2014
2018
The project examined issues of vulnerability and climate adaptation options and strategies with a focus on identifying barriers and enablers to effective, widespread and sustained adaptation. The project provided an Africa- and India-comparative framework while thinking about adaptation strategies, and therefore, recognised the potential of learning from successful strategies in different contexts. The project included a year-long Regional Diagnostic Studies (RDS) phase, a four-year long Regional Research Programme (RRP), and a parallel five-year-long process of Research into Use (RiU). IIHS led the South Asia research group, comprising the Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) and the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE).
International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Department for International Development (DfID).
Singh, C. (2021). Of borewells and bicycles: The gendered nature of water access in Karnataka, South India and its implications for local vulnerability. In A. Hans, N. Rao, A. Prakash, & A. Patel (Eds.), En-gendering climate change: Learnings from South Asia (pp. 58-84). Routledge.
Kaur, H., Srinivas, A., & Bazaz, A. (2021). Understanding access to agrarian knowledge systems: Perspectives from rural Karnataka. Climate Services, 21, Article 100205.
Few, R., Spear, D., Singh, C., Tebboth, M. G., Davies, J. E., & Thompson‐Hall, M. C. (2020). Culture as a mediator of climate change adaptation: Neither static nor unidirectional. WIREs Climate Change, 12(1), e687.
Maharjan, A., de Campos, R.S., Singh, C., Das, S., Srinivas, A., Rashed, M.,… Vincent, K. (2020). Migration and household adaptation in climate-sensitive hotspots in South Asia. Current Climate Change Reports, 1, 1-16.
Rao, N., Singh, C., Solomon, D., Camfield, L., Sidiki, R., Angula, M.,… & Lawson, E. T. (2020). Managing risk, changing aspirations and household dynamics: Implications for wellbeing and adaptation in semi-arid Africa and India. World Development, 125, 104667.
Gajjar, S. P., Jain, G., Michael, K., & Singh, C. (2019). Entrenched vulnerabilities: Evaluating climate justice across development and adaptation responses in Southern India. In K.K. Bhavnani, J. Foran, P. A. Kurian & D. Munshi (Eds.), Climate futures: Re-imagining global climate justice. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Singh, C., & Basu, R. (2019). Moving in and out of vulnerability: Interrogating migration as an adaptation strategy along a rural‐urban continuum in India. The Geographical Journal.
Conway, D., Nicholls, R. J., Brown, S., Tebboth, M. G. L., Adger, W. N., Ahmad, B., … Wester, P. (2019) The need for bottom-up assessments of climate risks and adaptation in climate-sensitive regions. Nature Climate Change, 9, 503–511.
Singh, C., Solomon, D., Bendapudi, R., Kuchimanchi, B., Iyer, S., & Bazaz, A. (2019). What shapes vulnerability and risk management in semi-arid India? Moving towards an agenda of sustainable adaptation. Environment and Development, 30, 35-50.
Singh, C. (2019). Migration as a driver of changing household structures: Implications for local livelihoods and adaptation. Migration and Development, 8(3), 301-319.
