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Deepika Swami
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor, Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering
Research Interest
Climate variability, Impact and Risk assessment, Vulnerability, Adaptation, Energy modeling, Energy economics, Energy policy
Office
Office address: Room No. 106
Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016
Specialization
Energy and Climate Policy
Education
Ph.D. in Climate Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) (2014- 2019)
Teaching Area
Sustainable energy policy
Bioenergy
Energy economics
Climate policy and governance
Selected Publications
Journal PublicationsSwami, D., Dave, P., Parthasarathy, D., (2018). Agricultural susceptibility to monsoon variability: A district level analysis of Maharashtra, India. Science of the Total Environment, 619, 559-577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.328.
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D., (2020). A multidimensional perspective to farmers’ decision making determines the adaptation of farming community. Journal of Environmental management, 264, 110487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110487.
Swami, D., Dave P., Parthasarathy, D. (2020). Understanding farmers’ suicidal ideation: a structural equation modeling study in Maharashtra, India. Climatic Change, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02935-8.
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D., (2021), Dynamics of exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity, and agricultural vulnerability at district scale for Maharashtra, India. Ecological Indicators, 121, 107206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107206.
Swami, D., Dave, P., & Parthasarathy, D. (2021). Analysis of temperature variability and extremes with respect to crop threshold temperature for Maharashtra, India. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-021-03558-4
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D., (2022), Assessing effectiveness of adaptation strategies in context of crop loss: A case study of Indian subcontinent. Regional Environmental Change. https://doi.org/1007/s10113-022-01921-3
Swami, D and Gurtoo, A. (2020). Criticality of Midday Meals for School Children Post COVID-19. IISc CSP, Bangalore. 01C/06/2020. https://csp.iisc.ac.in/01C-06-2020/.
Media articles and reportsSwami, D., Gurtoo, A., & Afsharia, B. (2020). Impact on nutrition through Mid-Day meals: building a comprehensive assessment model.
http://www.iitb.ac.in/en/research-highlight/india%E2%80%99s-farmlands-vulnerable-to-climate-change
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMED33B..08S/abstract
https://researchmatters.in/news/how-do-indian-farmers-adapt-climate-change-amid-socio-economic-hurdles
https://poshan.outlookindia.com/story/poshan-news-india-faces-nutritional-crisis-for-school-children-dependent-entirely-on-midday-meals-amid-covid-19/360433
Awards & Fellowships
Fellowship from Indian Society of Ecological Economics, November, 2019
Travel fellowship (Indo-German Collaboration) for presenting the work on Environmental Policy, Scope and Challenges for Local Regulation, September 2019
Fellowship from IIT Bombay to attend European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria, April 2018
Student Travel grant from American Geophysical Union, 2018
Fellowship from Indian Society of Ecological Economics (INSEE), Kerala, November 2017
Berkner travel fellowship from American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2016
Fellowship from Indo-European SAHYOG summer school, Tezpur, July 2014
University Gold-medalist (Top Rank holder) during Masters’ degree, 2013
Conference Presentations
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2020), Effectiveness of Adaptation strategies in context of Climate change, presented at International conference on Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Climate change perspective, EMPRI Bangalore, 10-11th December, 2020
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2020), Rising inequalities and suicide rate among farming community in India: Role of Climatic, Socio-Economic, Infrastructural and Institutional factors, presented at EADI ISS General Conference 2020: Solidarity, Peace and Social Justice, 13th May, 2020
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2019), Response to Climate variability: Challenges in Vidarbha region, Maharashtra, India, presented at Indian Society of Ecological Economics, Hyderabad, 6-9th November, 2019
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2019), Decentralization vs National and State action plan on climate change, presented at Workshop on Environmental Policy: Scope and Challenges for Local Regulation, Matheran, 9-11th September, 2019
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2019), Climate change: local vs global challenges, presented at World Conference on Disaster Management, IIT Bombay, 28-31st January, 2019
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2018), Climate change adaptation in Maharashtra: Household level perspectives on agricultural, governance and sociological dynamics, presented at Workshop on Democracy, Devolution and Climate Policy, IIT Bombay, 2-4 October, 2018
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2018), Challenges and approaches to vulnerability and adaptation to climate change: Empirical evidence from household survey of farmers in Maharashtra, India. Abstract ED33B-08 presented at 2018 fall meeting, Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D., & Dave. P. (2018), Spatio-temporal temperature variability and agricultural vulnerability: District scale analysis for Maharashtra, India, Abstract EGU2018-16004 presented at 2018, European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, 8-13 April
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2018), Vulnerability of Mumbai megacity: Socio-economic challenges and water scarcity, presented at Livable cities: transforming sustainability and its challenges, New Delhi, 5-7 February
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2018), Water Crisis in Maharashtra, India, presented at Livable cities: transforming sustainability and its challenges, New Delhi, 5-7 February.
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2017), Determinants of adaptation to Climate Variability for Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India, Indian Society of Ecological Economics
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2017), Increasing Water Vulnerability of Indian Megacity, Mumbai: Interconnected web of Politics and Policies, Indian Society of Ecological Economics
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D., & Dave. P. (2016), Regional agricultural susceptibility to climate variability: a district level analysis of Maharashtra, India, Abstract GC53E-1340 presented at 2016 fall meeting, Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, Calif., 11-15 December
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D., & Dave. P. (2016), Improving preparedness of farmers to Climate Variability: A case study of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India, Abstract PA14 B-06 presented at 2016 fall meeting, Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, Calif., 11-15 December
Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2016), Freak weather phenomenon: A district level analysis of Maharashtra, India, presented at 9th International Geographical Union, New Delhi, 18-20 March
Research Group
M.Tech Thesis Supervision
- Ashish Tiwari (Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering)
- Shiv Shakti Singh (Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering)
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; Since December 2021.
Climate Change Fellow, Environmental Management Policy Research Institute, Department of Forest, Ecology, and Environment, Government of Karnataka; October 2020-December 2021
Post-doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; March -September 2020
Research Associate, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; October,2019-Feburary, 2020
Senior Associate: Research and Content, Quantinsti; July-October, 2019
Sponsored Project
Carbon neutral government institute: A pilot project to achieve carbon neutrality for Karnataka, India, (PI): Deepika Swami, Supported by State government of Karnataka. (6 Lakhs)
Impact of Climate change on population under poverty for India, (PI): Deepika Swami, Supported by State government of Karnataka. (10 Lakhs)