Prakash Kashwan

My research and teaching interests reside primarily in the area of environmental politics and policy, with a particular emphasis on the politics of access to, and control over natural resources. I employ theories of institutional analysis and power to investigate the politics of international and national environmental policies and programs. Building on a long-standing engagement with questions of resource rights and contestation over natural resources, I am developing a political economy of institutions approach to explain and theorize the politics of radical forest property rights reforms, which is basis of a book manuscript in the works.

At UConn I am affiliated with the Center for Environmental Science and Engineering (CESE), and the Economic and Social Rights Group (ESRG), each of which bring together faculty colleagues and students from a variety of disciplines. I keenly look forward to future collaborations with fellow academics, students, and practitioners.

Recent Publications

Kashwan, Prakash (2013). The Politics of Rights-based Approaches in Conservation. Land Use Policy, 31: 613-626.
Kashwan, Prakash (2012). Do coalition governments bring economic stability? A Review of "Coalition Politics and Economic Development" by Irfan Nooruddin; Cambridge University Press, 2011.
International Studies Review.
Kashwan, Prakash and V. Lobo (Forthcoming). "The Dispersed Frontier": The Struggle to Govern Forest and Non-forest Commons. In Beyond Joint Forest Management: Rethinking the Forest Question in India. Editor. S. Lele. New Delhi, Sage Publications.
Kashwan, Prakash. 2009. "Just Environments: Analyzing the Politics of Policy-making on Environment and Development." India Economic Review VI: 60-67.
Charles M. Schweik, Maria T. Fernandez, Michael P. Hamel, Prakash Kashwan, Quentin Lewis, and Alexander Stepanov. 2009. "Reflections of an Online Geographic Information Systems Course Based on Open Source Software." Social Science Computer Review 27 (1): 118-129.