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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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.

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Ecosystem Services & Human Wellbeing

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Hydrologic and carbon services in the Western Ghats

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Journal Articles

Manish Kumar, Øivind Hodnebrog, Anne Sophie Daloz, Sumit Sen, Shrinivas Badiger, Jagdish Krishnaswamy 2021 Measuring precipitation in Eastern Himalaya: Ground validation of eleven satellite, model and gauge interpolated gridded products Journal of Hydrology, Volume 599, 2021, 126252, ISSN 0022-1694, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126252. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169421002997)

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Clark, B.; DeFries, R.; Krishnaswamy, J. 2021 India’s Commitments to Increase Tree and Forest Cover: Consequences for Water Supply and Agriculture Production within the Central Indian Highlands Water. 2021; 13(7):959. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13070959

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