Dr. Daphne Gondhalekar
Research themes
- Biodiversity
Research countries
- China
- India
Research projects
Health impact of water access in urban Tibet (2011-15), STRIVER (2009-10)
Working groups
Natural Resources and Socio-Economic Research Group; Water, Politics and Development; Water and Health
Additional information
Project website: www.zef.de/1838.html
Professional experience
2007-2009: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. 2004-2007: Research Assistant, Department of Ecosystem Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan. 2003-2004: Self-employed architect, Zurich, Switzerland. 2000-2003: Research and teaching Assistant, HABITAT Group, Department of Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Degrees
2007: PhD degree in Urban and Regional Planning, Ecosystems Department, University of Tokyo, Japan. 2002: Master degree in Architecture and Urban Planning, Department of Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. 1999: Bachelor degree in Architecture and Urban Design, Mackintosh School of Architecture, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Funding institutions
European Commission Marie-Curie Programme (EU) and German Research Foundation (DFG)
2014
2014.
Planning Under Uncertainty: Climate Change, Water Scarcity and Health Issues in Leh Town, Ladakh, India. Sustainable Water Use and Managemen.
Sustainable Water Use and Management, Part of the series Green Energy and Technology,
: 293-312
.
2013
2013.
Water-related health risks in rapidly developing towns: the potential of integrated GIS-based planning.
Water International ,
38(7)
: 902-920
.
Forthcoming
2012.
Health impact of drinking polluted water in Darchen Town, Tibet: an urban planning perspective.
International Journal of Sustainable Water and Environmental Systems,
.
Local choices for environmental protection: the case of Sideng Village in Yunnan, China.
Choices of Alternative Water Futures: Policy implementation at the local level in China.
2012
2012.
Supporting multi-stakeholder processes towards sustainable urban development.
GIZ Training Session held at National Moroccan Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning, Rabat, Morocco, 03/2012
2012.
Future Cities Visioning Training Workshop for Urban Climate Change Adaptation.
Proceedings, ICLEI Resilient Cities Conference, Bonn, Germany, 05/2012
2012.
Future Cities Visioning: Systematizing the Urban Design Process.
Poster presentation, Planet under Pressure Conference, London, 03/2012
2012.
Theorizing Structured Diversity: An approach to comparative research on the globalisation-localisation dynamics in water resources management.
ICCWaDs Working Paper Series
2011
2011.
Gesundheitliche Auswirkung des urbanen Nutzwasser-zugangs in Tibet.
Lecture, Asia Center, Bonn University, 05/2011 (in German)
2011.
Health impact of water access in urban Tibet: issues and opportunities.
Asian Conference on Sustainability, Energy and the Environment and Asian Conference on the Social Sciences (international peer-reviewed conference), Osaka, Japan, 06/2011
2011.
Water pollution and health impact in urban Tibet.
Proceedings, 6th Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) (international peer-reviewed conference), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 09/2011
2011.
Future Cities Visioning for Sustainable Urban Regeneration.
Training session at International Urban Training Center, Chuncheon City, S. Korea, 12/2011.
2011.
How to make your city “greener” using urban design.
Poster presentation, United Nations Human Settlements Programme UN-HABITAT Governing Council Meeting, Nairobi, Kenya, 04/2011
2010
2010.
How to “green” large-scale urban design projects.
Training session, UN- HABITAT World Urban Forum V, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 03/2010
2010.
Energy efficiency in buildings.
Adelphi training workshop in India
2010.
Urban land expansion and farmland diversification in the suburban 4 counties of Tianjin City, China.
Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture (in Japanese)
2009
2009.
Willingness to pay – unwillingness to be paid; The politics of water pricing in canal irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India.
STRIVER Project Policy Brief Series, Policy Brief No. 18
2009.
Participatory training in canal irrigation in Andhra Pradesh: The JalaSpandana Experience.
STRIVER Project Policy Brief Series, Policy Brief No. 17
2009.
Strategies and recommendations for river basin management in Tungabhadra.
EC FP6 STRIVER (Strategy and methodology for improved IWRM - An integrated interdisciplinary assessment in four twinning river basins) Project Report No. D10.3
2008
2008.
Research Proposal: Making Clean Energy City, China.
2007
2007.
Urban land expansion and cultivated land loss in the Beijing Tianjin region, China.
Proceedings of International Conference on City Planning, City Planning Institute of Japan, August 2007, Yokohama
2007.
Towards urban-rural sustainability: Land diversification in Tianjin, China.
In: M. Keiner (eds.):
Sustainable Urban Development in China – Wishful Thinking or Reality?.
Monsenstein & Vannerdat.
2005
2005.
Development of a holistic approach to case studies on cities.
Poster presentation, proceedings of Alliance for Global Sustainability AGS Annual Meeting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2004
2004.
The homeless masses at home: Identifying and tackling the problems and issues of internal displacement in the Igad region, Sudan.
HABITAT Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Finding structure in diversity: Comparative method for water resources management research..
Water Alternatives,
.
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