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Padmini Pani

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@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, 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

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.