Prof. Sunil Nautiyal

Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR)

Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC)

Email: nautiyal_sunil@rediffmail.com

Qualifications

1998-1999 Ph.D., Department of Botany, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Garhwal, India & G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment

1993 M.Sc., Department of Botany, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Garhwal, India

Publications (Selected)

1. Tiwari, D. C., Negi, P., Thakur, S., Rana, S. K., Pandey, R., Bhatt, I. D., & Nautiyal, S. (2025). Analyzing climatic and Non-Climatic impacts on Structure, phenology and functions of Western Himalayan forests. Ecological Indicators, 174, 113511.
2. Saxena, K. G., Sreekesh, S., Rao, K. S., Maikhuri, R. K., & Nautiyal, S. (2025). Business-culture-biodiversity nexus: The foundation of socio-ecological integrity in traditional cultural landscapes in Indian Himalaya. In Business and Biodiversity: Reciprocal Connections in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS) (pp. 89-110). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
3. Goswami, M., Prakash, S., Nautiyal, S., & Mukul, S. A. (2024). Potential environmental implications of sandbar afforestation: Insights from ecosystem restoration initiatives in a sandbar of Brahmaputra River Assam, India. Land Use Policy, 147, 107354.
4. Tomar, S., Thakur, S., Thapliyal, N., Kanwal, K. S., Bhatt, I. D., Nautiyal, S., & Puri, S. (2024). Understanding the influence of environmental factors on forest composition along the vertical gradient of Northwestern Himalaya. Trees, Forests and People, 17, 100631.
5. Sarkar, M. S., Majhi, B. K., Pathak, B., Biswas, T., Mahapatra, S., Kumar, D., ... & Nautiyal, S. (2024). Ensembling machine learning models to identify forest fire-susceptible zones in Northeast India. Ecological Informatics, 81, 102598.
6. Maikhuri, R. K., Maletha, A., Singh, R., Bhatt, G., Agarwal, S., Dhyani, S., ... & Singh, S. (2024). Traditional health care systems and immunity boosting: exploring plant based indigenous knowledge systems amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Discover Plants, 1(1), 5.
7. Biswas, S., & Nautiyal, S. (2023). A review of socio-economic vulnerability: The emergence of its theoretical concepts, models and methodologies. Natural Hazards Research, 3(3), 563-571.
8. Nautiyal, S., Prakash, S., Goswami, M., & Premkumar, A. (2023). Impact of Climatic Variations on Crop Yield in Chamoli District, Uttarakhand, India. In The Palgrave Handbook of Socio-ecological Resilience in the Face of Climate Change: Contexts from a Developing Country (pp. 53-69). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
9. Alphonse, M., Thiagarajan, K., Nallakaruppan, N., Raja, W. R. T., Paul, S., Jaichandran, S., ... & Chandrasekaran, R. (2023). Impact of Anthropogenic Compounds on Biodiversity: A Comprehensive Analysis. In Plant Diversity in Biocultural Landscapes (pp. 443-466). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
10. Alphonse, M., Thiagarajan, K., Nallakaruppan, N., Raja, W. R. T., Paul, S., Jaichandran, S., ... & Chandrasekaran, R. (2023). Impact of Anthropogenic Compounds on Biodiversity: A Comprehensive Analysis. In Plant Diversity in Biocultural Landscapes (pp. 443-466). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
11. Goswami, M., Gupta, A. K., Kishan, R., Baidya, S., Khan, Y. I., Prakash, S., ... & Nautiyal, S. (2023). An evaluation of climate resilient agricultural practices in India: a narrative synthesis of literature. Environmental Sustainability, 6(1), 7-23.
12. Nautiyal, S., Goswami, M., Prakash, S., Rao, K. S., Maikhuri, R. K., Saxena, K. G., ... & Banerjee, S. (2022). Spatio-temporal variations of geo-climatic environment in a high-altitude landscape of Central Himalaya: an assessment from the perspective of vulnerability of glacial lakes. Natural Hazards Research, 2(4), 343-362.
13. Khan, I. Y., Goswami, M., Nautiyal, S., Gupta, A. K., Premkumar, A., Baidya, S., & Prakash, S. (2022). Promoting climate smart agriculture through policies and schemes in India: Temporal and strategic overview. International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 48(5), 547-569.
14. Nautiyal, S., & Goswami, M. (2022). Role of traditional ecological knowledge on field margin vegetation in sustainable development: A study in a rural-urban interface of Bengaluru. Trees, Forests and People, 8, 100207.
15. Prakash, S., Goswami, M., Khan, Y. I., & Nautiyal, S. (2021). Environmental impact of COVID-19 led lockdown: A satellite data-based assessment of air quality in Indian megacities. Urban Climate, 38, 100900.
16. Biswas, S., & Nautiyal, S. (2021). An assessment of socio-economic vulnerability at the household level: A study on villages of the Indian Sundarbans. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 23(7), 11120-11137.

Profile Details

WoS ResearcherID: AAQ-5585-2020

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