Humanities and Social Sciences

• CoreNet Global Academic Challenge 6.0
• Visiting Fellowship
• SMUS Joint Teaching Research Award
• French Embassy Fellowship
• Faculty Excellence Award

Journal
• Shoreline of small things : contextualizing a cultural dimension of dried fish in the Indian Sundarbans by Ghosh R., Mukherjee J., Sen A., Choudry A. Maritime Studies 24 - (2025)
• Panta Rhei: a decade of progress in research on change in hydrology and society by Kreibich... H., Mukherjee J. Hydrological Sciences Journal - (2025)
• The transdisciplinary-transformative pathway: activating SDGs through an inland fishing experimentation in the Indian Sundarbans by Mukherjee J., Pathak S. , Choudry A. , Sen A. Maritime Studies - (2025)
• Looking back to look forward: Explorations on water scenario in Bundelkhand, Central India by Sharma S., Mukherjee J., Chatterjee U., Choudry A. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 137 - (2025)
• Mapping the Landscape of Water and Society Research: Promising Combinations of Compatible and Complementary Disciplines by Muller M., Rusca M. , Bertasello L. , Adams E. , Allaire M. , Viilarejo V. , Levy M. , Mukherjee J. , Pokhrel Y. WIREs Water 11 - (2024)
• For, of, and by the community: critical place-based reflections on mangroves regeneration in the Indian Sundarbans by Sen A., Mukherjee J. , Ghosh A. , Fickert T. Community Development Journal - (2024)
• (En)countering an urban riverscape: Ethno-graphic explorations on the Adi Ganga by Bhattacharya S., Mukherjee J., Banerji D., Chatterjee S. Cities 151 - (2024)
• Reifying river : Unpacking pluriversal possibilities in rejuvenation surrounding the Adi Ganga of Kolkata by Bhattacharya S., Mukherjee J. , Choudry A. , Ghosh R. Frontiers in Water 5 - (2023)
• Reifying river : Unpacking pluriversal possibilities in rejuvenation surrounding the Adi Ganga of Kolkata. by Bhattacharya S., Mukherjee J. , Choudry A. , Ghosh R. Frontiers in Water. 5 - (2023)
• Editorial: Innovating a New Knowledge Base for Water Justice Studies: Hydrosocial, Sociohydrology, and Beyond by Haeffner M., Rusca M. , Zwartveen M. , Mukherjee J. , Pacheco-vega R. , Ndritu J. , Linton J. , Lave R. Frontiers in Water 6 - (2023)
• Editorial: Solutions to Water Crises (Related to Actual Interventions) by Mukherjee J., Pande S. , Haeffner M. , Marks S. , Van Oel P. , Sanderson M. , Allen A. Frontiers in Water 5 - (2023)
• COVID-19 and waste management policy practices in India: A systematic review by Das A. K., Mukherjee J. , Chatterjee U. Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science 7 - (2023)
• Advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Situated Adaptive Practices (SAPs): Analyzing scenarios and designing initiatives towards just transitions (ADjusT) in the Indian Sundarbans. by Ghosh R., Mukherjee J. , Pathak S. , Choudry A. Frontiers in Water 5 - (2023)
• From trash to treasure: Advancing the socio-ecological practice of rag picking for sustainable development in the Chandannagar town of Hooghly, West Bengal, India by Das A. K., Mukherjee J. , Chatterjee U. Socio-Ecological Practice Research 5 - (2023)
• Beyond (un)stable: Chars as dynamic destabilisers of problematic binaries by Mukherjee J., Lahiri-dutt K. , Ghosh R. Social Anthropoplogy 31 - (2023)
• Analyzing scenarios and designing initiatives toward just transitions: coproducing knowledge with(in) the dried fish sector in the Indian Sundarbans by Ghosh R., Mukherjee J. , Bandyopadhyay A. , Chattopadhyay S. , Choudry A. , Ghosh P. , Pathak S. , Sen A. , Sinha P. Frontiers in Water 5 - (2023)
• Ruined or resurrected: Contemporary realities shaping heritage buildings of Chandannagar by Bose L., Mukherjee J. Journal of Indian Anthropological Society 57 - (2022)
• Never ask for a lighter rain but a stronger umbrella by Pande S., Haeffner M. , Blöschl G. , Alam M. , Castro C. , Di Baldassarre G. , Frick- Trzebitzky F. , Hogeboom R. , Kreibich H. , Mukherjee J. , Mukherji A. , Nardi F. , Nüsser M. , Tian F. , Van Oel P. , Murugesu S. Frontiers in Water 3 - (2022)
• Living systems infrastructure of Kolkata: Exploring coproduction of urban nature using historical urban political ecology (HUPE) by Mukherjee J. Environment and Urbanization 34 - (2022)
• Exploring visions of social resilience and sustainability around the making of mega and world-class cities in India by Chowhan G., Sen A. , Mukherjee J. GeoJournal 87 - (2022)
• Solid waste management through multi-criteria decision making: Using analytic hierarchy process as an assessment framework for the Hooghly district, West Bengal by Das A. K., Chatterjee U. , Mukherjee J. GeoJournal 87 - (2022)
• Importance Performance Analysis to assess community role in solid waste management in the Hooghly District, West Bengal by Das A. K., Mukherjee J. , Chatterjee U. Innovative Infrastructure Solutions 7 - (2022)
• Understanding heritage conservation from project management perspectives: Case study Chandannagar by Bose L., Mukherjee J. Journal of Heritage Management 7 - (2022)
• From the shabars of the Indian Sundarbans: Everyday empirics through photography by Bandopadhyay A., Ghosh R. , Mukherjee J. , Pathak S. Coastal Studies and Society 1 - (2022)
• Enough on emissions, let s talk entanglements! Placing environmental humanities in climate conversations and controversies by Mukherjee J., R. G., S. B. The Asiatic Society: Monthly Bulletin L - (2021)
• Histories of urban deltascapes: A comparison of Arles and Kolkata. by Mukherjee J., Morera R. , Guerrin J. , Veron R. Global Environment: A Journal of Transdisciplinary History 14 - (2021)
• History matters: A comparative exploration on the Spanish Flu and the COVID-19 in India by Mukherjee J. Journal of Development and Policy Research 1 - (2021)
• Nature, culture and oriental heritage: Ethnographic explorations on Patua and Chhau communities of Bengal by Chatterjee A., Bhattacharya S. , Mukherjee J. The Oriental Heritage 21 - (2021)
• Fluid epistemologies: The social saga of sediments in Bengal by Mukherjee J., Ghosh P. Ecology, Economy and Society The INSEE Journal 3 - (2020)
• When hydrosociality encounters sediments: Transformed lives and livelihoods in the lower basin of the Ganges River by De Micheaux F. L., Mukherjee J. , Kull C. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 1 - (2018)
• The Adi Ganga: A forgotten river in Bengal by Mukherjee J. Economic and Political Weekly 51 - (2016)
• Water trajectories through non-networked infrastructures: Insights from peri-urban Dar es Salaam, Cochabamba and Kolkata by Allen A., Hoffman P. , Mukherjee J. , Walnycki A. Urban Research and Practice 10 - (2016)
• Beyond the urban: Rethinking urban ecology using Kolkata as a case study by Mukherjee J. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development 7 - (2015)
Book Chapter/Section
• Quilting the Brown Hole in Environmental History: Muddy Materialities of Bengal by Mukherjee J., Ghosh R. , Ghosh P. Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands - (2024)
• Towards Transformative Social Resilience: Charting a Path with Climate-Vulnerable Communities in the Indian Sundarbans by Mukherjee J., Sen A. , Lahiti-dutt K. , Ghosh A. Planetary Justice: Stories and Studies of Action, Resistance, and Solidarity - (2024)
• Urban Environmental Governance: Historical and Political Ecological Perspectives from South Asia by Mukherjee J., Véron R. The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History - (2024)
• Environment, society and sustainability: The transdisciplinary exigency for a desirable Anthropocene. by Mukherjee J., Bhattacharya S. , Ghosh R. , Pathak S. , Choudry A. , Samantha N. Social Morphology, Human Welfare and Sustainability. - (2022)
Book
• Homelessness to Hope: Research, Policy and Global Perspectives by Chatterjee U., Shaw R., Sivaramakrishnan L., Mukherjee J., Ghosh R. Homelessness to Hope: Research, Policy and Global Perspectives 1-508 (2024)
• Blue Infrastructures: Natural Ecology, Political History and Urban Development in Kolkata by Mukherjee J. - (2020)
Edited Volume
• From Nature, to Nature : Articulating the Discourse of Environmental Sustainability in a Chhau Dance Community (West Bengal), India by Mukherjee J., Chatterjee A. Environmental and Ecological Sustainability through Indigenous Traditions: Perspectives from the Global South 217-238 (2024)
• Homelessness to Hope: Research, Policy and Practices on Global Perspectives by Chatterjee U., Shaw R. , Sivaramakrishnan L. , Mukherjee J. , Ghosh R. Homelessness to Hope: Research, Policy and Practices on Global Perspectives - (2024)
• Advances in Urbanism, Smart Cities and Sustainability by Chatterjee U., Biswas A. , Mukherjee J. , Majumdar S. Advances in Urbanism, Smart Cities and Sustainability - (2022)
• Sustainable Urbanism in Developing Countries by Chatterjee U., Biswas A. , Mukherjee J. , Mahato D. Sustainable Urbanism in Developing Countries - (2022)
• Sustainable Urbanization in India: Challenges and Opportunities by Mukherjee J. Sustainable Urbanization in India: Challenges and Opportunities - (2018)
Others
• Curating Hope for Kolkata s (Waste)waterscapes: An Ethno-graphic Project. by Mukherjee J., Bhattacharya S. - (2024)
• A Situational Analysis of Small-Scale Fisheries in the Sundarbans, India: 10 From Vulnerability to Viability. by Ghosh R., Mukherjee J. , Pathak S. , Choudry A. , Choudry S. , Sen A. - (2022)
• Dried Fish in West Bengal, India: Scoping Report. by Ghosh R., Mukherjee J. , Sen A. , Pathak S. , Choudry A. , Bhattacharya S. - (2022)
• Not a Wasted Enterprise: Political Ecologies of Wastewater Wetlands in Kolkata. by Mukherjee J., Sen A. - (2020)
• Cyclone Bulbul in the Indian Sundarbans: Another lesson on deltaic vulnerability and resilience. by Sen A., Mukherjee J. - (2019)
Educational Package
• Understanding Nature and Societies through Ethno-graphy A Transdisciplinary Perspective by Mukherjee J., Bhattacharya S. - (2023)

Principal Investigator

• Political Ecology of River: Indo-Swiss exploration of Hydrosocial Dynamics in the Lower Stretch of the Ganges
• From Hydrological to Hydrosocial: Political Ecological Explorations of the Lower Ganga Basin, West Bengal
• Cluster of Collaboration (CLOC), Knowledge2Action South Asia
• The Hugli River of Cultures Pilot Project, Bandel to Barrackpore
• Safeguarding the urban ecological heritagescapes through interactive governance: Theories and applications
• Towards A Fluid Governance: Hydrosocial Analysis of Flood Paradigms and Management Practices in Rhone and Ganges Basins (India, France and Switzerland)
• SMART technological innovation and experimentation for dry and inland fishing in the Indian Sundarbans Delta
• Ethno-graphy on the Kolkata Wetlands - Historically Enriched Relevant Intervention through Toolkit Aided Grassroots Engagement (HERITAGE)
• Securing the Food Systems of the Asian Mega-Deltas for Climate and Livelihood Resilience - AMD
• Reimagining the Good City from Ennore Creek Chennai
• Dried Fish Matters: Mapping the Social Economy of Dry Fish in South and South East Asia for Enhanced Well-being and Nutrition

Co-Principal Investigator

• An innovative adaptation and social resilience framework: using a multi-sectoral approach to address climate vulnerability issues in the Indian Sundarbans
• Development of Indices and Measurement of Well-Being at Madhya Pradesh
• Socializing the Micro-Solar Dome: Empowering Marginalized Rural SC Communities through Solar Illumination and Solar Electricity
• Socializing the Micro-Solar Dome: Empowering Marginalized Rural ST and Tribal Communities through Solar Illumination and Solar Electricity