Education

12/1992            PhD in Economics-Social Science in the field of Agri. Econ, Dept of Economics, University of Rajasthan,                                   (UoR), Jaipur

6/1985               M. Phil., Economics, UoR, Jaipur

6/1983              M. A., Economics, UoR, Jaipur

6/1981               B.A., Economics, Geography, English Literature, UoR, Jaipur

Research Interests

Intersectionality of environmental, developmental, agricultural, and water economics - socioeconomic issues, valuation of intangibles, growth, and environment, socioeconomic and environmental impacts, vulnerability assessment of climate change, climate change adaptation strategies in agriculture, water, and coastal regions, climate change and migration, health cost estimation due to arsenic in drinking water, and policy issues.

Teaching Interests

Microeconomics, Indian Economy, Macroeconomics, Environmental Economics, Economics of Climate Change, Valuation of Intangibles, Industrial Resource Economics, Developmental Economics.

Monograph

Vijaya Gupta (2010), Dry Farming Technology in Rajasthan, India: Yield, Resource Productivity and Returns, VDM Verlag, Germany.

Peer Reviewed Relevant Journal Publications

Komali Kantamaneni, Liuchang Xing, Vijaya Gupta, Luiza Campos, (2024), Vulnerability assessment of English and Welsh coastal areas, Scientific Reports, Nature, 14, 27467, IF 4.3, Q1, SCIE.

Barun Kumar Thakur, Vijaya Gupta, Prosun Bhattacharya, Tamali Chakraborty, (2022), Impact of socioeconomic factors on households’ willingness to pay for arsenic-free safe drinking water - A case study of Bihar, India, Groundwater for Sustainable Development, Elsevier, Volume 19, November 2022, 100837, IF 6.45, Q1, SCIE/SSCI.

Chandan Kumar Jha and Vijaya Gupta, (2021), Do better agricultural extension and climate information sources enhance adaptive capacity? A micro-level assessment of farm households in rural India, Ecofeminism and Climate Change, Emerald.

Chandan Kumar Jha, Vijaya Gupta, (2021), Farmer’s perception and factors determining the adaptation decisions to cope with climate change: Evidence from rural India, Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, Elsevier, 10, 100112, IF 4.04, Q1, SCIE/SSCI

B.K.Thakur^,Vijaya Gupta, P.Bhattacharya, MdJakariya, Md T.Islam, (2021), Arsenic in drinking water sources in the Middle Gangetic Plains in Bihar: An assessment of the depth of wells to ensure safe water supply, Groundwater and Sustainable Development, Elsevier, 12, 100504, IF 6.45, Q1, SCIE/SSCI

Barun Kumar Thakur and Vijaya Gupta, (2019), Valuing health damages due to groundwater arsenic contamination in Bihar, India, Economics and Human Biology, Elsevier, 35, 123-132, IF 2.78, Q1, SCIE/SSCI, ABDC-A, The paper is cited in IPCC AR6, Chapter 10.

Chandan Kumar Jha, Vijaya Gupta, Utpal Chattopadhyay, Binilkumar, (2018), Migration as adaptation strategy to cope with climate change: A study of farmers’ migration in rural India, International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Emerald, 10(1), 121-141., IF 3.6, Q1, SCIE/SSCI. The paper is cited in IPCC AR6, Chapter 10.

Sibananda Senapatia, and Vijaya Gupta, (2017), Socio-economic vulnerability due to climate change: Deriving indicators for fishing communities in Mumbai, Marine Policy, Elsevier, 76, 90–97., IF 4.6, Q1, SCIE/SSCI, ABDC-A, The paper is cited in IPCC AR6, Chapter 5 and Chapter 10.

Barun Kumar Thakur and Vijaya Gupta, (2016), Arsenic concentration in drinking water of Bihar: health issues and socio-economic problems, Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, IWA Publishing, Netherlands, 6 (2) 331-341., IF 1.62, Q2, SCIE/SSCI

Vijaya Gupta and Utkarsh Yadav, (2016), Combining indicators of energy consumption and CO2 emissions: EKC in India, International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, 37(2).

Sibanand Senapati and Vijaya Gupta, (2015), Climate change and fishing: analysing fisherman’s viewpoint, International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, 36(4), 81-94.

Sibanand Senapati and Vijaya Gupta, (2014), Climate change, urbanization, and traditional livelihood: the perspective of Indigenous fishing communities of Mumbai, India, Present Environment & Sustainable Development, 8(2),117-129.

Sibanand Senapati and Vijaya Gupta, (2014), Climate change and coastal ecosystems: issues and perspectives, International Journal of Environmental Sciences, 5(3), 530-543, SCIE/SSCI.

Sibanand Senapati and Vijaya Gupta (2012), Economics of climate change mitigation and adaptation: moving from impact assessment to vulnerability, Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, 13(2/3), 105-117.

Vijaya Gupta (2011), A critical assessment of climate change impacts, vulnerability and policy in India, Present Environment and Sustainable Development, Romania, 5(1), 11-22.

Vijaya Gupta and Mythili G (2011), Willingness to pay for water quality improvement: a study of Powai Lake in India, Asian Journal of Water, Environment, and Pollution, IOS Press, Netherlands, 8 (1), 15-21., SCIE/SSCI.

Vijaya Gupta and Mythili G (2010), Valuation of urban environmental amenities: a case study, International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, CESER publication, Roorkee, 19 (F10), 20-31.

Vijaya Gupta (2007), Estimation for environmental Kuznets curve for CO2 and SO2 emissions in India during 1950-2000, Resources, Energy and Development, TERI, New Delhi, 4 (2), 99-114.,

Vijaya Gupta (2005), Climate change and domestic mitigation efforts, Economic and Political Weekly, 40 (10), 981-987., Q2, SCIE/SSCI, ABDC-B

Vijaya Gupta (2004), India's stand on climate change, Economic and Political Weekly (Book review, India and global climate change: perspectives on economics and policy from a developing country, Edited by Michael A. Toman, Ujjayant Chakravorty and Shreekant Gupta, Oxford University Press) 39 (48), 5096-5100., Q2, SCIE/SSCI, ABDC-B

Vijaya Gupta (2004), India's proactive role in mitigating GHG emissions, World Resource Review, 16 (2), 192-210.

Under Review

Komali Kantamaneni, Liuchang Xing, Vijaya Gupta, Luiza Campos, Developing a combined physical and economic index for a multidimensional coastal vulnerability assessment, under review with Nature Scientific Reports

Chandan Kumar Jha, and Vijaya Gupta, Do adaptation strategies to climate change improve crop productivity? Evidence from rural India, under review with Agricultural Economics, Wiley, ABDC-A, Q1, SCIE/SSCI

Barun Kumar Thakur, and Vijaya Gupta, Welfare estimation of groundwater contamination in India: Insights for water policy, under review with The Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier, ABDC-A, Q1, SCIE/SSCI

Barun Kumar Thakur, Vijaya Gupta, Tamali Chakraborty, Antara Das, and Tarit Roychowdhury, Investigation on supply of arsenic-safe drinking water in exposed areas of Bihar, India: risk assessment and household willingness to pay, under review, Groundwater for Sustainable Development, Elsevier, Q1, SCIE/SSCI

Working Papers

Divyanshu Verma, Vijaya Gupta, Barun Kumar Thakur, Luiza Campos, Priti Parikh and Monica Lakhanpaul, Arsenic in drinking water and health cost: Meta-analysis.

Aretha Ahunanya, Vijaya Gupta, Luiza C Campos, 2024, Assessing risk-averse behaviours for water quality in Uganda.

Praveenkumar M P and Vijaya Gupta, A conceptual framework for the intersectionality of migration, land use change, and natural disasters

Mohit Saharan, Vijaya Gupta, and Hemachandra Padhan, Total factor productivity analysis of Indian Manufacturing Industry

Yun-Ching Tsai, Vijaya Gupta, Luiza C Campos, 2024, Assessing and designing the incentive mechanism for adopting water technologies in low-income economies

Arthur Woods, Vijaya Gupta, Luiza C Campos, 2024, Assessing multi-dimensional vulnerabilities due to flood risk in Kingston-Upon-Hull

Xingyang Wang, Vijaya Gupta, Helena Titheridge 2024, Analysing the perception and behaviour of commuters for personal carbon trading in shared mobility for London’s ULEZ

Yuhan Jiang, Vijaya Gupta, Helena Titheridge, 2024, Designing an integrated framework for personal carbon trading in shared mobility for London’s ULEZ

Book Chapters

Utpal Chattopadhyay and Vijaya Gupta, (2022), “Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY)” chapter in the book “Making Naveen Bharat: A Study of Infrastructure Connectivity and Development.”  prepared under the Intellectual Heritage Program by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. 

Vijaya Gupta (2021) Economic Policy Making in India and the Scope of Entrepreneurship Led Development. In: Mitra J. (eds) Indian Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship and Development in South Asia: Longitudinal Narratives. Springer Nature, Singapore, pp 41-60, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4859-8_3

Barun Kumar Thakur and Vijaya Gupta (2019), Arsenic-contaminated drinking water and the associated health effects in the Shahpur blocks of Bihar: A case study from five villages, in (Ed.) Ali Fares and Sushant K Singh, Arsenic water resources contamination, a part of book series Advances in water security, Springer International.

Chandan Kumar Jha and Vijaya Gupta (2016), Climate change adaptation in Indian agriculture- assessing farmers’ perception and adaptive choices, in Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Hazards, Editors: Leal Filho, W., Musa, H., Cavan, G., O'Hare, P., Seixas, J. (Eds.), Springer International, 275-288.

Barun Kumar Thakur and Vijaya Gupta (2016), Do socioeconomic characteristics influence a household’s willingness to pay for arsenic-free drinking water in Bihar? In Arsenic research and sustainability, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis.

Sibanand Senapati and Vijaya Gupta (2016), Vulnerability to climate change: issues and challenges towards developing vulnerability indicator (Chapter 5), (Dinda, S., Edt.) Handbook of Research on Climate Change Impact on Health and Environmental Sustainability, IGI Global, pp. 82-104.

Sibanand Senapati and Vijaya Gupta (2016), Impacts of climate change on fish productivity: a quantitative measurement (Chapter 12), (Dinda, S., Edt.) Handbook of Research on Climate Change Impact on Health and Environmental Sustainability, IGI Global, 243-260.

Barun Kumar Thakur and Vijaya Gupta (2014), Arsenic contamination in groundwater and its associated health effects in Maner and Shahpur blocks of Bihar, India, in One Century of the Discovery of Arsenicosis in Latin America (1914-2014), Taylor and Francis, London, 619-21.

Sibanand Senapati and Vijaya Gupta (2014), Climate change vulnerability and livelihood

sustainability in coastal regions of India, (Das, A., and P. Mishra, Edt.) Environment Natural Resources and the Indian Economy, New Century Publication, New Delhi, India, ISBN: 978-81-7708-348-4

Sibananda Senapati and Vijaya Gupta (2013), Vulnerability to climate change: a multidimensional approach, in M.Anji Reddy and T. Vijaya Lakshmi (Editors), Climate Change: Vulnerability and Adaptation, 1, 257-264.

Barun Kumar Thakur, Vijaya Gupta and Utpal Chattopadhyay (2013), Arsenic groundwater contamination related socio-economic problems in India: issues and challenges, in Sunil Nautiyal, K.S. Rao, Harald Kaechele, K.V. Raju, Ruediger Schaldach (Editors), Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change, Springer, 163-182, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Vijaya Gupta and Neelima Naik (2006), Gender bias and environment, in The State of India Economy, Edited by V B Jugale and Y V Jugale, Serials Publications, New Delhi, 144-166.

Papers in Conference Proceedings

Divyanshu Verma, Vijaya Gupta, Barun Kumar Thakur, Monica Lakhanpaul, Priti Parikh, Luiza C Campos, (2024), Advancing knowledge on health and economic costs of arsenic groundwater contamination: A Systematic Review, accepted for oral presentation at the 9th International Congress & Exhibition on Arsenic in the Environment, to be held at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, October 20-24, 2024.

 Praveenkumar M P and Vijaya Gupta, (2024), Shifting landscapes: Investigating the linkages between migration, land use change and natural disasters in Kerala, India, in Environmental Changes and Migration: Bridging Disciplines for a New Research Agenda, Environmental, and Climate Mobility Network Conference, 9-12 July, Liege, Belgium

Vijaya Gupta, (2024), Challenges in achieving inclusive Bharat: nurturing diversity, fostering equity, advancing inclusion, in proposed Policy Session “Building an Inclusive Future: Strategies for Equity and Social Change for Sustainable Society” 29^th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 1-3 July 2024, Leuven, Belgium

Vijaya Gupta and Chandan Kumar Jha, (2023), Women in Agriculture: the assessment of gender-specific normative and institutional barriers to Adaptation to climate change, 28th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 27-30 June, Limassol, Cyprus

Mohit Saharan, Vijaya Gupta, and Hemachandra Padhan, (2023), Total factor productivity analysis of Indian Manufacturing Industry, accepted for oral presentation at the World Congress of International Economic Association, 11-15 December 2023, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia.

Kezia Sharma, AS Binilkumar, and Vijaya Gupta, (2022), Exploring the nexus between energy transition and energy poverty, Sustainable Development Conference, 24-28 January, Organised by University of Michigan.

Vijaya Gupta and Chandan Kumar Jha, (2022), Agricultural employment and productivity after reverse migration during Covid-19, Sustainable Development Conference, 24-28 January, Organised by University of Michigan

Vijaya Gupta (2021), Modelling the nexus of inequality, growth, and sustainability in developing countries, Biennial Conference (virtual) of ISEE, ESEE and Degrowth, Building Alternative Livelihoods in times of ecological and political crisis and Economy and livelihoods after Covid-19, 5-8 July.

Vijaya Gupta and Chandan Jha (2021), Reverse migration during Covid-19 and agricultural employment and productivity in India, Biennial Conference (virtual) of ISEE, ESEE and Degrowth, Building Alternative Livelihoods in times of ecological and political crisis and Economy and livelihoods after Covid-19, 5-8 July.

Nidhin Francis and Vijaya Gupta, (2021), Cost minimization of IWAN in telecom sector in India: A case study, Online World Congress of International Economic Association, Equity, Sustainability, and Prosperity in a Fractured World, online 2-6 July.

Chandan Jha and Vijaya Gupta, (2021), Modelling factors determining adaptation strategies to climate change and its impact on crop productivity: A case study of Bihar state of India, Online World Congress of International Economic Association, Equity, Sustainability and Prosperity in a Fractured World, Online, 2-6 July.

Vijaya Gupta, (2018), The Scope of Entrepreneurship led Development through Employment Opportunities in India, 10th Economics & Finance Conference, Rome, 10 - 13 September, Also Chaired a session.

Vijaya Gupta (2017), Economic implications of various governance instruments for IUWM: The Case of India, 14 IWA/IAHR International Conference on Urban Drainage, Prague, Czech Republic, 10-15 September.

B K Thakur and Vijaya Gupta (2017), Household willingness to pay for arsenic-free drinking water in Bihar, India, accepted for oral presentation at 12 conference of European Society of Ecological Economics, Budapest, Hungary, 20-23 June.

Chandan Kumar Jha and Vijaya Gupta (2017), Role of Socio-economic characteristic in accessing agricultural extension services and adaptation strategies to climate change, ICBRP 2017, Chandragupta Institute of Management and Planning, Patna, Bihar, India.

Chandan Jha and Vijaya Gupta (2016) Climate change peril on wheat productivity in India: assessing the role of farmers’ adaptation in ensuring food security, in Biennial conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) June 26 to 29, 2016, Washington DC, USA.

Chandan Kumar Jha and Vijaya Gupta (2015), Food Security through agricultural adaptation: role of socio-economic factors on adaptation choices in India, Global Food Security 2015, 11-14, October, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.

Chandan Kumar Jha and Vijaya Gupta (2015), Agricultural adaptation to climate change– assessing adaptive decision of Indian farmers, in Our Common Future under Climate Change 2014, 07 - 10 July, UNESCO, Paris, France.

Barun Kumar Thakur and Vijaya Gupta (2015), Assessment of arsenic-induced health disease in Bihar, India, Conference of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), São Paulo, Brazil.

Barun Kumar Thakur and Vijaya Gupta (2015), Arsenic contamination in drinking water and valuing health damages: a case study of Bihar, Our Common Future Under Climate Change, UNESCO, Paris 7-10 July, France.

Barun Kumar Thakur and Vijaya Gupta, (2014), Economic valuation of arsenic-free water using contingent valuation method: a case study of Bihar, India, 51st annual conference of the Indian Econometric Society, December 12-14, Patiala.

Barun Kumar Thakur, and Vijaya Gupta (2014), Arsenic contamination in groundwater and its associated health effects in Maner and Shahpur blocks of Bihar, India, 5th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment, May 11-16, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Barun Kumar Thakur, and Vijaya Gupta, (2014), Socio-economic impacts of groundwater arsenic contamination in Bihar, International Conference on Environment, Technology and Sustainable Development: Promises and Challenges in the 21 Century, 2-4 March, Gwalior, India.

Vijaya Gupta and Chandan Jha, (2014), Analysing Indian farmer’s adaption strategy to climate change, Biannual conference of the International Society for Ecological (ISEE 2014, 13-15 August, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Sibanand Senapati and Vijaya Gupta, (2014), Managing fisheries livelihood along with adapting global environmental changes: A study of ‘Koli’ communities in India, Biannual conference of the International Society for Ecological (ISEE 2014), 12-15 August, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Vijaya Gupta and Barun Kumar Thakur, (2014), Arsenic concentration in drinking water of Bihar: health issues and socio-economic problems, Biannual conference of the International Society for Ecological (ISEE 2014), 13 - 15 August, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Vijaya Gupta, (2014), Indigenous knowledge for climate change adaptation and ecological resource use management, Chaired proposed session at Biannual conference of the International Society for Ecological (ISEE 2014), 13-15 August, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Vijaya Gupta and Sibanand Senapati, (2014), Climate change and fisheries in Mumbai: an application of the stochastic frontier model, 5th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE 2014), Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 28 June-2 July, Istanbul, Turkey.

Vijaya Gupta and Utkarsh Yadav, (2014), Indicators of energy consumption and CO2 emissions: EKC in India, 5th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE 2014), Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 28 June-2 July, Istanbul, Turkey.

Vijaya Gupta (2013), Willingness to pay for weight-based pricing in the collection of household waste: a case of Mumbai, 14th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (GCET), 17-19 October, Kyoto Japan.

Senapati Sibanand and Vijaya Gupta, (2013), Local vulnerability assessment of climate change and its socio-economic implications: a case of ‘Koli’ communities of Mumbai, The Seventh Biennial Conference of The Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE), December 5-8, Tezpur University, Assam.

Sibanand Senapati and Vijaya Gupta, (2013), Assessment of socio-economic vulnerability due to climate change among fish-dependent communities from Mumbai, 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change, October 26-27, IIT Madras, Chennai.

Sibanand Senapati and Vijaya Gupta (2013), Climate change vulnerability and livelihood sustainability among fish dependent communities of coastal regions in India, National Conference on Environment, Natural Resources and Indian Economy, Analytical and Applied Economics Department, 18-19 January Utkal University, Bhubaneswar.

Barun Thakur, Vijaya Gupta and Chattopadhyay Utpal (2012), Vulnerability of population exposed to arsenic groundwater contamination in Bihar, Third International Conference on ‘Urban Biodiversity and Climate Change’ (URBIO), October 8-12, IIT Bombay, Mumbai.

Sibanand Senapati and Vijaya Gupta (2012), Dying fisheries in a changing environment: a study on livelihood strategies of fishery communities in Mumbai. 2nd International. Symposium on Effects of Climate Change on the World's Oceans, 13-20 May, Yeosu, South Korea.

Vijaya Gupta (2012), Welfare changes due to formalization of property rights in slums of Mumbai, Planet under Pressure 2012, 25-29 March, London, UK.

Barun Thakur, Vijaya Gupta and Utpal Chattopadhyay (2011), Arsenic groundwater contamination related socio-economic problems in India: issues and challenges, International Humboldt Kellog Conference on Adaptive Management of Ecosystems: The Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change, October 19-21, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.

SK Mishra and Vijaya Gupta (2011), Economic potential and eco-system benefits of emission trading for reducing air pollution in the coastal belt of Maharashtra, LOICZ Open Science Conference 2011- Coastal Systems, Global Change and Sustainability, 12-15 September, Yantai, China.

Sibanand Senapati and Vijaya Gupta (2010), Economics of climate change mitigation and adaptation: moving from impact assessment to vulnerability, 2 International Conference on Climate Change and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources, 5-7 December, ITM University, Gwalior.

Vijaya Gupta (2010), Climate change: an opportunity of resource shift from rich to poor in general and in India in particular, 11th Biennial Conference of International Society of Ecological Economics (ISEE 2010), 22-25 August, Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany.

Vijaya Gupta (2010), An investigation into willingness to pay as you throw (PAYT) for Household waste proper disposal in India: a case of Mumbai, 11th Biennial Conference of International Society of Ecological Economics (ISEE 2010), 22-25 August, Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany.

Vijaya Gupta (2010). Chaired and proposed two special sessions titled Climate change: an opportunity to reduce inequalities for global sustainable economic development, 11th Biennial Conference of International Society of Ecological Economics (ISEE 2010), 22-25 August, Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany.

Sibanand Senapati and Vijaya Gupta (2009). Adaptation strategy: an alternate vision of climate change policy for developing countries, International Conference on Climate Change, Livelihoods and Food Security, 9-10 June, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur.

Sibanand Senapati and Vijaya Gupta (2009), The need and scope of adaptation policy - an alternative to mitigation approach at the National Seminar on Ecological Economics: An Approach towards Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability, 30 September - 1 October, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.

Vijaya Gupta and G Mythili (2009), Estimating environmental tax through estimating intangible benefits of improving water quality of Powai Lake in India: A contingent valuation approach, Annual Conference of European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy, 6-8 November, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Vijaya Gupta, Hegde D S, Mythili G, Patil Rajesh (2009), Valuation of urban environmental amenities in Mumbai and its suburbs: a hedonic pricing approach, The Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) 5th Biennial Conference, January 21-23, Gujrat Vidyapeeth, Ahmadabad.

Vijaya Gupta and G Mythili (2007), Determinants of willingness to pay for the benefits of environmental quality of Powai Lake in Mumbai, 4th International Conference on Environmental Education, 24-28 November, UNESCO, UNEP, MoEF, Centre for Environment Education Ahmadabad.

Chhabra Amit Pal Singh and Vijaya Gupta (2007), Analyzing Indian policy holders’ response to attributes of life insurance products, Oxford Business and Economics Conference, 22-24 June, Oxford University, UK.

Vijaya Gupta (2006), Nonmarket valuation of the benefits of environmental quality of Powai Lake, Mumbai, Ninth Biennial conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE 2006), 16-18 December, New Delhi.

Vijaya Gupta and Ahluwalia Karan (2006), Econometric evidence of the income-pollution hypothesis in India, 3rd World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE 2006), Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 3-7 July, Kyoto International Conference Hall, Kyoto, Japan.

Vijaya Gupta and Karthik A J (2006), An economic analysis of the Indian cellular services market and the impact of deregulation on it, 5th Global Conference on Business and Economics, 6-8 July, Cambridge, UK.

Vijaya Gupta (2005), Searching for empirical evidence for environmental Kuznets curve for CO2 and SO2 emissions in India, Hope 2005 International Conference on Environment, 3-5 November, Mumbai.

Vijaya Gupta (2005), Gender bias and the environment, National seminar on Women in Situation of Conflict: Victims or Agents, KC College, 10-11 March, Mumbai.

Vijaya Gupta, Naik Neelima, and Shrivastava Meenal (2004), Indian Women and environment: vulnerability, efforts and opportunities, 10th International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment, 1-3 July, Boston, USA.

Vijaya Gupta (2003), Global climate change: India’s local concerns, 9th International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment, 17-19 June, London, UK

Vijaya Gupta (2000), Dry farming technology for sustainable agriculture, Third Asian Conference of Agricultural Economists, Asian Society of Agricultural Economists, 18-20 October, Jaipur.

Advisory Roles

• Government of India's nomination as an expert for the scoping of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities.
• Invited for Deliberation for pre-scoping meeting for IPCC’s special report on Climate Change and Cities 14.3.2024, Ministry of Environment and Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), New Delhi
• Invited to the Scientific Steering Committee for the Scoping of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities. 3.24, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Geneva
• Co-Chair, Executive Committee, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative (DEI), European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), since 2023.
• Expert Reviewer-IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), 2019, IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), 2016
• Non-Executive Director, Board of Directors, Tricker Ltd. India, since 2022
• Expert Member for faculty selection, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and other institutes
• D. and MPhil thesis examiner for the University of Mumbai, IIT Bombay, and MNIT, Jaipur

Awards and Scholarships

• Institute Chair Professor in Economics, IIM, Mumbai since March 2023
• Citation as Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Energy Policy, Elsevier, 2017
• University Grants Commission, Junior Research Fellowship, UGC-NET-JRF 1984-87
• Departmental Research Scholarship, University of Rajasthan, 1983-84
• Merit Certificates for M.A. 1982 and 1983

International Invitations as Guest Speakers and Panelists

• European Association of Environmental Economists (EAERE), 28^th EAERE Annual Conference, Limassol, Cyprus, 27-30 June 2023
• Policies and Innovations for Climate-Resilient Farming in Developing Countries, Public Event, International Growth Centre (IGC), London School of Economics and Political Sciences, 16 Feb
• Clean Environment and Planetary Health in Asia(CEPHA) Network, IIT Madras, Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM), U.K., Australian National University (ANU), and the U.K. Research and Innovation (UKRI), 
• The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to Achieve Clean Environment in India, IIT Madras-GCRF-Clean Environment and Planetary Health in Asia (CEPHA) Network, U.K. Research and Innovation (UKRI), 5 June 2020. 
• Global Summit of Non-resident Indians Researchers Summit, Vaibhav Summit, Government of India, 3-31 October 2020. 
• External Scholar Series, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. 25 May 2006.

Full International Fellowships  

• Our Common Future under Climate Change 2014, 07-10 July, UNESCO, Paris, France
• World Climate Conference (WCC3),31 Aug- 4 Sep2009, WMO and UN, Geneva, Switzerland
• International Society for Ecological (ISEE 2014), 13-15 August, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Editorial Roles

• Co-editor of the special issue – Climate Change and Water Vulnerabilities in Urban Areas: Novel Methods and Technologies in Frontiers in Environmental Engineering
• Associate Editor - Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies since 2017
• Associate Editor- International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics 2006-09

Reviewer (15 relevant journals of repute)

Nature Scientific Reports, Climate Policy, Energy Policy, Energy Efficiency, Energy and Climate Change, Int J of Climate Change Strategies and Management, J of Agricultural Science and Technology, Geo J, Natural Resources Forum-a United Nations Sustainable Development Journal, Environmental and Resource Economics, Environment, Development and Sustainability, J of Ecology and the Natural Environment, Int J of Fisheries and Aquaculture, J of Sustainability Science and Management, J of Env and Waste Management

Membership in Professional Bodies (regularly attending and presenting papers in the following conferences)

Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE), International Society of Ecological Economics (ISEE), European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), International Economic Association (IEA), and International Association of Agricultural Economics (IAAE)

Citations in Newspapers

• Gupta Vijaya and G Mythili, 2010, Valuation of Urban Environmental Amenities: A Case Study, International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, Volume 19, Number F10, pp 20-31, CESER publication, Roorkee. This study’s results have been cited by Madhavi Rajadhyksha, House near Park? Mumbaikars ready to pay more. Flat buyers wary of slums, Times of India, April 5, 2011, pp1 and 2
• Gupta Vijaya, 2005, Climate Change and Domestic Mitigation Efforts, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 40, Number 10, pp 981-987. This article has been referenced in the following articles and news coverage:
• Sandeep Ashar, Rising heat is killing us softly, Daily News Analysis (DNA), Mumbai, February 15, 2007, front page
• Pothik Ghosh, Warming-up Exercise, Economic Times, Mumbai, August 23, 2005

Employment /Experience

Major Academic and Administrative Leadership

Prof Gupta has a proven record and enriching experience of more than 30 years in academic-administrative leadership. She has successfully completed strategic roles at IIM Mumbai:

Dean of Academic Affairs (2015-17), Member of the Board of Governors (2019-21), Chairperson of Faculty Screening (2019-21), Chairperson of Ranking and Accreditation (2019-23), Area Chair of Finance, Economics, and Strategy (2019-23), Program Chair of Postgraduate Program in Industrial Management (2022-23), Chair of Women Cell (2013-16), and Chair of Grievance Redressal Committees (2006-22), Head of the Department of Humanities, Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), (1995-2000).