DrPushpam Kumar
Honorary Professor (Science Policy Research Unit)
University of Sussex Business School
- Honorary Professor (Science Policy Research Unit)University of Sussex Business School
RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP SUMMARy
Peer Reviewed Journal Publications (Latest and Selected)
Natural Capital, Measurement and Beyond GDP
1. Sustainable matrix Beyond GDP: investment for inclusive growth, Managi, S Chen S, Pushpam Kumar and Partha Dasgupta, Humanities and Social Science Communications, 2024.
2. Partha Dasgupta, Shunsuke Managi and Pushpam Kumar (2021), The inclusive wealth index and sustainable development goals, Sustainability Science, Springer
3. Pushpam Kumar and others 2020 Shaping the Mega Trends of Our Time, UNDESA, New York (released on the eve of UN75)
4. H Sandhu and Pushpam Kumar (2020), Resolving trade-offs between food and ecological security in Punjab, India, The Solutions Journal, Sept 2020.
5. Harpinder Sandhu, Alexander Müller, Pavan Sukhdev, Kathleen Merrigan, Abdou Tenkouano, Pushpam Kumar, Salman Hussain, Wei Zhang, Walter Pengue, Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Michael W Hamm, Maria Cristina Tirado von der Pahlen, Carl Obst, Kavita Sharma, Haripriya Gundimeda, Anil Markandya, Peter May, Gunars Platais and Jes Weigelt (2019) The future of agriculture and food: Evaluating the holistic costs and benefits. The Anthropocene Review, Sage.
6. Pushpam Kumar with Nayeem, S et al Get the science right when paying for nature’s services, Science 13 MARCH 2015 • VOL 347 ISSUE 6227
7. Pushpam Kumar, E Brondizio, Thomas Elmqvist, Franz Gatzweiler, John Gowdy, Dolf de Groot, Roldan Muradian, Unai Pascual, Belinda Reyers, Pavan Sukhdev, (2013), The Economics of Ecosystem Services: From Local Analysis to National Policies, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Elsevier, (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2013.02.001) 8. Pushpam Kumar, Ersin Esen and Makiko Yashiro, (2013), Linking Ecosystem Services to Strategic Environmental Assessment in Development Policies, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Elsevier, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2013.01.002 9. Pavan Sukhdev, H. Gundimeda and Pushpam Kumar (2013), A Brief History of Natural Capital, Corporate Knights, London.10. Pushpam Kumar (2012) `Measuring Natural Capital: Accounting of Inland Wetland Ecosystems from Selected States of India. Economic and Political Weekly vol 47 issue 22
11. Pushpam Kumar (2012) Impact of economic drivers on mangroves of Indian Sundarbans: an exploration of missing links. Environment, Development and Sustainability (Springer) (DOI 10.1007/s10668-012-9361-9).
12. Rudolf de Groot, Luke Brander, Sander van der Ploeg, Robert Costanza, Florence Bernard, Leon Braat, Mike Christie, Neville Crossman, Andrea Ghermandi, Lars Hein, Salman Hussain, Pushpam Kumar, Alistair McVittie, Rosimeiry Portela, Luis C. Rodriguez, Patrick ten Brink, Pieter van Beukering (2012) Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary units. Ecosystem Services (Elsevier) vol 1 issue 1 pp 50-61
13. I.D. Thompson, K. Okabe, J.M. Tylianakis, P. Kumar, E.G. Brockerhoff, N. Schellhorn, J.A. Parrotta, R. Nasi (2011) Forest biodiversity and the delivery of ecosystem goods and services: Translating science into policy, Bioscience.
14. Pushpam Kumar and Joan Martinez-Alier (2011) the Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: An International Assessment. Economic and Political Weekly vol xlvi issue 24
15. Kumar, P (2010), Capacity Constraints in Operationalization of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in India: Evidence from Land Degradation, Land Degradation and Development, (published by Wiley Inter Science)
16. Kumar, P (2010), Regulating Services in Poverty-Ecosystems Dynamics: evidence from South Asia, Ecological Economy, Vol6, pp31-44.
17. Kumar, P. (2009) Assessment of Economic Drivers of Land Use Change in Urban Ecosystems of Delhi, India. AMBIO 38(1), 35-39
18. Pushpam Kumar and Rodney B W Smith) (2008) Contracts in the Payments for Ecosystem Services: The Case of Bioprospecting. Ecological Economy, 4 (2), 3-26
19. Chopra, K and P Kumar (2004) Forest biodiversity and timber extraction: an analysis of the interaction of market and non-market mechanisms. Ecological Economics vol 49 issue 2 pp 135-148
20. P Kumar and S C Aggarwal (2004) Exploring the Linkages of Deforestation and Population Dynamics: A Case Study of Assam in India. Indian Forester (Refereed journal published by the Indian Association of Foresters].
21. Kumar, P. (2008) Payment for ecosystem services: emerging lessons. Ecological Economy, 4(1): 1-13.
22. Kumar, Pushpam (2017) Innovative response policy and new metrics for Inclusive Green Economy, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Elsevier.
Pollution, Health, Human Capital and Sustainability
1. Pushpam Kumar, Manasi Kumar, Lea Schlatter (2025), Climate Change and Mental Health Nexus in National Climate Policy –Gaps and Challenges, Annals of Global Health, Boston.
2. Manufactured Chemicals and Children’s Health —The Need for New Law, The New England Journal of Medicine, January8, 2025 (with Landrigan et al), (NEJMms2409092.pdf)
3. MM, Iwasaki A, Pratiwi RA, Raps H, Remy JY, Sowman G, Ternon E, Thiele T, Thilsted SH, Uku J, Ockenden S, Kumar P. Enhancing Human Health and Wellbeing through Sustainably and Equitably Unlocking a Healthy Ocean’s Potential. Annals of Global Health. 2024; 90(1): 41, 1–28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.4471
- Manasi Kumar, Pim Cuijpers and Pushpam Kumar (2024) Planetary Health and Mental Health Nexus Least understood and embraced in policy decisions, Annals of Global Health, DOI: 10.5334/aogh.4455
4. Kumar P, Brander L, Kumar M, Cuijpers P. Planetary Health and Mental Health Nexus: Benefit of Environmental Management., Ann Glob Health. 2023 Jul 24;89(1):49. doi: 10.5334/aogh.4079. eCollection 2023.PMID: 37521755
5. Landrigan PJ, Raps H, Cropper M, Bald C, Brunner M, Canonizado EM, Charles D, Chiles TC, Donohue MJ, Enck J, Fenichel P, Fleming LE, Ferrier-Pages C, Fordham R, Gozt A, Griffin C, Hahn ME, Haryanto B, Hixson R, Ianelli H, James BD, Kumar P, Laborde A, Law KL, Martin K, Mu J, Mulders Y, Mustapha A, Niu J, Pahl S, Park Y, Pedrotti ML, Pitt JA, Ruchirawat M, Seewoo BJ, Spring M, Stegeman JJ, Suk W, Symeonides C, Takada H, Thompson RC, Vicini A, Wang Z, Whitman E, Wirth D, Wolff M, Yousuf AK, Dunlop S. The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health., Ann Glob Health. 2023 Mar 21;89(1):23. doi: 10.5334/aogh.4056.
6. Fisher S, Bellinger DC, Cropper ML, P Kumar et al. Air pollution and development in Africa: impacts on health, the economy, and human capital. Lancet Planet Heal. 2021;5(10): e681–e688. doi:10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00201-1.
7. Landrigan PJ, Raps H, Cropper M, P Kumar et al. The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health. Ann Glob Heal. 2023;89(1):23. doi:10.5334/aogh.4056. -
8. Plastics and Human Health. Annals of Global Health, 2023; 89:3, 21 March 2023. (with Phil Landigran, Maureen Croppers and others)
9. Impacts of climate events, pollution and green space on mental health, Psychological Medicine, 2022 (with Pim Cuijpers and others)
10. Air Pollution and Development in Africa, Lancet Planetary Health 2021,5 (with Samantha Fisher et al)
11. Health and economic impacts of air pollution in states of India, Lancet Planetary Health, 2021,5 (with Dando and others)
- Peter D Sly , Brittany A Trottier , Catherine M Bulka , Stephania A Cormier , Julius Fobil , Rebecca C Fry , Kyoung-Woong Kim , Steven Kleeberger , Pushpam Kumar , Philip J Landrigan , Karin C Lodrop Carlsen , Antonio Pascale , Fernando Polack , Mathuros Ruchirawat , Heather J Zar , William A Suk (2021), The interplay between environmental exposures and COVID-19 risks in the health of children , Environmental Health.
Nature, Biodiversity Mental Health and Behavioural Changes
1 M. Kumar and P. Kumar, Impact of Pandemic on Mental Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), Global Mental Health, Cambridge.
2 Pushpam Kumar, Manasi Kumar and Lucy Garret (2014), Behavioral Foundation of Response Policies for Ecosystem Management: What can we learn from Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), Ecosystem Services, Elsevier, Ecosystem Services 10(2014) 128–136.
3 Kumar, M and P Kumar (2008) Valuation of ecosystems services: psycho-cultural perspective. Ecological Economics, 64 808-819.
Books Authored (Peer Reviewed)
1 Kanchan Chopra, Preeti Kapuria and Pushpam Kumar (2009) Biodiversity, Land-Use Change and Human Well Being: A Case Study of Sundarbans. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, Pages 273.
2 Pushpam Kumar (2003) Economics of Soil Erosion. Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi, Pages 177.
3 Pushpam Kumar (2001) Environmental Economics for Sustainable Development. Manak, New Delhi, Pages 118.
Books edited (peer reviewed).
1. Pushpam Kumar, Mainstreaming Natural Capital into Development Policy, Rutledge, UK (2019)
2. Pushpam Kumar and S Managi (Eds) (2018) Inclusive Wealth Report 2018, Routledge, UK
3. Paulo Nunes, Pushpam Kumar and Tom Dedeurwaerdere (Eds) (2014), Handbook of Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity, Edward Elgar, UK
4. Pushpam Kumar and Ibrahim Thiaw (Eds) (2013), Valuation, Accounting and PES: A Developing Country Perspective, Edward Elgar, UK
5. Pushpam Kumar (Ed) (2010) the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Ecological and Economic Foundations, Earthscan, London.
6. Pushpam Kumar and Mike Wood (2010) Valuation of Regulating Services of Ecosystems: Methodology and Applications. Rutledge, London
7. Pushpam Kumar and Roldan Muradian. Ed (2008) Payment for Ecosystem Services and Valuation. Ecological Sustainability and Human Well Being Oxford University Press, Delhi
8. Pushpam Kumar and B Sudhakara Redy. Ed (2007) Ecology and Human Well Being. Sage, New Delhi
9. K Chopra, R Leemans Pushpam Kumar and H Simons (2005) Ecosystem and Human Well Being: Response Policies. Island Press, Washington DC.
10. Pushpam Kumar. Ed (2005) Economics of Environment and Development. CRC Press, UK.
Climate Change, Agriculture and Nature Based Solutions
1 Uwe A. Schneider and Pushpam Kumar (2008) Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation through Agriculture. CHOICES is refereed publication of the American Agricultural Economics Association 23 (1), 19-23.
2 Pete Smith, Daniel Martino, Zucong Ca, Daniel Gwary, Henry Janzen, Pushpam Kumar, Bruce McCarl, Stephen Ogle, Frank O’Mara, Charles Rice, Bob Scholes, Oleg Sirotenko, Mark Howden, Tim McAllister, Genxing Pan, Vladimir Romanenkov, Uwe Schneider and Sirintornthep Towprayoon (2007) Policy and technical constraints to implementation of greenhouse mitigation options in agriculture, Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, Volume 118, Issues 1-4, Pages 6-28 (An International refereed Journal for Scientific Research on the Interaction between Agro ecosystems and the Environment, published by Elsevier)
3 Pete Smith, Daniel Martino, Zucong Cai, Daniel Gwary, Henry Janzen, Pushpam Kumar, Bruce McCarl, Stephen Ogle, Frank O’Mara, Charles Rice, Bob Scholes, Oleg Sirotenko, Mark Howden, Tim McAllister, Genxing Pan, Vladimir Romanenkov, Uwe Schneider, Sirintornthep Towprayoon, Martin Wattenbach and Jo Smith1 (2007) Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, a scientific journal published by the Royal Society)
4 Kumar P (2004) Valuation of medicinal plants for pharmaceutical uses. Current Science vol 86 issue 7 pp 930-937 [An interdisciplinary refereed journal published by the Indian Academy of Sciences]
5 Kumar, P and Aggarwal, SC (2004) Does Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) exist for changing land use: empirical evidence from major states of India? International Journal of Sustainable Development vol 6 issue 2, pp231-254 [An interdisciplinary refereed journal published by Inderscience]
Poverty, Inequality, Livelihood, Natural Capital and Global Mechanism
1. Richard A. Roehrl, Pushpam Kumar, Nadia S. Ouedraogo , Lorenza Jachia Seand Jose Palacin Lucio(20025) THE FUTURE OF ENERGY, CLIMATE AND BIODIVERSITY , UNDESA, New York. (www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/unen_policy_brief_november_2025.pdf)
2. Pushpam Kumar (2012) a promising pathway: Rio+20, green economy and India. Down To Earth, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, 15 August 2012, pp. 16-17
3. Comim, F., Kumar, P. and Sirven, N. (2009) Poverty and Environment Links: An Illustration from Africa. Journal of International Development 21(3) 447-469[An interdisciplinary refereed journal published by Wiley)
4. Assan, J. and Kumar, P. (2009) Livelihood Options for the Poor in the Changing Environment. Journal of International Development 21(3) 3930402[An interdisciplinary refereed journal published by Wiley).
Contributions to edited volumes.
1 Pushpam Kumar and Makiko Yashiro (2013) in Marginality: Addressing the Nexus of poverty, exclusion and ecology edited by Joachim von Braun and Franz Gatzweiler, Springer.
2 Pushpam Kumar and Hongyan Chen (2011) Global welfare loss due to impact of climate change on corals. Journal of Environmental Management in Handbook of Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, (Eds: Paulo Nunes et al) (2014).
3 Kanchan Chopra, Pushpam Kumar and Preeti Kapuria. (2010) Shrimp exports, environment and human well-being in the Sundarbans, West Bengal. In: Jonathan, A Cook, Owen Cylk, Donald F Larson, John D Nash, Pamela Stedman-Edwards ed(s). Vulnerable Places, Vulnerable People: Trade Liberalization, Rural Poverty and the Environment. Cheltenham, Massachusetts, Edward Elgar
4 Kanchan Chopra and Pushpam Kumar (2005) Forest biodiversity and timber extraction: an analysis of the interaction of market and non-market mechanism. In: N Sengupta and J Bandyopadhyaya Ed(s). Biodiversity and Quality of Life. New Delhi, McMillan
5 Duraiappah, A K, F Comim, Thierry D Olivera and Pushpam Kumar Consequences of Poverty Reduction to Ecosystem Management in Response Options, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Island Press, Washington DC, 2005.
Media and Public Engagement (latest and selected)
1. Voxdev
i. Implementing Global Biodiversity Framework through Inclusive Wealth Measurement
ii. Three smart ways to unlock progress on the big issues in development in 2025, VoxDev (with Adnan Khan and others)
2. The World Economic Forum, GDP is no longer an accurate measure of economic progress.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/authors/pushpam-kumar/
3. Harvard International Review
Natural Capital Beyond Borders
4. Nature Sustainability
Measuring for sustainability
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-0570-1
5. State of the Planet , Columbia University, NY
i. Nature-Based Solutions: The Missing Ingredient in Climate Adaptation?https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2019/06/28/nature-based-solutions-climate-adaptation/
ii. This Index Measures Progress and Sustainability Better Than GDP
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2018/10/09/inclusive-wealth-index-sustainability/
iii. What’s Needed for a Sustainable, Equitable and Healthy Food System?
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2019/02/07/sustainable-equitable-healthy-food/
6. Forbes
So You Want To Save Humanity? Manage Nature Like A Business
7. Climate Home News, London
Fossil fuel nations to see value of their economies shrink under new UN-agreed measure
8. Climate Action, London
Implementing Global Biodiversity Framework through Inclusive Wealth Measurement
9. Indian Express, India
Centre stage for Nature in post-pandemic economic recovery process
10. The Dawn Pakistan
A wealth-centric economy is the need of our time
https://www.dawn.com/authors/9402/pushpam-kumar
11. Down to Earth, India
i. Stockholm+50: Measuring progress will be a big deal
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/governance/stockholm-50-measuring-progress-will-be-a-big-deal-83059
ii. Nudge for nature: A nudge can be a promising new tool to encourage people to act in an environmentally benign way
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/nudge-for-nature-70315
iii. Measuring sustainability through inclusive wealth
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/economy/measuring-sustainability-through-inclusive-wealth-61855
iv. Sustainable land management key to controlling degradation, achieving neutrality
v. A promising pathway Rio+20, green economy and India
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/a-promising-pathway-38818
12. Observer Research Foundation India
Build forward better through nature in the post-pandemic era
https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/build-forward-better-through-nature-post-pandemic-era
13. Management of natural assets is key to sustainable development: Inclusive wealth provides the way forward, 30 April, UNEP. Interview. (https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/management-natural-assets-key-sustainable-development-inclusive-wealth)
14. IMF
Inclusive Wealth
https://web.facebook.com/imf/videos/unep-pushpam-cic/378215303673232/?_rdc=1&_rdr# ( IMF iLab Campfire Chat)
15. CIFOR / Earth Institute, Columbia University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYor1GaOsGs
16. Engagement with Professional Society
i. European Association pf Environment and Resources Economics
ii. CUGH (Consortium of Universities for Global Health)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi0f7wtvkzA
iii. CSIR, South Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPS-2B8yK-w
iv. UIS 2023: Making Nature Count in Banking and Finance with Dr. Pushpam Kumar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty7LT_-hr0Y
v. Natural Capital is more important than GDP for inclusive growth
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/governance/natural-capital-is-more-important-than-gdp-for-inclusive-growth-52484