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Padmini Pani

Padmini Pani

Padmini Pani
Padmini Pani
Associate 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@mail.jnu.ac.in , padminipani.jnu@gmail.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, Mountain and Desert  Ecosystems, Environment and Development, Remote Sensing and GIS

Experience
  • Assistant Professor, CSRD,JNU (2004-2016)
  • Associate Professor, CSRD, JNU (2016 onwards)
Awards & Honours
  • Senior Researcher Exchange (RE) Programme Awarded by India UK Water Centre, Lancaster University, UK.  2019.
  •  Shastri Mobility Grant Awardee, for research on Sustainable River Basin Management, Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia, Canada, 2016-­17.
  • DAAD Project Based Personnel Exchange Programme, Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2016-17.
  • DAAD Visiting Fellowship to Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2014.
  • Associations of American Geographer (AAG) Research Fellowship Grant under MyCOE/SERVIR Programme on Climate change on Himalaya 2013. from Associations of American Geographer (Funded by NASA), 2013.
  • ESRC, UK, Research Fellowship, School of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, 2009.
  • Young Scientist Award, 17th M.P. Young Scientist Congress, 2002.
  • Fellowship for 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 Reclaimation 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
  • (2017) ‘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. DOI: 10.1002/esp.4266 (with I. Marzolff).
  •  (2015) ‘Geomorphological Evolution of Badlands based on the Dynamics of Palaeo-channels and Their Implications’. Journal of Earth System Science, (Indian Academy of Sciences, Springer).  124(5): 909-920. (with V Ranga and S N Mohapatra).
  • (2015) ‘Semi - Automatic Detection of Badlands and Badland Encroachment: A Case Study in the Lower Chambal Valley (India)’, Geocarto International (Taylor & Francis) 30 (8): 919-936. (with V Ranga, Van Rompaey, A., Poesen, J. and S N Mohapatra.).
  • (2013) `Land Degradation and Spatial Vulnerabilities: A Study of Inter-Village Differences in Chambal Valley, India’, Asian Geographer, Routledge, (Taylor and Francis). 30 (1): 65–79. (with Paul Carling).
  • (2009) (edited) Geoinformatics for Natural Resource Management. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., (with P.K. Joshi, S.N. Mohapatra and T.P. Singh).
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  • (2017) ‘Ravine Erosion and Livelihoods in Semi-Arid India: Implications for Socio- Economic Development’, Journal of Asian and African Studies, (Sage),52(5):1-18.
  • (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. (with S. S. Biswas)
  • (2016) ‘Controlling Gully Erosion: An Analysis of Land Reclamation Processes in Chambal Valley, India’, Development in Practice, (Routledge), 26(8): 1047-1059.

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.