Megnaa Mehtta is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at UCL, London and the recipient of the AXA-IOC UNESCO research fellowship. Her research explores human-environment relations, human and nonhuman sovereignties, migration, risk and everyday experiences of climate distress. Her first book manuscript, Conserving Life: Political Imaginaries from a Submerging Forest is based out of long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Sundarbans forests, a global conservation hotspot, located on the borders of India and Bangladesh. She is also co-authoring a textbook on Conservation as a Social Science with Dan Brockington and Kartik Shankar which embeds biodiversity conservation within themes of social and planetary justice.

For wetlands, she is writing The Banglascapes of Venice, coming out in 2027.