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Padmini Pani

Padmini Pani
Padmini Pani
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for the Study of Regional Development,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
106, SSS-III
Off. Phone
011-26704575
Email
padmini[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, padminipani.jnu[at]gmail[dot]com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

PhD, PG Dip in Remote Sensing and GIS 

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Land Degradation, River Systems, Climate Change, Environment and Development, Mountain and Desert  Ecosystems, Remote Sensing and GIS

Experience

19 Years

  • Professor, CSRD, JNU, (2019 onwards)

  • Associate Professor, CSRD, JNU (2016-2019)

  • Assistant Professor, CSRD,JNU (2004-2016)

Awards & Honours

  • Visiting Researcher, Awarded by India-United Kingdom Water Centre (IUKWC) at Lancaster Environment Centre,
    Lancaster University, UK, 2019

  • Visiting Fellow, Awarded by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute at Geography Department, University of British Columbia, Canada, 2017

  • Senior Research Scientist, Awarded by The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) & the University Grants Commission (UGC) at Institute of Physical Geography Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2016-2017

  • The Established Scientist’s Travel Award to attend European Geoscience Union, Vienna, Austria, 2016

  • Visiting Fellow, Awarded by DAAD-UGC, at Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2014

  • Research Fellowship on mentoring young scholars on the topic of Climate Change in the Himalayas
    Association of American Geographers (AAG); Under MyCOE/SERVIR, 2013

  • Visiting Researcher, Awarded by ESRC-ICSSR-UK, at School of Geography
    University of Southampton, UK, 2009

  • Young Scientist Award, 17th M.P.Young Scientist Congress, 2002

  • Awarded a Fellowship for a Training in Application of Remote Sensing & GIS in Applied Geomorphology

    at Groupe Development Teledetection Aerospatiale (GDTA) Toulouse, France, by French Govt. 2000

International Collaboration/Consultancy

  • Research collaboration on Land Reclamation and Sustainability, Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2014-2018.

  • Sustainable River Basin Management, Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia, Canada,2016­-17.

  • Climate Change Induced Gully Erosion and Land Degradation, School of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, 2010.  

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

  • Pani, P. (2018). Ravine erosion and livelihoods in semi-arid India: implications for socio-economic development.
    Journal of Asian and African Studies,(Sage), 53(3), 437-454. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909616689798

  • Marzolff,I.,& Pani,P.,(2018). Dynamics and patterns of land levelling for agricultural reclamation of erosional badlands in Chambal Valley (Madhya Pradesh, India).
    Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, (Wiley),43(2), 524-542. 43(2): 524-542. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4266

  • Pani, P., (2016). Controlling gully erosion: an analysis of land reclamation processes in Chambal Valley, India.
    Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis, 26(8), 1047-1059. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2016.1228831

  • Biswas, S. S., & Pani, P., (2016). Characteristics of a mixed bedrock-alluvial channel in a plateau and plateau fringe region: a study on the Barakar River of the Chotanagpur plateau, India.
    Environmental Processes, Springer, 3(4), 981-999. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40710-016-0190-y

  • Pani,P.,& Carling, P.(2013).Land degradation and spatial vulnerabilities: a study of inter- village differences in Chambal Valley, India.
    Asian Geographer, Taylor & Francis, 30(1), 65-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2012.754775

 

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  • Pani,P.(2020). Book : Land Degradation and Socio-Economic Development: A Field-Based Perspective.

     Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42074-1

  • Ranga,V.,& Pani,P.(2023). Topographic threshold of gully erosion on the Badlands ridges in Lower Chambal Valley, India.
    Geomorphology, Elsevier; 430, 108656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108656

  • Raj, R., Yunus, A. P., Pani, P., & Avtar, R. (2022). Towards evaluating gully erosion volume and erosion rates in the Chambal badlands, Central India.
    Land Degradation & Development, (Wiley); 33(9),1495-1510. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4250

  • Ranga,V.,& Pani,P.(2022).A morphological assessment of palaeo-channels along the Lower Chambal Valley, India.
    Geocarto International, (Taylor & Francis); 37(27),18135-18149

  • (2022) Kumar,H.,& Pani,P.(2022). Soil erosion assessment in a part of gully affected Chambal region, Uttar Pradesh (India), using Morgan–Morgan–Finney model.
    Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, (Springer), 8(4), 5279-5288. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40808-022-01375-w