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Unreliable Public Water Supply and Coping Mechanisms of Low-Income...
India is reported to have the world’s highest inhabitants without access to safe drinking water.Even in the capital city Delhi, although around 81% of the households have access to piped water supply system, it does not indicate reliability in water supply in terms of quantity or quality. Households adopt various coping mechanisms ...Effects of heat on incomes of workers in the informal sector (MS-538)
Funded by: Indian Statistical Institute through EfD, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Principal Investigator: Prof. Saudamini Das Date of Initiation: March, 2019 Likely Date of completion: December, 2021Does climate change perception make livelihood diversification more...
Poor households engage in multiple activities to maintain their consumption in face of economic hardships or exogenous shocks. In this paper, we try to examine the effectiveness of such livelihood diversification to increase or maintain the inter-temporal consumption level conditional to the climate change knowledge of the households. We use a cross ...Casuarina Monocultures are not efficient coastal shelterbelts: Some...
Coastal bio-shields are expected to protect human settlements against coastal disasters such as cyclones, tsunamis, and high-speed winds. Since the early 20th century, Casuarina plantations have been raised extensively along the vast Indian coastlines as shelterbelts, despite concerns that they are detrimental to local biodiversity and native ecosystems that provides a habitat ...COVID lockdown, how people managed and impact of welfare schemes on...
COVID-19 pandemic is likely to accentuate poverty and vulnerability of people at the margin for a number of reasons like lockdown, relocation to native places having no scope for gainful employment, health effects, opening of work with many restrictions, future uncertainty, etc. Following the lockdown in March, the central and state governments ...Impact of COVID Lockdown
Funded by: Indian Statistical Institute-Sweden Principal Investigator: Prof. Saudamini Das, Prof. Ajit Mishra, Dr. E. Somanathan, Dr. Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay Date of Initiation: August, 2020 Likely Date of completion: December, 2021Impact Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation
Funded by: NABARD Principal Investigator: Prof. Saudamini Das Date of Initiation: August, 2019 Likely Date of completion: August, 2020Assessing Marine Plastic Pollution in India
Rampant use of plastics and inefficient waste management practices have led to the plastic waste being either piled up on dumpsites or finding their way into the open sea contributing to global problem of marine plastic pollution. The marine debris is a matter of grave concern both for marine biota and humans ...Valuing the Role of Mangroves in Storm Damage Reduction in Coastal Areas...
Climate Change and Community Resilience. Ed. By Enamul Haque A., Mukhopadhyay P., Nepal M., Shammin M.R., Springer, Singapore. 2022. pp 257-273Meghna Basin Socio-ecological Research
Funded by: International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN) Principal Investigator: Prof. Saudamini Das Date of Initiation: January 2020 Likely Date of completion: June, 2020Meghna Basin Socio-ecological Research
Funded by: International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN) Principal Investigator: Prof. Saudamini Das Date of Initiation: January, 2021 Likely Date of completion: June, 2020