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

V. M. Atkore, J. D. Marcus Knight, K. Rema Devi, and J. Krishnaswamy 2015 A New Species of Pethia from the Western Ghats, India (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Copeia: July 2015, Vol. 103, No. 2, pp. 290-296.

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Varma, Varun, Jayashree Ratnam, Vinatha Viswanathan, Anand M. Osuri, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, M. D. Madhusudan, Mahesh Sankaran, Meghna Krishnadas, Deepak Barua, Megha Budruk, Kavita Isvaran, Rajah Jayapal, Jahnavi Joshi, Krithi K. Karanth, Jagdish Krishnas 2015 Perceptions of priority issues in the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems in India. Biological Conservation 187 (2015): 201-211.

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