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/Working papers
Dhara, C., & Thomas, B.K., 2025, 'A New Development Typology for the 21st Century', SocArXiv.
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
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)