Publications

Published

  • 2015. Social-ecological System Framework: Understanding urban lake governance and sustainability in India. PhD Dissertation at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
  • 2014. The ‘Adat’ Institution and the Management of Grand Forest ‘Herman Yohannes’ in Indonesian Timor. co-authors J.A. van Ast and A. Widaryati, in Conservation and Society, Medknow Publications.
  • 2013. Values connecting Societies and Water Systems’, co-authors J.A. van Ast and J.J. Bouma. Book chapter in Connective Capacity, in Water Governance edited by Jurian Edelenbos, Nanny Bressers, and Peter Scholten, Ashgate.
  • 2013. Sustainability of Urban Lakes: Role of Values in Lake Governance in Ahmedabad, India, co-authors J.A. van Ast and J.J. Bouma. in Sociology Study, David Publishing.

Under Review

  • Book. Applications of a Social-ecological system Framework- Analysing urban lake governance and sustainability in India, in Series: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences, Springer.

Ready to Submit

  • Paper. Why resource governance fail? in Conservation and Society, Medknow Publications.
  • Paper. Diagnosing Urban Lake Governance in India using Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis Development Framework, in Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier.
  • Paper. Challenges to collective governance of urban CPR: A case of Mansagar Lake, in Urban Climate, Elsevier.

Essays

  • 2015. Tanks and Water Management in Hyogo Prefecture, Field Essay for Hyogo University of Technical Education
  • 2015. Analysing Anasagar Lake System from a Social-ecological system approach . Submitted to Research Fellowship from Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, RIHN, Kyoto, Japan.
  • 2012. Emerging Crisis in Mansagar Lake Governance. A Re-Pronouncement of Death-Penalty for Mansagar Lake. Dedicated to the People of Jaipur through submission in the India Water Portal (http://www.indiawaterportal.org/news/emerging-crisis-mansagar-lake-governance-jaipur).
  • 2011. Preliminary Report on Governing Lake Gurram Cheruvu in Hyderabad. Submitted to the Local Councilor of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Ms. Aisha Rubani.

Papers/Articles in Conference, Workshop, Convention, Seminar, Magazine, Media

  • 2016. Assessment of Interactive Water Governance in India – A case of Anasagar Ajmer, at Seminar on Interactive Water Governance: Case Studies of Asia, 29 June 2016, IDE JETRO Chiba, Japan.
  • 2016. Opportunities and Challenges of Doing a Research. Case study of SES and Urban Lake System, 14 June 2016, at Nirma University, Ahmedabad.
  • 2016. Governance and Inclusion in Transforming Cities. Focus on Opportunities and Challenges in the Climate Change and Environment Sector in India. Panel Coordinator, SPA-IHS- NL Embassy Urban Seminar, 12 May 2016, ITPI Delhi.
  • 2016. Analysing Anasagar from a Social-ecological system approach, at Water and Wetland: Looking For Smart Solutions, 19 Mar 2016, MDS University Ajmer. Host and Presenter.
  • 2015. The Upstream-Downstream Saga of Mansagar, Jaipur, at International Training Workshop on Converting Waste into Resource: Beneficial and safe Reuse of Waste and Wastewater in peri-urban Agriculture in India, 23-26 Nov. 2015, Udaipur
  • 2015. Participant and Academic Advisory in National Conference on Global Warming & Climate Change: A Way Out, 20-22 Nov. 2015, Bhopal.
  • 2015. Institutional structures to restore & conserve urban water bodies, at Urban Lakes Conservation Options, 08 Oct, 2015, Indore, as Participant and Advisor for the Project and Presenter.
  • 2015. Social-Ecological System Framework- Understanding urban lake governance and sustainability in India, at The 108th RIHN Seminar, Kyoto.
  • 2014. The complex Science of Urban Lake Systems, at the International Conference on Lakes and Wetlands, 20 Feb 2014, EPCO, Bhopal.
  • 2013. Understanding Mansagar Lake Governance using Social-Ecological Systems (SES) Framework, at 14th IASC Conference, June 2-7, 2013 Kitafuji, Japan.
  • 2013. People’ perception on Mansagar Lake, Posters and Annual magazine of 16th Bird Fair by Tourism and Wildlife Society of India, Jaipur, February 4-5, 2013. pp 11-14.
  • 2013. SES Framework and Understanding Governing Urban Lake Systems in India, at Economic of Infrastructure Seminars, Faculty of TPM, TU Delft.
  • 2012. Water and water bodies Management in Urban India, at Working Conference on Urban Developments and Emerging Issues of Inclusion, Governance and Sustainability in India, IHS Rotterdam, 21-22 Sep 2012
  • Ground challenges to collective governance of urban lakes in India, at 4th European Consortium for Political Research Graduate Student Conference in Bremen, 4-6 July.
  • Challenges to collective governance of urban CPR, at Planet under Pressure Conference, London, UK, 25-28 March 2012.
  • Collective Action towards Ecological Performance of Mansagar Lake, at Mini Conference in Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Bloomington, USA , 11-14 Dec2011.
  • Towards Sustainability of Urban Lake Systems in India: A close look at the current lake Governance approach at Visiting Scholar Seminar Series in Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Bloomington, USA, 19 Sep 2011.
  • 2010-2011. Columnist in Erasmus Magazine, International Page. Academic Year 2010-2011. 10 Issues from September 2010-June 2011.
  • Towards sustainability of urban lake systems in India: A governance perspective, at GOCS Research Group in Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University, 22 Apr 2011.
  • Sustainability of Water Resource Systems In India: Role of Value in Urban Lake Governance In Ahmedabad, at 13th IASC Conference, Hyderabad, India, 7-11 January 2011.
  • Governing Values of Water Systems in The Netherlands and in India, at Netherlands Institute of Governance, Maastricht, NL, 23-25 November 2010.
  • Rotterdam Global Urban Summit on Sustainable Development, Rotterdam, 3-4’Sep 2010.
  • In conversation with Elinor Ostrom at the 13th Economics of Infrastructure Conference, TU Delft, NL, 27-28’May 2010.
  • Governance of Urban lake systems in India, at 2nd International River Festival, Hoshangabad, India, 21-23 Mar 2010.
  • Urban Lake Management In Ahmedabad: Ostrom’s SES Framework as a Starting Point, at AUC‐EUR, Sustainable Development Workshop, Cairo, Egypt, 27-29 Oct 2010.
  • Managing Public Open Spaces: Beyond Planning and Design, Workshop Coordinator at Department of Landscape Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 7 Jan 2010.
  • GBSM Congress- Water: Public right or Economic good, Erasmus University, 12 Dec 2009.
  • 10th N-AERUS Conference, IHS, Rotterdam, 5-6 Oct 2009.
  • Looking at the Institutions and Governance of Urban Lake Management in India, at Workshop on De- and Re-Regulation of The Network Industries, Delft, Netherlands, 20-24 April 2009.
  • Representing IHS at Habitat Business Forum on ‘Innovative Cities’, New Delhi, 9 July 2009.
  • Saving the Lakes of Bangalore, Bangalore, India 28 July 2009.
  • Ways To Pedestrianize Ahmedabad, in Times of India, Daily Newspaper, Ahmedabad, Nov 2008.
  • Business Proposal for IHS-Alumni Association, at IHS Networking event in World Urban Forum- 4, Nanjing, China, 28-30 Oct 2008.
  • ‘Cities are more important than countries’ and ‘Safer Cities Programme’, Panel Member and Training Assistant to IHS Rotterdam, at World Urban Forum- 4, Nanjing, 28-30 Oct 2008.
  • Redevelopment of Old Housing Societies- Issues Related To Dissenting Members, in Mumbai Times, Daily Newspaper, Mumbai and India Today Weekly Magazine 3 Oct 2007.
  • Sustainable Human Habitat, International Workshop at School of Architecture, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, Oct 2006.
  • International workshop on ‘Urban and City Design Curriculum Development’, in the EU funded Asia Link Programme, Workshop Coordinator, at CEPT, Ahmedabad 12-15 January 2005.
  • Workshop on ‘Rain water Harvesting and Urban Lakes’, Exhibition of Work, at Centre for Environment Education CEE, Ahmedabad, 28-29 January 2004.
  • Workshop on ‘Site Planning with Prof. Ravindra Bhan’, Workshop Coordinator, at Department of Urban Design, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 10-12 Dec 2003.
  • 1999-2001. Open Spaces in the Urban System, Talavadis (Lakes) as Opportunity, in Architect and Builder Magazine, India; in Gujarati Weekly ‘Abhiyan’ of Abhiyan Press and Publication Ltd.; in ‘Chitralekha; and in Times of India, Daily Newspaper, Ahmedabad, July 1999-Jan’ 2001.
  • Conceptual Plan for Re-densification of Sector 22, Chandigarh, in Mansar, Annual Magazine of Vastu-Shilpa Foundation, Ahmedabad, July 1999.
  • Re-densification of Sector 22 Chandigarh- Urban Design Approach, Poster Exhibition and Presentation at the International Convention on ‘Chandigarh, Celebrating its 50 years’ at Chandigarh University, Jan 1999, Chandigarh.
  • 1991-1992. Architectural Designs of House and College of Arts, in Journal of National Association of Student Architecture NASA, India.

Professional Reports

  • Vision Plan for Nau Chauki Pal, Rajsaamnd, for Rajsamand Municipality at EDC, May 2016
  • Conference Proceedings, Water and Wetland Workshop, Water and Wetland: Looking For Smart Solutions, 19 Mar 2016, MDS University Ajmer.
  • Institutional Analysis Development Framework of Urban Lake Governance in Indore: Case Studies of Lasudia Mori and Khajrana Lake, at EDC, Dec 2015
  • 20 Years of Environmental Design Consultants Ahmedabad, at EDC (in progress).
  • Review of the Draft Lake Development Authority Bill, Government of Rajasthan, at EUR, Feb 2013.
  • Review of the High Court Order dated 17th May 2012 on Mansagar Lake, at EUR, July 2012.
  • Report on Lake Gurram Cheruvu, Local Council Barkas area, Hyderabad, at EUR, May 2011.
  • Master Plan and Guidelines of Township Grassfield Farms and Resort, Jaipur, at EDC, May 2007.
  • Master Plan and Guidelines of Saurashtra University Campus, Rajkot, at EDC, June 2004
  • Ecological Upgradation and ISO 14001 of Morwad-Dharmeta marble mines, Rajsamand at EDC, June 2003
  • Development Strategies for Tourism growth in 5 towns of Suarashtra region: Dwarka, Junagarh, Palitana, Porbandar, Veraval- Patan, Gujarat, at CEPT, July 2002.
  • Master Plan for the Science and Technology Park of the Science City, Ahmedabad, at CEPT, May 2002.
  • Dwarka Urban Design Initiative, Dwarka, at CEPT, Jan 2002.
  • Rehabilitation of Social Amenities in earthquake affected villages of Bhachhau, Gujarat at CEPT, Oct 2001.
  • Master Plan for the Impact of Science City on Surrounding Development, Ahmedabad at CEPT, Aug 2000.
  • 1999. Environmental Assessment of Veraval Harbour Area (Physical Development), Veraval at CEPT, Oct 1999.