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CURRICULUM VITAE

Name	Jyothis Sathyapalan
Email	sjyothis@cess.ac.in
Designation	Associate Professor
Education :	Ph.D. (Economics) Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, M.Phil (Economics) University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram
Research Interests :	Resource and Environmental Economics, (Forest,Marine Fisheries, Dry-lands and Livelihoods)

Major/Important Publications

1. 2010 "Implementation of Forest Rights Act in the Western Ghats Region of Kerala Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XLV No 30, July 24.

2. 2008 "Livelihood Security in the Marine Fisheries Sector of Gujarat State, India" In Dev Mahendra and K S Babu (eds) "Indias development Social and Economic Disparities, Manohar New Delhi and IDPAD.

3. 2008 Fishing Fleet Reduction and Its Livelihood Implications: A Case Study of Palk Bay Resource Users in the East Coast of Tamil Nadu, India, Working Document, UNTRS and FAO of the United Nations

4. 2008 "Maintaining a Viable Small Scale Fishery: A Case Study of Trawler Sector in the Palk Bay" CESS Monograph No 5.

5. 2007 “Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Changes due to Salinity Ingress and Ground Water Depletion: A study of Coastal Gujarat, India”, In Pushpam Kumar and Sudhakara Reddy(eds) Ecology and Human Wellbeings., Sage Publishers, UK.

6. 2005 (Jointly)“Ecological and Economic Aspects of Biodiversity Conservation in Protected Area India “ In Sengupta N and Bandyopadhyay J (eds) “ Biodiversity and Quality of life” Macmillan, India

7. 2005 “Households dependence on Protected Forests: Evidences from the Western Ghats” Indian Journal of Agriculture Economics, Published by the Indian Society for Agriculture Economics Vol 60 No 1 (Awarded ANAMITRA SAHA PRIZE for this research)

8. 2005 (Jointly)“ The Economics of biodiversity conservation: a case study of coffee growing region in the western Ghats of India” Ecological Economics, Published by ELSEVIER Vol 55No 1

9. 2004, (Jointly) “Social Forestry _ A Case Study from Karnataka” In Kadekodi Gopal K (ed.) Environmental Economics in Practice –Case Studies from India,Oxford University Pres

International Seminars

1. 2007 (August) Presented a seminar on "Maintaining a Viable Small-Scale Marine Fishery:Lessons from Gujarat State, India", The Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development,“Synergy Session”, Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labradore, Canada

2. 2006 June Presented a paper entitled “The socio-economic context for a weak legal plural interaction: characteristics and individual perceptions of fisheries management in Junagadh district, Gujarat in the International Congress on Legal Pluralism at Depok, Indonesia.

3. 2003 August, Presented a paper (jointly) entitled “Economics of Biodiversity Conservation: The Case of a Coffee Growing Village in India” in the contributory session of XXV International Association of Agricultural Economists Conference, Durban, South Africa and also in the Eighth
Biennial Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, Montreal, Canada, July 11-14, 2004

4. 2002, June 24th to 27h, Presented a paper titled "De facto Access Right and People’s Preference to Conserve Biodiversity at Micro level: A Study from India " in the 2nd World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economist, Monterey, United States of America.

5. 2000, September 6th to 8th, Presented a paper, entitled “Willingness to Participate for Biodiversity Conservation. A Micro Level analysis of Eco-Development Project in Periyar Tiger Reserve.” in the Second International Conference on Environment and Development, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences – Stockholm, Sweden.

Major Projects Handled

1. 2009-2010 Recognition of Forest Rights and Livelihoods of Tribal Communities, A Study of Western Ghats Region, Kerala

2. (Jointly) Fleet Reduction and its Livelihood Implication: A Study of Palk-bay resource users in collaboration with SIFFS, Trivandrum and MARE, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

3. (2005-2006) Impact of Salinity Propagation and Ground Water Pollution on Rural Households in the Coastal Areas of Gujarat State in India (Sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.

4.(2005-2006) (Gujarat Part, Jointly) IDPAD Research Project on “Co-operation in the Context of Crisis: Public-Private Management of Marine Fisheries in South Asia” Maritime Research Centre, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Post Doctoral Experience

Guest Researcher 2009, at the Amsterdam Institute of Metropolitan Studies, University of Amsterdam 1st Sept to 30th November 2009.

Guest Researcher 2005, at the Centre for Maritime Research (MARE), University of Amsterdam, under the IDPAD EOS programme (one month in Sept 2005)

Guest Researcher 2007, at the International Centre for Coastal Network (ICN) Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labradore, Canada, under the Shastri Indo Canadian Fellowship (one month July-August 2007

Selected Publications

2008 "Livelihood Security in the Marine Fisheries Sector of Gujarat State, India" In Dev Mahendra and Suri Babu "Indias development even or uneven? Refections on Development theory and Practice, Manohar New Delhi.

Books Published

2007 (Jointly) Economics of Biodiversity Conservation: Valuation in tropical forest ecosystems EARTHSCAN Publishers,London

Areas Worked

Marine Fisheries, Biodiversity Conservation (Forest), Water and Salinity