Ashwin Ravikumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 85107 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashwin Ravikumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Ravikumar |
| SIGNATURE | RAVIKUMAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3414-3603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Public spending on health care, education, and sanitation is linked to lower deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon: New empirical support for the climate debt framework
Public spending on health care, education, and sanitation track with less deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon. • New empirical evidence suggests that unconditional funding for services makes sound forest and climate policy. • Conservation Basic Income proponents, degrowth scholars, and others can use these findings for advocacy and research. • This data can support the climate debt framework, which calls for unconditional funding from the North …
Have ‘life plans’ delivered on their transformative aspirations for Indigenous empowerment through conservation? Evidence from four watersheds in the Peruvian Amazon
Between conservation and commodities: Does Peruvian tropical forest conservation challenge or reinforce extractivism
Despite Peru's adherence to economic and environmental policy guidance from multilateral institutions like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and United Nations agencies, deforestation in the Amazon region has remained stubbornly high. While recent scholarship has shown prevailing conservation policy programs in the Peruvian Amazon to be largely ineffective, there is little analysis of why Peru's conservation and development program…
How payments for ecosystem services can undermine Indigenous institutions: The case of Peru's Ampiyacu-Apayacu watershed
Inter-sectoral and multilevel coordination alone do not reduce deforestation and advance environmental justice: Why bold contestation works when collaboration fails
Policy makers, academics, and conservationists often posit that poor coordination between different land use sectors, and between levels of governance, as an underlying challenge for reducing deforestation and forest degradation. This paper analyzes this argument using data from interviews with over 500 respondents from government, nongovernmental organizations, private companies, local and indigenous communities, activists, and individuals invol…
Messiness of forest governance: How technical approaches suppress politics in Redd+ and conservation projects
Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) was originally conceived to address the global problem of climate change by reducing deforestation and forest degradation at national and subnational levels in developing countries. Since its inception, REDD+ proponents have increasingly had to adapt global ideas to local demands, as the rollout process was met with on-the-ground realities, including suspicion and protest. A…
The Political Ecology of Oil Palm Company-Community partnerships in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation consequences of the privatization of rural development
The effects of rural development policy on land rights distribution and land use scenarios: The case of oil palm in the Peruvian Amazon
Can conservation funding be left to carbon finance? Evidence from participatory future land use scenarios in Peru, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Mexico
Revenues derived from carbon have been seen as an important tool for supporting forest conservation over the past decade. At the same time, there is high uncertainty about how much revenue can reasonably be expected from land use emissions reductions initiatives. Despite this uncertainty, REDD+ projects and conservation initiatives that aim to take advantage of available or, more commonly, future funding from carbon markets have proliferated. Thi…
Drivers of adaptation: Responses to weather- and climate-related hazards in 60 local governments in the Intermountain Western U.S
Cities are key sites of action for adaptation to climate change. However, there are a wide variety of responses to hazards at the municipal level. Why do communities take adaptive action in the face of weather- and climate-related risk? We studied what cities are doing in response to existing natural hazards, such as floods, droughts, and blizzards as an analog for understanding the drivers of adaptive behavior toward climate change risks. We con…
A new approach to conservation: Using Community Empowerment for Sustainable Well-Being
Wali, A., D. Alvira, P. S. Tallman, A. Ravikumar, and M. O. Macedo. 2017. A new approach to conservation: using community empowerment for sustainable well-being. Ecology and Society 22(4):6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09598-220406
Culturally Grounded Indicators of Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Measuring progress toward sustainability goals is a multifaceted task. Inter- national, regional, and national organizations and agencies seek to promote resilience and capacity for adaptation at local levels. However, their measurement systems may be poorly aligned with local contexts, cultures, and needs. Understanding how to build effective, culturally grounded measurement systems is a fundamental step toward supporting adaptive management and…
Towards integrated monitoring of Redd
Multilevel governance challenges in transitioning towards a national approach for Redd: Evidence from 23 subnational Redd+ initiatives
Although REDD+ was conceived as a national approach to reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, many of the early advances have been at the subnational level. It is critical to link these subnational efforts to emerging national REDD+ frameworks, including with respect to finance and benefit distribution, setting reference levels, measurement, reporting and verification (MRV), land policy and safeguards. We use evidence from intervi…
Decentralization and forest-related conflicts in Latin America
Messiness of forest governance: How technical approaches suppress politics in Redd+ and conservation projects
Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) was originally conceived to address the global problem of climate change by reducing deforestation and forest degradation at national and subnational levels in developing countries. Since its inception, REDD+ proponents have increasingly had to adapt global ideas to local demands, as the rollout process was met with on-the-ground realities, including suspicion and protest. A…
A new approach to conservation: Using Community Empowerment for Sustainable Well-Being
Wali, A., D. Alvira, P. S. Tallman, A. Ravikumar, and M. O. Macedo. 2017. A new approach to conservation: using community empowerment for sustainable well-being. Ecology and Society 22(4):6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09598-220406
The Political Ecology of Oil Palm Company-Community partnerships in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation consequences of the privatization of rural development
The effects of rural development policy on land rights distribution and land use scenarios: The case of oil palm in the Peruvian Amazon
Multilevel governance challenges in transitioning towards a national approach for Redd: Evidence from 23 subnational Redd+ initiatives
Although REDD+ was conceived as a national approach to reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, many of the early advances have been at the subnational level. It is critical to link these subnational efforts to emerging national REDD+ frameworks, including with respect to finance and benefit distribution, setting reference levels, measurement, reporting and verification (MRV), land policy and safeguards. We use evidence from intervi…
Decentralization and forest-related conflicts in Latin America
Inter-sectoral and multilevel coordination alone do not reduce deforestation and advance environmental justice: Why bold contestation works when collaboration fails
Policy makers, academics, and conservationists often posit that poor coordination between different land use sectors, and between levels of governance, as an underlying challenge for reducing deforestation and forest degradation. This paper analyzes this argument using data from interviews with over 500 respondents from government, nongovernmental organizations, private companies, local and indigenous communities, activists, and individuals invol…
Drivers of adaptation: Responses to weather- and climate-related hazards in 60 local governments in the Intermountain Western U.S
Cities are key sites of action for adaptation to climate change. However, there are a wide variety of responses to hazards at the municipal level. Why do communities take adaptive action in the face of weather- and climate-related risk? We studied what cities are doing in response to existing natural hazards, such as floods, droughts, and blizzards as an analog for understanding the drivers of adaptive behavior toward climate change risks. We con…
Have ‘life plans’ delivered on their transformative aspirations for Indigenous empowerment through conservation? Evidence from four watersheds in the Peruvian Amazon
Culturally Grounded Indicators of Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Measuring progress toward sustainability goals is a multifaceted task. Inter- national, regional, and national organizations and agencies seek to promote resilience and capacity for adaptation at local levels. However, their measurement systems may be poorly aligned with local contexts, cultures, and needs. Understanding how to build effective, culturally grounded measurement systems is a fundamental step toward supporting adaptive management and…
Towards integrated monitoring of Redd
Decentralization and forest-related conflicts in Latin America
Towards integrated monitoring of Redd
Multilevel governance challenges in transitioning towards a national approach for Redd: Evidence from 23 subnational Redd+ initiatives
Although REDD+ was conceived as a national approach to reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, many of the early advances have been at the subnational level. It is critical to link these subnational efforts to emerging national REDD+ frameworks, including with respect to finance and benefit distribution, setting reference levels, measurement, reporting and verification (MRV), land policy and safeguards. We use evidence from intervi…
Can conservation funding be left to carbon finance? Evidence from participatory future land use scenarios in Peru, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Mexico
Revenues derived from carbon have been seen as an important tool for supporting forest conservation over the past decade. At the same time, there is high uncertainty about how much revenue can reasonably be expected from land use emissions reductions initiatives. Despite this uncertainty, REDD+ projects and conservation initiatives that aim to take advantage of available or, more commonly, future funding from carbon markets have proliferated. Thi…
Drivers of adaptation: Responses to weather- and climate-related hazards in 60 local governments in the Intermountain Western U.S
Cities are key sites of action for adaptation to climate change. However, there are a wide variety of responses to hazards at the municipal level. Why do communities take adaptive action in the face of weather- and climate-related risk? We studied what cities are doing in response to existing natural hazards, such as floods, droughts, and blizzards as an analog for understanding the drivers of adaptive behavior toward climate change risks. We con…
A new approach to conservation: Using Community Empowerment for Sustainable Well-Being
Wali, A., D. Alvira, P. S. Tallman, A. Ravikumar, and M. O. Macedo. 2017. A new approach to conservation: using community empowerment for sustainable well-being. Ecology and Society 22(4):6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09598-220406
Culturally Grounded Indicators of Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Measuring progress toward sustainability goals is a multifaceted task. Inter- national, regional, and national organizations and agencies seek to promote resilience and capacity for adaptation at local levels. However, their measurement systems may be poorly aligned with local contexts, cultures, and needs. Understanding how to build effective, culturally grounded measurement systems is a fundamental step toward supporting adaptive management and…
Inter-sectoral and multilevel coordination alone do not reduce deforestation and advance environmental justice: Why bold contestation works when collaboration fails
Policy makers, academics, and conservationists often posit that poor coordination between different land use sectors, and between levels of governance, as an underlying challenge for reducing deforestation and forest degradation. This paper analyzes this argument using data from interviews with over 500 respondents from government, nongovernmental organizations, private companies, local and indigenous communities, activists, and individuals invol…
Messiness of forest governance: How technical approaches suppress politics in Redd+ and conservation projects
Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) was originally conceived to address the global problem of climate change by reducing deforestation and forest degradation at national and subnational levels in developing countries. Since its inception, REDD+ proponents have increasingly had to adapt global ideas to local demands, as the rollout process was met with on-the-ground realities, including suspicion and protest. A…
The Political Ecology of Oil Palm Company-Community partnerships in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation consequences of the privatization of rural development
The effects of rural development policy on land rights distribution and land use scenarios: The case of oil palm in the Peruvian Amazon
How payments for ecosystem services can undermine Indigenous institutions: The case of Peru's Ampiyacu-Apayacu watershed
Public spending on health care, education, and sanitation is linked to lower deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon: New empirical support for the climate debt framework
Public spending on health care, education, and sanitation track with less deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon. • New empirical evidence suggests that unconditional funding for services makes sound forest and climate policy. • Conservation Basic Income proponents, degrowth scholars, and others can use these findings for advocacy and research. • This data can support the climate debt framework, which calls for unconditional funding from the North …
Have ‘life plans’ delivered on their transformative aspirations for Indigenous empowerment through conservation? Evidence from four watersheds in the Peruvian Amazon
Between conservation and commodities: Does Peruvian tropical forest conservation challenge or reinforce extractivism
Despite Peru's adherence to economic and environmental policy guidance from multilateral institutions like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and United Nations agencies, deforestation in the Amazon region has remained stubbornly high. While recent scholarship has shown prevailing conservation policy programs in the Peruvian Amazon to be largely ineffective, there is little analysis of why Peru's conservation and development program…
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (12 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Deforestation (computer science (6 works) · Environmental planning (6 works) · Climate change (5 works)