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Panel on aquaculture land transformations in coastal India. 21 August 2024, 6:00 pm IST.

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Shaping Urban Futures

Launched on Coursera, this new online course is a collaborative effort of five global institutions including IIHS. Designed as a self-paced, 6-week course, it addresses the most pressing challenges faced by humanity in the 21st century by considering how cities can become sustainable.

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The Art and Science of Economic Policy

IIHS, in collaboration with Coursera, has launched its latest digital blended learning programme. The 5-week self-paced course helps learners understand the why, when, what and how of economic policymaking through a combination of concepts and ideas, cases and examples and thought-provoking discussion questions.

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Gautam Bhan, Associate Dean – IIHS School of Human Development, unpacks the concept of the ‘public’, and how different groups shape a city’s culture and sense of belonging.

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Know It All | Season 2
The August edition of IIHS City Scripts delved into the life and work of the eminent Kannada writer Poornachandra Tejaswi. Tejaswi, who wore many hats and wrote across various forms and registers, brought about a new era in Kannada literature. The conversation explored the impact of his work on the state's literary landscape and how his work continues to live on through the many artistic interpretations of his oeuvre.
IIHS City Scripts | In the garden of a thousand 'full moons': Reading Poornachandra Tejaswi
In this talk, Garima Jain, PhD Candidate and Gilbert F White Environment and Society Fellow at Arizona State University, explains the phenomenon of aquaculture land transformation in climate-exposed coastal India.By adopting mixed methods at multiple spatial scales of analysis to examine aquaculture practices, the research explains (1) the spatial-temporal patterns of emerging land change, (2) the factors driving the transitions at the household and SES levels, and (3) the consequences of these transitions on people and SESs. The working hypothesis is that aquaculture land change in coastal India is partly a response by households to environmental shocks and stresses and is irreversible in the short to medium term. The research portends that this land transformation is potentially accelerating and locking in climate change impacts on coastal land salinity while also having long-term negative consequences for marginalised social groups, such as women and the landless, ultimately being maladaptive for these fragile social-environmental systems.Let me know if you have trouble accessing it. Banner is attached. If the title is too long, just use the first part.
Publics@IIHS | 'Salt in the wound' or climate resilience?
Chikkaballapura City Municipal Council and Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) supported by Godrej Properties Limited are implementing this innovative initiative. This project attempts to create a sustainable relationship between the municipality and local farmers to process biodegradable wet waste into organic compost. The initiative also offers solutions to other types of waste through enabling SHGs to up-cycle the textile waste and support municipality to manage the Dry waste. This project reduces the process and financial burden of waste management to the ULBs and benefits the farmers through access to organic compost in their farms at no cost.To ensure that the segregated wet waste is available to farmers, a series of IEC (Information, Education and Awareness) activities have been conducted in the city to promote segregation of waste at source. This project stated for 3 years starting from February 2024 is expected to benefit about 200 farmers and process about 33,000 tonnes of solid waste".For more details contact kiran.da@iihs.ac.in
City-Farmer Partnership for SWM in Chikkaballapura
Chikkaballapura City Municipal Council and Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) supported by Godrej Properties Limited are implementing this innovative initiative. This project attempts to create a sustainable relationship between the municipality and local farmers to process biodegradable wet waste into organic compost. The initiative also offers solutions to other types of waste through enabling SHGs to up-cycle the textile waste and support municipality to manage the Dry waste. This project reduces the process and financial burden of waste management to the ULBs and benefits the farmers through access to organic compost in their farms at no cost.To ensure that the segregated wet waste is available to farmers, a series of IEC (Information, Education and Awareness) activities have been conducted in the city to promote segregation of waste at source. This project stated for 3 years starting from February 2024 is expected to benefit about 200 farmers and process about 33,000 tonnes of solid waste".For more details contact kiran.da@iihs.ac.in
City-Farmer Partnership for SWM in Chikkaballapura
The July edition of IIHS City Scripts featured author Sandhya Mary and translator Jayasree Kalathil discussing their book, Maria, Just Maria, with writer and publisher Chirag Thakkar. Through interwoven timelines which blend memory with reality, Maria, Just Maria examines how personal narratives shape our identities and challenges our understanding of normalcy. It invites readers to reflect on the stories we tell ourselves and how they inform our lives. The conversation touched on portraying 'madness' in literature, writing about the interior lives of women and the labour of translation.
City Scripts | Author in Conversation | Maria, Just Maria by Sandhya Mary
Description: The online panel discussion critically reflected on mainstream academic and policy discourses on migration, urbanisation, and development. The panellists discussed how migration and urbanisation policies could better complement one another in the Indian context, particularly in the areas of governance, federalism, labour, social protection, food security, housing, and gender. Given increasing inequalities, the speakers reflected on making urbanisation processes more inclusive for internal migrants, and on the urgent need to integrate the issue of migration in development and urbanisation policies in a post-pandemic world.Panellists included contributors to the Special Issue of the IIHS journal Urbanisation , ‘The Future of Urbanisation: Migration Policies in the Post-pandemic World’. Read the special issue at: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/urba/9/1
Publics@IIHS | Urbanisation Journal | Migration in Development and Urban Policy
IIHS hosted Upal Ghosh ,Professor - Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County at the recent Publics@IIHS public lecture series on 8 July 2024 at the IIHS Bengaluru City Campus. His lecture,' Sustainable Environmental Restoration and Remediation of Contaminated Coastal Systems' drew from his work on environmental engineering and nature-based solutions.Prof Ghosh elucidated two case studies where the presence of toxic pollutants in sediments and degradation of a coastal ecosystem were addressed through a solid foundation of scientific understanding of ecosystem processes. The first case study spoke about Wilmington, DE, where an impoverished section of the city along a tidal river was being impacted by flooding and exposure to legacy toxic pollutants from past industrial activities in the area. The second case study involved large-scale beneficial use of lightly contaminated aquatic sediments from maintenance dredging of the Baltimore Port which generates about 5 million cubic yards of dredged material per year. Watch the full lecture here. --------------------------------------
Publics@IIHS | Sustainable Environmental Restoration and Remediation of Contaminated Coastal Systems

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