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

Singh, C., Joseph D., Amir B., Gina Z., Dian S., Jagdish K., Modathir Z., Evans K. 2017 The utility of weather and climate information for adaptation decision-making: current uses and future prospects in Africa and India. Climate and Development. May 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2017.1318744
Agarwal, S., Marathe, A., Ghate, R., Krishnaswamy, J., and Nagendra, H. 2017 Forest protection in Central India: Do differences in monitoring by state and local institutions result in diverse social and ecological impacts? Biodiversity and Conservation doi:10.1007/s10531-017-1344-6