Tashina Esteves

How Vulnerable are India’s Himalayan Region States to Climate Change?

Vol. 56, Issue No. 11, 13 Mar, 2021

In 2018, a group of academic institutions initiated a project to build capacities of the 12 Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) states through robust assessments of climate change vulnerability, adaptation planning, and implementation. A standardised assessment of vulnerability allows stakeholders to compare vulnerability across states, probe what has caused their vulnerability, and investigate how they might address these vulnerabilities.

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Adaptation Co-benefits of Development Programmes in India

Vol. 53, Issue No. 51, 29 Dec, 2018

Jaishri Srinivasan, Indu K Murthy, Tashina Esteves, Jagmohan Sharma, N H Ravindranath

Twelve major development programmes in five sectors are examined to see whether they enhance the country’s ability to adapt to the impacts of future climate change. The Indian government could leverage the existing development programmes to achieve adaptation goals if it establishes a framework for mainstreaming climate change adaptation, provides financial incentives for development programmes to integrate adaptation objectives, and builds institutional capacity to design, implement, and monitor adaptation activities.

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Agricultural and Livelihood Vulnerability Reduction through the MGNREGA

Vol. 48, Issue No. 52, 28 Dec, 2013

Ajay Bhan Singh, Basu K, Bhaskar Rao, Bhaskar Sinha, Ilona Porsche, K V Rao, Murthy I K, N H Ravindranath, Patil Vishal, Rajeev Sharma, S S Roy, Sharma Nitasha, Shashanka Rao, Shashidharkumar Jha, Tashina Esteves

This study quantifies the environmental and socio-economic benefits generated by the works implemented under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and assesses the potential of these benefits to reduce vulnerability of agricultural production and livelihoods of the beneficiaries, post-implementation (2011-12) as compared to pre-MGNREGA (2006-07), to current climate variability. Agricultural and livelihood vulnerability indices developed showed reduction in vulnerability due to implementation of works under the Act and resulting environmental benefits.