Dr. Jagdish Krishnaswamy

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Dr. Jagdish Krishnaswamy
Dean, School of Environment and Sustainability, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)
Senior Adjunct Fellow, ATREE
jagdish@atree.org
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Dr. Jagdish Krishnaswamy

Jagdish Krishnaswamy is the Dean, School of Environment and Sustainability, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS). Link to profile: https://iihs.co.in/iihs-people/team/jagdish-krishnaswamy,  krishnaswamy@iihs.ac.in

He is a Senior Adjunct Fellow at ATREE.

Jagdish Krishnaswamy has a B.Tech in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India and a MS in Statistics and Decision Sciences and a  Ph.D in Environmental studies, Duke University, North Carolina, USA.   

As Adjunct Fellow at ATREE, Jagdish is interested in fostering joint collaboration between IIHS and ATREE on urban ecology, nature-based solutions, citizen science-based monitoring systems for urban environmental processes, ecological restoration, quantification and mapping of ecosystem services  and climate change resilient and biodiversity friendly management of regulated rivers and reservoirs.

Programme: 
Ecosystem Services & Human Wellbeing
Guides: 
Kadambari Deshpande
Nachiket Kelkar
Nita Shashidharan
Vidyadhar Atkore
Students: 
Kadambari Deshpande
Nachiket Kelkar
Nita Shashidharan
Vidyadhar Atkore
Projects: 
Hydrologic and carbon services in the Western Ghats

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Journal Articles

Kadambari Deshpande, Abi T. Vanak, M. Soubadra Devy, Jagdish Krishnaswamy 2022 Forbidden fruits? Ecosystem services from seed dispersal by fruit bats in the context of latent zoonotic risk Volume2022, Issue2, https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08359
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Deshpande, K.*, Kelkar, N., Krishnaswamy, J. & Sankaran, M. 2021 Stretching the habitat envelope: Insectivorous bat guilds can use rubber plantations, but need understorey vegetation and forest buffers. Frontiers in Conservation Science. 2:751694. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2021.751694
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Popular Writings

Lesson from devastation in Kerala: Investing in new knowledge for the future
Jagdish Krishnaswamy
Rallying to protect our rivers is great. But let’s get the science right
Veena Srinivasan, Sharachchandra Lele, Jagdish Krishnaswamy and Priyanka Jamwal

Book Chapters

Lele, S. and J. Krishnaswamy. , 2019 , Climate Change and India's Forests. In: India in a Warming World , India in a Warming World
Badrinarayanan, S., J. Krishnaswamy, Lele, S., and K. Chandrashekara , 2001 , Consequences of Forest Conversion to Coffee Plantation on Litter Beetle and Ant Communities , in K.N. Ganeshaiah, R.U. Shaanker, and K.S. Bawa, (Eds.), Proceedings of International Conference on Tropical Ecosystems: Structure, Diversity and Human Welfare, Oxford-IBH Publishing, New Delhi, pp.162-163.

Reports

A Technical Report: Hydrologic and Carbon Services in the Western Ghats: Response of Forest and Agroecosystems to Extreme Rainfall Events, 2017, Krishnaswamy J, Chappel N, Bhalla RS, Sankaran M, Vaidyanathan S, Badiger S & Varghese S.(2017). Hydrologic and Carbon Services in the Western Ghats: Response of Forest and Agroecosystems to Extreme Rainfall Events. Technical Report submitted to Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India. 67pp.
Vanak, A.T., A. Kulkarni, A. Gode, C. Sheth, E. DiMinin, K.K. Karanth, O. Thorat, and J. Krishnaswamy. 2017. Conservation and Sustainable Use of the DryGrassland Ecosystem in Peninsular India: a Quantitative Framework for ConservationLandscape Planning. F, 2017,
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Kadambari Deshpande

  • PhD Candidate
  • Ecosystem Services & Human Wellbeing
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Nachiket Kelkar

  • Wildlife Conservation Trust

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