Email:

nnshinde@iu.edu

Research areas:

Human Dimensions of Environmental Change

Dr. Nilesh Shinde is an environmental and natural resource economist who studies how property rights and institutions shape land and water use, with implications for conservation, public health, and economic development in Brazil, India, and the United States. His research and teaching focus on the intersection of environmental economics and informatics . By combining causal inference, satellite data, and economic theory, he develops evidence-based insights to inform policies that balance growth, equity, and sustainability.

Dr. Shinde’s work has been published in leading journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. And his research has been supported by the NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Program, USDA–National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) at Virginia Tech, and the Ronald Coase Institute Research Program. Before joining Indiana University, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He earned his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in the USA, with prior training in Development Economics (Brazil) and Mechanical Engineering (India).