Aarti Gupta

         
Position

Assistant Professor (Tenured)

Background

• Assistant Professor, Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University (2007 – present) 
• Policy advisor, Environment and Development, Novib (Oxfam Netherlands) (2005 – 2006)
• Visiting Fellow, Technology and Agrarian Development Group, Wageningen University (2003 –2005)
• Project Manager, Forest Integrity Network, Transparency International, Berlin (2002-2003) 
• Post-Doctoral Scholar, Columbia University, Center for Science, Policy and Outcomes (2001– 2002)
• Research Fellow, Harvard University, Global Environmental Assessment Project (1998–2001) 
• Doctorate (PhD) in Environmental Studies, Yale University (2001) 

Research profile

• Fields of expertise: Global environmental governance, trade-environmental linkages and institutional interactions; the science-society interface; transparency and information disclosure in global governance; accountability and legitimacy in global environmental governance; REDD+: sustainability and governance; global governance of biotechnology
• ENP Research theme: Global Environmental Change  

Publications

• Biermann, F., Abbott, K., … Gupta, A. et al., (2012). Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving earth system governance, Science, Vol. 335 (6074), 16 March.
• Gupta, Aarti. (2011). An evolving science-society contract in India: The search for legitimacy in anticipatory risk governance. Food Policy, 36 (6), pp. 736-741 
• Biermann, F.; Gupta, A. (2011). Accountability and legitimacy in earth system governance: a research framework. Ecological Economics 70 (11). - p. 1856 - 1864. 
• Biermann, F.; Gupta, A. (2011). Accountability and legitimacy: an analytical challenge for earth system governance. Ecological Economics 70 (11). - p. 1854 - 1855.
• Biermann F.; Gupta A. (2011). Guest editors. Ecological Economics  70 (11). 
• Gupta, Aarti. (2010). Transparency to what end? Governing by disclosure through the biosafety clearing house. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 28 (1): 128-144. 
• Gupta, Aarti. (2010). Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: A Coming of Age?. Global Environmental Politics 10(3): 1-9 
• Gupta, Aarti. (2010). Transparency as Contested Political Terrain: Who Knows What about the Global GMO Trade and Why does it Matter?. Global Environmental Politics 10(3): 32-52
• Gupta, Aarti. (2010). Guest editor, Global Environmental Politics, 10 (3).
• Jansen, Kees, and  Aarti Gupta. (2009). “Anticipating the future: ‘Biotechnology for the poor’ as unrealized promise?” Futures 41 (7). - p. 436 - 445.
• Falkner, Robert, and Aarti Gupta. (2009). “Limits of Regulatory Convergence: globalization and GMO politics in the South” International Environmental Agreements 9:113–133 
• Gupta, Aarti. (2008). Transparency Under Scrutiny: Information Disclosure in Global Environmental Governance. Global Environmental Politics, 8 (2): 1-7 
• Gupta, Aarti. (2008). Global biosafety governance: the current state of play. In: Institutional Interplay: the case of biosafety, edited by Oran Young, Joy A. Kim and Bradnee W. Chambers., pp. 19-46. Yokohama: UNU Press. 
• Gupta, Aarti and Robert Falkner. (2006). “The influence of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Comparing Mexico, China and South Africa”. Global Environmental Politics 6:4, pp. 23-55. 
• Gupta, Aarti. (2006). “Problem Framing in Assessment Processes: the case of Biosafety”. In Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence, edited by Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark, David Cash and Nancy M. Dickson, pp. 57-86. Cambridge: MIT Press. 
• Gupta, Aarti and Ute Siebert. (2004). “Combating Forest Corruption: the Forest Integrity Network” Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Vol. 19, Numbers 1/2/3: 337-349.  
• Gupta, Aarti. (2004). “When Global is Local: Negotiating Safe Use of Biotechnology”. In Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance, edited by Sheila Jasanoff and Marybeth Long-Martello, pp. 127-148. Cambridge: MIT Press.
• Gupta, Aarti. (2002). “Advance Informed Agreement: a shared basis to govern trade in genetically modified organisms?” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. Vol. 9, No. 1: 265-281.  
• Gupta, Aarti. (2000). “Governing Trade in Genetically Modified Organisms: The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.” Environment 42, no. 4 (May), pp. 23–33. 
• Recent Wageningen University publications

Research projects

• The sustainability and transparency of REDD+: Developing an interdisciplinary network and research initiative at WUR and beyond [Co-Coordinator, INREF funded seed project] Website: www.redd.wur.nl/
• Transformations in global environmental governance (EU COST Action IS0802; Action Vice-Chair) 
• NWO-WOTRO project on arsenic contamination of drinking water in Bangladesh (with TUDelft  and VU-Amsterdam)

Educational tasks

• International Environmental Politics (ENP 30306) 
• Environmental Policy: Analysis and Evaluation (ENP 34306) 
• Thesis Environmental Policy supervision
• Member, Programme Committee (OpCie), BMW/MES/MUE

Other academic memberships and achievements

• Education bonuses (listed in top 25 lecturers three times), Wageningen University: 2008, 2010, 2011.
• Associate Editor, Global Environmental Politics (2012 – present); Editorial Board Member (2008 – 2012) 
• Vice-Chair, COST Action IS0802: Transformations in Global Environmental Governance (2008 – 2012)
• Senior Research Fellow, Earth System Governance Project (www.earthsystemgovernance.org) (2009 – )
• Associated Faculty, Global Governance Project, a European network of researchers working on global environmental governance (2000 – present). 
• Co-Coordinator, SENSE Thematic Cluster on Environmental Governance, Netherlands Research School of Socioeconomic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (2008 – present). 
• Member, Science and Democracy Network (2002 – present). 
• Awards and fellowships: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant (2003-2005); Global Environmental Assessment Fellowship, Harvard University (1998-2001); Henry Hart Rice Fellowship, Yale University (2000-2001); Joseph L. Fisher Fellowship, Resources for the Future (2000-2001); Teresa Heinz Scholar for Environmental Research (2000-2001).