A5061961986- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Water resources management and optimization
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Social and Economic Development in India
- South Asian Studies and Conflicts
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Water Systems and Optimization
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- International Development and Aid
- Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Wageningen University & Research
2015-2025
University of Geneva
2022-2024
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2020-2022
King's College London
2021
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an important discourse among national governments in Africa and international policy circles to increase food productivity, build smallholder farmers' resilience climate change, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Despite presenting several potential economic environmental benefits farmers, its adoption African farmers low. Two aspects that influence the of CSA are inclusion exclusion local knowledge how upscaled Africa. This article uses a systematic review...
The waterscape is a perspective that has captured the imagination of diverse scholars interested in interaction water and society. This includes way travels time space shaped by culture geography. In this article, we pay particular attention to study political ecology tradition. Scholars following tradition have placed strong emphasis on understanding role power contested nature rural, urban, periurban landscapes. article provides brief account main strands literature serves purpose an...
The aim of this article is to explain and compare the changes in climate policy paradigms (CPPs) Bangladesh Nepal. Climate policies are shaped by underlying CPPs that refer a dominant set prevailing institutionalized ideas strategies reduce impacts change. We focus analysis on timeframe between 1997 2016, using documents (n = 46) semi-structured interviews 43) with key actors. find both countries several have emerged: disaster risk reduction, change adaptation, mainstreaming, localized...
This paper analyses and assesses how existing policies approaches in South Asia consider long-term climate change adaptation. Presently, it is unclear what are used the to cope with future climatic changes. Our research framework consists of two components. First, we identify define key characteristics adaptation policy based on a review scientific journal articles. The identified institutional flexibility, adaptive nature, scalability reflexivity. Second, analyse presence these Bangladesh,...
The citizen science approach has gained momentum in recent years. It can enable both experts and scientists to co-create new knowledge. Better understanding of local environmental, social, geographical contexts help designing appropriate plans for sustainable development. However, a lack geospatial data, especially the context developing countries, often precludes context-specific development planning. This study therefore tests an innovative volunteer open mapping platform build resilience...
This article examines the power interplay that shapes transboundary water interaction in Brahmaputra River basin. The provides two key insights based on data sharing and bilateralism aspects. First, lack of a standard, hydrological data-sharing mechanism has created sense mistrust between riparians. Second, asymmetry riparian countries unilateral control over River. concludes due to regional geo-politics, issues sovereignty, unequal power, negotiation for multilateral basin-wide treaty at...
Abstract Since the early work on defining and analyzing resilience in domains such as engineering, ecology psychology, concept has gained significant traction many fields of research practice. It also become a very powerful justification for various policy goals water sector, evident terms like flood resilience, river resilience. At same time, substantial body literature developed that questions concept's systems ontology, natural science roots alleged conservatism, criticizes thinking not...
This article shows how Bangladesh and India intentionally maintain the status quo for Brahmaputra River at transboundary level, using material ideational resources. Results show that wants to reduce its hegemonic vulnerabilities aims control over river, simultaneously building technical negotiation skills. We conclude underlying processes of maintaining can be comprehended as 'non-decision making'. The analysis presented will help policy actors push towards a forward-looking climate change...
This paper contributes to the critical hydropolitics literature by introducing power–interests–identity nexus framework and addresses how it shapes decisions (re)actions transform or maintain water conflicts. The is investigated using Helmand/Hirmand river basin, shared Afghanistan Iran. It elucidates which factors led transformation of Iran–Afghanistan conflicts signing 1973 Treaty, as well influential that have contributed its maintenance in 2020s. results demonstrate provides...
This article aims to explain various disaster governance paradigms that have emerged and currently exists in Nepal. A paradigm is a comprehensive set of prevailing institutionalized ideas shape plans policies eventually are implemented on-the-ground. Nepal has prepared at the national, provincial local level, but there major gaps risk preparedness, with annual floods landslides continuing be responsible for loss lives heavy infrastructure damages. In this article, we show how evolved between...
Abstract Extant systematic literature reviews on the topic of climate smart agriculture (CSA) have mainly focused two issues: reviewing framing CSA discourse in academic and policy literature; initiatives Global South that enhance adoption climate‐smart agricultural practices. Yet, there is little investigation into how international organizations can help smallholder farmers manage systems to respond change. Analyzing these organization's priorities highlighting their knowledge gaps are...
Water utilities have favoured the modern ideal of piped networks and infrastructure that is reproduced in policies discourses about achieving ambitious water targets. In this article, using ethnographic insights from an urbanising village New Delhi called Rawta, we build on work challenges myth formal as ‘piped’ informal ‘non-piped’ explore both non-piped dynamic socially negotiated regimes. We analyse how regimes are shaped by complex constellations actors, institutions technological...
Deliberation over how to adapt short or long-term impacts of climate change takes place in a complex political setting, where actors' interests and priorities shape the temporal dimension adaptation plans, policies actions. As actors interact pursue their individual collective interests, these struggles turn into dynamic power interplay. In this article, we aim show interplay shapes local plans action (LAPAs) Nepal be short-term reactive. We use an interactional framing approach through...
European mountain regions have already been impacted by climate change, and this is projected to increase in the future. These experience rapid changes, which influence social-ecological systems lower-mountain floodplain of Europe. There scattered evidence across different strands academic literature on ways impacts changing are addressed adaptive capacity enhanced. Using a systematic mapping review, we mapped English-language scientific journal articles that analyzed change adaptation...
Abstract South Asia is a region uniquely vulnerable to climate-related impacts. Climate change adaptation in India and Bangladesh evolves using powering puzzling approaches by policy actors. We seek answer the question: how do influence climate design implementation processes India? adopted two strategies collect analyze data: semi-structured interviews discourse analysis. found that policymaking largely top-down, amenable techno-managerial solutions, not inclusive of marginalized In...
Transboundary water decision-making takes place in a power-loaded environment. Apart from conflicts or cooperation-based outcomes, partial complete status quo is also possible outcome transboundary interactions. Literature the last two decades has primarily focused on and/or cooperation only, with limited understanding of and its various forms. Drawing work Bacharach Baratz other power scholars sociology, international relations, public policy, this article presents tactics for non-decision...