Associate Professor
4210, Faculty Block 4
DA-IICT
Gandhinagar,
India
Telephone: (079) 3051-0653
Email: alka_parikh@daiict.ac.in
Alka Parikh
and Pralhad Burli,
“Livelihood Patterns and Food Security Situations: Some case studies from
Alka
Parikh, ‘Population Vs. Food: Who is Winning the Race?’, in Population and
Environment Linkages, edited by C. P. Prakasam and R
B Bhagat, Rawat
Publications, Jaipur, 2007.
Alka
Parikh, Sarthi Acharya and Maitreyi Krishnaraj, “Impact of Maharashtra’s Agricultural Policies on Women Farmers: A
Gender Budgeting Analysis”, Discussion Paper Series – 8, Human Development
Resource Centre, UNDP,
Alka
Parikh, Sarthi Acharya and Maitreyi Krishnaraj, “Gender Budgeting
Analysis: A study in
Alka
Parikh, “Rural Institutions in Different Development Phases: An Overview”,
IASSI (Indian Association of Social Science Institutions) Qurterly,
Vol 21, nos. 3 &4, 2003.
Alka
Parikh, “Skimming through the socio-economic losses from an earthquake: A case
study from Kuchchh”, Indian Journal of Social work, Vol 63,
Issue 2, April 2002
Srilatha Juvva and Alka Parikh, “From
nowhere to care: experiences from cyclone interventions in Orissa”,
Indian Journal of Social work, Vol 63, Issue 2, April 2002.
Alka Parikh
and Niru Acharya, “Education for all in the real sense: A
case for remedial classes”, Journal for
Educational Planning and Administration, Vol. XV, No.2, April 2001.
Alka
Parikh, “Which is the least exploitative? Identifying an appropriate NTFP
market structure”, Wasteland News,
15(2), January 2000.
Alka Parikh
and Erik Thorbecke, “Impact of rural
industrialization on village life and economy: A social accounting matrix
approach,” Economic Development and
Cultural Change, volume 44, Number 2, January 1996.
Presentations:
Alka
Parikh, “Was Banning Wheat Futures Markets Economically Justifiable?”, paper presented at National Seminar on Agri Commodity Futures in
Alka
Parikh, “Perspectives in Envrionment Economics”,
presented at State level Seminar on The Economists’ Approach to Environment and
Ecology, Organized by Department of Economics, B M Ruia
College,
Alka
Parikh, “Framework for Disaster Mitigation and Response”, a keynote address
given for the technical session in a National Level Seminar on Catastroph Management – Methods, Means and Milestones,
Organized by Plaanig Forum, Khandwala
College, Mumbai, February 9-10, 2007.
Alka
Parikh, “Are Agriculture Markets Really Inefficient?” at the workshop on
Economics Of Infrastructure, organized by the Centre of Advanced Study in
Economics, Department of Economics, University of Mumbai on 6th and
7th February, 2007.
Alka
Parikh, “Disaster Response after 7/11 Mumbai blasts: A narrative”, presentation
made at the International Conference on Emergency Medicine, Organized by
Society for Emergency Medicine in India and Amercan
Academy for Emergency Medicine in India, Delhi, November 17-19, 2006.
Alka
Parikh, “Population Vs. Food: Who is winning the race?”, paper presented at the
National Seminar on Population, Environment and Nexus, organized by Population
Environment Centre, International Institute of Population Studies, Mumbai,
October 21, 2005.
Alka
Parikh, “For a few potfuls of water: Water rights and
subsidies” paper presented at the National Conference on Engendering
Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies, September 29 and 30, 2005.
Alka
Parikh, “Gandhian Philosophy: a simple guide towards
environment ethics”, Paper presented at National Conference on Environmental
Ethics for Sustainable Development, Organized by K J Somaiya
College of Arts and Commerce, Mumbai, September 1-2, 2004.
Alka
Parikh, “Impact of Liberalization on Agriculture in Maharashtra”,
Paper presented in absentia at the National Workshop on Impact of
Liberalization on Agriculture and Rural Poor, Organized by National Institute
for Rural Development,
Alka
Parikh, “Environment: Can Technology take care of everything?” Paper presented
at National Conference on Advances in Environmental Sciences and Engineering,
Organized by IIT Mumbai,
Janaki Andharia and Alka Parikh,
“Integrating the environment agenda in development intervention”, presented at The National Seminar on Social Work
Profession at the Dawn of the New Millenium, organised by the
Faculty of Social Work, M S University, Vadodara,
February 17-18, 2000.
Alka
Parikh, Sharachchandra Lele
and A. S. Srinidhi, “Influence of forest rights
regimes on sustainability and returns from NTFP harvest”, Paper presented at
National Workshop on JFM (Joint Forest Management), Organised
by Viksat, SPWD, AKF(I) and
Gujarat Forest Department,
Alka Parikh and R. D. Deshpande,
“Review of current status of environment statistics in selected DMCs”, presented at the Inception Workshop on
“Institutional Strengthening and collection of environmental statistics in
selected developing member countries” organised by
Asian Development Bank at
Alka
Parikh, “Budget analysis for health sector”, in Express Health Care Management,
Alka Parikh
and Niru Acharya, “Ma I
Want to Go to School: Issues Regarding Admission in Municipal Schools” in www.pratham.org
THESES
GUIDED:
Ph.D.:
Sangeeta Dubey
An enquiry
into viability of Bt Cotton.
Masters:
Shweta
Narayan (2002). Environmental
crimes and occupational health hazards in the plastic recycling units of
Chaitali Chattopadhyay (2002). Relevance of primary
health centers in relation to women’s health: study of three villages in Bankura District of West Bengal.
Hemant
Tirkey (2003). Impact of sick
industry on the retrenched workers and role of union.
Neeta
Rao (2003). Assessing the demand of health insurance
and the extent to which the existing schemes satisfy it
C.
B. Rammohan (2003). Ideology and its manifestations
in the management of an NGO
Nishta
Dewani (2004). Two decades of healthcare: Are the gas
victims happy?
Kumar
Shailabh (2004) Towards
disaster resilience
Venkat
Ramani (2004) Opportunity cost of forest conservation
in
Vandana Tripathi (2004). Globalization and
industries sector: a study of the reasons for industrial closure.
B.
Girish Babu (2005). Health insurance model for a rural community in Andhra.