Outputs (39)

Transforming disaster risk reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and interdisciplinary perspectives (2025)
Journal Article

Managing complex disaster risks requires interdisciplinary efforts. Breaking down silos between law, social sciences, and natural sciences is critical for all processes of disaster risk reduction. It is essential to explore how AI enhances understand... Read More about Transforming disaster risk reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Waste management – can the ‘circular economy’ model grow wings? (2019)
Journal Article

Attributes of leadership for planning resilient cities in the Global South (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper aims to advance a new approach to the intersections of place, resilience and leadership particularly within the context of rapidly urbanising cities in the Global South. More generally, we know that a leader could be characterised by key a... Read More about Attributes of leadership for planning resilient cities in the Global South.

Why a clearer ‘green industrial policy’ matters for India: Reconciling growth, climate change and inequality (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. To ensure a healthy growth of the economy particularly in the manufacturing sector, the Indian Government is more than ever focussed on promoting the use of sustainable and affordable energy resources. Recent initiatives... Read More about Why a clearer ‘green industrial policy’ matters for India: Reconciling growth, climate change and inequality.

The City is a Thinking Machine: Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution: Volume 4: The Talks (2016)
Book

Volume 4 The Talks - documents the program of public lectures that contextualised the exhibition. The contributors were chosen because each – in different ways – has been an activist for change in the social and material environments of the city. Ged... Read More about The City is a Thinking Machine: Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution: Volume 4: The Talks.

The City is a Thinking Machine: Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution: Volume 3: The Geddes Institute (2016)
Book

Volume 3 The Geddes Institute - reproduces the panels by the 8 affiliates of the Geddes Institute whose projects were included in the exhibition, plus the introductory panels that accompanied each project.

Enabling 'right to appropriation' and facilitating 'distributed cognition' in (re- ) production of urban spaces: A conceptual framework for creating learning environments for involving young people in future visioning of cities (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper presented at the AAG (Association of American Geographers) Conference in San Francisco, 28 Mar – 02 Apr 2016.

‘Poverty’ and ‘place’ through the eyes of the poor: Outlining key strands of a conceptual framework, D-SPACE (2015)
Journal Article

In spite of a range of work on engaging with poverty, particularly in the Global South, the significance of the poor in conceptualizing and responding to the relationship between poverty and place seems to be downplayed. This article addresses this g... Read More about ‘Poverty’ and ‘place’ through the eyes of the poor: Outlining key strands of a conceptual framework, D-SPACE.

Recasting resilience beyond 'failure management': Lessons for planning our cities (2015)
Journal Article

Much recently, the term 'resilience' has generated considerable interest. But, it is rather hard to pin down what it means. Equally challenging is in knowing what the scope of resilience might be and how/whether such an understanding might help addre... Read More about Recasting resilience beyond 'failure management': Lessons for planning our cities.

Learning to be resilient by moving between ‘poor by chance’ to ‘not-so-poor by intent’ identities: Lessons from conversations with labor migrants in Southern India (2015)
Journal Article

Through their engagement with the lives of labor migrants working on construction sites in southern India, the authors advance a critical understanding linking poverty, place, and migration. This article challenges conventional images of poverty asso... Read More about Learning to be resilient by moving between ‘poor by chance’ to ‘not-so-poor by intent’ identities: Lessons from conversations with labor migrants in Southern India.

Characterizing Indian students pursuing global higher education: A conceptual framework of pathways to internationalization (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 European Association for International Education One might argue that an Indian student entering higher education is faced with a critical question—Where to study, in India or abroad? With a gross enrollment ratio of around 20% in the tertiary... Read More about Characterizing Indian students pursuing global higher education: A conceptual framework of pathways to internationalization.

Discourses and practices in teaching methods and assessment: Insights from an early career academic (2015)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2015. Translating the purposes of education into practice is particularly challenging for those who are new or have recently entered academia. By reflecting on my first years of teaching in higher education, I discuss two key aspects... Read More about Discourses and practices in teaching methods and assessment: Insights from an early career academic.

Re-thinking destitution in the UK: Typologies, spaces and transitions (2014)
Journal Article

Destitution, a severe form of poverty still persists in modern, industrialised nations such as the UK despite a robust, social security system in place. Increased use of food banks, inadequate housing provisions, etc., point to evidence that there ar... Read More about Re-thinking destitution in the UK: Typologies, spaces and transitions.

Poverty and place through the eyes of the poor: Lessons from developing a conceptual framework, D-SPACE in southern India (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper read at the UK Ireland Planning Research Conference, 9-11 September 2014, Oxford Brookes University.

Shifting of the ontological-epistemological balance in contemporary research agendas: A critique (2014)
Journal Article

With greater calls for public involvement, there are now claims of methodological shifts to ‘bottom-up’, ‘politically informed’ and ‘boundary-less’ approaches. This is not accurate as there is still predominantly an emphasis on epistemological consid... Read More about Shifting of the ontological-epistemological balance in contemporary research agendas: A critique.

Placing Poverty in Context: A Case Study (2014)
Journal Article

The “poverty-in-context” approach to understanding poverty is shaped by the needs and priorities of a particular context, and it can be used as the basis for identifying pro-poor projects in local strategies such as City Development Plans. A key argu... Read More about Placing Poverty in Context: A Case Study.

Micro-enterprises as a tool to alleviate poverty among women headed household: Successful community based initiative (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper read at the 4th International Conference on Sociology and Social Work, May 19-20, 2014, in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Editorial – Special issue on planning and sustainability (2013)
Journal Article

Guest Editors: Deepak Gopinath, Paola Gazzola, Tony Jackson

Dirigiste and smart growth approaches to urban sprawl: Lessons from Scotland and British Columbia (2012)
Journal Article

Two communities operating under diverse planning systems, St. Andrews in Scotland and Prince George in British Columbia (BC), provide case studies for examining how planning tools are used in these jurisdictions to address urban containment issues. T... Read More about Dirigiste and smart growth approaches to urban sprawl: Lessons from Scotland and British Columbia.

The future of urban living through the lens of 'climate change'? Insights from American initiatives (2012)
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