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Ravi Rajan Home  Directory Ravi Rajan
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Ravi Rajan
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Provost of College Eight and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies |
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Faculty Member |
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Email: |
srrajan at ucsc.edu |
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Phone: |
(831) 459-4158 Office
(831) 459-2543 Office |
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Office: |
424 ISB |
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Office Hours: |
Undergraduate: Wednesdays, 11 AM -1 PM at the College Eight Provost's Office. (Sign up sheet on the door); Graduate: Mondays, 12 to 5 PM at 424 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building. (No appointments necessary). |
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Personal Page: |
http://people.ucsc.edu/~srrajan/ |
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| Courses Taught | |
Science, Policy and the Environment
Risks, Values, and Choices
Introduction to World Environmental History
Political Ecology and Social Change
Environment and Culture
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| Research Focus | |
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Ravi Rajan’s research addresses three broad and inter-related themes:
Environmental History and Values, with a focus on the socio-ecological consequences of modernization, and on the relationship between environment and human rights.
Risk and Disaster Management, with a focus on the mitigation of risk and vulnerability pre and post natural and technological disasters, and on the social, economic, and environmental consequences of emerging technologies.
Green Governance and Entrepreneurship, with a focus on the design of new, adaptive, institutions – governmental, non-governmental, and corporate, and frameworks of assessment and accountability.
For more information on Rajan's research, please see his website (http://people.ucsc.edu/~srrajan/) |
| Education History | |
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Postdoctoral training in:
- Sociology and History of Science, Technology and the Environment. Max-Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, 1997.
- Science and Technology Policy Studies. Cornell University, 1996.
- Geography. University of California, Berkeley, 1994-5.
D-Phil. University of Oxford, 1995. Major fields: Environmental and Economic History; History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine.
MA in Philosophy. St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi. 1988. First Class. Second Rank in the University Merit List.
BA in Mathematics. University of Delhi, 1985. |
| Selected Publications | |
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See Rajan's website (http://people.ucsc.edu/~srrajan/) for an updated list or his publications. |
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