Upasna Acharya is a final year post-graduate student in International Cooperation and Development studies at Mid-Western University, Nepal offered in collaboration with University of Pavia, Italy. Upasna is associated as a Research Intern with Women in Environment in LCC Project. Her key roles are to conduct literature review on Climate Change adaptation, review climate related
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Sanjeev Poudel is final year post-graduate M.A. student in Sustainable Development at TERI University, New Delhi India. Sanjeev is associated as an intern for six months until May 2014 with Women in Environment in the LCC Project. His research as an intern involves understanding migration and climate change impacts in the most vulnerable region of
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Sajida Awan holds an MBA and is presently pursuing her MA in Sustainability Management from the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo. Sajida expertise lies in disaster management, water and sanitation, Rule of Law, Democracy and Elections. She has worked with UNICEF, UNDP and SUNGI Development Foundation in Pakistan. Her interest is
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Komalpreet Kaur is a final year masters’ student studying Sustainable Development Practices at TERI University. Earlier she studied economics at the University of Delhi. Her field experience includes field visits to Orchha in Madhya Pradesh as a part of curriculum at TERI University, Tehri-Garhwal in Uttrakhand while pursuing the course ‘Agenda for Survival’ at Centre
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Originally from the Southern part of India, Ashok completed his graduate in Environmental science from Bharathiar University. Currently he is pursuing second master’s degree in Sustainability management at university of waterloo. His research interest is to understand how climate change affects the local fishing communities in India. It particularly focuses on local ecological knowledge, social-ecological
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Aastha Poudel is an Open Society Foundation scholar for M.A in Sustainable Development Practice at TERI University, New Delhi, India. Aastha is associated as an intern for six months until May 2014 with Women in Environment. Her post-graduate research aims to understand women’s role in adaptation to climate change and the adaptation strategies used by
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-Upasna Acharya Climate Change is a big challenge to the global environment and the economy. Nepal has identified climate change as a crosscutting issue by virtue of its nature and impacts. Despite nominal greenhouse gas emission of about 0.025 percent (GoN, 2010), Nepal is listed as a country at extreme risk to the impacts
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-Aastha Poudel The melting of glaciers, glacier outbursts, declining monsoon, increasing incidence of floods, and flash rains are making headlines across the world. But at Dadigurashee, the villagers relate the increasing change in weather pattern is due to deforestation. The community members expressed, “earlier there were plenty of forests, with the increasing population,
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Sumit Vij “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it” – Winston Churchill Continuing from the last blog entry, Living with Climate Change (LCC) Project at IRRAD has made progress in terms of site selection. I visited the Bundelkhand region in Central India in mid August 2013. Bundelkhand, a semi-arid geographical
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