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Issues, learnings and way forwards
Anjal Prakash
Presentation at the workshop – Adapting to Climate Change and Water Security in Asia
June 18, 2013
The research framework
Periurban water security
What constitutes water insecurity in peri-urban areas?
absence of frameworks for dialogue and conflict resolution
between rural and urban areas
Urbanisation & periurban water
Mismatch between urban planning and
environmental planning
Evidences of a changing climate • Increase in heat index• Rise in average max temperature (0.050C per year)• Sea level rise and salinity ingress in fresh water
bodies
How are people adapting?
Our learnings
Climate variability & change and urbanization intersect and create patterns of peri-urban
water insecurity
There is a need for disaggregating vulnerabilities (Gender, class\caste Vs access to water)
Our learnings
Changing gender relations
Climate science and local perception should have a meeting point
Our learnings
Stakeholders’ engagement is critical for adaptation and resilience
Our learnings
People are coping and adapting independently
Project outputs
4 policy briefs 11 discussion papers
Project outputs • 7 reports – focusing on scoping studies in four
locations, final report compiling the issues, separate report on climate change, vulnerability assessment etc
• Journal articles\chapters in edited volume – India infrastructure report– American journal of climate change– Climate and development – Water International– Water policy, economic and political weekly (under
review) • Book manuscript – Oxford University Press
Capacity building of researchers
• 2 PhDs from this project – Sreoshi and Uthpal• 2 Research Associates have enrolled in PhD (Ohio
State University, JNTU, Hyderabad) • The present consortium has been shortlisted in
three projects:– Cooperation or Conflict in the Management of Climate
Change (CCMCC) (DFID and WOTRO)– Urbanising Deltas of the world – Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa
and Asia (CARIAA) (IDRC and DFID)
