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AI, Climate Adaptation, and Epistemic Injustice

Blogs / By Vikrom Mathur and Angelina Chamuah

Humanizing science, policy, and practice can create spaces that value and integrate diverse knowledge systems, foster meaningful engagement with affected communities, and promote inclusive decision-making processes. This approach recognizes the limitations of AI and emphasizes the critical role of human judgment, empathy, and ethical considerations in ensuring responsible and equitable outcomes in addressing climate change and other societal challenges.

How nature-based solutions can build urban resilience: four lessons from SEI’s work in South Asian cities

Blogs / By Ronika Postaria and Ridhi Saluja

Nature-based solutions can help address environmental challenges in cities but community involvement and engagement is crucial to utilize local knowledge and create sustainable solutions.

Power and Politics: Reframing Urban Nature-based Solutions from the Bottom-Up

Blogs, Future Cities / By Ashali Bhandari

Nature in South Asian cities is highly contested: cities must incorporate community visions, indigenous knowledge and local uses of nature in cities to achieve climate and development goals.

Policy-Lab on ‘Integrating Equity and Reframing Urban NbS in South Asian Cities’ to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Upcoming Event / By Transitions Research

The objective of the Policy Lab is to co-create regional and country specific pathways for incorporating NbS in urban planning and governance to address urgent climate, development and biodiversity issues faced by growing mid-sized cities in South Asia.

India National Workshop: Integrating Equity and Reframing Urban Nature-based Solutions

Events / By Transitions Research

With support from the Stockholm Environment Institute’s Strategic Collaborative Fund Phase 2, Transitions Research is organising a National Workshop on Integrating Equity and Reframing Nature-based Solutions on Wednesday, June 7th, 2023. Since the mid-2010s, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have received growing attention in the discourse surrounding net-zero ambitions, restoring ecosystems for sequestration, and biodiversity conservation. This …

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Behaviour change and climate action

Blogs, Low Carbon Society / By Ashali Bhandari and Pooja Haldea

Policymakers must recognise behavior change as an important tool to inform climate policies and communication, and enable individual climate action.

Too hot to deliver

Blogs, Future Cities / By Ashali Bhandari and Charu Pragya

Platform companies, governments, and regulatory bodies must work together to effectively address heat stress for vulnerable communities like delivery workers in Indian cities.

Why gearing towards net zero with low carbon lifestyles is crucial

Blogs, Low Carbon Society / By Vikrom Mathur

There is an urgent need to reimagine a sustainable future with an environmentally conscious lifestyle at the individual, household and community levels.

Urban Wetlands Are Not Wastelands; They Are Essential For Net-Zero and Climate Resilient Cities

Blogs, Low Carbon Society / By Vikrom Mathur

Conserving urban wetlands and integrating them into communities is extremely crucial for India’s carbon sequestration and climate resilience goals.

4S 2022: Reunion, Recuperation, Reconfiguration – Knowledges and technosciences for living together

Upcoming Event / By Transitions Research

Transitions Research is hosting a virtual panel at the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science in December 2022 called “Social solidarity in the COVID-19 pandemic”.

AI, Climate Adaptation, and Epistemic Injustice

How nature-based solutions can build urban resilience: four lessons from SEI’s work in South Asian cities

Power and Politics: Reframing Urban Nature-based Solutions from the Bottom-Up

Policy-Lab on ‘Integrating Equity and Reframing Urban NbS in South Asian Cities’ to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka

India National Workshop: Integrating Equity and Reframing Urban Nature-based Solutions

Too hot to deliver

Why gearing towards net zero with low carbon lifestyles is crucial

Urban Wetlands Are Not Wastelands; They Are Essential For Net-Zero and Climate Resilient Cities

4S 2022: Reunion, Recuperation, Reconfiguration – Knowledges and technosciences for living together

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