India shifts to the city
India is about to breach the $2 trillion GDP mark, as it works its way through the lower end of the middle-income-nation spectrum. We have yet to recognise that the economic output of a large state like
Aromar Revi
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Keeping Indias economic engine going: Climate change and the urbanisation question
Urbanisation in India is both a necessary input and an inevitable consequence of growth. However, we must accept that the existing urbanisation models are unsustainable at the Indian scale and there is no available alternative trajectory.
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Climate change risk: an adaptation and mitigation agenda for Indian cities
This paper considers the needed adaptation and mitigation agenda for cities in India
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Climate change risk: an adaptation and mitigation agenda for Indian cities
This analysis provides us greater insight into an adaptation-led strategy to reduce climate change risk and increasing urban resilience in keeping with India’s development and priorities challenges. This attempts shifts the emphasis away from a largely mitigation and techo-centric response that has come to dominate the climate crisis discourse emanating largely from OECD countries. This may provide a window of opportunity for countries like India to chart a more independent traverse to a more sustainable future.