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He is also undertaking postdoctoral research at the intersection of rising consumerism, sustainability concerns, and inequality levels in the context of the Global South. [...] His research is at two levels: understanding the concepts of sustainability, environmentalism, and development, and questions of how a transition towards these goals can happen in the sectors of forests, water, pollution, climate change, and more generally questions of sustainable consumption-production. [...] He is also highly engaged in policy-related work, including serving on the Joint Committee on the Forest Rights Act 2010, the Karnataka High Court’s Elephant Task Force 2012; the Expert Appraisal Committee for Thermal Power Plants and Coal Mining 2016-20 of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and the National Green Tribunal’s committees on environmental violations in coal minin. [...] on the environmental impacts of large dams from the Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru, and a PhD in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley (1993), focusing on forest use in the Western Ghats. [...] He holds a PhD in Economics from University of Sydney, an MA in Economics from University of Tsukuba (Japan), and a BA in Economics from Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia).