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

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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Journal Articles

D.J.Lapworth, B.Ó Dochartaigh, T.Nair, J.O'Keeffe, G.Krishan, A.M.MacDonald, M.Khan, N.Kelkar, S.Choudhary, J.Krishnaswamy, C.R.Jackson 2021 Characterising groundwater-surface water connectivity in the lower Gandak catchment, a barrage regulated biodiversity hotspot in the mid-Gangetic basin Journal of Hydrology, Volume 594, March 2021, 125923, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125923
Kamaljit S.Bawa, Asmita Sengupta, Ravi Chellam, R.Ganesan, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Nitin Pandit, G.Ravikanth, Mahesh Sankaran, Darshan Shankar, Reinmar Seidler, R. Uma Shaanker, Abi Tamim Vanak 2021 Securing biodiversity, securing our future: A national mission on biodiversity and human well-being for India Biological Conservation, Volume 253, January 2021, 108867, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108867