Tarun

Tarun is a doctoral candidate researching lived experience of floods in the Indo-Gangetic basin of Bihar.

The larger question to which Tarun is looking is why, despite the hardships, people continue to live in regions with frequent flooding. He previously worked as a policy research consultant focusing largely on waste and clean energy policies. He has over four years of research experience in climate change and environmental policies of India and G20 countries. 

An environmentalist by training and passion, Tarun holds a Master’s Degree in Environment Management from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun and Post Graduate Diploma in Urban Environmental Management and Law from National Law University, New Delhi. He is trained in interdisciplinary research and has expertise in assessing environment–society relations and environmental communications. 

Supervisors: Dr Benjamin Cooke, Dr Mittul Vahanvati, Professor Darryn McEvoy