Professor Nagendra engages with international science and policy through her current and past participation on the Future Earth Steering Committees of Global Land Project and Programme for Ecosystem Change and Society. She is a well-known public speaker, writer and columnist in India. WildWomenInterviews Harini Nagendra on nature in cities & managing commons Harini Nagendra is a Professor of Sustainability at Azim Premji. She has published widely in leading journals, and also written two best-selling non-fiction books on Indian cities - “Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present and Future” (Oxford University Press, 2016) and “Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities” (Penguin, 2019). Down the Drain: The Tragedy of the Disappearing Urban Commons of Bengaluru. For her interdisciplinary work that combines research and practice, she has received a number of awards including the 2009 Cozzarelli Prize from the US National Academy of Sciences, the 2013 Elinor Ostrom Senior Scholar award, and the 2017 Clarivate Web of Science award. Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future. Over the past 20 years, she has been at the leading edge of research examining urban sustainability in India, one of the world’s fastest urbanizing countries. In this book, Harini Nagendra presents her research on how the nature has shaped the city of Bangalore and the culture of its inhabitants. Oxford University Press, 2019 - Natural history - 224 pages. Harini Nagendra is a Professor of Sustainability at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India, where she anchors a programme of research on climate change and urban sustainability. Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future.

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