REPORTS

This section contains reports written by IIHS faculty, associates and staff from on-going and past practice projects. Browse using the right and left arrows to scroll through the papers. If you’d like to search by theme, click on the Keywords on the right hand side. You could also use the Search function if you know the name of the author or the paper.

Impact of Storytelling and Children’s Literature on Developing Teachers

InGARSS 2023 in Bangalore: Striking a Balance

First Aid Training Manual for De-sludging Workers

Accelerating India’s Climate Transition: Pathways to the 1.5°C Goal

Aromar Revi, Amir Bazaz, Chandni Singh, Prathijna Kodira and Ketaki Ghoge

Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting in India: An Analysis of Disclosures from 150 Companies

Sirigowri Guruprasad | Amir Bazaz| Manish Dubey | Nidhi Choudhary | Harshith BN

High Performance Buildings: A Primer

Sandhya Patil, Prasad Vaidya, Amir Bazaz, Manish Dubey

Urbanisation, Urban Systems, and Water (IIHS Working Paper)

Reimagining Sub-National Water Governance (IIHS Working Paper)

Educational Ecosystem of Architecture in India: A Review

Lessons in Experiential Learning from a Biosphere Reserve

Impact of Self-Development on Developing Teachers

Learning, Livelihood and Possibilities of Socially Just Pedagogy

Methods for Spatial Sampling of Urban Neighbourhoods by Socio-Economic Status in Indian Cities

Pratyush Tripathy, Krishnachandran Balakrishnan, Teja Malladi, Amruth Kiran, Gautam Bhan

Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures: India Hub Synthesis Report

Poonam Batra, Amir Bazaz, Shalini Dixit, Simran Sadh

Knowledge Co-creation in Action: Learning from the Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures Network

Jama Adam, Amal Ali, Gloria Batamuliza, Poonam Batra, Amir Bazaz, Camilla Beardsmore, Ash Brockwell, Jo Brooks, Gamuchirai Chakona, Shalini Dixit, Dan Imaniriho, Latif Ismail, Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Garry Rosenberg, Simran Sadh, Michael Tusiime, Kos Musa

How to Adapt to a Changing Climate : Summary For All

Sina Löschke, Katja Mintenbeck, Elvira Poloczanska, Robbert Biesbroek, Sarah R. Cooley, Judy Lawrence, Debora Ley, Mike Morecroft, Johanna Nalau, Anjal Prakash, Chandni Singh, Adelle Thomas, Edmond Totin

Policy Cornerstones for the Next Leap: Summary of Discussions

IIHS

The Urban in India’s Recent State Budgets

Ketaki Ghoge, Mithlesh Verma, Manish Dubey, Amir Bazaz

The State of Real Estate Regulation in India 2023

Deepika Jha, Manish Dubey, Sejal Singla

Global Diplomacy and Cooperation in Pandemic Times: Lessons and Recommendations from COVID-19

María Fernanda Espinosa, Muhammad Pate, Lan Xue, Kevin Casas-Zamora, Simiao Chen, Gabriella Cuevas Barron, Elke Dall, Roopa Dhatt, Peter Drobac, Luiz Augusto Galvão, Paula Johns, Richard Kinley, Celso Lafer, W. Ian Lipkin, Ok Pannenborg, Joy Phumaphi, Renata Reis, Aromar Revi, Angela Saini, Devi Sridhar, Akihito Watabe, Jiuchang Wei, Ngaire Woods, Emma Torres & Neena Joshi 

Land Cover Changes in the Upper Great Ruaha (Tanzania) and the Upper Awash (Ethiopia) River Basins and their Potential Implications for Groundwater Resources

Kiran M. Chandrasekharan, Karen G. Villholth, Japhet J. Kashaigili, Gebrehaweria Gebregziabher, Paulo J. MandelaBazaz

Global Infrastructure Resilience: Capturing the Resilience Dividend

Andrew Maskrey, Bina Desai, Garima Jain, Mabel Marulanda, Aromar Revi, Amir Bazaz, Karen Bennett, Michael Furniss, Mark Weinhold, Balaji Singh Chowhan, Prashant Hedao, Claudia Canfield , Pam Foster, Fleur Wouterse, Ysabella Goedhart, Gul Tucaltan, Sioux Fanny Melo Leon, Chris Dickinson, Ben Vickers, Nicholas Chow 

Championing ‘Local’ Culture and Economy

Hitesh Vaidya, Kanak Tiwari, Nilesh Prakash Rajadhyaksha, Ruchi Gupta, Jordi Pascual, Kinjal Sampat, K. T Ravindran, Manu Mahajan, Prasad Shetty, Rajeev Sethi, Shikha Jain, Shveta Mathur, Vijaya Amujure, Enrico E. Bertacchini, Gurmeet S. Rai, Jagan Shah & Laila Tyabji

Capacity Development Forum 2023 Proceedings

Anuttama Dasgupta, Smitha N

Capacity Development Forum 2021 Proceedings

Anuttama Dasgupta, Smitha N

Ecosystems of Engagement: Digital Platforms and Women’s Work in Sri Lanka and India

Aditi Surie, Ayesha Zainudeen, Gayashi Jayasinghe, Isuru Samaratunga, Krishna Akhil Kumar Adavi, Mukta Naik, Prerna Seth, Ramathi Bandaranayake, Ruwanka de Silva, Sabina Dewan, Shamindra Nath Roy,  Tharaka Amarasinghe

Restoring India’s Terrestrial Ecosystems: Needs, Challenges and Policy Recommendations

Manaswi Raghurama, Sumana Dutta, Tanaya Nair, Mahesh Sankaran, T.R. Shankar Raman, Divya Mudappa, Anand M. Osuri, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Uma Ramakrishnan, Nitin Pandit, Pradip Krishen, Ashish Nerlekar, Ishan Agrawal, Paul Blanchflower, Noopur Borawake, Godwin Vasanth Bosco, Arundhati Das, Mandar N. Datar, Aparajita Datta, Arun Mani Dixit,  Ketaki Ghate, Ankila Hiremath, Pankaj Joshi, Atul Joshi, Justus Joshua, Danish Khan, Vijay Kumar, Mayur Nandikar, Rohit Naniwadekar, Goutam Narayan, Vikram S. Negi, Siddharth Rao, Vasant Saberwal, Vivek Saxena, Anita Varghese, Aparna Watve, S.R. Yadav, Ravi Chellam, Kamal Bawa

Influencing the Social Protection Agenda in Rajasthan to Support Urban Informal Workers

Shriya Anand, Gautam Bhan, Louie Fooks

Counter Imaginaries: Towards a New Cartography of Agency

Sukhesh Arora, Shena Gamat

Breaking Through the Intergenerational Cycle of Educational Inequalities: First Generation Learners, Stigmatized Occupational Groups and Sustainable Futures

Anagha Tambe, Swati Dyahadroy

Climate change 2023: Synthesis Report of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6): Summary for Policymakers

Hoesung Lee, Katherine Calvin, Dipak Dasgupta, Gerhard Krinner, Aditi Mukherji, Peter Thorne, Christopher Trisos, José Romero, Paulina Aldunce, Ko Barrett, Gabriel Blanco, William W. L. Cheung, Sarah L. Connors, Fatima Denton, Aïda Diongue-Niang, David Dodman, Matthias Garschagen, Aromar Revi, Chandni Singh ... Panmao Zhai

Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6): Longer Report

Hoesung Lee, Katherine Calvin, Dipak Dasgupta, Gerhard Krinner, Aditi Mukherji, Peter Thorne, Christopher Trisos, José Romero, Paulina Aldunce, Ko Barrett, Gabriel Blanco, William W. L. Cheung, Sarah L. Connors, Fatima Denton, Aïda Diongue-Niang, David Dodman, Matthias Garschagen, Aromar Revi, Chandni Singh ... Panmao Zhai

Forest Management and the Impact on Water Resources: A Review of 13 Countries

Jagdish Krishnaswamy

Development of Water Classrooms for Middle School Students

Chhavi Mathur, Sara Ahmed, Aakriti Parashar, Darab Nagarwalla, Sanskriti Menon, Bhageerath Swaraj, Rifa Meddapil, Yash Karampuri, Manav Sivaram, Ritvee Talele, Sakshi Durge Radhika Mulay, Minket Lepcha, Sukrit Sen,Kalyani Thatte, Amit Tandon, Joy Merwin Monteiro, Aparna Joshi, Rijyuta Kaabaadee 

Mapping Educational Innovations for Social and Ecological Justice

Shalini Ravikumar, Savitha Babu, Charumathi 

Empowering Women to Improve Awareness and Access to Tenure, Infrastructure and Finance in Informal Settlements : Learning Study of the Zamini Adhikar Abhiyaan

Rashee Mehra, Vineetha Nalla, Nidhi Sohane

Maximising the Benefits of India’s Urban Transformation: Local Evidence Synthesis Report

Amir Bazaz, Amogh Arakali, Aromar Revi, Gautam Bhan, Herry Gulabani, Krishnachandran Balakrishnan, Namrata Kapoor, Neha Sami, Nilanjan Bhor, Omkar Nadh Pattela, Prajna Ravindra Beleyur, Shriya Anand, Sudeshna Mitra, Tanvi Bhatikar, Vikas John, Juan Carlos Duque, Michael Keith, Susan Parnell, Andrew Tucker, Stuti Govil

The Water Cycle and the Economy

Quentin Grafton, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Aromar Revi

Education, Margins and City: Examining the Linkages Through an Ethnographic Exploration

Vijitha Rajan, Jyoti Dalal, Chetan Anand 

‘Hum Hindustani’: The Indian Child Citizen in School and the World

Samina Mishra

Facing Caste: Engaging with the Privileged

Sujata Noronha, Beena Choksi

Voices from the Margins: Exploring Possibilities of Connecting Formal Education to the Funds of Knowledge owned by Adivasi Communities in the Kesla Block of Madhya Pradesh

Aisha Kawalkar, Himanshu Srivastava, Ruchi Shevade

‘There is a Bee in my Balcony’: A Guide to Growing Food Anywhere You Live Using Illustrated Narratives of Diverse Urban Farms

Deborah Dutta, Amrita Hazra

Looking Inward, Looking Forward: Articulating Alternatives to the Education System for Adivasis, by Adivasis

Chinmayi Jayakumar, Payain Gangadharan, Suganya Sankaran

Theatre and Art in Education for Young Women with a Focus on Theatre of the Oppressed Techniques and Embodied Therapeutic Practices

Arundathi Vishwanath

No Space for Some Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming and Gender Non-Binary Persons’ Access to Science Higher Education in India

Sayantan Datta, Debomita Mukherjee, Prajwal Gaikwad, Shreya Sridhar, Riya Parekh

Detailed Commissioning And O&M Manual For FSTPs In TN

Sasikumar Eswaramurthy, Rajesh Pai, Somya Sethuraman, Sakthi Balasubramani, Jega Loyal, Abhilaasha Nagarajan, Susmita Sinha, Santhosh Ragavan, Kavita Wankhade

Pathways Towards Future-Ready Indian Cities: Summary of Discussions

Manish Dubey, Aromar Revi, Deepika Jha, Amlanjyoti Goswami, Kavita Wankhade, Amir Bazaz

The Policy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysing Implications for Indigenous Peoples in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve

Harpreet Kaur

Indian Municipal Finance: An Update

Mithlesh Verma, Amir Bazaz, Manish Dubey

Real Estate Regulation in India: Select State Profiles

Deepika Jha, Manish Dubey, Tsomo Wangchuk

Decarbonising Public Transport in India: An Issue Brief

Amir Bazaz, Manish Dubey, Satish Yawale, Ketaki Ghoge  

The Summary for Urban Policymakers of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report

Aromar Revi, Debra Roberts, Ian Klaus, Amir Bazaz, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Chandni Singh, Amanda Eichel, Prathijna Poonacha Kodira, Seth Schultz, Ibidun Adelekan, Mustafa Babiker, Paolo Bertoldi, Anton Cartwright, Winston Chow, Sarah Colenbrander, Felix Creutzig, Richard Dawson, Heleen De Coninck, Kiane De Kleijne, Shobhakar Dhakal, Laura Gallardo, Matthias Garschagen, Marjolijn Haasnoot, Stuti Haldar, Rafiq Hamdi, Masahiro Hashizume, A.K.M. Saiful Islam, Kejun Jiang, Şiir Kılkış, Zbigniew Klimont, Maria Fernanda Lemos, Debbie Ley, Shuaib Lwasa, Timon McPhearson, Leila Niamir, Friederike Otto, Minal Pathak, Mark Pelling, Izidine Pinto, Hans-Otto Pörtner, Joana Portugal Pereira, Krishnan Raghavan, Joyashree Roy, Liliana Miranda Sara, Karen C. Seto, Nicholas P. Simpson, William Solecki, Shreya Some, Anna A. Sörensson, Linda Steg, Sophie Szopa, Adelle Thomas, Christopher Trisos, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz

Shared Science, Shared Future – SUP Action Agenda

Ian Klaus, Amanda Eichel, Debra Roberts, Seth Schultz, Aromar Revi

Employer Practices and Perceptions on Paid Domestic Work: Recruitment, Employment Relationships, and Social Protection

Gautam Bhan, Divya Ravindranath, Antara Rai Chowdhury, Rashee Mehra, Divij Sinha, Amruth Kiran, Teja Malladi

Deficits in Decent Work: Employer Perspectives and Practices on the Quality of Employment in Domestic Work in Urban India

Gautam Bhan, Divya Ravindranath, Antara Rai Chowdhury, Rashee Mehra, Divij Sinha, Amruth Kiran, Teja Malladi

Reproducing a Household: Recognising and Assessing Paid and Unpaid Domestic Work in Urban India

Gautam Bhan, Divya Ravindranath, Antara Rai Chowdhury, Rashee Mehra, Divij Sinha, Amruth Kiran, Teja Malladi

Findings from Innovate4Cities 2021 and Update to the Global Research and Action Agenda

Brenna Walsh, Julie Greenwalt, Cathy Oke, Paris Hadfield, Ariana Dickey, Marlies Craig, Michelle North, Nina Hunter, Andrew Okem, Steven Bland, Jorn Verbeeck, Bernhard Barth, Andy Deacon, Hedda Roberts, Jasdeep Randhawa, Sai Joshi, Diana Carrillo Silva, Margot Lootens, Meredith Adler, Aromar Revi et al.

Cities at the Intersection: Climate, Culture, and Migration

Florita Gunasekara, Maitreyi Koduganti Venkata, Chandni Singh

What the Latest Science on Climate Change Mitigation means for Cities and Urban Areas

Mustafa Babiker, Amir Bazaz, Paolo Bertoldi, Felix Creutzig, Heleen De Coninck, Kiane De Kleijne, Shobhakar Dhakal, Stuti Haldar, Kejun Jiang, Şiir Kılkış, Ian Klaus, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Shuaib Lwasa, Leila Niamir, Minal Pathak, Joana Portugal Pereira, Aromar Revi, Joyashree Roy, Karen Seto, Chandni Singh, Shreya Some, Linda Steg, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz

What the Latest Science on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Means for Cities and Urban Areas

Ibidun Adelekan, Anton Cartwright, Winston Chow, Sarah Colenbrander, Richard Dawson, Matthias Garschagen, Marjolijn Haasnoot, Masahiro Hashizume, Ian Klaus, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Maria Fernanda Lemos, Debbie Ley, Timon McPhearson, Mark Pelling, Hans-Otto Pörtner, Aromar Revi, Liliana Miranda Sara, Nicholas P. Simpson, Chandni Singh, William Solecki, Adelle Thomas, Christopher Trisos

What the Latest Physical Science of Climate Change Means for Cities and Urban Areas

Laura Gallardo, Rafiq Hamdi, A.K.M. Saiful Islam, Ian Klaus, Zbigniew Klimont, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Izidine Pinto, Friederike Otto, Krishnan Raghavan, Aromar Revi, Anna A. Sörensson, Sophie Szopa 

Lessons for Social Protection from the COVID-19 Lockdowns Report 2 of 2: Non-State Actors

Gautam Bhan, Pooja DSouza, Harshal Gajjar, Neha Margosa, Rashee Mehra, Krishna Priya, Chimmiri Sai Rashmi

GAR 2022: Our World at Risk: Transforming Governance for a Resilient Future

Mami Mizutori, Kelvin Berryman, Melody Brown Burkins, Wadid Erian, Paolo Garonna, Molly Jahn, Aromar Revi  et. al.