Dr Sneha Biswas | Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Dr Sneha Biswas

Assistant Professor
Hyderabad Campus,
Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Governance

Qualification

Ph.D - Institute for Social and Economic Change.

M.Sc - West Bengal State University.

B.Sc - West Bengal State University.

Contact

sneha.biswas[at]tiss[dot]ac[dot]in

Dr. Sneha Biswas is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy and Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad. She has a PhD degree in Development Studies from the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru, India. Her PhD thesis is titled as "Socio-economic vulnerability of the coastal ecosystem: A study of Indian Sundarbans". Her research work attempts to understand how pre-existing socio-economic condition contributes to people’s vulnerability. She has been awarded the UGC Junior Research Fellowship (Geography) and Prof. D. M. Nanjundappa Endowment Prize in Development Studies from ISEC. She is the faculty coordinator for M.A. in Natural Resources and Governance.

Vulnerability Studies, Socio-economic Vulnerability, Disaster Studies, Climate Change, Local Governance

Journal Publication

Biswas, S., Nautiyal, S. (2023). A review of socio-economic vulnerability: The emergence of its theoretical concepts, models and methodologies. Natural Hazards Research. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nhres.2023.05.005

Biswas, S., & Nautiyal, S. (2020). An assessment of socio-economic vulnerability at the household level: a study on villages of the Indian Sundarbans. Environment Development Sustainability. Springer. 23(7):11120-11137 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-020-01085-2

Islary, M., Biswas, S., Nautiyal, S. (2021). India in 21st Century: Human-wildlife conflict still unsolved. Journal of Human Ecology. 76 (1-3): 23-31.

Biswas, S. (2021). The Success of Joint Forest Management in the Southern Part of West Bengal: Its Impact in the Livelihoods and Lives of the Local People. The Grassroots Governance Journal.19: 103-112

Book Chapter

Biswas, S., Nautiyal, S. (2023). Traditional Ecological Knowledge Versus Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study from the Indian Sundarbans. In: Nautiyal, S., Gupta, A.K., Goswami, M., Imran Khan, Y.D. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Socio-ecological Resilience in the Face of Climate Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2206-2_20

Working Papers

Biswas, S., & Nautiyal, S. (2020). Livelihood and Social capital in vulnerable ecosystems: A case study from Indian Sundarbans, ISEC Working Paper (496): 1-16

Biswas, S. (2020). Structure and Functions of Social-Ecological Systems: A case study from Indian Sundarbans, ISEC Working Paper (472): 1-20

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