BOOKs and Special Issues

1. 1. Mustapha, Raihana Aliyu, Devidas Aryadevi Remanidevi, and Sharma Aviram (2025) Navigating the Energy Transition: Insights from a Systematic Scoping Review of Challenges and Pathways in Developing Nations. Energy Research & Social Science, 125, 104098 

1. 2. Sharma Aviram, Bandyopadhyay Somnath, Verma Anurag, Sinha Rahul, Sharma Prabhakar (2025)  A Win-Win Solution? The Promise and the Social Realities of Aquifer Storage and Recovery Options in Rural India, Societal Impacts, 6. 100121

1. 3. Verma Anurag, Kumar Anand, Sharma Prabhakar, Sharma Aviram, Sinha Rahul Kumar, and Phartyal Shyam (2025). Hydrogeochemical Processes and Anthropogenic Impacts on Groundwater Quality in the Middle Gangetic Plains. Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances (2025): 100818. 

1. 4. Sharma Aviram, Jiménez Andrea, Smith Adrian and Boni Alejandra (2025) Rethinking Innovation for a Post-Growth Society, Science, Technology and Society. 30 (2), 327-342. 

1. 5. Gaurav, Kumar, Prabhakar Sharma, and Aviram Sharma. 2025. Revisiting community-based traditional irrigation systems in India. Heliyon 11.1 e41684

1. 6. Sharma, Aviram, and Poonam Pandey. 2024. The institutionalisation and practice of technology assessment in India. Handbook of Technology Assessment: Edward Elgar, pp 192-200.

1. 7. Sharma, Aviram, and Saradindu Bhaduri. 2024. Selection and adoption of water purification technologies in the bottled water industry in India. Cleaner Water, 2, 100039.

1. 8. Sharma Aviram, 2024. Energy Transition in the Global South: Combating Energy Poverty and Climate Change. In Exploring Hope: Case Studies of Innovation, Change and Development in the Global South edited by Marcelo Sili,  Andres Kozel, Samira Mizbar, Aviram Sharma, and Ana Casado, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 183-188.

1. 9. Sharma Aviram, 2024. Introduction- Ensuring Environmental Sustainability. In Exploring Hope: Case Studies of Innovation, Change and Development in the Global South edited by Marcelo Sili,  Andres Kozel, Samira Mizbar, Aviram Sharma, and Ana Casado, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds,  pp. 149-152. 

1. 10. Sharma Aviram, 2024. Water Quality and Water Pollution. In The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India edited by Philippe Cullet, Lovleen Bhullar,  Sujith Koonan, Oxford University Press, UK. 

1. 11. Verma Anurag, Sharma Aviram, Kumar Rakesh, and Sharma Prabhakar, 2023. Nitrate contamination in groundwater and associated health risk assessment for Indo-Gangetic Plain, India. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 23, 100978.

1. 12. Sharma Aviram, 2023, Opening the ‘Black Box’ of Regulation-making for Bottled Water Quality Standards in India, Science, Technology and Society, 28 (4), 517–534 

1. 13. Rajput Ritika and Sharma Aviram, 2023. Water Economies of Bodh Gaya, Bihar: Urban Water in Rural Town. Habitat International, 133, 102754.

1. 14. Sharma Aviram and Harvey Mark, 2023, Economies of Water in Delhi: A neo-Polanyian Analysis, Water International, 48 (1), 98-119  

1. 15. Sharma Aviram, Maharana Pyarimohan, Sahoo Satiprasad, Sharma Prabhakar, 2022, Environmental Change and Groundwater Variability in South Bihar, India, Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 19, 100846   

1. 16. Pandey Poonam and Sharma Aviram, 2022, Science Advice for Covid-19 and Marginalized Communities in India in Being Human During Covid-19 edited by Paul Martin,  Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard, Warren Pearce, Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK. 

1. 17. Sharma Prabhakar, Verma Anurag, Sharma Aviram, Verma Poornima, and Bandyopadhyay Somnath, (2022), An Integrated Site Selection Model for Aquifer Storage and Recovery, Journal of Irrigation & Drainage Engineering, 148 (5), 04022009. 

1. 18. Rajput Ritika and Sharma Aviram, 2021, Worlding of Bodh Gaya, Seminar, 745, 42-46. 

1. 19. Sharma Aviram, 2021, Small Towns in Asia and Urban Sustainability in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures edited by Robert Brears, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland.

1. 20. Sharma Aviram, 2021, Meeting SDG 6: Ensuring Safe Drinking Water for All in Rural India in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures edited by Robert Brears, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland.

1. 21. Sharma Aviram and Pandey Poonam, 2021, Innovations, Policies and Implications for Promoting Sustainable Solar Photovoltaic Industry from Management Perspective in Sustainability and Management of Photovoltaic Technologies edited by Jingzheng Ren and Zhipeng Kan, AIP Publishing, Melville, New York, USA 

1. 22. Bandyopadhyay Somnath, Sharma Aviram, Sahoo Satiprasad, Dhavala Kishore, & Sharma Prabhakar, 2021, Potential for Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) in South Bihar, India, Sustainability, 13(6), 3502.

1. 23. Sharma, Aviram, 2021, Environmental Governance in Rural India: Diffusion of Solar Powered Irrigation Technologies, Forum for Development Studies, 47 (2), 225-245. 

1. 24. Pandey Poonam and Sharma Aviram, 2021, Knowledge Politics, Vulnerability and Recognition-Based Justice: Public Participation in Renewable Energy Transitions in India, Energy Research & Social Science, 71, 101824 

1. 25. Sharma, Aviram, 2021, Aligning Regional Priorities with Global and National Goals: Constraints on the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goal Six in rural Bihar, India, Area Development and Policy, 6 (3), 363-373.  

1. 26. Sharma Aviram, 2021, The Environment and Development Debate in India: The 'Greening' of Developmental Discourse in New Paths of Development: Perspectives from the Global South, edited by Bourqia, Rahma, Sili, Marcelo, Springer International Publishing 

1. 27. Kumari Preeti, Dhavala Kishore, Sharma Prabhakar and Sharma Aviram, 2021,  Achieving 'Energy for All': Solar Mini Grids for Rural Electrification in Asia in Renewable Energy Transition in Asia: Policies, Markets and Emerging Issues, edited by Nandakumar Janardhanan and Vaibhav Chaturvedi, Palgrave MacMillan, Singapore

1. 28. Biggs Stephen, Sharma Aviram, Justice Scott and Uprety Rajendra, 2020, Rural Change in the Kosi River Basin: A Capital Goods Perspective in Bihar: Crossing Boundaries, edited by Sunita Lall, Neeraj Kumar and Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff, Primus Books, New Delhi

1. 29. Pandey Poonam and Sharma Aviram, 2020, Swinging Between Responsibility and Rationality: Science Policy and Technology Visions in India in The Neutral Normativity of Technology Assessment: Conceptual Analysis and Practical Handling, edited by Linda Nierling and Helge Torgersen, Nomos, Baden-Baden, Germany 

1. 30. Sharma Aviram, 2020, 'We Do Not Want Fake Energy': The Social Shaping of a Solar Micro-Grid in Rural India, Science, Technology and Society, 25 (2), 308-324 

1. 31. Sharma Aviram, 2018, Science Based Mandatory Standards and the Implementation Gap: The Case of Bottled Water Regulations in India, Current Science, 114 (1), 29-33 

1. 32. Pandey Poonam and Sharma Aviram, 2017, NGOs, Controversies and “Opening-up” of Regulatory Governance of Science in India, Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 37 (4), 199–211 

1. 33. Sharma Aviram, 2017, Drinking Water Quality in Indian Water Policies, Laws and Courtrooms: Understanding the Intersections of Science and Law in Developing Countries, Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 37 (1), 45-56.

1. 34. Sharma Aviram, 2017, Payment for Ecosystem Services, Economic and Political Weekly, 52 (36), 73-74 

1. 35. Sharma Aviram and Harvey Mark, 2015, Divided Delhi: Bricolage Economies and Sustainability Crises in Drinking Water: A Socio-economic Analysis of Historical and Societal Variation, Mark Harvey, Routledge, London, UK

1. 36. Sharma Aviram, 2015, Sustainable and Socially Inclusive Development of Urban Water Provisioning: A Case of Patna, Environment and Urbanisation Asia, 6 (1), 28-40. 

1. 37. Bhaduri Saradindu, Sharma Aviram and Talat Nazia, 2015, Growth of Water Purification Technologies in the Era of ‘Regulatory Vacuum’ in India, Current Science, 108 (8), 1421-1423

1. 38. Bhaduri Saradindu and Sharma Aviram, 2014, Public Understanding of Participation in Regulatory Decision-Making: The Case of Bottled Water Quality Standards in India, Public Understanding of Science, 23 (4), 272-288 

1. 39. Sharma Aviram and Bhaduri Saradindu, 2013, Consumption Conundrum of Bottled Water in India: An STS Perspective, Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 33(5/6), 172-181