Ritwick Ghosh

Assistant Professor
Forestry and Environmental Resources
North Carolina State University

I am an environmental social scientist with expertise in policy and governance. I study how governments, corporations, and, civil society groups respond to pressing environmental and climate challenges.

I am particularly interested in the role of markets and incentives in promoting more sustainable land use systems. This includes ideas such as payments for ecosystem services and various forms of offset programs. I approach these “novel” solutions from a critical institutional lens, anchored in political ecology, ecological economics, and science and technology studies. My methods tend to be qualitative and my interests pragmatic. Through case studies and comparative analysis, I explore how incentive-based environmental solutions rely on bureaucrats, experts, models, and various intermediaries who coordinate market forms in specific places, and globally. Th

Most of my current work is centered on the politics of institutionalizing ecological offsetting. I am studying national offset schemes in India, US, and Europe. I study how schemes differ across countries and the role of intermediaries including NGOs, consultants, bureaucrats, and scientists in translating rhetoric to practice.

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