Anjal Prakash
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| Anjal Prakash | |
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| Born | 1972 |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | Indian |
| 🏫 Education | (PhD) Wageningen University and Research Centre, (Masters) Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
| 💼 Occupation | Academician, Researcher |
| 👔 Employer | Indian School of Business |
| Known for | Climate change, Water, Environmental sustainability |
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Anjal Prakash is an Indian climate scientist whose research interests are mainly on climate change adaptation, water, environmental sustainability, urban resilience, gender and social inclusion issues covering South Asia.[1] [2][3]. He is currently serving as the Research Director and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Bharti Institute of Public Policy, Indian School of Business[4]. Before joining ISB, Prakash worked with TERI- School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi, as an Associate Professor in the Department of Regional Water Studies. His earlier association was with International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in Kathmandu, Nepal where he was the Coordinator of the programme - Himalayan Adaptation, Water and Resilience (HI-AWARE) Research on Glacier and Snowpack Dependent River Basins. Prakash is the coordinating lead author for the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC). He has also been a lead author in the chapter on cities, settlements and key infrastructure in the Working Group II of IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report. In 2019, he was nominated as a member of the Gender Task Group of IPCC to develop a framework of goals and actions to improve gender balance and address gender-related issues within the IPCC.
Education[edit]
Prakash did his post graduate diploma in Rural Development and Management (RDM) from Center for Research on New International Economic Order (CReNIEO), Chennai followed by a master of arts in Social Work with specialization in Urban and Rural Community Development from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. He earned a PhD from Water Resources Management Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands.
Professional career[edit]
Prakash started his career in July 1997 with VIKSAT, Nehru Foundation for Development, Ahmedabad, India as program associate in its Water Management program. From June 2005 to April 2008 he was the programme officer in WaterAid India at their country office in New Delhi, There he was associated with the Policy and Partnership Group that researches and advocates policies related to water supply and sanitation. From May 2008 he started working with SaciWATERs as a Senior Research Fellow on the project – crossing boundaries (CB). The project was a partnership-based program for research and capacity building of water professionals on IWRM and gender & water through higher education, innovation and social learning-focused research, knowledge base development and networking. In 2010 he became the director of the Periurban Water Security project. The project covered four research locations in three south Asian countries (Bangladesh, India and Nepal) and involved, research, workshops, grass-roots action and advocacy on water security, gender equity and climate change issues in peri-urban locations.
He eventually became the executive director of SaciWATERs[5] in March 2012 committed to bringing about structural change in the dominant water resources management paradigm in South Asia with a focus on transforming water resources knowledge systems through interdisciplinary research and understanding of water resources policy issues. After that from from April 2014 to November 2018 he was the programme coordinator of Himalayan Water Adaptation and Resilience (HI-AWARE) Research- the river basin programmes under International Center for Integrated Mountain Development(ICIMOD)[6]. Based in Kathmandu, Nepal. HI-AWARE, one of four consortia of the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), conducts research, capacity building, and policy engagement on climate resilience and adaptation in the mountains and flood plains of the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra river basins. Prakash was instrumental implementing its three Work Packages – Knowledge Generation, Research into Use, and Strengthening Expertise - in 12 sites in the Indus, Upper Ganga, Gandaki and Teesta river basins and beyond[7]
Engagements with Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)[edit]
Prakash had been selected as Author in the working group 2 of IPCC. He was the Coordinating Lead Author of the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate and a lead author in IPCC’s present assessment report - AR 6 Climate Change 2021; Impact, Adaptation and Vulnerability . He is part of Working Group 2’s research focusing on Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure and Cross chapter Paper – Mountains. He is also leading the cross chapter paper on gender in AR6-WG2.[8][9][10][11][12]
Teaching career[edit]
Prakash started his teacher career as a visiting Professor at Nepal Engineering College, Kathmandu in 2017. From December 2018 till November 2019 he served as the Associate Professor and Associate Dean in TERI School of Advanced Studies, Hyderabad-a Deemed University for its contribution to scientific and policy research in the realms of energy, environment, and sustainable development. He was associated with the Department of Regional Water Studies where he taught MTech and MSC students on issues of Water Conflicts, Regional Cooperation, Gender and Social Inclusion and Climate Change Adaptation.
From December 2019 onwards, Prakash has been the Research Director at the Bharti Institute of Public Policy, Indian School of Business that leads education and research in the domain of public policy. The institute is involved in several environmental projects in its focus areas of Governance, Food Policy, Education, Corporate Governance, Financial Sector Policy, and Energy. In the past, the Bharti Institute has worked on several projects with ministries in the Govt. of India, State Governments, UN agencies, Multilateral Agencies, and Philanthropic Foundations.
Role as editor of peer-reviewed journals[edit]
Prakash has co-edited special journal issues - Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Gendered Vulnerabilities to Climate Variability in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region for the journal- Environmental Development and the issue – Water in Himalayan Towns: lessons for adaptive water management for the journal - Water Policy. Prakash is also on the editorial board of the Journal Environment and Urbanization Asia published by Sage publication, Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences (Routledge) and Associate Editor of the journal Current Research in Environmental Sustainability published by Elsevier[13]. In 2021, he has been nominated as policy and governance section editor of PLOS-Climate.[14]
Research work[edit]
Prakash’s research work focusses on the intersection of climate change adaptation with water resource management, gender and social inclusion in an inter-disciplinary way. He has written number of books[15][16][17]and over 100 research papers.
Media presence[edit]
Prakash regularly writes in popular media on the issues of climate change adaptation, gender and water resources[18][19][20][21][22]
Bibliography[edit]
Articles[edit]
- Nepal, S., Shrestha, A. B., Goodrich, C. G., Mishra, A., Prakash, A., Bhuchar, S., Vasily, L. A., Khadgi, V. & Pradhan N. S. (eds.) (2019). Multi-scale Integrated River Basin Management from a Hindu Kush Himalayan Perspective, Resource Book, ICIMOD, Kathmandu
- Prakash, Anjal. 2010. Where are South Asia’s Women Professionals? Asian Waters. Singapore. September 20. PP 21-24.
- Prakash, Anjal. 2007. Managing Water Resources. Review of the book – Groundwater Management in India: Physical, Institutional and Policy Alternatives by Dinesh Kumar with contribution from O P Singh. Sage Publications; appeared in The Book Review. Volume XXXI, Number 9, September 2007.
- Prakash, Anjal. 2007. Towards Cleaner Environment for the Poor in Ranchi Slums: A case of Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra. WaterDrops, July – September 2007. PP- 13-14.
- Prakash, Anjal. 2007. Challenges of Water Management. Review of the book- Global Perspectives on Integrated Water Resources Management: A Resource Kit by Vasudha Pangare, Ganesh Pangare, Viraj Shah, B R Neupane and P Somasekhar Rao; Economic and Political Weekly, January 27 pp 293-294.
- Prakash, Anjal. 2004. Booked Reviewed – Tubewell Capitalism: Groundwater Development and Agrarian Change in Gujarat by Navroz K Dubash. Water Nepal. Vol 11, No 1, pp – 105-110.
- Prakash Anjal. 2002. The Contradiction of Modern Gujarat. Himal South Asian, May.
Books[edit]
- Prakash, Anjal. 2005. The Dark Zone: Groundwater Irrigation, Politics and Social Power in North Gujarat, India. Orient Longman, Hyderabad. India.
- Prakash, Anjal, Medhavi Sharma and Jayati Chourey. 2013. Water in India: Situation and Prospects. UNICEF, FAO and SaciWATERs. New Delhi.
References[edit]
- ↑ "How women adapt as climate comes unhinged". Mongabay-India. 2019-12-03. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- ↑ "'Climate change reversal unlikely; mantra is to adapt'". www.downtoearth.org.in. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- ↑ Prakash, Anjal (2014). "The periurban water security problem: a case study of Hyderabad in Southern India". Water Policy. 16: 454–469.
- ↑ "People | Bharti Institute of Public Policy". www.isb.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
- ↑ "Prakash, Anjal". SAGE Publications Inc. 2014-11-17. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
- ↑ "Anjal Prakash". IGC. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
- ↑ Shrestha, Krity; Singh, Sreoshi; Prakash, Anjal (2020-07-29). "What lies behind the deepening water crisis in Himalayan towns?". Citizen Matters. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
- ↑ "New IPCC report warns of dire threat to oceans". The Hindu. Special Correspondent. 2019-09-25. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- ↑ Sep 25, PTI /; 2019; Ist, 20:25. "Andaman, Nicobar Islands may not be inhabitable in future due to rise in sea level: IPCC | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- ↑ "Four Indian Cities 'severely' Threatened Due To Rise In Sea Level: Report". Moneycontrol. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- ↑ "Mumbai, Chennai stare at severe flooding, says climate change report". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- ↑ "Sea level could rise 10 times faster by 2100; Mumbai at risk, says study". Hindustan Times. 2019-09-26. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- ↑ "Anjal Prakash, PhD - Editorial Board - Current Research in Environmental Sustainability - Journal - Elsevier". www.journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
- ↑ "PLOS Climate: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
- ↑ Prakash, Anjal (2021). Engendering Climate Change: Case studies from South Asia. New Delhi: Routledge. Search this book on
- ↑ Prakash, Anjal (2014). Informing Water Policies in South Asia. New Delhi: Rutledge. Search this book on
- ↑ Prakash, Anjal (2012). Interlacing Water and Human Health: Case Studies from South Asia. New Delhi: Sage Publications. Search this book on
- ↑ India, Press Trust of (2019-12-15). "Experts want India's emission-cut pledge in Paris backed by stringent law". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- ↑ Ramesh, M. "The oceans are set to boil". @businessline. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- ↑ DelhiSeptember 26, Press Trust of India New; September 26, 2019UPDATED:; Ist, 2019 00:22. "64% glaciers in Hindu Kush Himalayan region may be lost by 2100: IPCC report". India Today. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- ↑ "As glaciers disappear, can we be far behind?". The Third Pole. 2019-09-25. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- ↑ "StackPath". www.indcatholicnews.com. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
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