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Shashikant Chopde
Senior Research Associate, India
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Master's in Civil Engineering
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Shashikant Chopde has 25 years of experience in sustainable development, poverty reduction and natural resources management, and more than a decade specifically in Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and urban resilience on multi-country projects/ programmes focusing on rural and urban areas in South and South East Asia. His interest is in working at the intersections of infrastructural development, environment (including climate) and social-economic transitions. He has long-standing experience on capacity building and advocating policies/ practices on mainstreaming by conceptualising, assessing vulnerability and impacts, and resilience planning.
Projects
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Adaptation & Livelihood Resilience
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Climate Variability & Social Transition
Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia
Re-imagining Inclusive Urban Futures for Transformation (RIUFT) Partnership
Sheltering From a Gathering Storm
Technical Assistance Support to Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group
Profile Summary
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Climate adaptation and resilience
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Integrating DRR and CCA into district level disaster management plans
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Policy research and field implementation
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Advocacy and capacity building
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Water management
Publication
Climate Resilient and Disaster Safe Development: Process Framework Training Manual
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From Risk to Resilience #5: Uttar Pradesh Drought Cost-Benefit Analysis, India
Handbook for District Collectors on Climate Resilient - Disaster Risk Reduction
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Rethinking the Mosaic: Investigations into Local Water Management
The Uncomfortable Nexus: Water, Urbanization and Climate Change in Jaipur, India
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Unpacking Mainstreaming DRR-CCA in the Sub-National Level Development Planning