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JEENA, T. SRINIVASAN

JEENA, T. SRINIVASAN

Associate Professor

Area:
Environment and Development Economics, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Qualification:
Ph.D. Economics
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Brief Profile

  • Bachelor of Arts. Economics, 1993. First Class, University of Calicut. Kerala, India. UGC-NET. Qualified University Grants Commissions National Eligibility Test (Lectureship) in Economics in June 1998
  • Master of Arts. Economics, 1995. First Class, University of Calicut, Kerala, India.
  • Thesis topic: Internal Rural Migration and its Impact on Deforestation and Cropping Pattern in Kerala
  • M. Phil., Applied Economics, 1998. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi through Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
  • Thesis topic: Economic and Institutional Factors in the Use and Management of Wetlands: A Case Study of the Cochin Backwater, Kerala
  • Ph.D., Economics, 2004., University of Mysore, through Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India

Research Interest

  • Sustainability of agriculture in small farms
  • Risks and poverty in the context of involuntary displacement of population
  • Groundwater irrigation, agricultural development and poverty focussing on the Godavari River Basin
  • Natural resources economics and management focusing on land and water resources, wetlands and fisheries
  • Environment and Development Economics, Agricultural and Resource Economics,

Publications

  • Shashanka Bhide and Jeena T Srinivasan (2004)·“Development Policies, Priorities and Sustainability Perspectives in India”, Social and Economic Change Monograph 6, ISEC Bangalore
  • Contributed to the Andhra Pradesh Human Development Report 2008 on Environment and Health.
  • Contributed to the Draft Approach Paper of Twelfth Five Year Plan of Government of Andhra Pradesh prepared by Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad in Consultation with Planning Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh and various working groups (2012).
  • Jeena T Srinivasan, V Ratna Reddy and D Mohan Rao (2009). Natural Resource Base and Status of Environmental Health in Andhra Pradesh. In S Mahendra Dev, C Ravi and M Venkatanarayana, (Eds) Human Development in Andhra Pradesh: Experience, Issues and Challenges. Published by Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad.
  • Co-author of the chapter on ‘Sustainability’ in the forthcoming India Rural Development Report prepared by IDFC for the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. (2013)
  • Jeena T Srinivasan (2016) “India’s bioeconomy: A brief overview of the status, challenges and opportunities” in the Conference proceedings of the International Symposium on Agriculture and Environment 2016 on January 13, 2016, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka

Research Projects

  • Jyothis Sathyapalan, Jeena T Srinivasan and Joeri Scholtens. “Fishing Fleet Reduction and Its Livelihood Implications: A Case Study of Palk-Bay Resource Users in the East Coast of Tamil Nadu, India”. With MARE, University of Amsterdam and SIFFS, Thiruvananthapuram and supported by UNTRS of the FAO. (2006-07).
  • Jeena T Srinivasan. “Use of Economic Instruments for Water Demand Management: A Comparative Study of India and Canada”. Report Submitted to the Shastry Indo Canadian Institute through a Faculty Research Programme Fellowship for the year 2008-09 supported by DFIAT, Canada.
  • Jeena T Srinivasan. “Sustainable Water Management in Agriculture and Its Implications for Human Welfare and Environment: A Study of Watersheds in Rainfed Regions in India”. International Foundation for Science, Sweden (2006-09)
  • Jeena T Srinivasan and V Ratna Reddy. “Ensuring Health and Food Safety from Rapidly Expanding Wastewater Irrigation in South Asia” a collaborative project sponsored by BMZ- Germany and implemented by the International Water Management Institute, Hyderabad (2005-2009)
  • Jeena T Srinivasan and Jyothis Sathyapalan. “Livelihood Linkages and Tradeoffs in the Downstream Floodplains of River Basins: A Study of Kole Lands in Thrissur.” Sponsored by Jamsetji Tata Trust, Mumbai through the Research Unit for Livelihoods and Natural Resources, CESS, Hyderabad. (2009-10)
  • Jeena T Srinivasan and Anil Kumar, K. “Impoverishment Risks and Livelihood Restoration Strategies in Involuntary Displacement and Resettlement: A Case Study from Godavari River Basin.” Sponsored by Jamsetji Tata Trust, Mumbai through the Research Unit for Livelihoods and Natural Resources, CESS, Hyderabad (2009-10)
  • Jyothis Sathyapalan and Jeena T Srinivasan. “Augmenting Livelihood Security of Salt Workers: A Study of Techno-economic Feasibility of Extracting Value Added Product
    IDFC, CESS, IRMA Rural Development Report Project 2013. Contributed to Sustainability Chapter
  • Jeena T Srinivasan. Sustainable Small Farm Agriculture: A Study of Rice Cultivation in Kerala. (2012-14). Sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi.
    Himanshu Kulkarni, Jeena T Srinivasan and N Chandrasekhara Rao Hydrogeological Study with Specific Reference to the Project on Sustainable Groundwater Governance, Agriculture and Poverty in Godavari River Basin Sponsored by Jamsetji Tata Trust, Mumbai through the Research Unit for Livelihoods and Natural Resources, CESS, Hyderabad. (Lead by ACWADAM) (2012-14).
  • Jeena T Srinivasan and N Chandrasekhara Rao. Sustainable groundwater governance, agriculture and poverty in the Godavari River Basin. Sponsored by Jamsetji Tata Trust, Mumbai through the Research Unit for Livelihoods and Natural Resources, CESS, Hyderabad (2012-14).
  • Jeena T Srinivasan (2015) Making value out of waste: A study on urban wastewater use in agriculture for poverty reduction in water scarce regions in India. A Study supported by Fulbright Grant and undertaken at the Cornell University Ithaca, USA during September 2014- May 2015).
    Jyothis Sathyapalan and Jeena T Srinivasan (2016), Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Scenarios Network (ScenNet), Supported by Belmont forumhttp://www.belmontforum.org/funded-projects/biodiversity-and-ecosystemservice-scenarios-network through the Ministry of Earth Science, Government of India.

Conferences / Seminars

  • Jeena T Srinivasan ‘Direct and Indirect Livelihoods Benefits As Well As the Health and Adaptation Related Costs of Wastewater Irrigation: An Overview of Methodologies for Economic Valuation’, Inception Workshop of the Project titled, ‘Ensuring Health and Food Safety From Rapidly Expanding Wastewater Irrigation in South Asia’ at Colombo, Sri Lanka, September 5-6, 2005.
  • Paper presented on Issues in sustainable water management in the 5th International Human Dimensions/Asia Pacific Network International Human Dimensions Workshop on Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change – Water, Trade and the Environment held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, during 13 – 26 October 2006.
  • Jeena T Srinivasan and Reddy V Ratna, presented a paper titled “Wastewater Use in Irrigated Agriculture: A Study in Hyderabad” in the 9th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics on “Ecological Sustainability and Human Well-Being” held during 15-18 December 2006 at New Delhi.
  • Jeena T Srinivasan and Jyothis Sathyapalan presented a paper on ‘Livelihood Linkages and Tradeoffs in the Downstream Floodplains of River Basins: A Study of Kole Lands in Trissur, Kerala’ in the two-day modelling workshop on Land-use Planning and Agriculture during 15-16 April 2010 jointly organised by Madras School of Economics (MSE), Chennai, TIFAC and the International Institute for Applied System Analysis, Austria (IIASA) at the MSE.
    Jyothis Sathyapalan, Jeena T Srinivasan and Joeri Scholten, presented a paper titled “Role of Incentives in the Management of Small Scale Trawler Fisheries: An Explorative Study of Overcapitalisation in Palk Bay, India” in the World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress (WSFC) held at Montien Riverside Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand during 18-22 October 2010.
  • Jeena T Srinivasan (2011). “Property Issues in Seasonally Altering Multiple Use Wetlands: A Study of Kole land, India” in the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) 10-14 January 2011, Hyderabad.
  • Jeena T Srinivasan (2011). “Sustaining productivity of coastal wetland agriculture: A Study of Kole wetlands in Kerala, India”, accepted for presentation of full paper in the 21st International Commission for Irrigation and Drainage Congress, in Tehran, Iran during 15-23 October 2011. Paper published in the refereed conference proceedings.
  • Jeena T Srinivasan (2013). Presented a paper titled ‘Multiple Risks and Intra household Characteristics: A Study on the Relocation Outcomes of Households in Various Phases of Displacement and Relocation in India; in the International Conference on Developmentinduced Displacement and Resettlement organised by the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, held during 22-23rd March 2013 at the University of Oxford, UK.
    Participated in the 2014-15 Fulbright Visiting Scholar Enrichment Seminar Entitled “Climate Change and the Plight of the Oceans”, during November 5-9 2014 at St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
  • Jeena T Srinivasan (2015). “India’s Groundwater Challenge: Exploring relationship between spatial variability, agricultural development and poverty”, on 17th April 2015, at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.
    Jeena T Srinivasan (2016). Delivered a key note address on “India’s bioeconomy: A brief overview of the status, challenges and opportunities” in the International Symposium on Page 7 of 8 Agriculture and Environment 2016 on January 13, 2016, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka
  • N Chandrasekhara Rao and Jeena T Srinivasan (2016). Paper titled “Farm size heterogeneity, access to groundwater resources and its use: Implications for sustainable groundwater governance in India” presented in the International Society for Ecological Economics 2016 conference on Transforming the Economy: Sustaining Food, Water, Energy and Justice, June 26-29, Washington, D C.
  • Jeena T Srinivasan and N Chandrasekhara Rao (2016) paper titled “Groundwater irrigation and sustainable intensification of agricultural production systems: A study with special reference to spatial variability in groundwater availability at a river basin level in India” presented in the the International Society for Ecological Economics 2016 conference on Transforming the Economy: Sustaining Food, Water, Energy and Justice, June 26-29, Washington, D C.
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Teaching

Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship 2014-15. Was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York during September 2014 to May 2015 and was affiliated to Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.

Other Information

  • Jeena T Srinivasan (2000). “Wetland Conversion: The Case of Backwater Reclamation in Kerala, Working Paper No. 74 Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore 72
    Jeena T Srinivasan and V Ratna Reddy (2009). Impact of Irrigation Water Quality on Health: A Case Study in India. Ecological Economics Vol. 68(11): 2800-2807. (Elsevier).
  • Jeena T Srinivasan (2011). “Agriculture-Wetland Interactions: How to Sustain Rice Production in the Kole Land, Kerala?” RULNR-CESS Policy Brief No.1, January
  • Jeena T Srinivasan (2010). “Exploring Livelihood Issues and Linkages in the Context of River Basins in India” Approach Paper No 2. Research Unit for Livelihoods and Natural Resources, CESS, Hyderabad.
  • Jeena T Srinivasan (2010). “Understanding the Kole land in Kerala as a Multiple Use Wetland Ecosystem”. Working Paper No.89. Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad.
    Jeena T Srinivasan (2011) Agriculture Wetland Interactions: A Case Study of the Kole Wetland, Kerala. CESS Monograph 19 (July 2011).
  • Jeena T Srinivasan (2011). “Sustaining productivity of coastal wetland agriculture: A Study of Kole wetlands in Kerala, India”, in the Conference Proceedings of the 21st Congress on Irrigation and Drainage: Water Productivity towards Food Security by the International Commission for Irrigation and Drainage Congress, in Tehran, Iran organised during 15-23 October 2011. ICID Transactions No.30-A, R.56.1.09, pp 123-136.
  • Jyothis Sathyapalan, Ajoy M Bhatt, P. S Easa, Jeena T Srinivasan, Nimisha Shukla and Pankti Jog (2014). Livelihoods of Agariyas and Biodiversity Conservation in the Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, CESS Monograph 34. RULNR Monograh-20.
  • Jeena T Srinivasan and Prabhu Pingali. Groundwater Irrigation and its Implications for Poverty and Nutrition in India (under preparation)
  • N Chandrasekhara Rao and Jeena T Srinivasan (2016). Paper titled “Farm size heterogeneity, access to groundwater resources and its use: Implications for sustainable groundwater governance in India” Conference paper presented in the International Society for Ecological Economics 2016 conference on Transforming the Economy: Sustaining Food, Water, Energy and Justice, June 26-29, Washington, D C.
  • Jeena T Srinivasan and N Chandrasekhara Rao (2016) “Groundwater irrigation and sustainable intensification of agricultural production systems: A study with special reference to spatial variability in groundwater availability at a river basin level in India” Conference paper presented in the International Society for Ecological Economics 2016 conference on Transforming the Economy: Sustaining Food, Water, Energy and Justice, June 26-29, Washington, D C.