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Oates, L.E. (author), Datey, Abhijit (author), Sudmant, Andrew (author), Gillard, Ross (author), Gouldson, Andy (author)Current approaches to the provision of shelter, largely driven by national governments and/or the commercial private sector, continue to fall short of what is needed to reduce housing deficits. The number of people without access to adequate housing continues to grow, especially in cities of the Global South. Increasing attention is being paid...journal article 2024
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Roy, Aparna (author), Naskar, Malay (author), Sinha, Archana (author), Manna, Ranjan K. (author), Sahu, Sanjeev K. (author), Ekka, A. (author), Das, Basanta K. (author)Small indigenous fishes (SIF) play a crucial role in supporting the livelihoods and nutritional security of the rural population in Southern Asia. However, their abundance and diversity are under threat due to overexploitation and profitable extensive aquaculture, resulting in a sharp decline, particularly in India. Unfortunately, conservation...journal article 2023
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Hädrich Silva, R. (author), Stead, D. (author), Zwarteveen, Margreet (author), Kuzniecow Bacchin, T. (author)The Netherlands has initiated a process of ‘policy boosterism’ that attempts to make Dutch urban water culture and its associated imaginary of water sensitivity fit for global export. This strategic shift depends on the collaboration of a mosaic of actors, private and non-private to promote knowledge sharing between countries. As this new...conference paper 2023
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Oates, L.E. (author), Kasaija, Peter (author), Sseviiri, Hakimu (author), Sudmant, Andrew (author), Ersoy, A. (author), van Bueren, Ellen (author)The delivery of urban basic infrastructure services is often guided by the modern infrastructure ideal, which aims for technical innovation, economic efficiency and uniformity through long-term, centralized management approaches. In rapidly growing urban centres of the global South, however, heterogeneous infrastructure configurations have...journal article 2023
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Gomes, S.L. (author), Hermans, L.M. (author), Chakraborty, Shreya (author), Luft, Sarah (author), Butsch, Carsten (author), Sarathi Banerjee, Partha (author)Peri-urban transformations in emerging economies like India demand scientific attention given their impact on global environmental change processes. Some studies examine past or ongoing peri-urban adaptation processes, but insight into future adaptation needs and aspirations of peri-urban communities is lacking. Also, it is unknown how the high...journal article 2023
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Chindarkar, Namrata (author), Goyal, N. (author)Electricity access is an important issue and building capacity for it requires drawing relevant lessons from past policies. In this study, we evaluate the effect of the Jyotigram Yojana, or the lighted village scheme, a supply-side policy intervention during 2003–08 to increase rural electricity access in Gujarat, India. We hypothesize that...journal article 2023
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Gomes, S.L. (author), Hermans, L.M. (author), Butsch, Carsten (author), Banerjee, Partha Sarathi (author), Luft, Sarah (author), Chakraborty, Shreya (author)Adaptation pathways is a planning approach used to design flexible, long-term strategies for dealing with future uncertainty. However, emphasis on how to discuss pathways elements with stakeholders during the pathways building process is under-represented in the existing pathways literature. This paper presents a participatory methodology for...journal article 2023
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Hatch, Nathan R. (author), Daniel, D. (author), Pande, S. (author)Psychological frameworks are rarely used to understand irrigation adoption behaviour in developing countries. A Bayesian belief network (BBN) model was developed that integrated socio-economic characteristics and psychological factors to understand farmer behaviours with respect to irrigation practices in four districts of Maharashtra, India....journal article 2022
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Walawalkar, Tanvi P. (author), Hermans, L.M. (author), Evers, Jaap (author)Most climate adaptation plans expect stakeholders to change their behavior as part of building resilience. Given its long-term and complex nature, monitoring and evaluation is a key requisite for climate adaptation planning. So far, behavioral aspects have received only limited attention in the evaluation approaches for climate adaptation...journal article 2022
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Nair, Aatmika (author), Jawale, Y.K. (author), Dubey, Sweta R. (author), Dharmadhikari, Surabhi (author), Zadey, Siddhesh (author)Background: Rural India has a severe shortage of human resources for health (HRH). The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) deploys HRH in the rural public health system to tackle shortages. Sanctioning under NRHM does not account for workload resulting in inadequate and inequitable HRH allocation. The Workforce Indicators of Staffing Needs ...journal article 2022
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Pownkumar, V. (author), Ananthan, P. S. (author), Ekka, A. (author), Qureshi, Neha W. (author), T, Velumani (author)Habitat alterations and fragmentation caused by anthropogenic modifications of the riverine landscape have affected fish biodiversity by reducing the number of fish species. Fish are a major element of the aquatic environment, and they play an important role in maintaining ecosystem resilience. However, an incomplete understanding of links...journal article 2022
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Tajuddin, N.A. (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author)Addressing climate change adaptation in the cities of the Global South is crucial as they are the most at risk and, arguably, the least capable of coping with it due to their rapid expansion, informal development, and limited institutional capacity. This paper explores this challenge in the case of Chennai, India, a city which, in recent years,...journal article 2021
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Goyal, N. (author)Although India has made significant progress towards the sustainable development goal on energy (SDG 7), further policy innovations are essential for closing the gap, addressing geographic disparities, and harnessing energy for transformative change. Research can support this process by creating policy-relevant knowledge regarding the energy...review 2021
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Vij, Sumit (author), Moors, Eddy (author), Kujawa-Roeleveld, Katarzyna (author), Lindeboom, R.E.F. (author), Singh, Tanya (author), de Kreuk, M.K. (author)Freshwater scarcity has increased in the cities of the global South due to rapid urban agglomeration and changing climate. Alternative water resources such as treated wastewater can play a significant role to reduce the water supply-demand gap. In the recent past, wastewater has been used solely for irrigation and other allied agriculture...journal article 2021
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Butsch, Carsten (author), Chakraborty, Shreya (author), Gomes, S.L. (author), Kumar, Shamita (author), Hermans, L.M. (author)India’s urbanisation results in the physical and societal transformation of the areas sur-rounding cities. These periurban interfaces are spaces of flows, shaped by an exchange of matter, people and ideas between urban and rural spaces—and currently they are zones in transition. Periur-banisation processes result inter alia in changing water...journal article 2021
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Diehl, J.C. (author), Salarić, P. (author)Taboos are like ‘’open public secrets’’ and often dealing with these topics can be challenging due to the negative societal view. However, taboos can have a strong impact on the well-being of people, therefore, addressing these subjects is of high importance. In this paper seven building blocks to design for taboos are presented. These blocks...conference paper 2020
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Rana, Nripendra P. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Sahu, Ganesh P. (author), Baabdullah, Abdullah (author), Dwivedi, Yogesh K. (author)The development of mobile technology is facilitating the transformation in a way that governments deliver their services. Mobile government is one area that has received very little research, but it can have a tremendous impact on the way citizens engage with their government. This research analyses the data gathered from 81 respondents through...conference paper 2019
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Manson, Abigail L. (author), Abeel, T.E.P.M.F. (author), Galagan, James E. (author), Chandrabose Sundaramurthi, Jagadish (author), Salazar, A.N. (author), Gehrmann, T. (author), Shanmugam, Siva Kumar (author), Palaniyandi, Kannan (author), Narayanan, Sujatha (author), Swaminathan, Soumya (author), Earl, Ashlee M. (author)Background.<br/><br/>India is home to 25% of all tuberculosis cases and the second highest number of multidrug resistant cases worldwide. However, little is known about the genetic diversity and resistance determinants of Indian Mycobacterium tuberculosis, particularly for the primary lineages found in India, lineages 1 and 3.<br/>Methods.<br/>...journal article 2017
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Saxena, Stuti (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)Purpose: This paper aims to examine the use and acceptance of open government data (OGD) of different stakeholder groups in India. Design/methodology/approach: Following an empirical investigation among 244 respondents in India, the paper deploys path analysis via LISREL. The conceptual construction of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use...journal article 2017
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Singh, A. (author), Strating, Alex T. (author), Romero Herrera, N.A. (author), van Dijk, Hylke W. (author), Keyson, D.V. (author)Many energy researchers and practitioners envision householders to have an active role in local energy distribution in emerging energy systems. In the energy literature, the dominant view of local energy distribution, grounded in the rational choice perspective, sees exchanges of energy between households as energy trading. The existing...journal article 2017
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