Medani Bhandari
My teaching and research focus areas are sociology, environmental, political, organizational, and natural resource sociology, social change, social networks, and other courses, including global environment policy, sustainable development, park and people management, natural resource conflict management, and non-profit management. and open to contributing to the core curriculum, including introductory courses, environmental studies, social theory, social statistics, or social research methods, including organizational and political sociology.
I have spent most of my career focusing on the conservation of nature and natural resources, developing along the way expertise in global and international environmental politics, environmental institutions and governance, and forest governance from the grassroots to the national level, with a special focus on participatory management, climate change policy and implementation, environmental justice, and land cover and land use change.
Specialties: Climate Change Mitigation, Climate Change Adaptation, International environmental governance, Green Economy, Sustainability, and assess the economic, social and environmental impacts on the natural resources. My field experience spans across Asia, Africa, the U.S., Western Europe, Australia, and the Middle East.
Address: Indianapolis
I have spent most of my career focusing on the conservation of nature and natural resources, developing along the way expertise in global and international environmental politics, environmental institutions and governance, and forest governance from the grassroots to the national level, with a special focus on participatory management, climate change policy and implementation, environmental justice, and land cover and land use change.
Specialties: Climate Change Mitigation, Climate Change Adaptation, International environmental governance, Green Economy, Sustainability, and assess the economic, social and environmental impacts on the natural resources. My field experience spans across Asia, Africa, the U.S., Western Europe, Australia, and the Middle East.
Address: Indianapolis
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This book adds to our knowledge, first by contributing to a small but growing body of work on the sociology of international organizations. IOs, especially International Governmental Organizations (IGOs), have long been the subject of mostly political science. Second, it applies a fuller sociological imagination to the study of IOs by critically exploring one of the largest and most active nature conservation organizations in the world. Third, it also explores how the IUCN actually goes about building protectoral programs with individual member nations.
Additionally, the book explores the recent development of the green economy (GE) concepts into IUCN's program planning today. The green economy initiative applies a people-first approach. Although the concept is relatively new, this research explores the theoretical development of a green economy and illustrates how this theory is applied in IUCN's program planning to program implementation.