Aditya Ghosh

About

Aditya Ghosh is a human geographer who examines sustainability challenges across postcolonial geographies amidst rapid climatic changes. Two main strands of empirically informed, interdisciplinary research: 1) Field based examination of emerging socioecological risks; nuances of polycentric resilience; ecosystem degradation, unsustainable spatial transformations and its impact on humans and nonhumans. 2) Analysis of sustainability politics by deconstructing knowledge hegemonies; decolonising the understanding of sustainable development.
Worked with universities of Leicester (UK), Heidelberg and Leuphana (Germany), Sussex (UK), Colorado-Boulder (USA), Ahmedabad and Jindal Global (India) as well as with institutions such as WWF-India, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Centre for Science and Environment, The Times of India and Hindustan Times. Recipient of prestigious global awards such as Chevening (UK-FCO) and DAAD (German academic exchange).

Employment

• Avoidable Death Network, UNDRR Science Society Interface Researcher
  2022 - Present
• University of Leicester Fellow
  2022 - 2025
• O. P. Jindal Global University Associate Professor
  2019 - 2023
• Heidelberg University Senior Research Associate
  2019 - 2021
• Leuphana Universität Lüneburg Fakultät Nachhaltigkeit Postdoctoral Researcher
  2017 - 2019
• Universität Heidelberg Geographisches Institut Heidelberg Research Associate
  2014 - 2017
• University of Colorado Boulder Research Assistant
  2012 - 2013
• Centre for Science and Environment Programme Manager (Climate Change)
  2010 - 2012
• Hindustan Times Ltd Assistant Editor
  2005 - 2010
• Times of India Group Senior Correspondent
  2000 - 2004
• Encyclopædia Britannica (United States) Review Editor
  1999 - 2000
• Ahmedabad University Professor

Education

• Universität Heidelberg PhD
  2013 - 2017
• University of Sussex MA
  2009 - 2011
• University of Calcutta MA
  1997 - 2000
• University of Mumbai B.Sc
  1994 - 1997

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (21)

• On the Stability of Mathematical Modelling of Influenza
  2026 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7079320
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• For, of, and by the community: critical place-based reflections on mangroves regeneration in the Indian Sundarbans
  Community Development Journal 2024 DOI: 10.1093/cdj/bsae066
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• Health threats of climate change: from intersectional analysis to justice-based radicalism
  Ecology and Society 2024 DOI: 10.5751/es-14045-290215
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• “What is a ‘very severe cyclone’ please”? Uncovering knowledge and communication gaps in climate resilience realities
  International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103499
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• Falling “fortresses”: Unlocking Governance Entanglements and Shifting Knowledge Paradigms to Counter Climate Change Threats in Biodiversity Conservation
  Environmental Management 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s00267-021-01552-0
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• From Relief to Resilience: Identifying Knowledge-Action Gaps and Producing Action-Oriented, Stakeholder-Specific Knowledge a Framework for Climate-Proofing Development in the Vulnerable Coastal Ecosystems
  2022 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4088657
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• Deconstructing a 2-year long transdisciplinary sustainability project in Northern universities: is rhetorical nobility obscuring procedural and political discords?
  Sustainability Science 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s11625-020-00816-8
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• Die tropischen Zyklone Idai und Fani im Jahr 2019
  Geographische Rundschau 2020
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• Unlocking knowledge-policy action gaps in disaster-recovery-risk governance cycle: A governmentality approach
  International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101236
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• Dusting the Layers: Evolution of Vulnerabilities
  Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research 2018 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-63892-8_3
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