{"id":57047,"date":"2023-01-09T16:12:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.science\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=57047"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:28:17","slug":"bina-argawal","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/council.science\/profile\/bina-argawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bina Agarwal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Involvement at the ISC<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ISC Fellow (Dec 2022)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Bina Agarwal is Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the GDI, University of Manchester, UK. She has been Director and Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India; President, International Society for Ecological Economics; President, International Association for Feminist Economics; and Vice President, International Economic Association. She has held distinguished positions at Cambridge, Harvard, Princeton, Minnesota and Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agarwal\u2019s 16 books and over 86 papers cover varied subjects: property and land rights, agrarian change, environmental governance, law, and poverty and inequality, written especially from a political economy and gender perspective. Her multiple prize-winning book, A Field of One\u2019s Own (Cambridge University Press, 1994), placed women\u2019s land rights on the global policy agenda. In 2005 she also led a successful civil society campaign for making India\u2019s Hindu Inheritance law gender equal. Her recent books include Gender and Green Governance (OUP, 2010); Gender Challenges (OUP, 2016), a three volume compendium of her selected papers; and Gender Inequalities in Developing Economies (2021) in Italian translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her many awards include a Padma Shri from the President of India in 2008; the Leontief Prize 2010 \u2018for advancing the frontiers of economic thought\u2019; the Louis Malassis International Scientist Prize 2017; and the International Balzan Prize 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The page has been updated in May 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Involvement at the ISC Background Bina Agarwal is Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the GDI, University of Manchester, UK. 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