Publications

Edited Book

Swarnakar, P., Zavestoski, S. and Pattnaik, B.K. (2017). Bottom-up Approaches in Governance and Adaptation for Sustainable Development: CaseStudies from India and Bangladesh. New Delhi, India: SAGE Publications. Available at

Guest Editorial

• Swarnakar, P.,Zavestoski, S. (2014) Special Issue on Environment and Technology: Mediating Factors toward Sustainable Development, International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development,Volume 8, No 4. 331-426.

Journal Articles

• Chauhan, S., Yadav, A., Kurup, PM., Li, X., Swarnakar, P., Gupta, RK., (2023) Devising a people-friendly test kit for overcoming challenges in the assessment of water quality and analysis of water pollution in the river Ganga. RSC Sustainability 1 (3), 418-431. DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00071G
• Joshi, B., Swarnakar, P. (2023). How fair is our air? The injustice of procedure, distribution, and recognition within the discourse of air pollution in Delhi, India. Environmental Sociology 9 (2), 176-189
  
• Shukla, R., & Swarnakar, P. (2022). Energy transition and dialectics: Tracing discursive resistance to coal through discourse coalition in India. Globalizations, 19(5), 1-16.
  
• Shukla, R., & Swarnakar, P. (2022). Energy justice in post-Paris India: Unpacking consensus and conflict through storylines and discourse coalitions. Energy Research & Social Science, 91, 102687.
  
• Swarnakar, P., and Singh., M. (2022). Local Governance in Just Energy Transition: Towards a Community-Centric-Framework, Sustainability, 14(11), 6495.
  
• Swarnakar, P., Shukla, R., & Broadbent, J. (2022). Beliefs and Networks: Mapping the Indian Climate Policy Discourse Surrounding the Paris Climate Change Conference in 2015. Environmental Communication, 16(2),145-162.
  
• Da Rimini, F., Goodman, J., Swarnakar, P., & Ylä-Anttila, T. (2021). Climate Policy Networks in Australia: Dynamics of Failure and Possibility. Australian Journal of Politics & History, 67(2), 295-311.
  
• Joshi, B., & Swarnakar, P. (2021) Staying Away, Staying Alive: Exploring Risk and Stigma of COVID-19 in the context of beliefs, actors and hierarchies in India, Current Sociology.
• Kumar, A., Mallick, S., Swarnakar, P. (2020).Mapping Scientific Collaboration: A Bibliometric Study of Rice Crop Research in India, Journal of Scientometric Research, 9(1), 29-39.
• Kumar, A., Swarnakar, P., Jaiswal, K., Kurele, R. (2020). SMIR model for controlling the spread of information in social networking sites. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. Visit Here
• Kukkonen, A., Ylä-Anttila, T., Swarnakar, P., Broadbent, J., Lahsen, M., Stoddart, M. C. (2018). International organizations, advocacy coalitions, and domestication of global norms: Debates on climate change in Canada, the US, Brazil, and India. Environmental Science Policy, 81, 54-62.
• Ylä-Anttila, T., Swarnakar, P. (2017) Crowding-in: How and why Indian civil society organizations mobilized on climate change. British Journal of Sociology, 68(2), 273-292.
• Broadbent, J, Sonnett, J. (…), Swarnakar, P (…), Zhengyi, S. Hasegawa, K. (2016) Conflicting Climate Change Frames in World Society, Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. DOI: Visit Here
• Swarnakar, P., Kumar, A., Tyagi, H. (2017) Network Dynamics in Friend Recommendation: A Study of Indian Engineering Students. International Journal of Information Technology and Management, 16(3), 287-300.
• Swarnakar, P., Kumar, A., Kumar, S. (2016) Why generation Y prefers online shopping: A study of young customers of India. International Journal of Business Forecasting and Marketing Intelligence, 2(3), 215-232.
• Swarnakar, P., Kumar, A., Wadhwa, M. (2016) Investigating preferred relationship through fuzzy sets in Facebook. International Journal of Web Based Communities, 12(2), 165-179.
• Ylä-Anttila, T., Swarnakar, P, Javed, S., Oivo, K. (2015). How to Avoid Seeing Like a State: Learning from CSOs. Economic and Political Weekly, 50(17), 14-16.
• Swarnakar, P., Thahir, S. (2015). Acculturation of New Technology: The Business Success of Lee Kum Kee. Global Business Review, 16(1), 196-198.
• Broadbent, J., Yun, S. J., Ku, D., Ikeda, K., Satoh, K., Pellissery, S., Swarnakar, P., Lin, T. L., Lee, H. C., Jin, J. (2013). Asian societies and climate change: the variable diffusion of global norms, Globality Studies Journal (GSJ no. 32). Online: http://globality.cc.stonybrook.edu/?p=681
• Swarnakar, P., Sharma, A. K. (2009). Risk, awareness and response: An exploratory study of people’s attitude towards groundwater arsenic contamination in West Bengal, India, Eastern Anthropologist, 62(1), 61-83.

Working Paper

• Singh, Mudit Kumar and Mangang, Naorem Nishikanta and Swarnakar, Pradip, Localizing Just Energy Transition Debate: Network Analysis of Local Stakeholders in Two Coal-Dependent Districts of India ( 2023). JTRC-Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Research Paper No. 2, Available at
  SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4401109 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4401109
• Singh, Mudit Kumar and Swarnakar, Pradip, Addressing Livelihood Concerns due to Energy Transition away from Coal in India (June 8, 2023). JTRC-Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Research Paper No. 4, Available at
  SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4473685 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4473685
• Chauhan, Saakshi and Swarnakar, Pradip and Mukherjee, Deep, Separating the Impact of Power Sector in the Energy-Growth Nexus: An ARDL-ECM Approach (July 2023). JTRC-Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Research Paper No. 5, Available at
  SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4507042 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4507042
• Chatterjee, Riti and Swarnakar, Pradip, Just Energy Transition in Agriculture: A Systematic Review from Social-Ecological Perspectives (August 7, 2023). JTRC-Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Research Paper No. 6, Available at
  SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4534120 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4534120

Book Chapters

• Stoddart, M. CJ., Lahsen, M., Swarnakar, P., Ylä-Anttila, T., (Forthcoming) Environmental movements, climate change and progressive politics, In Handbook of Progressive Politics, by Alice Mattoni, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.
• Swarnakar, P., & Shukla, R. (2023). International Climate Financing and Just Energy Transition:Exploring the Synergies. In M. Mohanty & R. Sarkar (Eds.), The Role of Coal in a Sustainable Energy Mix for India. Routledge India.visit here
• 3. Swarnakar, P., Pattnaik, B. K., Sarkar, P. (2023), Governing the Commons with Traditional knowledge and practices: Lessons from the Bishnoi community of India. In, Environmental Sustainability from Below, by Binay Kumar Pattnaik, Springer Publication:New Delhi.
• Swarnakar, P. (2019) Climate Change, Civil Society, and Social Movement in India In India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development edited by Navroz Dubash, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. For free download visit here
• Zavestoski, S. Swarnakar, P. (2017) Governance for Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene. in Bottom-up Approaches in Governance and Adaptation for Sustainable Development: Case Studies from India and Bangladesh edited by P. Swarnakar, S. Zavestoski, B. K. Pattnaik. SAGE Publications, New Delhi.
• Zavestoski, S. Swarnakar, P. (2017) Neither ‘Top-down’ nor ‘Bottom-up’: A ‘Middle-out’ Alternative to Sustainable Development in Bottom-up Approaches in Governance and Adaptation for Sustainable Development: Case Studies from India and Bangladesh edited by P. Swarnakar, S. Zavestoski, B. K. Pattnaik. SAGE Publications, New Delhi.
• Swarnakar, P., Sharma, A. K. (2011). Environmental concern: Application of new environmental paradigm scale in Rural West Bengal in Migration, Health and Development, edited by S. Lahiri, B Paswan and K C Das, Rawat Publications, New Delhi/Jaipur. pp 170-201.
• Swarnakar, P., Sharma, A. K. (2009). Understanding environmental crisis: Locating common grounds in principles and practices between deep and social ecologists in Understanding the Global Environment edited by Samir Dasgupta, Pearson Longman, New Delhi. pp 119-136.