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SUMMARY:Early Career Researchers' Webinar Series by IWMI in India
DESCRIPTION:Focus on water\, climate change\, agrarian transformations and 
 energy transitions in India\nCoordinated by Dr Aditi Mukherji\, Principal 
 Researcher\, IWMI-New Delhi Office\n\nStarting from 29 August 2022\, the I
 WMI team in India will host a series of webinars by Early Career Researche
 rs (ECRs) on topics related to water\, climate change\, agrarian transform
 ations and energy transitions in India. The purpose of this series is to p
 rovide a platform for ECRs to share their research findings on important i
 ssues that are shaping the agricultural and energy outcomes of our region.
 \n\nThese webinars will be organized once every month and will be open to 
 all.\n\n[su_accordion][su_spoiler title="Watch the recordings" style="fanc
 y" open="no"]\n\n\n\n[/su_spoiler][/su_accordion]\n\n[su_accordion]\nComin
 g up\n[su_spoiler title="Webinar 14:\nPeer effects in household waste disp
 osal: Evidence from India" style="fancy" open="yes"]\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Sahel
 i Bose\, Centre for Quantitative Economics and Data Science\, Birla Instit
 ute of Technology\, Mesra\nDate: 19 September 2023\nTime: 3.00 p.m (IST)\n
 \n[su_button url="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x1PN3fiLQDin
 hsg7yteUQg" target="blank" style="glass" background="#1d83f5" size="6" cen
 ter="" text_shadow="1px 1px 1px #000000"]Zoom Link for Registration[/su_bu
 tton]\n\nPlease register in advance to attend the talk. After registering\
 , you will receive a confirmation email containing information about jo
 ining the session. \n\nSummary:\n\nIn this paper I study whether individu
 al households’ waste disposal practice is associated with the average be
 haviour of the households’ peers or reference group. In absence of a for
 mal waste disposal system and due to strategic complementarities\, househo
 lds have incentives to take actions increasing in the number of peers who 
 take the same action. Using nationally representative data from rural Indi
 a from two rounds\, I find evidence of neighbourhood peer effects in waste
  disposal actions of households. The results show that in-group peer effec
 ts are higher among own caste members compared to out-group peer effects. 
 There is heterogeneity across caste groups indicating different abilities 
 of different caste groups to coordinate actions.\n\nSpeaker Biography:\n\n
 Saheli is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Centre for Quantitati
 ve Economics and Data Science at Birla Institute of Technology\, Mesra. Pr
 eviously she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Centre for Studies in Social Sci
 ences Calcutta. She did her PhD from Jadavpur University. Her research int
 erests include Development Economics. Current research area focuses on WAS
 H and household behaviour.\n\n[/su_spoiler]\n\n\nPrevious Webinars\n[su_sp
 oiler title="Webinar 13:\nReimagning Water Science\, policy &amp\; Practic
 e in India: Towards a Decolonized and Inclusive Paradigm" style="fancy" op
 en="no"]\n\nPlease note this event has been postponed. You will be notifie
 d of the new date.\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Neha Khandekar\, French Institute of Po
 ndicherry\, India\nDate: To be notified\nTime: To be notified\n\nPlease re
 gister in advance to attend the talk. After registering\, you will receiv
 e a confirmation email containing information about joining the session.
  \n\nSummary:\n\nDominant ways of doing science and practice of water in 
 India have been established based on technocratic and colonial methodologi
 es of water science. These methods involve water accounting principles tha
 t view rivers primarily as economic assets\, subject to authoritative and 
 controlling approaches. The ongoing climate crisis and grassroots resistan
 ce movements are revealing that the existing framework of water science an
 d implementation is influenced by notions of masculinity and arrogance.\n\
 nThroughout history\, even the most advanced models in complex systems\, p
 hysics-mathematics\, engineering hydrology\, and civil engineering designs
  have failed to adequately resolve conflicts over water and the inequities
  in its distribution at various geographical scales. Contrary to prevailin
 g discourse\, the physical sciences alone have not yielded definitive rule
 s or solutions for effectively managing and governing the intricate intera
 ction between moving waters and human labor.\n\nPolicy and practice often 
 draws from the perspectives of multilateral organisations\, financial inst
 itutions\, and academic thinking originating in the global north. These 
 sources tend to overlook the everyday political dynamics\, lived experienc
 es\, and emotional realities of people at the grassroots level. Consequent
 ly\, the process of generating knowledge production itself is disregarded\
 , resulting in oversimplified narratives about water insecurity.\n\nTo ref
 lect on the current paradigm and transform it\, we need to create pedagog
 ic tools for justice such as action research\, humanities and critical thi
 nking\, along with communication\, and activism\; and nurture policy and p
 ractice spaces to welcome representation. To reshape the trajectory of wat
 er science and practice\, making it more decolonized\, inclusive\, diverse
 \, and fair- we also need to study institutions producing these dominant 
 forms of knowledge to engage with them.\n\nTransformation in the current p
 aradigm of doing water science and practice requires exploration of pedago
 gical tools that promote critical thinking and justice. Visual arts\, acti
 on research\, humanities\, critical thinking\, and science communication c
 an be some of these methods for inquiry and activism. Additionally\, creat
 ing spaces in policy and practice that value diverse representation is cru
 cial. To reshape the course of water science and practice\, making it mor
 e inclusive\, diverse\, and equitable\, we must also examine the instituti
 ons responsible for generating the dominant discourses and actively engag
 e with them. This approach can hope to shift the trajectory towards a more
  decolonized and just way of research and practice and provide more agency
  to marginalised alternative narratives.\n\nSpeaker Biography:\n\nNeha Kh
 andekar is a researcher and policy advisor on issues concerning water mana
 gement\, and climate change. Her vision is to build a plural and diverse r
 esearch\, policy and practice space - one which promotes and respects dive
 rsity\, equity and inclusion of all knowledge forms and all voices.\n\n[/s
 u_spoiler]\n\n[su_spoiler title="Webinar 12:\nHow good is our meteorologic
 al data to conduct climate change-based studies?" style="fancy" open="no"]
 \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Haider Ali\, Newcastle University\, The United Kingdom\nD
 ate: 17 Jujy 2023\nTime: 3pm IST\n\nPlease register in advance to attend t
 he talk. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email contai
 ning information about joining the session. \n\nSummary:\n\nExtreme eve
 nts have increased recently and are projected to increase more in the futu
 re. Therefore\, it is imperative to understand the drivers of extreme even
 ts for climate change adaptation and risk assessment. The uncertainty in u
 nderstanding drivers and processes governing extreme events remains due to
  a poor understanding of thermodynamic and dynamic processes as well as da
 ta limitations. Due to the unavailability of sub-daily observations\, stud
 ies rely on alternate sources like reanalyses\, satellite or climate model
  outputs for their analysis. However\, these alternate sources of data (pr
 ecipitation and temperatures) poorly represent actual observations\, which
  highlights the need for ground-based observations for robust analysis. Ad
 vancement has been made to collect the global sub-daily data to enhance th
 e proper understanding of the change in extreme events.\n\nThe important q
 uestion is “how good is our observational data quality-controlled?” to
  trust them for conducting such studies. In this talk\, I shall discuss th
 e global sub-daily rainfall data (GSDR) and temperatures from HadISD\, the
 ir quality control\, and some examples of studies (developing extreme prec
 ipitation-temperature relationships\; scaling) using them. I shall also co
 nclude how better gauge measurement precision and quality control methods 
 can provide us with robust scaling results.\n\nSpeaker Biography:\n\nDr. H
 aider Ali is a Research Associate and RENKEI ECR fellow in the School of E
 ngineering at Newcastle University. He has around five years’ experience
  in engineering and environmental hydrology in research with a focus on un
 derstanding the effects of climate change on extreme rainfall events and f
 looding. His research interests include trends\, variability and physical 
 understanding of changing extreme events\, temperature scaling\, monsoon s
 ystems\, design flood estimation and water resources management. Developin
 g methods for understanding the extreme precipitation and temperature rela
 tionships (scaling) using quality-controlled sub-daily precipitation data 
 has improved physical understanding of global rainfall climatology and res
 ulted in several high-quality publications. This work was featured twice a
 s Editor’s Highlights (2021 and 2022 respectively) on Eos. Haider is als
 o interested in climate impacts and risk\, working on the INTENSE (global 
 intense rainfall and drivers)\, FUTURE-DRAINAGE (flash flooding) and Hydro
 -Climatic Projections (CMIP5 downscaling) projects. He is currently workin
 g on the GCRF Living Deltas project\, improving the understanding of the c
 hange in tropical cyclone activity and monsoon over the South-east Asia De
 ltas. He also manages the logistics for the analysis and climate modelling
  advice for the Living Deltas Hub. He has a h-index of 13 (Google Scholar)
  from ~15 ISI-cited publications. His research work can be accessed throug
 h: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=o0EY7boAAAAJ&amp\;hl=en&amp
 \;authuser=1\n\n[/su_spoiler]\n\n[su_spoiler title="Webinar 11:\nTechno Po
 litics of drinking water supply in Rural Southern Bihar" style="fancy" ope
 n="no"]\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Amit Srivastwa\, Ambedkar University Delhi\, India
 \nDate: 19 June 2023\nTime: 3pm IST\n\nPlease register in advance to atten
 d the talk. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email con
 taining information about joining the session. \n\nSummary:\n\nRural dr
 inking water policies more often claim to provide access to adequate and s
 afe drinking water to rural households. Existing literature in water gover
 nance studies employs the question of scarcity\, access and conflict\, pow
 er and hierarchy\, and materiality embedded in water. However\, water in t
 he neoliberal era has been largely negotiated through technologies and inf
 rastructures introduced by varieties of state\, non-state\, and transnatio
 nal institutions under the global\, national\, and regional imaginations o
 f development. These technologies and infrastructures are meant to provide
  universal access to safe and clean drinking water on time. Therefore infr
 astructural governance becomes an integral part of water governance. The m
 ateriality of water and infrastructure shapes access to safe drinking wate
 r\; however\, biophysical\, geographical\, historical\, spatial\, temporal
 \, and social characteristics of water and infrastructure enable or restri
 ct drinking water service provision in everyday life.\n\nIn this given con
 text\, this research explores the changing nature of rural drinking water 
 services in a fluorosis-affected village in southern Bihar\, a site for an
  internationally funded project to supply safe drinking water. This paper 
 examines the role of drinking water infrastructures in shaping the landsca
 pe\, resource accessibility\, social and spatial conditions\, and relation
 ship among households and local state actors. Through analyzing multiple d
 rinking water interventions in the study village\, this paper tries to und
 erstand the notion of uneven social\, spatial\, and power arrangement over
  access to drinking water. This study uses mixed methods to understand the
  production of interactions\, negotiations\, and contestations over drinki
 ng water. It further uses techno-politics framework to examine infrastruct
 ures as assemblage and configuration.\n\nSpeaker Biography:\n\nAmit Kumar 
 Srivastwa is a Doctoral Scholar in the School of Human Ecology at Ambedkar
  University Delhi. He joined the School in 2019 and working on the interse
 ction of political ecology\, STS (Science and Technology Studies)\, and cr
 itical geography studies. His works explore the ‘Techno-Politics of Drin
 king Water Infrastructure in Rural South Bihar.’  He explores the notio
 n of modern infrastructure in a rural area through technical\, technologic
 al\, societal\, spatial\, temporal\, and natural characteristics. Amit has
  been engaging in this field area since 2017.\n\nUpcoming Publication: Sri
 vastwa\, A\, K.\, and Kabra\, A. (2023). ‘Socio-Spatial Infrastructures:
  Drinking water supply and formation of unequal socio-technological relati
 ons in rural southern Bihar’. In Ecology\, Economy\, and Society – the
  INSEE Journal\, Edition – Political Ecology.\n\n[/su_spoiler]\n\n[su_sp
 oiler title="Webinar 10:\nUnderstanding Water Consumption and Sufficiency 
 in Urban Mountain Towns" style="fancy" open="no"]\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Rinan Sh
 ah\, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)\, In
 dia\nDate: 22 May 2023\nTime: 15:00 - 16:00 hours IST\n\nPlease register i
 n advance to attend the talk. After registering\, you will receive a conf
 irmation email containing information about joining the session. \n\nSu
 mmary:\n\nA water scarcity conundrum exists in the case of Darjeeling town
  in the Eastern Himalayan Region of India where there is scarcity among ab
 undance. This paper inspects the manifestation of water scarcity at a hous
 ehold scale using the two major framings of water scarcity – objective o
 r norms-based and subjective or perception-based. Are Darjeeling household
 s really water scarce? If so\, who and why? What are the water availabilit
 y limits and their experiences of it? As an exclusive dependence on munici
 pal supply is not enough to meet basic water needs\, communities in urban 
 settlements of the developing world create water bundles from a combinatio
 n of available sources which are in turn dependent on a variety of factors
  such as socio-economic status and the spatial location of households\, am
 ong many others. Creation of a household water bundle by communities throu
 gh complex interactions with these institutions illustrates the difficulti
 es they face in acquiring a basic amenity such as water. The composition a
 nd proportions of a water bundle are primarily dependent on the financial 
 resources available to a household\, and its spatial proximity to the wate
 r sources. The quantity of water varies according to the sources that make
  up the water bundle. Water bundles and daily per capita consumption is pr
 imarily determined by homeownership and spatial location. Lack of land ten
 ure does not allow informal households to connect to the formal network. H
 aving a water bundle with a single water source does not always imply suff
 iciency but also a lack of alternatives. The difficulty in creating a suff
 icient quantity of water causes physical and mental stresses forcing the h
 ouseholds to take up coping mechanisms. The lack of basic entitlement\, su
 fficient water in this case\, culminates into the making of the residents 
 as disconnected citizens of the state.\n\nSpeaker Biography:\n\nRinan ha
 s a PhD from Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment. Her
  areas of interest encompass the environment and development in the poli
 tical-economic context. She is currently studying the manifestation of d
 omestic water scarcity in urban mountain towns of the Eastern Himalayan Re
 gion. She was a Research Fellow under the National Mission on Himalayan 
 Studies\, is a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Cli
 mate Change Working Group II Sixth Assessment Report and is a member of 
 the Indian Youth Water Network.\n\n[/su_spoiler]\n\n[su_spoiler title="Web
 inar 9:\nSustainable Transformation Pathways for India: The case of food a
 nd water" style="fancy" open="no"]\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Vartika Singh\, IFPRI\,
  New Delhi and Indian Institute of Management\, Ahmedabad\, India\nDate: 1
 7 April 2023\nTime: 15:00 hours IST\n\nPlease register in advance to atten
 d the talk. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email con
 taining information about joining the session. \n\nSummary:\n\nAgricult
 ural production in India is highly dependent on existing water resources. 
 India stands out in the food-water nexus as the country that withdraws and
  consumes the largest volume of freshwater resources globally\, mostly for
  the production of basic staple crops of rice and wheat that account for m
 ore than 80% of total agricultural water use. Rapidly receding water level
 s cause concern for future agricultural production and require urgent meas
 ures to manage water withdrawals for agriculture. In India\, excessive pro
 duction and consumption of cereal crops\, overdependence of milk products 
 and an increased consumption of ultra-processed foods has been a concern. 
 Despite agricultural production growing six-fold in the last five decades\
 , India continues to face high levels of malnutrition. In light of this in
 formation\, we assess policy instruments to reduce pressures on water reso
 urces\, while at the same time\, limiting adverse impacts on water intensi
 ve cereal production systems\, inclusive of land-use changes and economic 
 welfare. We also assess the role of dietary changes on environmental impac
 ts. With multiple policy tools\, we analyze the implications on key enviro
 nmental indicators including land\, water\, GHG emissions and biodiversity
 . Our results offer insights into the different mechanisms that these poli
 cies drive\, and trade-offs on important agroeconomic indicators and offer
  the choice for climate change adaptation decision-making based on other f
 actors such as implementation costs.\n\nSpeaker Biography:\n\nVartika Sing
 h is Senior Research Analyst in the Environment\, Production and Technolog
 y Division of IFPRI in New Delhi and Senior Research Officer at the Indian
  Institute of Management\, Ahmedabad\, India. Vartika is currently pursuin
 g her PhD from Humboldt University in Berlin\, Germany and is guest resear
 cher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Her interests i
 nclude CGE and PE modelling to assess integrated assessment of water\, ene
 rgy and climate policies. These activities form her PhD dissertation work 
 as well as the Nexus-Gains Initiative by the CGIAR. She has previously wor
 ked on applied behavioral microeconomic experiments to address barriers in
  sustainable intensification of agriculture\, as part of the Cereal System
 s Initiative for South Asia project. She holds a Master's degree in Develo
 pment Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai\, India and
  a Bachelor's in Economics from Hindu College at Delhi University\, India.
 \n\n[/su_spoiler]\n\n[su_spoiler title="Webinar 8:\nWho benefits from pipe
 d water supply? Empirical evidence from a gendered analysis in India" styl
 e="fancy" open="no"]\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Ashish Kumar Sedai\, University of Te
 xas at Arlington\, USA\nDate: 20 March 2023\nTime: 09:00 hours IST\n\n[su_
 button url="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ENQWafDTTzeDKCFQ6x
 GIKQ" target="blank" style="glass" background="#1d83f5" size="6" center=""
  text_shadow="1px 1px 1px #000000"]Zoom Link for Registration[/su_button]\
 n\nPlease register in advance to attend the talk. After registering\, you
  will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining 
 the session. \n\nSummary:\n\nThe disproportionate burden on women of wate
 r collection and distribution in the household in developing economies cal
 ls for a study on the relationship between piped water supply and gender d
 ifferences in employment\, women’s health\, child health and education. 
 I use spatiotemporal data from the largest gender disaggregated human deve
 lopment survey in India\, 2005–2012\, and carry out econometric analyses
  using individual fixed effects\, village fixed effects and instrumental v
 ariable regressions to evaluate the effects. Results show that household a
 ccess to piped water increases the likelihood of wage/salary employment by
  11 percent\, and annual earnings increase by 14 percent for women\, compa
 ratively higher than men\, but only in rural areas. In urban areas\, there
  is no effect of pipe water on women’s employment. With piped water\, wo
 men’s self-reported health\, child’s health and education outcomes imp
 rove. The study recommends evaluating the social demand curve for piped wa
 ter supply\, and the consideration of piped water supply as necessity\, as
  part of a broader strategy to reduce gender differences.\n\nSpeaker Biogr
 aphy:\n\nAshish Kumar Sedai is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the 
 Department of Economics\, College of Business\, University of Texas at Arl
 ington. He completed a Ph.D. in Economics at Colorado State University (CS
 U) in 2022\, master's in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University\, Delh
 i\, India and worked as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Univers
 ity of Delhi from 2012-2017. He currently is a Research Associate at the C
 entre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis\, Australian National University 
 and is a contractor for development research at the Asian Development Bank
  Institute. He specializes in labor\, health\, gender\, and development re
 search and has received the prestigious Warren Samuel’s prize from the A
 ssociation for Social Economics for his research on “Gendered effects of
  piped water in India". Other notable works include the analysis of electr
 ification in developing economies and its impact on household welfare and 
 women empowerment\, informal finance and women empowerment\, political ins
 titutions and pollution\, care shocks and time use. His research papers ha
 ve been published in Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization\, Ener
 gy Economics\, World Development\, The Energy Journal\, Economics of Agein
 g\, Journal of South Asian Development\, and Economic and Political Weekly
 . He has also worked as a consultant\, specializing in applied economic de
 velopment research for the World Bank\, United Nations and 2M Research.\n\
 n[/su_spoiler]\n\n[su_spoiler title="Webinar 7:\nThermal exposure of worke
 rs and outdoor microclimate in informal mixed-use areas in Kolkata" style=
 "fancy" open="no"]\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Shreya Banerjee\, Post-Doctoral Researc
 h Fellow\, Singapore Management University\nDate: 20 February 2023\nTime: 
 15:00 -16:00 hours IST\n\nPlease register in advance to attend the talk. A
 fter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing info
 rmation about joining the session. \n\nSummary:\n\nDeveloping countries 
 are most susceptible to climate hazards owing to infrastructure inequality
  and resource constraints where informality exasperates the situation even
  more. Kolkata\, a major Indian city witnesses significant residential and
  commercial informality. Outdoor spaces are used widely for various purpos
 es such as temporary shops\, food stalls\, meeting area etc in these infor
 mal neighbourhoods and streets are encroached to generate spaces for econo
 mic activities. In my doctoral research\, I investigated the outdoor therm
 al condition in such informal mixed-use spaces in hot-humid city of Kolkat
 a. We conducted thermal comfort field campaigns in three informal neighbou
 rhoods in summer and winter- one pottery neighbourhood\, one flower market
  and one retail market. We employed regression models to evaluate relative
  importance of various climatic and non-climatic variables in shaping the 
 human thermal perception. We further employed Computational Fluid Dynamics
  (CFD) tools to assess the impact of temporary encroachments on the street
  level thermal performance. Our results show various physiological (acclim
 atization and metabolism)\, psychological (expectation of weather)\, and b
 ehavioural (beverage intake) factors impact the bodily heat exchange and t
 hermo-regulatory process of the workers. Our study reports the respondent 
 neutral thermal ranges (they feel neither discomfort\, nor comfort) are hi
 gher compared to studies conducted in other parts of the world. We further
  report\, presence and form of the encroachments impact the thermal perfor
 mance of the streets. Inferences obtained from our study is useful in prop
 osing various infrastructure strategies to mitigate heat in the informal u
 rban contexts.\n\nSpeaker Biography:\n\nDr. Shreya Banerjee is a Post-Doct
 oral Fellow in Singapore Management University in the project Cooling Sing
 apore 2.0. Her research focuses on human thermal exposure\, heat mitigatio
 n and adaptation in outdoor spaces\, climate action policies\, and resilie
 nt settlements. Shreya pursued her PhD from IIT Kharagpur between 2017-202
 1\, during which she was also a visiting scholar at Arizona State Universi
 ty. She was awarded the BHAVAN fellowship from IUSSTF jointly sponsored by
  DST\, Government of India (GoI)\, and US Department of State in 2019. Shr
 eya completed Master of City Planning from IIT Kharagpur and Bachelor of A
 rchitecture from IIEST Shibpur. She has published in journals such as “S
 cience of the Total Environment”\, “Urban Climate”\, “Landscape an
 d Urban Planning” and “International Journal of Biometeorology”. Shr
 eya is in the invited expert panel of Ministry of Housing and Urban Affair
 s\, GoI\, and German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ India) for 
 the “Development of Design Standard for Thermally Comfortable Affordable
  Homes”. She is member of different professional bodies such as Internat
 ional Association of Urban Climate (IAUC)\, European Geosciences Union (EG
 U).\n\n[/su_spoiler]\n\n[su_spoiler title="Webinar 6:\nAchieving developme
 nt goals with clean energy transitions" style="fancy" open="no"]\n\n\nSpea
 ker: Anjali Sharma\, Assistant Professor\, Azim Premji University\, Banga
 lore. \nDate: 16 January 2023\nTime: 15:00 -16:00 hours IST\n\n[su_button
  url="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CDE0BJV5TemgghRrqrGVhg" 
 target="blank" style="glass" background="#1d83f5" size="6" center="" text_
 shadow="1px 1px 1px #000000"]Zoom Link for Registration[/su_button]\n\nPle
 ase register in advance to attend the talk. After registering\, you will r
 eceive a confirmation email containing information about joining the sessi
 on. \n\nSummary:\n\n\nClean energy transitions are particularly challengi
 ng for developing countries\, especially toward their development goals\, 
 such as poverty alleviation and employment generation. While a strand of a
 cademic literature finds that clean energy transition can create new jobs\
 , Anjali\, in her talk\, will discuss the unequal distribution of job gain
 s and losses from power sector decarbonization in the context of India\, u
 sing an analytical framework to examine the changes in the magnitude as we
 ll as the location of jobs due to clean energy transitions.\n\nShe will al
 so explore the case of decarbonizing the transport sector through electric
  vehicles (EVs) – the regional disparities in environmental and health g
 ains of EVs\, focusing per se on the emissions from the vehicle manufactur
 ing sector\, in contrast to the usually available results from vehicle ope
 rations. Estimates from Anjali’s research reveal that overall air pollut
 ion and related deaths can increase in scenarios with a higher share of EV
 s because of the increase in manufacturing-related emissions. These increa
 ses will likely be concentrated in limited locations\, such as the auto ma
 nufacturing hubs.\n\nSpeaker Biography:\nAnjali Sharma is an assistant p
 rofessor at Azim Premji University\, Bangalore. Her work aims to infor
 m just and equitable policies for a low-carbon world. Her current research
  project examines whether and how electric vehicles can worsen health ineq
 uities across different social groups and geographies. For her doctoral di
 ssertation\, she modelled the employment impacts of power sector decarboni
 zation in India and analyzed the distribution of job changes across region
 s and skill levels. Her research interests include climate change and deve
 lopment\, just transitions\, green jobs\, and electric vehicles.\n\n[/su_s
 poiler]\n\n[su_spoiler title="Webinar 5:\nGeographies of Maladaptation: Ja
 lyukt Shivar Abhiyan and the Reproduction of Water Insecurities in Drought
 -Prone Maharashtra" style="fancy" open="no"]\n\n\nSpeaker: Sameer Shah\, 
 Assistant Professor of Climate Adaptation\, School of Environmental and Fo
 rest Sciences\, University of Washington\, United States of America. \nDa
 te: 19 December 2022\nTime: 9:30 -10:30 IST\n\nPlease register in advance 
 to attend the talk. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation em
 ail containing information about joining the session. \n\nSummary:\nFrom 
 2014 to 2019\, the Government of Maharashtra’s decentralized water conse
 rvation and harvesting campaign\, Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan\, is reported to 
 have made 25\,000 villages “free” from agricultural drought. Yet\, the
  campaign has attracted intense criticism for water conservation's “unsc
 ientific” nature\, adverse ecological impacts\, and skewed preference fo
 r employing mechanical contractors over village residents in waterworks de
 velopment. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India\, in 2020\, fo
 und that despite 6.30 lakh completed water harvesting and conservation pro
 jects\, the campaign had “little impact in achieving water neutrality an
 d increasing groundwater level” in drought-affected villages. This talk 
 will demonstrate two forms of maladaptation hindering equitable water secu
 rity: (i) a socio-ecological maladaptation with key state-sponsored and su
 bsidized infrastructures under the campaign actively deepening the inequit
 ies\, unsustainability\, and inefficiencies of water use in drought-hit vi
 llages\, (ii) a relational maladaptation with agricultural drought reconfi
 guring the state-society relationships\, wherein state officials occlude t
 heir responsibility in climate welfare by framing environmental features\,
  such as the climate\, geology\, and topography\, as reasons for the droug
 ht. By considering these diverse forms of maladaptation\, this talk will e
 xplore the various pathways for fostering sustainable\, equity-based water
  security in the context of climate change and variability. \n\n\nSpeaker
  Biography:\nDr. Sameer Shah is an environmental\, social scientist with e
 xpertise in the human dimensions of climate change vulnerability. His rese
 arch aims to understand the socio-economic and political processes by whic
 h climate change unevenly impacts people\, and their water\, food\, and en
 ergy resources. He is especially interested in analyzing the equity\, just
 ice\, and sustainability outcomes of climate adaptation and disaster respo
 nse at multiple scales. Dr. Shah is the John C. Garcia Assistant Professor
  of Climate Adaptation in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences 
 at the University of Washington. He has (co)authored seventeen peer-review
 ed articles and was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal (UBC\, 201
 5) and the Pagani Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation (UBC IRES\, 
 2021) for his research on climate adaptation\, water insecurity\, and li
 velihoods.\n\n\n[/su_spoiler]\n\n[su_spoiler title="Webinar 1:\nColonizing
  the rains: Narrating policies of drought-protection in the colonial archi
 ve to reflect on the shadow they cast in the present" style="fancy" open="
 no" anchor="webinar1"]\n\n\nSpeaker: Arianna Tozzi\, PhD Researcher\, Univ
 ersity of Manchester\nDate: 29 August 2022\nTime: 16:00-17:00 IST\n\nhttps
 ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4BapGGampU\n\n\n\nSummary\nIn this talk Ariann
 a will engage with a critical reading of the British colonial archive in t
 he Bombay Deccan to trace how policies to protect this region from drought
 s paved the way for today’s mentality favouring an irrigated model of ag
 riculture while relegating rainfed areas to spaces of marginality. Enactin
 g a ‘water world’ grounded on linear and predictable flows\, she will 
 describe how colonial policies for drought-protection rearranged existing 
 human-water relations and divided the Deccan along an irrigated-as-protect
 ed and rainfed-as-unprotected logic. Yet\, the expansion of this colonial 
 hydro-politics was not a seamless process. Encountering a world that follo
 wed geographies of water ‘as precipitation’ created unexpected moments
  of friction\, blurring the partition envisioned by engineering plans. The
  colonization of the rains thus speaks for that contested and negotiated p
 roject\, whereby certain water worlds were made present\, and real while o
 thers discarded\, and made less real.\n\nGiven the preoccupation of the wi
 dening gap between irrigated and rainfed areas in the context of the agrar
 ian crisis and climate uncertainties\, the talk wants to stimulate a refle
 ction on how existing water management practices may unwittingly reproduce
  practices of rainfall colonization\, unable to value the diversity and dy
 namism of rainfed socio-ecologies. Arguing for the need for policies to co
 nfront their power to strengthen certain water worlds at the expense of ot
 hers\, the talk will reflect with the audience on what it would mean to en
 act decolonial water management practices grounded on the rainfall.\n\nSpe
 aker Biography\nArianna Tozzi is a PhD researcher in Human Geography at th
 e University of Manchester. In her research she uses feminist and decoloni
 al approaches to unpack the intersecting impact of climate change\, develo
 pment policies and the processes of rural agrarian transformation in rainf
 ed areas of Maharashtra. Before starting her PhD\, she lived in Pune (Indi
 a) where she worked as a researcher affiliated with the University of Minn
 esota on projects studying the impacts of solar mini-grids for rural elect
 rification from a gender and governance perspectives.\n\nThis talk is base
 d on a paper she recently published with Geoforum\, which can be downloade
 d at the following link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii
 /S0016718522001464\n\n[/su_spoiler]\n\n[su_spoiler title="Webinar 2:\nMaki
 ng Indian Agriculture Resilient to Climate Change" style="fancy" open="no"
  anchor="webinar2"]\n\n\nSpeaker: Dr. Balsher Singh Sidhu\, Postdoctoral R
 esearch Fellow\, Institute for Resource\, Environment\, and Sustainability
 \, UCB Vancouver\nDate: 19 September 2022\nTime: 9:30 -10:30 IST\n\nhttps:
 //www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcMN7AaW9Wg\n\n\n\nSummary\n\nAgricultural produ
 ction is sensitive to both short-term weather variability and long-term cl
 imate change. Predicting crop yields as a function of climate is becoming 
 increasingly important due to a rapidly changing environment. In this talk
 \, Balsher will discuss and contrast the regional and crop-wise yield sens
 itivity to climate change in India\, including the predicted yields for di
 fferent crops till 2100. He will then explore the role that irrigation –
  under different availability scenarios - can play in reducing yield vulne
 rability in the context of increasing variability in precipitation and the
  rising probability of droughts.\n\nHigh-quality data and advanced computa
 tional facilities have led to various sophisticated models for climate pro
 jections in recent years. The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 
 6 (CMIP6) framework is one of those. Balsher has applied this framework fo
 r his yield projection exercise\, where variables such as temperature\, fr
 equency and volume of precipitation\, soil moisture\, etc.\, are combined 
 with the climate projections for four different shared socioeconomic pathw
 ays from 13 Global Climate Models (GCM) under the CMIP6 framework. This ta
 lk will bring some interesting insights into the climate-driven vulnerabil
 ities of Indian agriculture and engage the audience to deliberate on some 
 of the likely adaptation and mitigation strategies in this regard.\n\nSpea
 ker Biography\n\n\nDr. Balsher Singh Sidhu is a postdoctoral research fell
 ow at the Institute for Resources\, Environment\, and Sustainability\, UCB
  Vancouver. His research interests lie at the intersection of climate chan
 ge\, food systems\, and sustainable resource use. He uses advanced statist
 ical and machine learning methods to understand the relationship between c
 limate change and agriculture. His doctoral research was funded by a Vanie
 r Canada Graduate Scholarship\, wherein he developed crop yield models for
  various crops in India to predict yields till 2100 under multiple emissio
 n scenarios. He is currently analyzing land use-based strategies for mitig
 ating climate change.\n\nDr. Balsher was a contributing author to the Wate
 r chapter in the Sixth IPCC Assessment Report (Working Group II). He has a
 lso worked as a short-term consultant for the World Bank on the Atlas of S
 ustainable Development Goals 2020. Previously\, he held undergraduate and 
 master’s degrees in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Techn
 ology Delhi and the University of Toronto\, respectively. He can be reache
 d at balsher.sidhu@ires.ubc.ca.\n\n[/su_spoiler]\n\n[su_spoiler title="Web
 inar 3:\nUnderstanding coal transitions in India: Challenges and the way f
 orward " style="fancy" open="no" anchor="webinar3"]\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Dr. Sa
 ndeep Pai\, Senior Research Lead\, Centre for Strategic and International 
 Studies\, Washington D.C.\, United States of America.\nDate: 17 October 20
 22\nTime: 9:30 -10:30 IST\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upkCgffr4lo\n
 \nSummary:\nThe world has already warmed to over 1°C above pre-industrial
  levels\, mainly due to burning fossil fuels such as coal. This is causing
  ever-increasing rates of climate-related events such as floods\, droughts
 \, and wildfires. Any steps to keep global warming well below 2°C\, a tar
 get enshrined in the Paris Agreement\, would require a rapid reduction in 
 the use of fossil fuels—particularly coal. Although some member countrie
 s of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have
  already planned to phase out coal-based power\, attaining the Paris Agree
 ment goals would require concerted efforts of the large coal-dependent eme
 rging economies\, like India\, to reduce their long-term dependency on coa
 l. But such an energy transition presents an enormous challenge for India 
 both in terms of deployment of large-scale clean energy sources and managi
 ng the socio-economic impacts of the transition on coal-dependent states a
 nd communities. In India\, transitioning from coal power is likely to have
  an outsized effect on six coal-dependent states where coal production is 
 heavily concentrated. Thus\, a comprehensive policy and national action pl
 an are required focusing on the technological deployment and securing the 
 future livelihoods of millions of coal workers and their community members
 .\n\nSpeaker Biography:\nDr. Sandeep Pai is the senior research lead at th
 e Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)\, Washington D.C. 
 His expertise spans energy transitions\, coal sector dynamics\, and just t
 ransitions. Previously\, Sandeep worked as a journalist for many years wit
 h leading Indian newspapers such as the Hindustan Times and Daily News &
 amp\; Analysis. In 2016\, he was felicitated with the Ramnath Goenka Award
  for Excellence in Journalism\, India’s most prestigious journalism awar
 d.  He holds a Ph.D. in resources\, environment\, and sustainability f
 rom the University of British Columbia and a joint MSc in environmental sc
 iences and management from Lund University\, Sweden\, and Central European
  University\, Hungary.\n\n[/su_spoiler]\n\n[su_spoiler title="Webinar 4:\n
 Effective knowledge brokering for collaboration across knowledge\, policy\
 , and practice for water-resilient food systems" style="fancy" open="no"]\
 n\n\nSpeaker: Shuchi Vora\,  Global Resilience Partnership\nDate: 21 Nov
 ember 2022\nTime: 16:00 -17:00 IST\n\nPlease register in advance to attend
  the talk. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email conta
 ining information about joining the session.\n\nSummary:\nWater is the fac
 e of climate change\, and nowhere is it felt more than in the global food 
 systems. However\, practitioners and researchers across food and water oft
 en find it challenging to articulate the critical role of water in food sy
 stems and translate practice into research and policy effectively (and vic
 e-versa) in the absence of frameworks and cases of knowledge brokering. Th
 is talk will use the Water-resilient Food Systems framing that has been re
 cently published (Matthews et al.\, 2022) and highlight a case of knowledg
 e brokering in Maharashtra\, India. \n\nSpeaker Biography:\nShuchi Vora i
 s a knowledge broker who has worked as a practitioner at the interface of 
 knowledge\, policy\, and practice. She currently works at the Global Resil
 ience Partnership\, where she leads a knowledge brokering and shared learn
 ing initiative called the Resilience Knowledge Coalition. She has worked o
 n multistakeholder engagement for water in different forms at WWF and TNC 
 prior to this role. She has master’s degrees from Oxford and TISS Mumbai
 \, and an engineering bachelor's from NIT Warangal. \n\n[/su_spoiler]\n\n
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