Prajna Paramita Mishra is Assistant Professor in the School of Economics of University of Hyderabad. Her research area is Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Her earlier research has concentrated in the areas of mining and economic valuation. Currently she is undertaking a research on urban sanitation funded by ICSSR and ESRC. She has supervised 6 Ph.D and 12 M.Phil students. She has published her research in journals like Environment and Development Economics, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Benchmarking an International Journal, The Indian Economic Journal, Science of the Total Environment and One Earth.