Shreya Chakraborty

Researcher – Climate Change Policy and Adaptation


Shreya Chakraborty has over six years of research experience in the development sector and has provided program leadership to multiple projects. These include climate change impacts and adaptation, food-water-energy nexus and disaster management policies, hydropower policies, peri-urban socioecological transformations and women’s climate leadership. She was a Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERs), Hyderabad. 

She holds a Master of philosophy in Regional development, and a master’s degree in Geography from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

 


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Latest publications by Shreya Chakraborty

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Farming households' adaptation to climatic shocks in South Asia: A food systems perspective

International Food Policy Research Institute | December, 2025
Chakraborty, Shreya; Banerjee, Anurag
Open Access
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Comparative analysis of local adaptation processes in the future across peri-urban India to support transformations to sustainability

Elsevier | September, 2023
Gomes, S. L.; Hermans, L. M.; Chakraborty, Shreya; Luft, S.; Butsch, C.; Banerjee, Partha Sarathi
Open Access
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A Delphi-based methodology for participatory adaptation pathways building with local stakeholders: methodological considerations and an illustrative application in peri-urban India

Elsevier | June, 2023
Gomes, S. L.; Hermans, L. M.; Butsch, C.; Banerjee, Partha Sarathi; Luft, S.; Chakraborty, Shreya
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