Agrawal, the Samuel Trask Dana Professor and professor of environment and sustainability at the School for Environment and Sustainability, was among 84 new members and 21 foreign associates elected in recognition of distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, the NAS announced Tuesday.

Agrawal's research and teaching emphasize the politics of international development, institutional change and environmental sustainability. He has written critically on indigenous knowledge, community-based conservation, common property, resource governance, and environmental beliefs and identities.

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