Abhineety Goel is a human-environment Geographer particularly trained as a Political Ecologist. Through Political Ecology and ethnographic methods, she studies the effects of development projects on the environment, particularly in and around the Indian National Parks (in Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh), where she has worked since 2005.
Her research addresses the effects of changing forest governance on the struggles to access forest resources by the peripheral forest communities situated around the Indian National Parks in economic, social, and political contexts.
For her doctoral dissertation, she examined how rules-in-use control spatial actions that alter economic, political, and social relationships in the proposed Omkareshwar National Park Complex in Madhya Pradesh.
For her Postdoc, she worked with Dr. Kathleen O’Reilly (Texas A&M University) on her NSF Career Award on “Human Waste and Human Welfare: A Political Ecology Approach to Sanitation in Rural India”. Recently, she concluded a two-year 3ie funded project in collaboration with the University of Oklahoma, Texas A&M University, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and SOPPECOM (Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management) on women's experiences of psychosocial stress related to their access to sanitation in Paschim Champaran and Gopalganj districts in Bihar, India.
At FLAME University, she teaches courses on Planet Earth, Disasters - Natural and Man-Made, World Regional Geography, Geography of the Environment, Conservation and Society, and Environmental Ethics and Justice.
Having explored the entire Uttarakhand, currently, she enjoys trekking in Himachal Pradesh, music, watching sports, and old classic movies.
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2021 “Teaching Online in a Pandemic: Do’s and Don’ts” Higher Education Digest, July 9th (with Prof Anup Tripathi, FLAME University) https://www.highereducationdigest.com/teaching-online-in-a-pandemic-dos-and-donts/
2021 “World Earth Day: Obligation to survive, restore nature and empower societies”. Financial Express, April 21st https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/world-earth-day-obligation-to-survive-restore-nature-and-empower-societies/2237483
2020 “More than just people: Recognizing the role of indigenous communities in conserving the planet”. IGNITE. FLAME University Summer issue, pgs-12-13. https://www.flame.edu.in/pdfs/magazine/ignite/Ignite-Magazine-Summer-2020.pdf
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