1. Water (ground and surface) resource

• Evaluation and impact assessment of irrigation projects.
• Groundwater depletion and economics of groundwater recharge.
• Social cost benefit of reclamation of problematic soils.
• Pricing of water resource and service and water markets.
• Water use efficiency and sustainability across methods of extraction, irrigation, property rights and use.

2. Land Resource

• Agrarian and other institutional reforms and their impact on land management, valuation and markets.
• Economics of soil and water conservation in different property regimes to land.
• Sustainability of watershed development program and impact on resource linkages.
• Economic approaches to encroachment, depletion and conservation of CPRs.

3. Agriculture

• Economic impact of natural resource intensive agriculture on environment, trade, other natural resources.
• Negative externalities of use of agrochemicals.
• Economics of sustainable agriculture methods (organic farming, traditional and indigenous agricultural technologies, systems, practices).
• Economic analysis of energy issues in agriculture.
• Environmental impact of agricultural waste, reuse and recycling.

4. Forestry

• Economic analysis of multipurpose tree species, NTFPs and silvicultural systems.
• Forest policies in the context of sustainability, tribal security.
• Valuation of biodiversity, forest products, services in westren ghats and other fragile regions.
• Social-cost benefit analysis of developmental projects on forest ecosystem.
• Eco-tourism and impact on natural resource management, environment and local economy.

5. Marine Resources

• Economic impact of aquaculture on agriculture, trade and environment.
• Environment and equity implications of mechanized harvest of marine resources.
• Degradation of mangroves and impact on marine ecosystem.

6. Policy and Institutions

• Policy interventions and institution building for NRs conservation and management.
• Contribution of gender in natural resource conservation and management and other gender issues in resource conservation.

7. Livestock

• Dynamics of livestock economy in the context of CPR depletion and implications