The National Conference on 'Peri-Urban Agriculture and Ecosystems: The Multi- Faceted Contribution to Urban Resilience' took place from 22nd-23rd February 2016 at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
In this video, our India team explores the effects of climate change on Bangalore (narration in Kannada).
Livelihood vulnerability and adaptation in Kolar District, Karnataka, India: Mapping risks and responses. A short report by Chandni Singh, Ritwika Basu and Arjun Srinivas, with input from Bhavana Halanaik, Andaleeb Rahman, Madhushree Munsi and Amir Bazaz.
Hannah Crichton-Smith is studying for a Master’s of Science in Water Security and International Development at the University of East Anglia, UK. Demonstrating the truly cross-regional nature of ASSAR, Hannah recently spent three months as an intern with the ASSAR-India Team in Bangalore where she conducted a literature review on peri-urban conceptualisations and primary research for her Master’s thesis. Her thesis aims to examine how peri-urban dynamics and climate variability are shaping people's access to water and sanitation services on Bangalore's peripheries.
This photo essay captures some of the issues in informal settlements, in this case blue tent squatter settlements that are prevalent in certain pockets of Bangalore. These sites were investigated for our on-going urban research.
A 3-day long course called ‘Understanding Vulnerability: Concepts, Methods and Applications for Development Planning’ was held between 10th-12th December, 2015 by IIHS’s Urban Practitioners Programme.
To get a better sense of how climate change is impacting the wellbeing of people in rural and urban areas of India we spent our early ASSAR months delving into the wide landscape of literature on the topic. Here’s what we learned.
The Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) conducted a 3rd stakeholder engagement event on the 21st of December 2015, at the Darewadi Training Centre, with more than 50 representatives from 15 villages in the Sangamner transect.
State sponsored policies and programmes must be sensitive to promote sustainable developmental activities in this already fragile social ecological system in Tamil Nadu.
The beginning of December saw unprecedented floods in Chennai and its suburbs.
Read about how Rachenahalli is one of the few living lakes of Bangalore, in the north of the city and how it It is connected to water bodies upstream and downstream, particularly Jakkur Lake on the north-east.
Through a stakeholder engagement event, the ATREE team explores how tribal communities have been affected by the establishment of the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in the Moyar-Bhavani region of India.
