Monsoon Planning: The Future of India’s Sinking Cities
Debjani Bhattacharyya
September 28, 2020
In the latest issue of India in Transition, CASI Non-Resident Visiting Scholar Debjani Bhattacharyya (Associate Professor of History & Urban Studies, Drexel University) discusses why planning the future of India's coastal metros must begin from the warming waters of the Indian Ocean.
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CASI Non-Resident Visiting Scholar Radhika Khosla (University of Oxford) co-authored three recently published papers:
Systematizing and Upscaling Urban Climate Change Mitigation
Environmental Research Letters, September 17, 2020
Superimposition: How Indian City Bureaucracies are Responding to Climate Change
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, August 25, 2020
Illuminating Homes with LEDs in India: Rapid Market Creation Towards Low-Carbon Technology Transition in a Developing Country
Energy Research & Social Science, August 2020.
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