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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.

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.

The City as a Laboratory – Urban Living Labs for Resilience Planning

Blogs, Future Cities / By Ashali Bhandari and Shuchi Vora

Transitions Research hosted our first dialogue in our series Talking About Transitions on Urban Living Labs. This blog highlights some of the key takeaways from our event held in July 2022

Climate Adaptation in Resilient Cities: Explorations in South Asia

Blogs, Future Cities / By Ashali Bhandari and Yamini Srivastava

Transitions Research and Forum for the Future organised a workshop at the Global Gobeshona Conference in March 2022 to explore how scenarios of different climate adaptation strategies could transpire.

How can Indian cities achieve net-zero emissions?

Blogs, Future Cities / By Ashali Bhandari and Vinaya Padmanabhan

India’s rapid urbanisation, limited governance capacities and lack of climate-friendly policies hinder its path to carbon neutrality. Here’s how this can change

Blogs

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

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

The City as a Laboratory – Urban Living Labs for Resilience Planning

Climate Adaptation in Resilient Cities: Explorations in South Asia

How can Indian cities achieve net-zero emissions?

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