recovery” from the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights and emerging research priorities from India

Forest Policy and Economics
Pitfalls of Tree Planting Show Why We Need People-Centered Natural Climate Solutions

BioScience
The local governance of COVID-19: Disease prevention and social security in rural India

World Development
Biodiversity conservation and livelihoods in human-dominated landscapes: Forest commons in South Asia

Biological Conservation
Environmental citizenship, gender, and the emergence of a new conservation politics

Geoforum
Assets, livelihoods, and the ‘profile approach’ for analysis of differentiated social vulnerability in the context of climate change

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
Beyond Participation and Accountability: Theorizing Representation in Local Democracy

World Development
Can more drought resistant crops promote more climate secure agriculture? Prospects and challenges of millet cultivation in Ananthapur, Andhra Pradesh

World Development Perspectives
Harnessing the State: Social Transformation, Infrastructural Development, and the Changing Governance of Water Systems in the Kangra District of the Indian Himalayas

Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Electricity-Centered Clientelism and the Contradictions of Private Solar Microgrids in India

Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Reshaping the public domain: Decentralization, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), and trajectories of local democracy in rural India

World Development
Policy innovations for pro-poor climate support: social protection, small-scale infrastructure, and active citizenship under India’s MGNREGA

Climate and Development
The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 amid Agrarian Distress: Opportunities for Comprehensive Policy Response in Agrarian South Asia

Politics & Gender
The local governance of COVID-19: Disease prevention and social security in rural India

World Development
Decades of tree planting in Northern India had little effect on forest density and rural livelihoods

Uncategorized
Decentralization and the governance of climate adaptation: Situating community-based planning within broader trajectories of political transformation

World Development
Dark and bright spots in the shadow of the pandemic: Rural livelihoods, social vulnerability, and local governance in India and Nepal

World Development
How politics shapes the outcomes of forest carbon finance

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability