Ankit Bhardwaj

Ankit Bhardwaj

Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies

Ankit Bhardwaj is a PhD Student in Sociology at New York University. He is studying the politics of expertise on reducing carbon emissions. He was previously based at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi where he investigated the politics of climate change in India's cities, and contributed to the United Nations Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report in 2019. He tweets with the handle @ankitbhardy.

Areas of Expertise

Environmental politics, Sociology of Expertise, Climate Change, Energy Infrastructure, Global South, Social Theory

Publications

Bhardwaj A., and R. Khosla (2020). ‘Superimposition: how Indian city bureaucracies are responding to climate change’ Environment & Planning E: Nature and Space.
Khosla R., N. Sircar, and A. Bhardwaj (2019). ‘Energy demand transitions and climate mitigation in low-income urban households in India’ Environmental Research Letters 14(9). 
Bhardwaj A., M. Joshi, R. Khosla, and N.K. Dubash, (2019). ‘More priorities, more problems? Decision-making with multiple energy, development and climate objectives’ Energy Research and Social Science. 49.  

Roy, A., B. Kuruvilla and A. Bhardwaj, (2019) ‘Energy and Climate Change: Just Transitions for Indian Labour’ in Dubash N.K. (ed.) India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development. Oxford University Press.

Khosla, R. and A. Bhardwaj, (2019) ‘Urban India and Climate Change’ in Dubash N.K. (ed.) India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development. Oxford University Press. 

Khosla R. and A. Bhardwaj, (2018), ‘Urbanization in the time of climate change: examining the response of Indian cities’, invited submission, WIREs Climate Change e560.  

Dubash, N.K., R, Khosla, N.D. Rao and A. Bhardwaj, (2018) ‘India's energy and emissions future: an interpretive analysis of model scenarios’ Environmental Research Letters. 13. 

Education

MSc. 2015  City Design and Social Science, London School of Economics and Political Science

BASc. 2014 Civil Engineering, University of Toronto