IIASA and India Highlights January 2014

CONTENTS 1.Summary 2.National Member Organization 3.Research Partners 4.Research Collaborations: Selected Highlights 5.Capacity Building 6.Further Information

SUMMARY National Member Organization Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC)

SUMMARY National Member Organization Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) Membership start date 2007

SUMMARY National Member Organization Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) Membership start date 2007 Research partners 40 institutes in India

SUMMARY National Member Organization Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) Membership start date 2007 Research partners 40 institutes in India Areas of research collaborations Land, soil and water management Pathways to sustainable energy systems Tackling air pollution Disaster risk management Population projections Energy and climate change modeling Forest management

SUMMARY National Member Organization Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) Membership start date 2007 Research partners 40 institutes in India Areas of research collaborations Land, soil and water management Pathways to sustainable energy systems Tackling air pollution Disaster risk management Population projections Energy and climate change modeling Forest management Capacity Building 25 young Indian scientists took part in IIASA’s capacity building programs 17 training workshops in India

SUMMARY National Member Organization Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) Membership start date 2007 Research partners 40 institutes in India Areas of research collaborations Land, soil and water management Pathways to sustainable energy systems Tackling air pollution Disaster risk management Population projections Energy and climate change modeling Forest management Capacity Building 25 young Indian scientists took part in IIASA’s capacity building programs 17 training workshops in India Publication output 139 publications

SUMMARY National Member Organization Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) Membership start date 2007 Research partners 40 institutes in India Areas of research collaborations Land, soil and water management Pathways to sustainable energy systems Tackling air pollution Disaster risk management Population projections Energy and climate change modeling Forest management Capacity Building 25 young Indian scientists took part in IIASA’s capacity building programs 17 training workshops in India Publication output 139 publications Events Over 460 Indian nationals at IIASA events

NATIONAL MEMBER ORGANIZATION Department of Science and Technology’s Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) Prof Ranjan, Executive Director, TIFAC is IIASA’s Council Member National committee for the India-IIASA Programme chaired by Dr Parikh, former member, Planning Commission, & Chairman, IRADe

RESEARCH PARTNERS 40 institutions in India, including: Centre For Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) Institute for Social and Economic Change Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe) International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) National Institute of Hydrology (NIH) The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS Selected Highlights: Sustaining and improving food security and livelihoods in India Global Energy Assessment and India Tackling air pollution in India Increasing India’s resilience to natural disasters Projecting India’s future population

SUSTAINING AND IMPROVING FOOD SECURITY AND LIVELIHOODS IN INDIA Water Management Climate Change Adaptation Soil Nutrient Balances Bundelkhand Water management tool to select measures to adapt to impending scarcity of fresh water resources Gujarat Identify strategies for vulnerable rural communities to cope with the impending impacts of climate change Kerala Establish a decision support system for sustainable soil management in different agro-ecological environments GIS/DSS: Spatial assessment and interactive data access system Policy Options for Sustaining and Improving Food Security and Livelihoods Adaptation to climate change Water management options Soil nutrient management

GLOBAL ENERGY ASSESSMENT AND INDIA GEA co-Chair, 4 convening lead analysts, and several lead analysts were Indians GEA’s energy scenarios developed into a global energy vision for India till 2050 with IRADe Spin-off report on GEA’s insights into providing two billion access to clean modern energy had focus on India UN Secretary-General’s Sustainable Energy For All initiative adopted GEA’s key findings and IIASA with TERI providing knowledge to achieve these objectives

POPULATION NEEDING NEW CONNECTIONS TO ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL ACCESS BY 2030 IN INDIA DOI: /j.enpol

CO 2 MITIGATION IN MAJOR ECONOMIES IN 2°C REGIMES van Sluisveld, M.A.E., Gernaat, D.E.H.J., Ashinab, S., Calvin, K.V. Garg, A., Isaac, M., Lucas, P.L., Mouratiadou, I., Otto, A.A.C., Rao, S., Shukla, P.R., van Vliet, J., van Vuuren, D.P., : Regional differences in mitigation efforts across modeled current and emerging major economies in 2°C regimes. Special Issue, Climate Change Economics (LIMITS)

TACKLING AIR POLLUTION IN INDIA GAINS ASIA identified advanced air pollution measures for India for next 20 years which will: Increase life expectancy by 2.8 years Avoid 2.5 million premature deaths Pay for themselves by improving health, reducing lost work days, and increasing productivity DOI: /es402867r

INCREASING INDIA’S RESILIENCE DOI: /idrim

PROJECTING INDIA’S FUTURE POPULATION

PROJECTING INDIA’S FUTURE POPULATION RAPID DEVELOPMENT

PROJECTING INDIA’S FUTURE POPULATION

PROJECTING INDIA’S FUTURE POPULATION STALLED DEVELOPMENT

IMPACT OF EDUCATION ON POPULATION RAPID VERSUS STALLED DEVELOPMENT

WATER AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY Gulbenkian Think Tank on Water and the Future of Humanity Members include: Sunita Narain, Director-General, Center for Science and Environment, New Delhi & Pavel Kabat, Director-General IIASA Changes to the way we access, provide and use water

CAPACITY BUILDING 20 Indian nationals won places on IIASA’s Young Scientists Summer Program between 2007 and 2013

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS Narasimha Rao ( ): Relationship between electricity access, livelihoods and carbon dioxide emissions in India. (7 journal articles) Tapas Mishra ( ): Demography and economic growth. (7 journal articles)

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS Upasna Sharma PhD: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Postdoc with IIASA’s risk and vulnerability team Researched reducing vulnerability to natural disasters in India and published 5 journal articles. E.g. Compared landslide management in India and Italy and found landslide risk benefits from a decentralized approach. Today: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and continues to collaborate with IIASA DOI: /s

ACADEMIC TRAINING WORKSHOPS 17 workshops in India since 2007, including: CEPT University, Ahmedabad (2011) Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal (2010) Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), (2012) Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore (2010) International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai (2010) International Training Programme Air Pollution Management, Pune (2010) Madras School of Economics, Madras (2010) National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur, (2012) National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), Roorkee (2011) National Institute of Science, Technology & Development Studies (NISTADS), New Delhi (2009)

THANK YOU Further Information IIASA and INDIA India-IIASA Programme TIFAC (