Amita Bhaduri

21-year old with sign boards on Ladakh streets is helping change how residents manage waste

Disposing waste safely Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 3 months ago

Stanzin's team towards the end of second drive (Image: Karuna Chhimed)

India gears up for second spell of intense heat

Climate change nightmares coming true Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 3 months ago

Maximum temperatures breaking records are now here to stay with the rise in global mean temperatures (Image: Frau Katze, Pixabay)

Wastewater management framework in India: Policy challenges and solutions for a sustainable future

Uniform laws needed across states to govern the untreated wastewater flowing into the water bodies Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 3 months ago

Yelahanka wastewater treatment plant, Bangalore (Image: India Water Portal Flickr)

Greening solar energy through waste management

The waste generated is left out in barren lands in an unscientific manner Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 3 months ago

With the rising installations the solar waste accumulations will also rise to huge extent on their life cycle completion (Image: Pixabay)

Eastern India highly vulnerable to climate change, says study

Study analyses the historical climate and projects, the temperature and rainfall of the four eastern states Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 3 months ago

Climate projections for the eastern states at the district level for the period 2021–2050 (the 2030s) indicate a warmer and wetter future (Image: Save the Children)

Celebrating the role of hill women in springshed development and governance

Recognizing women's accumulated knowledge and adaptive capacities in springshed management Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 4 months ago

Van Panchayat Samiti discussing the matters related to forest (Image: Varun Raja)

Tribals await effective implementation of policies

Water access in tribal areas of Gujarat: Status and recommendations Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 4 months ago

Participants discussing about PIM and Pani Samiti (Water Associations) with local community leaders on a field visit to Pingot Dam (Image: AKRSP)

Understanding disaster risks as a systemic construct

Disaster risk governance: Recipe to effective disaster risk management in times of COVID-19 Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 4 months ago

Countries are engaged in empowering communities to adapt to the new normal (Image: Pixabay)

Women at the frontline of climate change adaptation

Women make strides in mainstreaming climate adaptation approaches on the ground Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 4 months ago

Kalyani Dash works with 150 households in the village directly and trains them on chemical-free farming techniques, water secure crop production, efficient water use in agriculture for a sustainable farming future as well as kitchen and nutrition gardening. (Image: FES)

Pharma antibiotics polluting Indian rivers, says Toxics Link study

The locations where antibiotic residues are detected are not necessarily in close proximity to major pharmaceutical industrial hubs Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 4 months ago

Antibiotic residues in rivers can worsen the problem of antimicrobial resistance (Image: PxHere; CC-0)

Need for demand-side management: From the lens of participatory groundwater management

To successfully implement PGWM, there is a need to understand groundwater science from a community perspective. Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 4 months ago

Arid Communities and Technologies (ACT) is a professional voluntary organization based at in the arid region of Kutch. One of its core areas of work is the implementation of innovative projects like community aquifer management. (Image: Vikalp Sangam)

The tale of two disasters: Role of science communication for disaster risk reduction

Comparing two incidents of flash floods in the Garhwal region Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 4 months ago

Aftermath caused by cloud burst and flood in Kedarnath, Uttarakhand (Image: Rahul Dixit, EGU)

Mumbai sets a mitigation goal to achieve net-zero by 2050

World Resources Institute (WRI) India and the C40 Cities network develop Mumbai’s first-ever Climate Action Plan Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 4 months ago

The MCAP adopts a scientific evidence-based planning approach to mobilize resources and move from planning to implementation of strategic projects (Image: Deepak Gupta, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 3.0)

Community members pursue common good

An effective partnership between a CSR organization, an implementing NGO, and the community towards protecting a water body Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 4 months ago

Walkway around pond, with solar lighting (Image: S M Sehgal Foundation)

Impact of climate change on agricultural livelihoods of women

Arthan and JustJobs Network organised a forum to discuss climate change through the lens of gender equality Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 4 months ago

A pearl millet farmer with part of her harvest (Image: ICRISAT, CC BY-NC 2.0)

Making every drop count: Micro-irrigation for tribal farmers of Gujarat

Subsidies enable tribal farmers to adopt micro-irrigation systems providing them assured irrigation Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 4 months ago

A key mitigation strategy to deal with water scarcity due to climate change is on-farm management of water using techniques like micro-irrigation (Image: India Water Portal Flickr)

A tool for crop choice integrates gender and farmer's preferences

Model used to explore consequences of different crop choices on income, gender-specific labour, use of inputs and markets Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 4 months ago

Promoting socially inclusive and sustainable agricultural intensification in West Bengal and Bangladesh (Image: ACIAR)

Economics of India’s adaptation and resilience pathways

Drought contributes more than 70 per cent to India’s riskscape followed by floods, cyclones and earthquakes/tsunamis Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 4 months ago

An assessment of the cost and priorities of climate adaptation in different regions can strengthen resilience and warning systems. (Image: Max Pixel CC0)

Budgetary trends for drinking water in Gujarat: Special focus on tribal communities

Gujarat aims to achieve 100 per cent saturation in tap water connection for every household by October 2022 under the Jal Jeevan Mission Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 4 months ago

The SCALE project implemented in villages in semi arid regions enabled ultra-poor groups in project villages improve their access to drinking water (Image: European Union, Flickr Commons)

Grappling with disaster risks

A handbook on India’s disaster management Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 5 months ago

A flood damaged road alongside the River Alaknanda in Chamoli district in Uttarakhand on June 18, 2013 (Image: AFP Photo/ Indian Army; Flickr Commons)