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Koushik Chowdhury

Koushik Chowdhury

Assistant Professor

koushik.chowdhury@vgu.ac.in

BIO

Koushik Chowdhury is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Development Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Vivekananda Global University, and is currently teaching courses in Human Geography. He is an integrated geographer and Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Kassel, Germany from 2023-2025. He is awarded CSIR-UGC Junior Research fellowship with the 22 all India Rank and holds a PhD in Natural Resource Management from IIT Kharagpur. He also received Travel grants to attend the International Conference on Critical Geography conference in 2019 Athens, Greece

His research focuses on socio-ecological systems, sustainability science, nature-based solutions, urban sustainability, and water governance. His research mainly emphasis on groundwater–surface water interactions, ecosystem services, values and local institutions in South Asia. He has been associated with research projects funded by the Swedish Research Council, DST (India), and ICSSR, and actively publishes in peer-reviewed national and international journals. His work combines participatory, qualitative, and quantitative methods and engages with policy-relevant sustainability challenges. Apart from this He also serve as associate editor of the prestigious SN Social Sciences Journal, Springer nature and PLOS One.

Fellowships -

  • CSIR_Junior Research Fellowship- 2013, with all India Rank 22
  • Alexander von Humbldt Postdoctoral Fellowship- 2023

Academic Degrees -

  • PhD (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur- 2021)
  • MA (Vidyasagar University, Midnapore 2011)
  • BA Hons. (Hijli College, Kharagpur- 2009)

Academic Appointments -

  • Worked as Assistant Professor (part time) in Geography at Silda C S College, Silda, November 11, 2011 to July 13, 2013.

Research Interests -

  • Socio-ecological interaction
  • Nature based solutions
  • Landscape management
  • Political ecology
  • Climate change adaptation
  • Environmental Policy analysis
  • Ecosystem services and values
  • Water governance and management

Publications -

  • Zafra-Calvo, N., Altmann, B.A., Chowdhury, K., Cortés-Capano, G., Flinzberger, L., Heindorf, C., Huber, J.M., Jay, M., Kmoch, L., Polas, A.B., Svobodova, K., Thapa, P., Plieninger, T. (2025). Engaging with justice in Integrated Landscape Approaches. Ecology and Society. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-16265-300306
  • Chi, W., Chowdhury, K., Lin, G., Topp, E., Plieninger, T. (2025). Informing adaptive governance of agricultural heritage landscapes under structural changes – the role of values, rules and knowledge. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01617-z
  • Chowdhury, K., Basu, S., Pramanik, M., Plieninger, T. (2025). Blue Infrastructure as Nature-based Solutions for Urban Sustainability: Evaluating Local Perceptions from four Indian Megacities. Nature-based Solutions. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2025.100211
  • Tun, K.Z., Pramanik, M., Chakrabortty, R., Chowdhary, K., Halder, B., Pande, C.B., Mukhopadhyay, A., Zhran, M. (2024). Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation in Southeast Asia: A Systematic Review. Earth Systems and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-024-00473-2
  • Thapa, P., Torralba, M., Nölke, N., Chowdhury, K., Nagendra, H., Plieninger, T. (2024). Disentangling associations of human wellbeing with green infrastructure, degree of urbanity, and social factors around an Asian megacity. Landscape Ecology, 39(8), 152. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01937-6
  • Chi, W., Plieninger, T., Lin, G., Chowdhury, K. (2024). Governing Landscape Simplification in Rapid Commercialization Contexts – the Case of the Dike-Pond System in the Pearl River Delta, China. International Journal of the Commons, 18(1).

Paper Presentations -

  • 2024: Presented a paper at the 5th ESP Europe Conference, Wageningen, Netherlands.
  • 2019: Presented a paper at the 8th International Conference on Critical Geography (ICCG), Athens, Greece.
  • 2019: Presented a paper at “ANUSANDHAN” at the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, India.
  • 2018: Presented a paper at the 25th ASBBS Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
  • 2018: Presented a paper at the 22nd IPEA Conference, Department of Economics, Jammu University, Jammu, India.
  • 2017: Presented a paper at the International Conference, Department of Geography and Resource Management, Mizoram University, India.
  • 2017: Presented the research proposal at the 10th Doctoral Thesis Conference, IBS Hyderabad, India.

Participation in Seminars/Workshops -

  • 2019: Qualitative Methods for Research in Socially Inclusive and Sustainable Agricultural Intensification, IIT Kharagpur, India.
  • 2019: Rural Water Quality Management, IIT Kharagpur, India.
  • 2018: Managing and Governing Resources in the Anthropocene: Political Ecological Explorations from South Asia, IIT Kharagpur, India.
  • 2018: Climate Change Risk on Sustainable Development in Rural India (Fact, Friction, Policy), IIT Kharagpur, India.
  • 2017: Quantitative Research Methods in Social Sciences Using SPSS, IDSK, Kolkata, India.
  • 2016: Applied Economic Tools and Techniques for Managing Environmental Resources, TERI University, India.
  • 2016: Research Skill and Data Analysis using R, CUSAT, Cochin, India.
  • 2013: Theory and Application of Geospatial, Geo-Imaging & Remote Sensing Technology, IIT Kharagpur, India.