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Urbanization and waste management in the Global South

Neethi P., Juwairia Mehkri, Drupad U., Nayanthara Sekhar

Key catalysts and constraints of urban agriculture for sustainable food systems: A case study of Thiruvananthapuram, India

G S Sreedaya, Smitha S, Riza Mathew, Sheetal Patil, Sreelakshmi K, Aswathi Krishna R, Chinchu V S, Gopika Somanath, Shalini J R

Effective science communication in the face of water crises: a community perspective on challenges and best practice in HELPING

Christina Orieschnig, Soham Adla, Kwok Pan Chun, Saumya Srivastava, Khosro Morovati, Ben C. Howard, Thanti Octavianti, José Gescilam Uchôa, Zheng Duan, Paola Mazzoglio, Anandharuban Panchanathan, Borbála Széles, Gerbrand Koren, Georgia A. Papacharalampous, Dhiraj Pradhananga, Konstantinos Soulis, Hajar Choukrani, Hamouda Dakhlaoui, Alper Elçi, Xinyang Fan, Sina Khatami, Eduardo Mario Mendiondo, Tarryn Payne,Mehdi Rahmati, Tirthankar Roy, Christopher Skinner, Claudia Teutschbein, Roland Yonaba,Tanveer Mehedi Adyel, Ignacio Aguirre, Hasnat Aslam, Abinesh Ganapathy, Jagriti Jain, Albert Nkwasa, Fiachra O’Loughlin, Ilias Pechlivanidis, Alonso Pizarro, Ashutosh Sharma, Hristos Tyralis, Shuchi Vora, Satwiki Adla, Miriam Bertola, Vinicius Boico, Natalie Ceperley, Benjamin Dewals, Moritz Heinle, Soren Jessen, Florian Kaiselgruber,Neha Lakhwan, Mayowa Benjamen Lateef, Ashish Mishra, Pamba Ojera, Valeriya Ovcharuk, Apoorva Singh, Abhinav Wadhwa, Suwash Chandra Acharya, Sotiria Alexandri, Eduardo Rico Carranza, Yonca Cavus, Nilay Dogulu, Abdoulaye Faty, Joaquin Jorquera, Viraj Rane, Massimiliano Zappa

Regenerative Agriculture as Nature Based Solution in Urban and Peri-urban Bengaluru: Knowledge, Practices and Value

Vaishnavi V, Raghunath Reddy, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Indira Singh

How narratives shape disaster recovery: the ‘disaster representation space’ in Tamil Nadu, India

Chandni Singh, Mark G.L. Tebboth, Jasmitha Arvind, Roger Few

Growth of private reading spaces in Lucknow, India: A case study

Vinit Kumar, Aman Kumar Kushwaha, B Preedip Balaji

The global extent of the grassland biome and implications for the terrestrial carbon sink

A. S. MacDougall, B. Vanzant, J. Sulik, S. Bagchi, D. Naidu, T. O. Muraina, E. W. Seabloom, E. T. Borer, P. Wilfahrt, I. Slette, J. L. Hierro, D. E. Pearson, M. Abedi, M. Akasaka, J. Alberti, A. Aleksanyan, A. A. Amisu, T. M. Anderson, C. A. Arnillas, M. Ayer, J. D. Bakker, S. Basant, S. Basto, L. Biederman, K. J. Bloodworth, F. Boscutti, E. H. Boughton, C. M. Bruschetti, H. L. Buckley, Y. M. Buckley, M. N. Bugalho, M. C. Caldeira, G. Campetella, N. Cannone, M. Carbognani, C. Carbutt, M. A. Carniello, M. Cervellini, T. Chaudhary, Q. Chen, A. T. Clark, S. Cousins, M. Dalle Fratte, N. J. Day, B. Deák, J. Dietrich, A. Dixon, N. Eisenhauer, K. J. Elgersma, O. Eren, A. Eskelinen, C. Estrada, P. A. Fay, G. Fayvush, K. C. Flynn, D. García Meza, D. Gargano, L. Gherardi, N. T. Girkin, L. González, P. Graff, L. W. C. Hagenberg, A. H. Halbritter, N. A. Havrilchak, N. Herdoiza, E. Hersch-Green, K. Hopping, A. Jentsch, S. O. Jimoh, J. Kerby, K. Kirkman, J. M. H. Knops, S. E. Koerner, A. Koltz, K. J. Komatsu, B. I. Koura, S. Kruse, L. Laanisto, L. S. Lannes, W. Li, M. Liang, A. Lkhagva, L. López-Olmedo, P. Lorenzo, C. J. Lortie, A. Loydi, W. Luo, P. Macek, F. Malfasi, P. Mariotte, J. P. Martina, A. Martínez-Blancas, H. Martinson, C. Martorell, J. A. Meave, S. Medina-Villar, K. Z. Mganga, J. Monsimet, A. N. Nerlekar, S. Niu, T. Ohlert, I. Oliveras Menor, G. R. Oñatibia, Y. K. Ortega, B. Osborne, S. Palpurina, J. Pascual, S. C. Pennings, E. Pérez-García, P. L. Peri, M. Petit Bon, A. Petraglia, F. Pijcke, S. M. Prober, R. E. Quiroga, J. I. Ramirez, S. Reed, B. H. P. Rosado, C. Roscher, D. W. Rowley, I. Sereda, D. M. Small, N. G. Smith, Y. Song, C. Stevens, L. E. Suarez Jimenez, M. te Beest, M. Tedder, R. S. Terry, K. S. Thornton, D. Tian, G. Titcomb, O. Valkó, G. F. ‘Ciska’ Veen, R. Virtanen, E. A. R. Welti, G. R. Wheeler, A. A. Wolf, P. Wolff, A. L. Young, H. S. Young, L. H. Zeglin, K. Zhu, S. Zong & M. B. Siewert

Nature-based solutions and urban biodiversity conservation in the Global South

Ravi Jambhekar, Ryan Satish, Swarnika Sharma, Gayatri Bakhale, Priya Ranganathan, Dilip G.T. Naidu, Kadambari Deshpande, Jagdish Krishnaswamy

Evaluating indoor thermal resilience of passive and low-power cooling shelters for outdoor workers in India

Yi Wu, Jeetika Malik, Tianzhen Hong, Elif Kilic, Prasad Vaidya, Da Yan, Ashok Gadgil

The money challenge of climate change

Dipak Dasgupta, Aromar Revi, Sania Wadud

Rolling back insulation in naturally ventilated buildings: A case to re-evaluate the residential energy code in India

Gaurav Vakil, Prasad Vaidya, Yashima Jain, Pooja Suresh Hollannavar, Amanda Thounaojam, Arjita Gupta

Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis

Ankit Kumar, Chandni Singh, Lauren Hermanus, Lalitha Kamath, Wangui Kimari, Mark Pelling, Harriet Bulkeley

Phantom load: An immersive 3D energy detective game

Jeslu Celine Jacob, Amruthraj Nagaraja, Prasad Vaidya

Toward reforms: Revisiting public library legislation in Indian states

Sheshagiri Kulkarni, B Preedip Balaji, Dhanamjaya M

What is Climate Justice?

Bronwyn Hayward, Chandni Singh, Amelia Woods

Global synthesis and regional insights for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions

Timon McPhearson, Niki Frantzeskaki, Alessandro Ossola, Loan Diep, Pippin M. L. Anderson, Timothy Blatch, Marcus J. Collier, Elizabeth M. Cook, Christina Culwick Fatti, Zbigniew J. Grabowski, Nancy B. Grimm, Dagmar Haase, Pablo Herreros-Cantis, Jessica Kavonic, Brenda B. Lin, Duván H. Lopez Meneses, A. Marissa Matsler, Magnus Moglia, Jordi Morató, Patrick O’Farrell, Parama Roy, Chandni Singh, Jing Wang, Weiqi Zhou.

Lost and damaged: a systematic review of current loss and damage due to climate change in India

Nivedita Joshi, Nihal Ranjit, Ananya Peddibhotla, Chandni Singh

Validating laboratory predictions of soil rewetting respiration pulses using field data

Xiankun Li, Marleen Pallandt, Dilip Naidu, Johannes Rousk, Gustaf Hugelius, and Stefano Manzoni

Integrating Nature-based Solutions for urban water security in global south

Liya E. Abera, Suman Jumani, Charles B. van Rees, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Cydney K. Seigerman, Donald R. Nelson, Jonathan Hallemeier, Dawit W. Mulatu, Roshni Arora, María Paula Viscardo Sesma, Kalkidan Asnake, John Aliu, Anthonette Quayee, Soojeong Myeong, Marta Echevarria, Maegaret Stern, Anita van Breda, Missaka Hettiarachchi, Ana Christina Becerra, Annika Quick, S. Kyle McKay

Effects of heat stress and green cover on urban birds in the megacity of Bengaluru

Ravi Jambhekar, Dilip G. T. Naidu, Jagdish Krishnaswamy

Approximate Bayesian Inference for High-Resolution Spatial Disaggregation Using Alternative Data Sources

Anis Pakrashi, Arnab Hazra, Sooraj M. Raveendran, Krishnachandran Balakrishnan