Dr. Gaurika Chugh completed her Ph.D. doctorate on “Land Records and Land Management: A study in PESA districts of Gujarat and Rajasthan” from the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research focuses on the aspects of digitization in land administration to improve governance and policy reforms. She has worked in prestigious institutions, universities and research organizations. She has been involved in preparing international reports and consultancy projects with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) for preparing a regional and a comparative analysis report on “Legal Preparedness for Regional/International Disaster and Pandemic Response in South Asia”. With RMIT University, Melbourne she undertook an impact study on land tenure security in the slums of Odisha.

She has published papers pertaining to her research interests in international and national journals. She actively writes columns on public policy and governance issues in major daily newspapers and magazines.

Publications:

• Lessons learnt from the Morocco Earthquake. Economic and Political Weekly, ISSN No: 0012-9976, Vol. 58 (41), 2023. https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/41/letters/lessons-morocco-earthquake.html
• Understanding Fair Compensation: Dissent between the Legislature and Judiciary. Economic and Political Weekly, ISSN No: 0012-9976, Vol. 58 (17), 2023.
https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/17/commentary/understandingfaircompensation.html
• Migrant Urban Settlements and Disaster Management. In: Singh, A. (eds) International Handbook of Disaster Research. Singapore: Springer, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8800-3_205-1
• Land Management and Disasters. In: Singh, A. (eds) International Handbook of Disaster Research. Singapore: Springer, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978- 981-16-8800-3_200-1
• COVID-19 to Lockdown (Mis)-management: The Perils of Law and Governance in India. Economic and Political Weekly, ISSN No: 0012-9976, Vol. 57 (15), 2022. https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/15/commentary/covid-19- lockdown-mis-management.html
• Review of the book The Philosophical Foundations of Environmental Law-Property, Rights and Nature, by Coyle, S. & Morrow, K. South Asian Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, Vol. I, Issue I, 2022, ISSN No: 2827-7384.
• Land and Disaster Management for SDGs?. In Malhotra, V.K., Fernando R.L.S., & Haran N (Eds.), Disaster Management for 2030 Agenda of the SDG (pp. 77-92). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4324-1
• Land Mismanagement and Coastal Disasters. In Singh, A, Fernando R.L.S., & Haran N (Eds.), Development in Coastal Zones and Disaster Management (pp. 87-100). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4294-7
• The Right to Property and Right to Compensation: An Uneasy Relationship. RGNUL Law Review, ISSN No: 2231-4938, Vol. IX, No. (1) 27, 2019.
• Examining e-Governance: A study of Land Records Management System in India. Madhya Pradesh Journal of Social Sciences, ISSN No: 0973-855X, Vol.23, No.2, 2018.