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IIASA and India Highlights

IIASA and India Highlights. January 2014. CONTENTS. Summary National Member Organization Research Partners Research Collaborations: Selected Highlights Capacity Building Further Information . SUMMARY. SUMMARY. SUMMARY. SUMMARY. SUMMARY. SUMMARY. SUMMARY.

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IIASA and India Highlights

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  1. IIASA and India Highlights January 2014

  2. CONTENTS • Summary • National Member Organization • Research Partners • Research Collaborations: Selected Highlights • Capacity Building • Further Information

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  10. NATIONAL MEMBER ORGANIZATION • Department of Science and Technology’s Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) • Prof Ranjan, Executive Director, TIFAC is IIASA’s Council Member • National committee for the India-IIASA Programme chaired by Dr Parikh, former member, Planning Commission, & Chairman, IRADe

  11. RESEARCH PARTNERS • 40 institutions in India, including: • Centre For Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) • Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) • Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad • Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) • Institute for Social and Economic Change • Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe) • International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) • National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) • National Institute of Hydrology (NIH) • The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

  12. RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS Selected Highlights: • Sustaining and improving food security and livelihoods in India • Global Energy Assessment and India • Tackling air pollution in India • Increasing India’s resilience to natural disasters • Projecting India’s future population

  13. SUSTAINING AND IMPROVING FOOD SECURITY AND LIVELIHOODS IN INDIA Climate Change Adaptation Soil Nutrient Balances Water Management Kerala Establish a decision support system for sustainable soil management in different agro-ecological environments Bundelkhand Water management tool to select measures to adapt to impending scarcity of fresh water resources Gujarat Identify strategies for vulnerable rural communities to cope with the impending impacts of climate change GIS/DSS: Spatial assessment and interactive data access system • Policy Options for Sustaining and Improving Food Security and Livelihoods • Adaptation to climate change • Water management options • Soil nutrient management

  14. GLOBAL ENERGY ASSESSMENT AND INDIA • GEA co-Chair, 4 convening lead analysts, and several lead analysts were Indians • GEA’s energy scenarios developed into a global energy vision for India till 2050 with IRADe • Spin-off report on GEA’s insights into providing two billion access to clean modern energy had focus on India • UN Secretary-General’s Sustainable Energy For All initiative adopted GEA’s key findings and IIASA with TERI providing knowledge to achieve these objectives

  15. POPULATION NEEDING NEW CONNECTIONS TO ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL ACCESS BY 2030 IN INDIA DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.04.075

  16. CO2 MITIGATION IN MAJOR ECONOMIES IN 2°C REGIMES van Sluisveld, M.A.E., Gernaat, D.E.H.J., Ashinab, S., Calvin, K.V. Garg, A., Isaac, M., Lucas, P.L., Mouratiadou, I., Otto, A.A.C., Rao , S., Shukla, P.R., van Vliet, J., van Vuuren, D.P., : Regional differences in mitigation efforts across modeled current and emerging major economies in 2°C regimes. Special Issue, Climate Change Economics (LIMITS)

  17. TACKLING AIR POLLUTION IN INDIA • GAINS ASIA identified advanced air pollution measures for India for next 20 years which will: • Increase life expectancy by 2.8 years • Avoid 2.5 million premature deaths • Pay for themselves by improving health, reducing lost work days, and increasing productivity DOI: 10.1021/es402867r

  18. INCREASING INDIA’S RESILIENCE DOI: 10.5595/idrim.2012.0033

  19. PROJECTING INDIA’S FUTURE POPULATION

  20. PROJECTING INDIA’S FUTURE POPULATIONRAPID DEVELOPMENT

  21. PROJECTING INDIA’S FUTURE POPULATIONRAPID DEVELOPMENT

  22. PROJECTING INDIA’S FUTURE POPULATION

  23. PROJECTING INDIA’S FUTURE POPULATIONSTALLED DEVELOPMENT

  24. PROJECTING INDIA’S FUTURE POPULATIONSTALLED DEVELOPMENT

  25. IMPACT OF EDUCATION ON POPULATIONRAPID VERSUS STALLED DEVELOPMENT

  26. WATER AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY • Gulbenkian Think Tank on Water and the Future of Humanity • Members include: SunitaNarain, Director-General, Center for Science and Environment, New Delhi & Pavel Kabat, Director-General IIASA • Changes to the way we access, provide and use water

  27. CAPACITY BUILDING 20 Indian nationals won places on IIASA’s Young Scientists Summer Program between 2007 and 2013

  28. POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS • Narasimha Rao (2011-2013): Relationship between electricity access, livelihoods and carbon dioxide emissions in India. (7 journal articles) • Tapas Mishra (2007-2008): Demography and economic growth. (7 journal articles)

  29. POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS • Upasna Sharma • PhD: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay • Postdoc with IIASA’s risk and vulnerability team 2009-2011 • Researched reducing vulnerability to natural disasters in India and published 5 journal articles. • E.g. Compared landslide management in India and Italy and found landslide risk benefits from a decentralized approach. • Today: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and continues to collaborate with IIASA DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0300-8

  30. ACADEMIC TRAINING WORKSHOPS • 17 workshops in India since 2007, including: • CEPT University, Ahmedabad (2011) • Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal (2010) • Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), (2012) • Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore (2010) • International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai (2010) • International Training Programme Air Pollution Management, Pune (2010) • Madras School of Economics, Madras (2010) • National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur, (2012) • National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), Roorkee (2011) • National Institute of Science, Technology & Development Studies (NISTADS), New Delhi (2009)

  31. THANK YOU Further Information IIASA and INDIA www.iiasa.ac.at/india India-IIASA Programme TIFAC (www.tifac.org) iiasatifac@gmail.com

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