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Opportunities & Challenges of Climate Action Planning in Indian Cities: A Case of Mumbai City

in partnership with the South Asia Center, EnviroLab & Penn Institute for Urban Research

Lubaina Rangwala
Program Head, Urban Development & Resilience, World Resources Institute India; CASI Spring 2025 Visiting Scholar
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 12:00
Center for the Advanced Study of India Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics 133 South 36th Street, Suite 230 Philadelphia PA 19104-6215

About the Speaker:
Lubaina Rangwala is Program Head, Urban Development & Resilience with the Sustainable Cities and Transport team at World Resources Institute (WRI), India. She is an Urban Planner and Architect from Mumbai, with over 18 years of work experience in India and the US. Her current work involves operationalizing sub-national climate action plans and heat and flood resilience measures in Indian cities. Lubaina has led key publications at WRI, including the Climate Hazards and Vulnerability Assessment framework for Indian cities and established the global tool, the Urban Community Resilience Assessment. She earned her undergraduate degree in architecture from the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture (KRVIA), Mumbai University, and a dual Master’s in Architecture and City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on housing, community, and economic development.

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