INSEE-CESS International Conference
Climate Change and Disasters: Challenges, Opportunities and Responses
Tenth INSEE Biennial Conference, 2019, CESS, HYDERABAD
6 - 8 November 2019
Climate Change and Disasters: Challenges, Opportunities and Responses
Tenth INSEE Biennial Conference, 2019, CESS, HYDERABAD
6 - 8 November 2019
Conference Programme
1.3. Parallel Sessions
| November 8, Wednesday | 14:00–15:30 Session 1.3.1: Terrestrial and Wetland Ecosystems Chair: K N Ninan |
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| Presenter | Paper |
| Mihir Mathur and Kabir Sharma | Modelling the economics of grassland degradation in Banni, India, using system dynamics |
| Manjula M, Girigan Gopi and Vipindas | Wetland paddy ecosystems and amphibian diversity: need for compensating conservation |
| Dayakar Peddi | Economic cost of land degradation in India |
| Chandan Singha | Analysing adoption of soil conservation measures in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India |
| Bijayashree Satpathy | Conservation, poverty and livelihood: study in Similipal wildlife sanctuary |
1.3. Parallel Sessions
| November 8, Wednesday | 14:00–15:30 Session 1.3.2: Impacts of Climate Change and Adaptation by farmers 1 Chair: J B Rajan |
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| Presenter | Paper |
| Subir Sen | Rainfall and agricultural productivity: empirical analysis of possible relationship |
| Ajay Kumar Singh, K G S Narayanan and Pritee Sharma | Influence of climate variability on sugarcane farming in India: an application of stochastic frontier production approach |
| Md. Mahedi Hasan, Mohammad Tauhidul Islam and Nigar Sultana | Climate change and its impact on agricultural production in Bangladesh: Geo-statistical Analysis of spatial and temporal variations |
| Chandan Kumar Jha et al | Migration as adaptation strategy to cope with climate change: a study of farmers’ migration in Bihar |
| Narendra N Dalei | Do we need a climate change adaptation policy in agriculture sector in Indian state of Odisha? |
1.3. Parallel Sessions
| November 8, Wednesday | 14:00–15:30 Session 1.3.3: Fuelling Challenges Chair: Balachandra Patil |
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| Presenter | Paper |
| Dhanyashree Bhuvandas and Haripriya Gundimeda | Transport fuel elasticity estimation to understand the impacts of energy subsidy reform in India: a household study |
| Prantika Das and Haripriya Gundimeda | Direct and indirect impact pathways of biofuels in developing countries: A meta-analysis of literature evidences |
| Vandana Maurya | Conflicting dilemmas of energy saving in Indian domestic sector: efficiency vs. conservation |
| Madalsa Singh and P Balachandra | Distributed hybrid electricity system for energy access, livelihoods, and empowerment |
1.3. Parallel Sessions
| November 8, Wednesday | 14:00–15:30 Session 1.3.4: SDGs and Global South 1 Urban challenges in sanitation Chair: Bejoy K Thomas |
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| Presenter | Paper |
| Debasree Bose and Arijita Dutta | the country progressing towards sustainable development goal? |
| NC Narayanan | Technology choice and institutional options in urban sanitation: towards a protocol for town level sanitation planning |
| Indranil De | Urban sanitation, co‐financing and the myth of co‐production: the case of Indian slums |
| Rakesh Kumar Sharma and Vibhor Sood | Waste management in the Himalayan hill city Shimla: concerns for ecology, economics and governance |
| Shivani Wadehra and Arabinda Mishra | Enabling institutions to achieve efficient waste management |
| Anita Pinheiro | Urban food system transitions and socio-ecological resilience in Kerala |
2.2. Parallel Sessions
| November 9, Thursday | 11:00–13:00 Session 2.2.1: Perceptions and Behavioural responses Chair: L Venkatachalam |
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| Presenter | Paper |
| Monalisa Ghosh et al. | What affects the willingness to pay for arsenic safe drinking water? A case study in rural West Bengal |
| Prajna Paramita Mishra | Economic valuation of a recreation model: challenges and way forward |
| Varadarajan Raghupathy and G Uma | Perception of stakeholders on the maintenance of irrigation tanks in Sivagangai district of Tamil Nadu |
| Maya K | Trust and life satisfaction: evidence from India |
| Claudia Lemke, Rita Bergmann and Dennis A. Ostwald | Evidence-based sustainability reporting: condensing the integral sustainability of individual economic agents, branches and economies into the sustainability index NAX |
2.2. Parallel Sessions
| November 9, Thursday | 11:00–13:00 Session 2.2.2: Impacts of Climate Change and adaptation by farmers 2 Chair: Indira Devi |
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| Presenter | Paper |
| L Umamaheswari et al. | Impact of drought on agriculture in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh |
| Deepika Swami and Devanathan Parthasarathy | Climate variability and agriculture vulnerability for Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India |
| Saptarsi Chakraborty and Santadas Ghosh | Propagating salt tolerant rice: possible adaptation strategy against climate change in coastal West Bengal |
| Asfika Begum and Ratul Mahanta | Impact of climate change and variability on rice yield in Assam |
| V Saravanakumar | Climate change impacts and adaptation in sorghum production in Tamil Nadu |
2.2. Parallel Sessions
| November 9, Thursday | 11:00–13:00 Session 2.2.3: Conservation Chair: Jayshree Vencatesan |
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| Presenter | Paper |
| Trupthi Narayan and Pankaj Sekhsaria | Media reporting on the protected areas in Maharashtra - a thematic analysis |
| Indrani Roy Chowdhury | Dual control of forests in a federal structure |
| Sulochana Pednekar | Collective action and eco-tourism under different institutional framework- comparison of turtle nesting sites in Goa and Maharashtra |
| Binilkumar Amarayil Sreeraman and Konthoujam Gyanendra Singh | Conservation vs. livelihood: stakeholder preferences over the improved conservation of Loktak lake in Manipur, India |
2.2. Parallel Sessions
| November 9, Thursday | 11:00–13:00 Session 2.2.4: SDG and Global South 2 Urban challenges in housing and waste Chair: Sunny George |
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| Presenter | Paper |
| Saji M Kadavil | Conservancies and conservation: women forest protection group in the Western Ghats of Kerala |
| Deep Jyoti Francis and Anita Pinheiro | Local community knowledge and revival of mangroves in two districts of Kerala: the role of collective action |
| Lisa Mariam Varkey | An economic assessment of trends in land-use-land-cover data of Kuttanad wetland ecosystem, Kerala and investment measures adopted for its sustainable development |
| Anitha V | Pilgrim tourism and ecological sustainability of Pampa river in Kerala |
| Michael Sinclair, Andrea Ghermandi, Sheela A. Moses, Sabu Joseph | Using geotagged photos from social media to value the recreational benefits of Kerala’s wetlands in India |
2.3. Parallel Sessions
| November 9, Thursday | 14:00–15:30 Session 2.3.1: Politics, Resistance and Movements Chair: T P Kunhikannan |
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| Presenter | Paper |
| P Omkar Nadh | Politics of pollution: a case of Godavari mega aqua food park in west Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh |
| Deepika Swami and Devanathan Parthasarathy | Increasing water vulnerability of Indian megacity, Mumbai: interconnected web of politics and policies |
| Ramesh Dheeravath | Ecology and capitalism at the crossroads: a case study of Telangana |
| Arpita Bisht and Julien-François Gerber | Ecological distribution conflicts over mineral extraction in India: an overview |
| Joan Martinez-Alier | The EJOLT project (2011-15) and the EnvJustice project (2016-21) at the ICTA UAB, Barcelona |
2.3. Parallel Sessions
| November 9, Thursday | 14:00–15:30 Session 2.3.2: Aquatic Ecosystems Chair: A Gopalakrishnan (TBC) |
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| Presenter | Paper |
| Jyothis Sathyapalan | Economic value of biodiversity loss: a case study of by-catch from Andhra Pradesh marine fishery |
| Pankaj Sekhsaria | The ecology and history of the Andaman Islands: bottom up and through the lens of fiction |
| Lucy M Turner et al | An interdisciplinary risk assessment: harmful microbes, shellfish, climate change and urbanisation in Mangalore, southwest India |
| Md. Hafiz Iqbal | Choice modeling and its application to Sundarbans mangrove forest preservation |
| Farid Ahmed | First-and second-order adaptation to salinity and water logging: case of coastal embankment in Satkhira district, Bangladesh |
2.3. Parallel Sessions
| November 9, Thursday | 14:00–15:30 Session 2.3.3: Institutions for governance of 'commons' Chair: P S Easa |
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| Presenter | Paper |
| Anindita Roy Saha and Grace Charles Muangirwa | Participatory forest management and the role of institutions in Tanzania: a survey |
| S Gunakar | Role of collective action and governance in implementing sustainable fishing practices: a case study of Karnataka marine fisheries |
| S Krithi | What constitutes the ‘commons’ in water? A case study of irrigation systems in Puducherry district |
| Tapas Kumar Sutradhar and Santadas Ghosh | Self governance of fishermen in Sundarban: a case study |
| Jingjing Cai and Hang Xiong | An agent-based Simulation of cooperation in the use of irrigation systems |
2.3. Parallel Sessions
| November 9, Thursday | 14:00–15:30 Session 2.3.4: SDGs and Global South 3 Pollution and Health Chair: Peter M. Raj |
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| Presenter | Paper |
| Tapaswini Nayak and Indrani Roy Chowdhury | Health externality in terms of respiratory illness related sick days due to air pollution: evidence from open cast coal mining region of Odisha |
| P Manikandan, N Kamaladhasan and S Chandrasekaran | Studies on the influence of land change and land use pattern on the mosquito vector population in human dominated ecosystems at Palani, Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu |
| Gaurav Kumar | Impact of air pollutant PM10 on house rent in the cities of Ghaziabad and NOIDA of NCR in India using hedonic property price model |
| Arvind Lakshmisha, Priyanka Agarwal and Bhargavi Nagendra | Promoting collective action to improve water security in peri-urban areas around Bangalore city using social accountability tools |
| Namita Singh, Trupti Mishra and Rangan Banerjee | Effect of road transport infrastructure, energy use and economic growth on CO2 emission in India |
3.2. Parallel Sessions
| November 10, Friday | 11:30–13:30 Session 3.2.1: Livelihood Chair: Amita Shah |
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| Presenter | Paper |
| Dhanya B et al. | Ecosystem services and agricultural livelihoods: an analysis of trade-offs in peri-urban Bangalore |
| Pradyot Ranjan Jena and Bibhu Prasad Nayak | Can third party certification programs improve livelihoods and reduce food insecurity: an empirical study from southern India |
| Sneha G and Gopakumar Viswanathan and Amalendu Jyotishi | Role and movement pattern of women entrepreneurs in the fish value chain: a micro level study in India |
| Krishna Malakar, Trupti Mishra and Anand Patwardhan | Drivers of adaptation decisions in marine fishing community of Mumbai, India |
| Harshan Tee Pee | Agricultural production and income in a disaster year: findings from the study of Melanjippattu village affected by cyclone Thane |
3.2. Parallel Sessions
| November 10, Friday | 11:30–13:30 Session 3.2.2: Valuations, evaluations and viabilities Chair: M N Sudhakaran |
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| Presenter | Paper |
| Arakhita Behera | Do consumers really care about green practices? A case study of GHMC star hotels |
| Sukanya Das, Karthick Radhakrishnan and Bouzit Madjid | Assessing the economic viability of alternative option for water management: a case study of Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu |
| Megha Nath et al. | Improving evaluation knowledge for better regulation in the forest policies |
| Abhijit Sharan et al. | Economic valuation of coastal and marine ecosystem goods and services in India |
3.2. Parallel Sessions
| November 10, Friday | 11:30–13:30 Session 3.2.3: Governing and Managing Climate Change Chair: Bibhu Prasad Nayak |
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| Presenter | Paper |
| Udayakrishnan Azhakath | What lies ahead for global climate governance? A discussion on key approaches and the experience so far |
| K. Dhavala et al | What would a socio-economic and energy technology system be like if we limit climate change to Paris agreement? An hybrid modelling system approach |
| Akanksha Jumde and Nishant Kumar | Climate change induced migration: challenges and opportunities under international law: a case study of India and Bangladesh |
| Ramnath Reghunadhan | Integrating space technologies into river basin management: an Indian scenario |
| Mousami Prasad, Trupti Mishra and Varadraj Bapat | Role of voluntary compliance in managing climate change at firm level in India |
3.2. Parallel Sessions
| November 10, Friday | 11:30–13:30 Session 3.2.4: SDGs and Global South 4 Inequality, inclusion, access Chair: Shyjan Davis |
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| Presenter | Paper |
| Saswat Kishore Mishra (TBC), Pulak Mishra and Srijit Mishra | Factors influencing corporate social responsibility expenditure of Indian mining firms: implications for ecology and social inclusion |
| Lavanya Suresh | Perspectives on gender equality in the context of environmental sustainability |
| Abhilas Kumar Pradhan | Distributional impact of common property forest incomes on rural income inequality: case study from Odisha |
| Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati and Unmesh Patnaik | Can increasing human development and income reduce impact from natural disasters? empirical evidence for floods in India |
| Ismail Haque | Inequality in access to quality housing in Kolkata- a micro level spatial analysis using geographically weighted regression |