Kapil Yadav
Biographic Data
| ID | 3707233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kapil Yadav |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kapil |
| FAMILY NAME | Yadav |
| SIGNATURE | YADAV K |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-6976-2154 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Why Fire Suppression Persists: Territorial Politics and the Criminalisation of Fire in India's Political Forests
Why does fire suppression remain central to forest governance globally, despite the increasing recognition of fire's ecological and livelihood significance? This study examines the persistence of fire suppression in India, arguing that it continues not for ecological reasons but as a political technology of state territorial control. Drawing on archival research and interviews, we trace how colonial era legal and institutional frameworks criminal…
When Plantations Stop Looking Like Plantations: Fire, Plantation Logics, and Forest Use in the Uttarakhand Himalaya
This study examines forest fires in the Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand by shifting attention from ignitions to the historical production of flammable landscapes. It situates contemporary fire regimes within longer histories of landscape transformation and everyday forest use. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic field work, this study employs the plantation–plot binary to examine how state-led plantation forestry and community pra…
Mapping Fire Management: A Spatial Social Network Approach
Maps are an essential tool to inform fire governance and management. For instance, they can highlight which areas are most vulnerable to adverse fire impacts or be used to plan interventions for risk reduction and prevention. In recent years, several studies have mapped the fire management activities and the networks between the multitude of involved actors. They build upon previous advances to combine quantitative and qualitative social network …
The fiction of disaster: Forest fires and state-making in the Indian Himalaya
Recurrent disasters such as wildfires are increasingly attributed to anthropogenic climate change, but this broad explanation often obscures the political choices that shape how disasters are recognised, governed, and instrumentalised. Focusing on the Uttarakhand Himalaya in India, where forest fires have become a near-annual phenomenon, this article examines how disaster management is deeply entangled with state-making practices in political for…
Agrarianising the forest fire crisis: Rethinking forest fires from grassroots in the Uttarakhand Himalaya
This study re-examines the role of fire in the Uttarakhand Himalaya through political ecology and critical agrarian studies. It emphasises the importance of understanding fire regimes in relation to ongoing agrarian change. Drawing on fieldwork conducted with rural communities, the study challenges prevailing blame narratives and highlights that controlled winter burning remains central to rural production and social reproduction, even as livelih…
Adding Lines Along Pixels: Remote Sensing, Traditional Knowledge and Human–Fire Interactions in Ethiopia and India
This study critically examines the limitations of satellite remote sensing (SRS) in capturing the complexities of human–fire interactions. It proposes a relational approach grounded in the embodied, place‐based knowledge of communities living with fire. Conventional SRS reduces fire to pixels, providing a synoptic yet partial view of fire regimes. Fire governance shaped by these representations often marginalises local practices, knowledge, and p…
Living with Fire: Relational Approach to Fire in the Uttarakhand Himalaya
Changing fire regimes amidst the planetary ecological crisis demand a rethinking of human-fire relationships. This rethinking has led to growing calls for moving away from anti-fire strategies and recognising the necessity of living with fire. Focusing on the Uttarakhand Himalaya, this study examines how approaches that align with ‘living with fire’ shape and intervene in the management of commons. It analyses three distinct burning practices: pr…
Prevalence and determinants of anemia due to micronutrient deficiencies among children aged 12–59 months in India–Evidence from Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey, 2016–18
The present study aimed to estimate the prevalence of anemia, and anemia with micronutrient deficiencies (iron/ vitamin B12/ folic acid) and their determinants among children aged 12–59 months in India. Comprehensive National Nutritional Survey (2016–2018) is Asia’s largest nutrition survey conducted among 0–19 years aged children in India. We used generalised linear model (modified Poisson) with adjusted prevalence ratio (aPR) to assess the soci…
How policy interventions influence burning to meet cultural and small-scale livelihood objectives
Fire has cultural and economic significance for Indigenous and rural peoples worldwide, being used to manage landscapes for activities such as hunting, gathering, cropping, and forestry, and for ceremonial and spiritual purposes. Policy interventions by state and non-state organizations, such as regulations, economic incentives, and communication campaigns, can target fire use directly, or affect it indirectly, for example, by restricting land ac…
Anaemia in Indians aged 10–19 years: Prevalence, burden and associated factors at national and regional levels
Anaemia control programmes in India are hampered by a lack of representative evidence on anaemia prevalence, burden and associated factors for adolescents. The aim of this study was to: (1) describe the national and subnational prevalence, severity and burden of anaemia among Indian adolescents; (2) examine factors associated with anaemia at national and regional levels. Data (n = 14,673 individuals aged 10-19 years) were from India's Comprehensi…
Coverage of iron and folic acid supplementation in India: Progress under the Anemia Mukt Bharat strategy 2017–20
High prevalence of anaemia is a severe public health problem in India. In 2018, India launched the Anemia Mukt Bharat (AMB) strategy that focuses on six beneficiary groups for coverage, six institutional mechanisms for health system strengthening and six programmatic interventions to accelerate reductions in anaemia prevalence. This paper uses the Health Management Information System data (2017–18 to 2019–20) to examine gains in IFA coverage acro…
High national and sub-national coverage of iodised salt in India: Evidence from the first National Iodine and Salt Intake Survey (Nisi) 2014–2015
Objective The National Iodine and Salt Intake Survey (NISI) 2014–2015 was undertaken to estimate household iodised salt coverage at national and sub-national levels in India. Design Cross-sectional survey with multistage stratified random sampling. Setting India was divided into six geographic zones (South, West, Central, North, East and North-East) and each zone was further stratified into rural and urban areas to yield twelve distinct survey st…
Successful implementation of a laboratory iodization quality assurance system in small-scale salt production facilities in India
Objective To establish a laboratory iodization quality assurance system to support small-scale salt production facilities in India and to assess the level of agreement for the internal quality assurance (IQA) and external quality assurance (EQA) protocols. Design Operational research. The IQA and EQA programme was established in the year 2008. Agreement between field laboratories and the reference laboratory for estimation of iodine content of sa…
How policy interventions influence burning to meet cultural and small-scale livelihood objectives
Fire has cultural and economic significance for Indigenous and rural peoples worldwide, being used to manage landscapes for activities such as hunting, gathering, cropping, and forestry, and for ceremonial and spiritual purposes. Policy interventions by state and non-state organizations, such as regulations, economic incentives, and communication campaigns, can target fire use directly, or affect it indirectly, for example, by restricting land ac…
Successful implementation of a laboratory iodization quality assurance system in small-scale salt production facilities in India
Objective To establish a laboratory iodization quality assurance system to support small-scale salt production facilities in India and to assess the level of agreement for the internal quality assurance (IQA) and external quality assurance (EQA) protocols. Design Operational research. The IQA and EQA programme was established in the year 2008. Agreement between field laboratories and the reference laboratory for estimation of iodine content of sa…
High national and sub-national coverage of iodised salt in India: Evidence from the first National Iodine and Salt Intake Survey (Nisi) 2014–2015
Objective The National Iodine and Salt Intake Survey (NISI) 2014–2015 was undertaken to estimate household iodised salt coverage at national and sub-national levels in India. Design Cross-sectional survey with multistage stratified random sampling. Setting India was divided into six geographic zones (South, West, Central, North, East and North-East) and each zone was further stratified into rural and urban areas to yield twelve distinct survey st…
Anaemia in Indians aged 10–19 years: Prevalence, burden and associated factors at national and regional levels
Anaemia control programmes in India are hampered by a lack of representative evidence on anaemia prevalence, burden and associated factors for adolescents. The aim of this study was to: (1) describe the national and subnational prevalence, severity and burden of anaemia among Indian adolescents; (2) examine factors associated with anaemia at national and regional levels. Data (n = 14,673 individuals aged 10-19 years) were from India's Comprehensi…
Coverage of iron and folic acid supplementation in India: Progress under the Anemia Mukt Bharat strategy 2017–20
High prevalence of anaemia is a severe public health problem in India. In 2018, India launched the Anemia Mukt Bharat (AMB) strategy that focuses on six beneficiary groups for coverage, six institutional mechanisms for health system strengthening and six programmatic interventions to accelerate reductions in anaemia prevalence. This paper uses the Health Management Information System data (2017–18 to 2019–20) to examine gains in IFA coverage acro…
Prevalence and determinants of anemia due to micronutrient deficiencies among children aged 12–59 months in India–Evidence from Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey, 2016–18
The present study aimed to estimate the prevalence of anemia, and anemia with micronutrient deficiencies (iron/ vitamin B12/ folic acid) and their determinants among children aged 12–59 months in India. Comprehensive National Nutritional Survey (2016–2018) is Asia’s largest nutrition survey conducted among 0–19 years aged children in India. We used generalised linear model (modified Poisson) with adjusted prevalence ratio (aPR) to assess the soci…
How policy interventions influence burning to meet cultural and small-scale livelihood objectives
Fire has cultural and economic significance for Indigenous and rural peoples worldwide, being used to manage landscapes for activities such as hunting, gathering, cropping, and forestry, and for ceremonial and spiritual purposes. Policy interventions by state and non-state organizations, such as regulations, economic incentives, and communication campaigns, can target fire use directly, or affect it indirectly, for example, by restricting land ac…
Adding Lines Along Pixels: Remote Sensing, Traditional Knowledge and Human–Fire Interactions in Ethiopia and India
This study critically examines the limitations of satellite remote sensing (SRS) in capturing the complexities of human–fire interactions. It proposes a relational approach grounded in the embodied, place‐based knowledge of communities living with fire. Conventional SRS reduces fire to pixels, providing a synoptic yet partial view of fire regimes. Fire governance shaped by these representations often marginalises local practices, knowledge, and p…
Living with Fire: Relational Approach to Fire in the Uttarakhand Himalaya
Changing fire regimes amidst the planetary ecological crisis demand a rethinking of human-fire relationships. This rethinking has led to growing calls for moving away from anti-fire strategies and recognising the necessity of living with fire. Focusing on the Uttarakhand Himalaya, this study examines how approaches that align with ‘living with fire’ shape and intervene in the management of commons. It analyses three distinct burning practices: pr…
Why Fire Suppression Persists: Territorial Politics and the Criminalisation of Fire in India's Political Forests
Why does fire suppression remain central to forest governance globally, despite the increasing recognition of fire's ecological and livelihood significance? This study examines the persistence of fire suppression in India, arguing that it continues not for ecological reasons but as a political technology of state territorial control. Drawing on archival research and interviews, we trace how colonial era legal and institutional frameworks criminal…
When Plantations Stop Looking Like Plantations: Fire, Plantation Logics, and Forest Use in the Uttarakhand Himalaya
This study examines forest fires in the Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand by shifting attention from ignitions to the historical production of flammable landscapes. It situates contemporary fire regimes within longer histories of landscape transformation and everyday forest use. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic field work, this study employs the plantation–plot binary to examine how state-led plantation forestry and community pra…
Mapping Fire Management: A Spatial Social Network Approach
Maps are an essential tool to inform fire governance and management. For instance, they can highlight which areas are most vulnerable to adverse fire impacts or be used to plan interventions for risk reduction and prevention. In recent years, several studies have mapped the fire management activities and the networks between the multitude of involved actors. They build upon previous advances to combine quantitative and qualitative social network …
The fiction of disaster: Forest fires and state-making in the Indian Himalaya
Recurrent disasters such as wildfires are increasingly attributed to anthropogenic climate change, but this broad explanation often obscures the political choices that shape how disasters are recognised, governed, and instrumentalised. Focusing on the Uttarakhand Himalaya in India, where forest fires have become a near-annual phenomenon, this article examines how disaster management is deeply entangled with state-making practices in political for…
Agrarianising the forest fire crisis: Rethinking forest fires from grassroots in the Uttarakhand Himalaya
This study re-examines the role of fire in the Uttarakhand Himalaya through political ecology and critical agrarian studies. It emphasises the importance of understanding fire regimes in relation to ongoing agrarian change. Drawing on fieldwork conducted with rural communities, the study challenges prevailing blame narratives and highlights that controlled winter burning remains central to rural production and social reproduction, even as livelih…
Fire effects on ecosystems (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (4 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Iron Metabolism and Disorders (3 works) · Livelihood (3 works)