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

Vanak,A.T., A.Kulkarni, A.Gode, C.Sheth and J.Krishnaswamy (2015). 2015 Extent and status of semi-arid savanna grasslands in India. In G.S.Rawat and B.S.Adhikari (Eds),Ecology and Management of Grassland Habitats in India, ENVIS,WII,DehraDunpp192-201.
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Krishnaswamy, J., Vaidyanathan, S., Rajagopalan, B., Bonell, M., Sankaran, M., Bhalla, R.S. and Badiger, S., 2015 Non-stationary and non-linear influence of ENSO and Indian Ocean Dipole on the variability of Indian monsoon rainfall and extreme rain events. Climate Dynamics, 45(1-2), pp.175-184.
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