List of publications on Google Scholar
Publications (since 2020)
Journal articles
Nair, J., B. K. Thomas & C. S. Bahinipati, 2024, ‘Cropping decisions under water stress: evidence from Cauvery Delta Region, India’, World Water Policy, 10(3): 711-729
Martin, J. C. G., R. Kanade, N. Bhadbhade, K. J. Joy, B. K. Thomas, B. Willaarts, & S. Hanger-Kopp, 2024, ‘Review of the food, water and biodiversity nexus in India’, Environmental Science and Policy, 159: 103826
Nair, J. & B.K. Thomas, 2023, ‘Why is Adoption of Micro-irrigation Slow in India? A Review’, Development in Practice, 33(1): 76-86
Thomas, B.K., S. Bhar & S. Chakravarty, 2021, ‘Imagining Sustainability Beyond COVID-19 in India’, Ecology, Economy and Society, 4(1): 13-20
Swatuk, L. A., B.K. Thomas, L. Wirkus, F. Krampe, & L.P.B. da Silva, 2021, ‘The 'Boomerang Effect': Insights for Improved Climate Action’, Climate and Development, 13(1): 61-67
Book chapters
Joy, K. J., B.K. Thomas & J. Nair, 2024, ‘Knowledge and Policy/Practice in the Water Sector: Illustrating Contestations and Disconnectedness’, in Das, B. K, G. Chakraborty & A. Guha (eds.) Knowledge, Power and Ignorance: The Indian Context, Routledge, 166-180
Discussion papers/Reports
Kanade, R., K. Lohakare, N. Bhadbhade, K. J. Joy, B. K. Thomas, J. Martin, & B. Willaarts, 2023, Situational Analysis of the Upper Bhima sub-basin in the context of the Water-Food-Biodiversity Nexus, IIASA Reports, Zenodo (also translated into Marathi)
Schipper, E.L.F. et al., 2022, Contributing author, Chapter 18 on ‘Climate Resilient Development Pathways’, in Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Working Group 2, Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Book reviews/Popular articles
Thomas, B.K., R. Kanade & K. Lohakare, 2025, 'A ‘nexus’ approach towards sustainability', The Hindu BusinessLine, September 23. (download here)
Thomas, B.K. & D. K. Ray, 2025, 'Jal Jeevan Mission: Hits and misses', The Hindu BusinessLine, March 20. (download here)
Thomas, B.K. & R. Mulay, 2023, 'Why NEP 2020 provides an opportunity to include water in higher education curricula', The Indian Express, May 16. (download here)
Thomas, B.K., 2021, Book review, ‘The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World’ by W. D. Nordhaus, Current Science, 121(10): 1361-1362
Singh, A., J. M. Monteiro & B.K. Thomas, 2021, ‘Long term rainfall patterns and flooding in Pune city’, Mongabay India, July 9.
Other writing/working papers
Dhara, C., & Thomas, B.K., 2025, 'A New Development Typology for the 21st Century', https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/k7hra_v1 , SocArXiv.
Thomas, B. K., 2020, 'Challenges in problem driven research', Kalpa IISER Pune, August 15
Other recent publications
Journal articles
Patil, V. S, B.K.Thomas, S. Lele, M. Eswar & V. Srinivasan, 2019, 'Adapting or Chasing Water? Crop Choice and Farmers' Responses to Water Stress in Peri Urban Bangalore, India', Irrigation and Drainage, 68(2): 140-151
Media coverage of the article in The Hindu, Times of India, Deccan Herald and Research Matters.
Lele, S., V. Srinivasan, B.K. Thomas & P. Jamwal, 2018, 'Adapting to Climate Change in Rapidly Urbanizing River Basins: Insights from a Multiple Concerns, Multiple Stressors, and Multi Level Approach', Water International, 43(2): 281-304
Eswar, M. & B.K. Thomas, 2017, 'Data Discrepancies: Interpreting Rural Water Data in the Decadal Census’, Economic and Political Weekly, 52(28): 29-32
Thomas, B.K., S. Lele, V. Srinivasan & P. Jamwal, 2017, 'Rethinking Resilience in Urbanizing River Basins', Seminar, 694: 55-58
Book chapters
Swatuk, L. A., L. Wirkus, F. Krampe, B.K. Thomas & L.P.B. da Silva, 2018, ‘The Boomerang Effect: Overview and Implications for Climate Governance’, in Swatuk, L. A. & L. Wirkus (eds.) Water, Climate Change and the Boomerang Effect: Unintentional Consequences for Resource Insecurity, London and New York: Earthscan/Routledge
Thomas, B.K., N. Deepthi & P. Jamwal, 2017, 'Going With the Flow? Urban Wastewater and Livelihoods Change in Peri-urban Bengaluru', in Hiremath, A. J, N. D. Rai & A. Siddhartha (eds.) Transcending Boundaries: Reflecting on Twenty Years of Action and Research at ATREE, Bangalore: ATREE, 114-121
Srinivasan, V., S. Lele, B.K. Thomas & P. Jamwal, 2017, ‘Whose River? The Changing Waterscape of the Upper Arkavathy Under Urbanisation', in Hiremath, A. J, N. D. Rai & A. Siddhartha (eds.) Transcending Boundaries: Reflecting on Twenty Years of Action and Research at ATREE, Bangalore: ATREE, 122-130 (related media report)
Discussion papers
Srinivasan, V., G. Penny, S. Lele, B.K. Thomas & S. Thompson, 2017, 'Proximate and underlying drivers of socio-hydrologic change in the upper Arkavathy watershed, India', Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions
Popular articles
Lele, S., S. Badiger & B. K. Thomas, 2018, 'Together, we can dam the destruction', Deccan Chronicle, August 26 (invited commentary in the aftermath of 2018 Kerala floods ; This was informed by our experience studying the 2009 Krishna basin floods)