Research Outputs

 

Journal Publications

Forthcoming

– “Performing comparative visual ethnography to study networks in water governance practices of repair in Bhopal and Bhuj.”
Informality in making policy (Forthcoming)
Authors: Mungekar, N., Janssen, A., Hölscher, K., Loorbach, D.

– “Rethinking on Resolving Urban Flooding: Lessons from an Ethnographic Case Study in a Tropical Coastal City of India.”
Climate Crisis: Adaptive Approaches and Sustainability (Forthcoming). Singapore: Springer.
Authors: Navaneeth, A., Ijhas, K., Sreeda, P., Sreenanda, P., Harikumar, P.S.

– “Groundwater Pricing Strategies for Indian cities: A case of Kanpur.”
Urban Water Journal (Forthcoming)
Authors: Trivedi, K., Kapshe, M., Mohan Das, V., Bade, S.

– “Hydrocultural dimension in Water-Sensitive Urban Design for Kozhikode, India.”
(Forthcoming)
Authors: Van der Meulen, G.J.M., Bacchin, T.K., Van Dorst, M.J.

– “Bridging Ecological Urbanism and Urban Political Ecology to transformative visions of Water Sensitivity in cities.”
(Forthcoming)
Authors: Hadrich Silva, R., Stead, D., Zwarteveen, M., Bacchin, T.K.

2023

– “Assessment of water quality and ecosystem health of a canal system during the lockdown period.”
Sustainable Water Resources Management (2023), pp. 1-11.
Authors: Sruthi K.V., Navaneeth, A., Harikumar, P.S.

– “Urban Water Management Through Design Intervention: A Review of Urban Design Cases from India.”
Proceedings of the International Conference on Future Is Urban (2023). Ahmedabad: Routledge.
Authors: Yadav, P., Iyer, M., Doshi, S., Mishra, G., Kumar, S.

2022

– “The Role of Water Governance in Ensuring Water Security: A Case of Indian Cities.”
Climate Change and Water Security (2022), pp. 267-276. Singapore: Springer.
Authors: Doshi, S., Sharma, R.

– “Smart Planning and Management of Urban Water Systems: The Case of Bhuj, India.”
Smart Master Planning for Cities (2022), pp. 133-176. Singapore: Springer.
Authors: Iyer, M., Doshi, S., Mishra, G., Kumar, S.

– “Partial Blockage Detection in Pipelines by Modified Reconstructive Method of Characteristics Technique.”
Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 148 (4) (2022), 04022003.
Authors: Kumar, P., Mohapatra, P.K.

– “Making Indian cities water sensitive – A critical review of frameworks.”
Climate Change and Water Security (2022), pp. 277-290. Singapore: Springer.
Authors: Kumar, S., Doshi, S., Mishra, G., Iyer, M.

– “Effect of label noise in semantic segmentation of high resolution aerial images and height data.”
ISPRS Annuals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2 (2022), pp. 275-282.
Authors: Maiti, A., Oude Elberink, S.J., Vosselman, G.

– “Water sensitivity and context specificity – concept and context in Water-Sensitive Urban Design for secondary cities.”
Urban Water Journal (2022)
Authors: Van der Meulen, G.J.M., Van Dorst, M.J., Bacchin, T.K.

2021

– “Extreme precipitation induced concurrent events trigger prolonged disruptions in regional road networks.”
Environmental Research Letters, 16 (10) (2021), 104050.
Authors: Dave, R., Subramanian, S.S., Bhatia, U.

– “Urban Water Management: Reviewing the Changing Patterns.”
Urban Imaginaries: IIHS Annual Research Conference Proceedings (2021), pp. 220-225. Bengaluru:  Indian Institute of Human Settlements.
Authors: Doshi, S., Sharma, R.

– “Mainstreaming Water Sensitive Concepts through Spatial Planning for Bhopal.”
RCLP-2020 Conference Proceedings (2021), pp. 188-192. Vijayawada: School of Planning and Architecture.
Authors: Jhawar, K., Iyer, M., Doshi, S., Mishra, G.

– “Water-sensitivity of Statutory Development Plans of Bhopal and Melbourne: A Critical Review.”
Water Security & Climate Change Conference (2021). Hanoi: Vietnam Academy of Water Resources.
Authors: Kumar, S. Doshi, S., Mishra, G., Iyer, M.

– “An assessment of spatial-ecological and water sensitive planning for Calicut.”
RCLP-2020 Conference Proceedings (2021), pp. 184-188. Vijayawada: School of Planning and Architecture.
Authors: Kuzhivelil, S.C., Iyer, M., Mishra, G., Doshi, S.

– “Ecological Perspectives in Spatial Planning: Critical Review of Master Plans for Delhi.”
Urban Imaginaries: IIHS Annual Research Conference Proceedings (2021), pp. 240-244. Bengaluru:  Indian Institute of Human Settlements.
Authors: Mishra, G., Joshi, R.

– “Evaluation of the challenges in water governance through citizen ’ s perception and Water Quality Index: a case study of a fast-growing city in India.”
H2Open Journal, 4 (1) (2021), pp. 336-351.
Authors: Navaneeth A., Sreeda P., Vishnumaya T.M., Sanusree P.S., Harikumar P.S.

2020

– “The need and rise of secondary smart cities: a case of Bhuj.”
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 592 (2020), 012012
Authors: Doshi, S., Roy, P., Iyer, M., Mishra, G.

– “Ecosystem Participation in Arid Environments.”
TU Delft DeltaLinks (2020)
Authors: Hooimeijer, F.L., Bacchin, T.K. & Rizzetto, F.

– “Deconstructing water sensitivity: experiences from global cities.”
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 592 (2020), 012010
Authors: Mishra, G., Acharya, G., Iyer, M., Doshi, S.

2019

– “Smart Water Management for Smart Kozhikode Metropolitan Area.”
Smart Environment for Smart Cities (2019), pp. 241-306. Singapore: Springer.
Authors: Kumar, T.V., Firoz, C.M., Bimal, P., Harikumar, P.S. and Sankaran, P.

Presentations in Symposia/ Conferences

2022

– “Urban Water Management Through Design Intervention: A Review of Urban Design Cases from India.”
International Conference on Future is Urban. December 16th-18th 2022, Ahmedabad, India.
Authors: Yadav, P., Iyer, M., Kumar, S., Doshi, S., & Mishra, G.

– “Drought analysis using bivariate copulas in the Indian secondary cities.”
AGU Fall Meeting. December 12th-16th 2021, Chicago, U.S.A.
Authors: Tripathi, I.M., Mahto, S.S., Mohapatra, P.K.

– “Reparative experimental governance for postcolonial geographies. Towards water sensitivity through informal capacities in the secondary cities of India.”
RSA Winter Conference. November 11th 2022, London, U.K.
Authors: Mungekar, N., Janssen, A., Hölscher. K, Loorbach, D.

– “Emerging water management paradigms for climate change adaptation.”
7th India Water Week. November 1st-5th 2022, Greater Noida, India.
Authors: Dwivedi, T.

– “Role of Water Sensitive Behaviour at Household Level towards Climate Change adaptation in Indian cities.”
7th India Water Week. November 1st-5th 2022, Greater Noida, India.
Authors: Trivedi, K.

– “Role of water sensitive cities for sustainable livelihood.”
7th India Water Week. November 1st-5th 2022, Greater Noida, India.
Authors: Singh, S.

– “Renegotiating culture to achieve water sensitivity for coastal cities in India.”
Annual IHE PhD Symposium. October 14th-15th 2022, Delft, The Netherlands.
Authors: Hadrich Silva, R.

– “Urban Living Labs: Innovation for Resilience.”
Transition Research. July 28th 2022.
Authors: Vora, S., Mungekar, N., Heinecke, S., Mathur, V.

– “Making water cultures globally mobile: how knowledge travels between The Netherlands and India through water sensitive urban design.”
IFoU – 15th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism. June 29th-July 1st 2022, Bordeaux, France.
Authors: Hadrich Silva, R., Stead, D., Zwarteveen, M., Bacchin, T.K.

– “Localness in Water-Sensitive Urban Design for Bhuj and Kozhikode, India.”
IFoU – 15th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism. June 29th-July 1st 2022, Bordeaux, France.
Authors: Van der Meulen, G.J.M.

– “Enabling reparative informality for water sensitive secondary Indian cities.”
GNHRE-UNEP. June 24th 2022.
Authors: Mungekar, N., Janssen, A., Hölscher. K, Loorbach, D.

– “Understanding the challenges and opportunities in water governance – A case study of an arid city in India.”
International Conference on Water and Environmental Management. June 22nd-24th 2022. Kozhikode, India.
Authors:  Navaneeth, A., Sreeda, P., Vishnumaya, T.M., Sanusree, P.S., Harikumar P.S.

– “Impacts of climate change and human activities on the dryland rivers in India.”
2nd International Conference on River Corridor Research and Management. May 30th-June 1st 2022.
Authors: Tripathi, I.M., Mahto, S.S., Mohapatra, P.K., Jain, V.

– “Who Owns the Water?”
Centre for Sustainability. May 18th 2022.
Authors: Mungekar, N.

– “Role of water literacy for urban water management in Indian context.”
Roorkee Water Conclave. March 4th 2022, Roorkee, India.
Authors: Trivedi, K., Singh, S., Vyas, D.

– “An Integrated Citizens’ Observatory: A Practical Approach from a fast-growing city in India.”
34th Kerala Science Congress. February 10th-12th 2022. Thiruvananthapuram, India.
Authors:  Navaneeth, A., Sreeda, P., Vishnumaya, T.M., Sanusree, P.S., Harikumar P.S.

2021

– “Extreme Precipitation-induced Concurrent Disasters Risk Assessment through Socio-economic and Topographic Vulnerability.”
AGU Fall Meeting. December 13th-17th 2021, New Orleans and Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Authors: Dave, R., Subramanian, S.S., Bhatia, U.

– “Bridging Ecological Urbanism and Urban Political Ecology for a new vision of Water Sensitivity in cities.”
IFoU – 14th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism. November 25th-27th 2021, Delft, The Netherlands.
Authors: Hadrich Silva, R., Stead, D., Zwarteveen, M., Bacchin, T.K. (Best Paper Prize)

– “Reviewing Water Management Practices for Demand Reduction in Indian Cities.”
International e-Conference on Water Source Sustainability. June 18th-21st 2021.
Authors: Trivedi, K., Vyas, D.

– “Towards transformative informality for water sensitive secondary Indian cities.”
Transition Conference. June 17th 2021. Barcelona, Spain.
Authors: Mungekar, N., Hölscher. K, Loorbach, D.

– “Designing (Relational) Change”, public lecture, Design for Uncertainty | We don’t design alone International Symposium. Escuela de Arquitectura UC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, May 20th 2021 (online)
Author: Bacchin, T.K.

– “Towards transformative informality for water sensitive secondary Indian cities.”
6th Network for Early career researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST) Conference. April 9th 2021. Sofia, Bulgaria.
Authors: Mungekar, N., Hölscher. K, Loorbach, D.

– “Valuing Water: A conceptual framework for making better decisions impacting water in urban areas”, keynote. Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), Calicut, India, on observance of the World Water Day, March 22th 2021 (online)
Author: Bacchin, T.K.

– “Making Indian cities water sensitive – A critical review of frameworks.”
Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. March 15th-20th 2021, Surathkal, India.
Authors: Kumar, S. Doshi, S., Mishra, G., Iyer, M.

– “Water-sensitivity of Statutory Development Plans of Bhopal and Melbourne: A Critical Review.”
Water Security & Climate Change Conference. March 1st-4th 2021, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Authors: Kumar, S. Doshi, S., Mishra, G., Iyer, M.

– “Mainstreaming Water Sensitive Concepts through Spatial Planning for Bhopal.”
International Conference on Resilient and liveable City Planning. February 10th-13th 2021.
Authors: Jhawar, K., Iyer, M., Doshi, S., Mishra, G.

– “An assessment of spatial-ecological and water sensitive planning for Calicut.”
International Conference on Resilient and liveable City Planning. February 10th-13th 2021.
Authors: Kuzhivelil, S.C., Iyer, M., Mishra, G., Doshi, S.

– “Ecological perspectives in spatial planning: Critical review of master plans of Delhi.”
IIHS Annual Research Conference (UrbanARC 2021). January 14th-16th 2021.
Authors: Mishra, G., Joshi, R.

– “Urban Water Governance: Reviewing the Changing Paradigms.”
IIHS Annual Research Conference (UrbanARC 2021). January 14th-16th 2021.
Authors: Doshi, S., Sharma, R.

2020

– “Deconstructing water sensitivity: experiences from global cities.”
5th PlanoCosmo International Conference. October 20th-21st 2020.
Authors: Mishra, G., Acharya, G., Iyer, M., Doshi, S.

– “The need and rise of secondary smart cities: a case of Bhuj.”
5th PlanoCosmo International Conference. October 20th-21st 2020.
Authors: Doshi, S., Roy, P., Iyer, M., Mishra, G.

– “Assessment of surface water quality status using geospatial techniques in Canoli canal, coastal district, Kozhikode Kerala.”
International Conference on Water Resources (ICWR). October 16th-17th 2020.
Authors: Navaneeth, A., Harikumar, P.S., Sreedharan, K., and Vishnumaya, T.M.

– “Assessing the role of informality in urban water transformations in India.”
International Conference on Sustainability Transitions (IST). August 18th-21st 2020, Vienna, Austria.
Authors: Mungekar, N., Hölscher, K., Loorbach, D.

– “A transition studies lens on the challenge of adapting to a changing climate.”
International Conference on Sustainability Transitions (IST). (Dialogue Session). August 18th-21st 2020, Vienna, Austria.
Authors: Hölscher, K., Mungekar, N.

– “Cities, citizens and scientists: Transformative governance through transdisciplinary collaboration.”
International Conference on Sustainability Transitions (IST). (Dialogue Session). August 18th-21st 2020, Vienna, Austria.
Authors: Hölscher, K., Egermann, M.

– “Water4Change: a cross-domain approach to Water Sensitive Design for Secondary Cities in India.”
Delta Design in Times of Climate Crisis International Conference (Parallel Session). March 5th-06 2020, Delft , the Netherlands.
Author: Bacchin, T.K.

 

Educational Activities

CEPT University

– Studio sessions of the Master of Urban Infrastructure programme
– Course floated as part of the Summer Winter School
– Directed Research Project (Capstone Project) of Post-Graduate students.
Responsible Instructor: dr. Mona Iyer

Delft University of Technology

– Elective course (Design Studio) of the Master of Architecture and the Built Environment, Urbanism Track ‘Infrastructure and Environment Design’.
Responsible Instructor: dr. Taneha K. Bacchin

 

Public Lectures – Invited Keynotes

2023

“The Form of Time: Water, Land, Atmorsphere”, public lecture, The City and Urban Design | Taubman College, in the University of Michigan, USA. February 1st 2023 (online)
Author: Bacchin, T.K.

2022

“The Question of Nature: Material, Aesthetics and Political Form between Mediated Reality and Partial Representation”, public lecture, Symposium Urban/Peri-Urban/Rural/Natural, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. March 23rd 2022 (hybrid/online).
Author: Bacchin, T.K.

2021

“Performative Nature”, public lecture, Winter School—WASH in Emergencies through Nature based Solution in Sanitation. CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India, December 23rd 2021 (online)
Author: Bacchin, T.K.

“Figures of Water: Architecture, Politics, Matter”, public lecture, Water Studio | USC University of Southern California, School of Architecture, USA. Organised by European Cultural Academy, October 1st 2021 (online)
Author: Bacchin, T.K

2020

“Landscapes of Water in Theory, History and Design”, public lecture. CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India, 08th June 2020 (online)
Author: Bacchin, T.K.

“Prospecting Landscapes”, public lecture (duo session with Luis Callejas). Arcadian Anthropocene? Lecture Series – Academie van Bouwkunst, Amsterdam, February 5th 2020.
Author: Bacchin, T.K.