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Dr. Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Climate Change, Forests ecology and Public Policy
Office no. A-313/5 Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus Zuari Nagar, Goa - 403726

PUBLICATIONS

Publication metrics

Metric

Count

Peer reviewed Journal articles*

47

Non-peer reviewed article

01

Policy Brief

01

Publication of tools and models

02

Book Chapters

02

Book reviews in Current Science

02

Editorials and Opinion Articles in National English Dailies/weeklies

05

Reports for Govt. of India

06

Report for State Governments

08

Reports for UN and Intergovernmental bodies

04

 

 

Total citations

3,740

H-Index

20

I-Index

29

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=Z_irx8YAAAAJ&hl=en


Details of the publications are available are provided below:


PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. Chaturvedi et al (2024) India’s pathway to net zero by 2070: status, challenges, and way forward. Environmental Research Letters 19 (11), 112501 (Impact Factor = 6)

 

  1. Kayet et al (2024) Assessment and estimation of coal dust impact on vegetation using VIs difference model and PRISMA hyperspectral data in mining sites. Journal of Environmental Management 367, 121935 (Impact Factor = 12)

 

  1. Svensson et al (2024) The AFOLU sector’s role in national decarbonization: a comparative analysis of low-GHG development pathways in Brazil, India and Indonesia.Climate Policy, 1-18

 

  1. Dhyani et al (2024) Ecosystem Health Assessment in India for Mainstreaming Global Biodiversity Framework Headline Indicator and Prioritising Conservation Action. Anthropocene Science 3 (1), 122-130

 

  1. Kayet et al (2024) Detection and mapping of vegetation stress using AVIRIS-NG hyperspectral imagery in coal mining sites. Advances in Space Research 73 (2), 1368-1378 (Impact Factor = 3)

 

  1. Jose et al (2023) Plugging the Gaps in the Global PhenoCam Monitoring of Forests—The Need for a PhenoCam Network across Indian Forests. Remote Sensing 15 (24), 5642 (Impact Factor = 5)

 

  1. R Das, RK Chaturvedi, A Roy, S Karmakar, S Ghosh (2023) Warming inhibits increases in vegetation net primary productivity despite greening in India, Scientific Reports 13 (1), 21309 (Impact Factor = 5)

 

  1. A Kulkarni, V Prasad, AR Arya, RK Chaturvedi, SK Singh, S Oza (2023) Differential loss of glacier stored water in the Indus River Basin Current Science, 478-484 (Impact Factor = 1)

 

  1. K Jose, RK Chaturvedi, C Jeganathan, MD Behera, CP Singh (2023) Plugging the Gaps in the Global PhenoCam Monitoring of Forests-The need for a PhenoCam Network across Indian Forests, Remote Sensing 15 (24), 5642 (Impact Factor = 5)

 

  1. N Kayet, K Pathat, CP Singh, BK Bhattacharya, RK Chaturvedi (2024) Detection and mapping of vegetation stress using AVIRIS-NG hyperspectral imagery in coal mining sites, Advances in Space Research 73 (2), 1368-1378 (Impact Factor = 5)

 

  1. Edrisi SA, Dubey PK, Chaturvedi RK, Abhilash PC (2022) Bioenergy crop production potential and carbon mitigation from marginal and degraded lands of India, Renewable Energy 192, 300-312 (Impact Factor = 9)

 

  1. Chaturvedi RK, K Jose, BVR Shruthi, Kariya K P, Garg A (2022) Suitablilty Assessment and Carbon Mitigation Potential of Plantations on India’s Railway land, Anthropocene Science 1 (1), 145-163

 

  1. Chaturvedi RK, Strapsson A, Garg A (2022) Forests, Trees and Agroforestry: Their Roles in India's Sustainable Development and Climate Action, Indian Forester, Vol 148, I 5, B 539-E 541

 

  1. Kulkarni A, V Prasad, T Shirsat, RK Chaturvedi, IM Bahuguna (2021) Impact of Climate Change on the Glaciers of Spiti River Basin, Himachal Pradesh, India, Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Vol 49, I 8, B 1951-E 1963 (Impact Factor = 2)

 

  1. Edrisi SA, Tripathi V, Chaturvedi RK, Dubey DK, Patel G, Abhilash PC (2020) Saline Soil Reclamation Index as an Efficient Tool For Assessing Restoration Progress Of Saline Land, Land Degradation and Development, 32: 123-https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3641 (Impact Factor = 5)

 

  1. Strapsson et al (2020) Insight from the Global Calculator, Energy Strategy Reviews, 29, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2020.100494

       (Impact Factor = 8)

 

  1. Chi Chen, Taejin Park, Xuhui Wang, Shilong Piao, Baodong Xu, Rajiv Chaturvedi, Richard Fuchs, Victor Brovkin, Philippe Ciais, Rasmus Fensholt, Hans Tømmervik, Govindasamy Bala, Zaichun Zhu, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Ranga B. Myneni (2019) China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management, Nature        Sustainability. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0220-7 (Impact Factor = 27)

 

  1. Chaturvedi RK, G T Hegde, Shruthi B V (2018) Tree stand structure and floristic composition of tropical forests in Garo hills, Meghalaya, North-East India. Tropical Ecology, 59(4): 619–632, 2018

 

  1. Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi (2018) Will India's coal power plans pose a threat to limiting global warming to safe levels? Current Science 114 (9) 1812-1814 (Impact factor ~1)

 

  1. Chaitra, A et al including Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi (2018) Impact of Climate Change on Vegetation Distribution and Net Primary Productivity of Forests of Himalayan River Basins: Brahmaputra, Koshi and Indus. American Journal of Climate Change, 7, 271-294 (Impact Factor = 1.64)

 

  1. Rajiv K Chaturvedi and Mitavachan Hiremath (2017) An alternate energy future for India; its implications for India’s climate pledge and the global goal of limiting warming to safe levels. Current Science 113 (6) 1028-1031 (Impact factor ~1)

 

  1. Sharma J, Upgupta S, Jayaraman M, Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi, Bala G, Ravindranath NH (2017) Vulnerability of forests in India: a national scale Environmental Management. 60 (3) 544–553 (Impact factor ~2)

 

  1. Asbjørn Aaheim, Anton Orlov, Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi, Priya Joshi, Anitha Sagadevan, H. Ravindranath (2017) Lost benefits and carbon uptake by protection of Indian plantations. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. DOI: 10.1007/s11027-017-9746-z (Impact factor =3.1)

 

  1. Sharma J, S Upgupta, R Kumar, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, G. Bala, N H Ravindranath (2017) Assessment of inherent vulnerability of forests at landscape level: a case study from Western Ghats in India. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 22 (1) 29-44 (Impact factor =3.1)

 

  1. Ravindranath NH, Rajiv K Chaturvedi and Poornima, N (2017) Paris Agreement; Research, Monitoring and Reporting Requirements for India. Current Science (Impact factor ~1)
  2. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2015) India’s climate pledge and the global goal of limiting warming below 2°C. Current Science. 109 (10): 1769-1772 (Impact factor ~1)
  1. Rashid Irfan, Shakil Ahmad Romshoo, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, NH Ravindranath, Raman Sukumar, Mathangi Jayaraman, Thatiparthi Vijaya Lakshmi, Jagmohan Sharma (2015) Projected Climate Change Impacts on Vegetation Distribution over Himalayas. Climatic 132(4): 601-613 (Impact factor =5)

 

  1. Sharma J, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, G Bala, Ravindranath NH (2015) Assessing “inherent vulnerability” of forests: a methodological approach and a case study from Western Ghats, India. Mitigation Adaptation Strategies to Global Change, 20(4): 573-590 (Impact factor =3.1)

 

  1. Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Y Karyakarte, J Joshi, Bala, A Kulkarni (2014) Glacial Mass Balance Changes in the Karakoram and Himalaya based on CMIP5 Multi-Model Climate Projections. Climatic Change, 123:315-328 (Impact factor =5)

 

  1. Rajiv K Chaturvedi, D Ravindranath, R Kattumuri (2014) Mainstreaming Adaptation to climate change in Indian policy planning. International Journal of Applied Economics and Econometrics, 22(1): 23-56 (Impact factor =n/a)

 

  1. Bala G, Devaraju, N, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Rama Nemani and Ken Caldeira (2013) Nitrogen deposition: how important is it for global terrestrial carbon uptake? Biogeosciences, 10:7147–7160 (Impact factor =4.5)

 

  1. Sharma J, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Bala G, Ravindranath NH (2013) Challenges in Vulnerability Assessment for Forest Carbon Management under Climate Carbon Management, 4(4): 403-411 (Impact factor =2.1)

 

  1. Bala G, J Joshi, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, H.V. Gangamani, H Hashimoto, R Nemani (2013) Trends and variability of Satellite-derived NPP in Remote Sensing, 5(2):810-829 (Impact factor =3.1)

 

  1. Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Jaideep Joshi, Mathangi Jayaraman, Bala, N.H. Ravindranath (2012) Multi-model climate change projections for India under Representative Concentration Pathways. Current Science,103 (7):791-802 (Impact factor ~1)

 

  1. H. Ravindranath, Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2012) Forest carbon management under the changing climate: Research challenges. Carbon Management, 3 (4): 329-331 (Impact factor =2.1)

 

  1. Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Gopalakrishnan R, Jayaraman M, Bala G, Joshi NV, Sukumar R, Ravindranath NH (2011) Impact of Climate Change on Indian Forests: A dynamic vegetation modeling Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 16(2):119-142 (Impact factor =3.1)

 

  1. Asbjørn A, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Anitha Sagadevan (2011) Integrated modelling approaches to analysis of climate change impacts on forests and forest management. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 16(2): 247-266 (Impact factor =3.1)

 

  1. Asbjørn A, Gopalakrishnan R, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Ravindranath NH, Anitha D. Sagadevan, Sharma N, Wei. T (2011) A macroeconomic analysis of adaptation to climate change impacts on forests in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 16(2): 229-245 (Impact factor =3.1)

 

  1. Afreen S, Sharma N, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Gopalakrishnan R, Ravindranath NH (2011) Forest policies and programs affecting vulnerability and adaptation to climate Mitigation and   Adaptation   Strategies   for   Global Change, 16(2):177-197 (Impact factor =3.1)

 

  1. Gopalakrishnan R, Jayaraman M, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Bala G, Ravindranath NH (2011) Effect of climate change on teak in India: A modelling based Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 16(2): 199- 209 (Impact factor =3.1)

 

  1. Palm M, Ostwald M, Murthy IK, Rajiv K Chaturvedi and Ravindranath NH (2011) Barriers for afforestation and reforestation activities in different agro- ecological zones of Southern India. Regional Environmental Change, 11(2): 423-435 (Impact factor =2.8)

 

  1. Ravindranath NH, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Joshi NV, Sathaye J (2011) Implications of Climate Change on Mitigation Potential Estimates for Forest Sector in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 16(2): 211-227 (Impact factor =3.1)

 

  1. Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Gopalakrishnan R, Sukumar R, Ravindranath NH (2010) Carbon management in Indian forests: a policy analysis to assess mitigation Carbon Management, 1(1):109-117 (Impact factor = 2.1)

 

  1. Khatun K, Valdes PJ, Knorr W, Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2010) Assessing the mitigation potential of forestry activities in a changing climate: A case study for Forest Policy and Economics, 12(4): 277-286 (Impact factor =2)

 

  1. Ravindranath NH, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Murthy IK (2008) Forest conservation, afforestation and reforestation in India: Implications for forest carbon Current Science, 95(2):216-222 (Impact factor ~1)

 

  1. Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Tiwari R, Ravindranath NH (2008) Climate Change and Forests in International Forestry Review, 10(2):256-268(Impact factor

=1)

  1. Ravindranath NH, Murthy IK, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Andrasko K, Sathaye JA (2007) Carbon forestry economic mitigation potential in India by land Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 12(6): 1027–1052 (Impact factor =3.1)


POLICY BRIEF (Policy Communication to Govts, academia and general public)


1. Chaturvedi RK et al (2018) Co-benefits of power sector decarbonisation for air quality and human health in India, Policy Brief, January 2018, Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science (http://dccc.iisc.ac.in/Dccc%20Policy_brief-2018.pdf)


NON-PEER REVIEWED RESEARCH ARTICLE


1. Rajiv K Chaturvedi and Woods Jeremy (2015) How we developed the COP21 Calculator. FT Data. Financial Times, London
(http://blogs.ft.com/ftdata/2015/10/20/how-we-built-the-cop21-climatechange-calculator/)


2. Rajiv K Chaturvedi (2020) How climate change is affecting Goa? Published in Dudhsagar, A periodical by Department of Environment & Climate Change, Government of Goa 1(1):46-48, https://gsbb.goa.gov.in/wpcontent/uploads/2020/12/Dudhsagar-19122020.pdf

BOOK / BOOK CHAPTER


1. Co-editor Sustainable Plant Nutrition and Soil Carbon Sequestration, Springer Nature (accepted)


2. Sukumar R, Jagmohan K Sharma, Rajiv K Chaturvedi, NH Ravindranath (2016) The Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity and Ecosystems in India. in Tropical Conservation: Perspectives on Local and Global Priorities. Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEWS


1. Chaturvedi RK, Ravindranath, NH (2013) Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific – How can Countries Adapt? Venkatachalam Anbumozhi et al (eds). SAGE Publishers India Pvt Ltd. Current Science, 104: 1716-1717


2. Chaturvedi, RK (2013) "Energy, the Environment and Climate Change" by Peter E. Hodgson. Imperial College Press, UK. Current Science, 105: 256-257

PUBLICATION OF PUBLIC POLICY TOOLS/MODELS

 

      1.Financial Times climate change calculator (2015): http://ig.ft.com/sites/climate- change-calculator/

 

     2. The Global Calculator (2014):http://globalcalculator.org/globcalc.html

       (incorporated RCP scenarios RCP2.6, RCP6.0 and RCP8.5 in to Global Calculator)