Journal articles, books and other publications

Butsch, C.; Chakraborty, S.; Gomes, S.L.; Kumar, S.; Hermans, L.M. Changing Hydrosocial Cycles in Periurban India. Land 2021, 10, 263. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10030263.

Chakraborty, Shreya. (2021). Periurban Water: Recognizing the Margins for Sustainable Urban Water Futures. In: Clean Water and Sanitation (pp.1-13). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70061-8_174-2.

Luft S and Butsch C. 2022. Planning for Livelihoods Under Hydrosocial Uncertainty in Periurban Pune. Front. Water 4:831464. doi: 10.3389/frwa.2022.831464

Gomes, S.L. (2022). Interventions to Strengthen Institutional Capacity for Peri-Urban Water Management in South Asia. In: Narain, V., Roth, D. (eds) Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79035-6_8

Calvillo, N., Garde-Hansen, J., Lima-Silva, F., Trajber, R., & Albuquerque, J. P. de. (2022). From Extreme Weather Events to ‘Cascading Vulnerabilities’: Participatory Flood Research Methodologies in Brazil During COVID-19. Journal of Extreme Events. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2345737622410020

Marchezini, V., Porto de Albuquerque, J., Pitidis, V., Rudorff, C. D. M., Lima-Silva, F., Klonner, C., & Martins, M. H. da M. (2022). Flood risk governance in Brazil and the UK: facilitating knowledge exchange through research gaps and the potential of citizen-generated data. Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, 31(6), 30–44. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-01-2022-0016

Pajarito-Grajales, D., Degrossi, L. C., Barros, D. D. R., Khan, M. R., Lima-Silva, F., Cunha, M. A., Trajber, R., & Porto de Albuquerque, J. (2022). Enabling Participatory Flood Monitoring Through Cloud Services. Proceedings of the 19th ISCRAM Conference – Tarbes, France May 2022, 1–11.

Sucharita Sen, Anshika John, Shreya Chakraborty, Manoj Jatav. 2019. Geographies of Drinking Water (In)securities in Peri-urban Hyderabad. Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 54, Issue No. 39, 28 Sep.

Policy briefs

Check out four new policy briefs from the CON-VIVA project:

• Convivial Conservation: A novel approach to protecting biodiversity
• Decolonising & convivial conservation
• How Political Economy Shapes Human-Wildlife Interaction
• Coexistence & convivial conservation

Blogs and other publications from around the web

See the TAPESTRY project’s ‘New Catch in Town’ multimedia website and video and the ‘Catching plastic: Mumbai’s Koli community uses fishing-nets to tackle pollution’ blog.

The IPACST project has created a teaching kit on intellectual property and sustainability transition. The kit is available Open Access, and includes slides, reading lists, and selected case studies on IP and sustainability.

Videos

Watch the documentary series: Waterproofing Memories [Memórias à Prova D’Água] produced by the Waterproofing Data project [available in Portuguese with English subtitles].

Watch the series of films ‘People who transform‘, from the AGENTS project.

Environment Support Group (ESG), a partner in the GoST project, organized the ‘ESG Imaginaries to Make Cities Work’ webinar series. Watch the videos and read the associated reports here:

• Environment Support Group Imaginaries to make cities work: waste and governance
• Environment Support Group Imaginaries to make cities work: Challenges of securing urban commons
• Environment Support Group Imaginaries to make cities work: Mobility & Infrastructure
• Environment Support Group Imaginaries to make cities work: Making cities of the 21st century inclusive

Podcasts

The Transformations to Groundwater Sustainability (T2GS) project has shared a series of four podcasts:

• Episode #1: Narratives of Bricolage with Prof Frances Cleaver
• Episode #2: Implications of COVID-19 for small-scale agriculture in Algeria, India and Morocco
• Episode #3: Colonial Circularities of California’s Hydrologic Frontiers: A Beacon and a Warning
• Episode #4: Practices of Circularity and Recharge

In the press…

Eduardo Brondizio gave an interview to the local TV channel in Santarem, Brazil, where he talked about the AGENTS project, the relevance of local initiatives in the region, and promoted the public seminar organized by the project in the city. The interview (in Portuguese) is freely available here.

Bombay61’s initiative to catch plastic in fishing nets, and the report ‘New Catch In Town’, created with the TAPESTRY project, received over 30 pieces of coverage in the media, including:

The ‘forgotten’ water ecosystems of Mumbai, Down to Earth, 5 September 2022

There’s a new catch in town, and it’s not fish. The Hindu Businessline, 18 September 2022

How Climate Change And Pollution Of Creeks Are Threatening Mumbai’s Aboriginals – The Koli People, India Times, 30 August 2022

The ESG group, a partner in the GoST project, has worked with communities, administrators and the judiciary in building a deep understanding of how water and rain shape cities and their futures. At part of this, the group has recently published a number of

How Caste and Class Divisions Caused Bengaluru’s Flooding, Leo F. Saldanha, The Wire, 15 September 2022

Fire, Foam and Now Floods, Bhargavi S. Rao, News Click, 12 September 2022

Why did Bengaluru get badly flooded? (video) Express Dialogues, 16 September 2022