Ritwick Ghosh

Ritwick Ghosh is a social science research fellow in the School of the Global Futures at Arizona State University. He studies the role of institutions in addressing climate change and biodiversity loss. He has worked in multiple international organizations, including the UN Environmental Program and the Centennial Group. Ritwick earned PhD and MPA degrees from Cornell University and a postdoctoral fellowship from New York University.

All essays by Ritwick Ghosh

Review: Ritwick Ghoshon digital environmentalism
  • AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Peter Dauvergne MIT Press
    272pp
    Published September 2020
    ISBN: 9780262539333
  • The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism by Bram Büscher University of California Press
    254pp
    Published December 2020
    ISBN: 9780520371453
  • Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet by Jennifer Gabrys University of Minnesota Press
    368pp
    Published March 2016
    ISBN: 9780816693146

The Planet Needs Collective Action – Not Tech

All three books help characterize how and in what ways digital solutions are featuring in environmentalism and to what end. More data about environmental systems and models are certainly useful, but asking how the data animates new forms of collective action is critical.
Oct. 2021 • •