The Water Institute is pleased to host a seminar by Dr. Veena Srinivasan, Fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, India.
She will speak on: The case for problem-driven water research in the developing world: Lessons from India.
About the Speaker
Veena
Srinivasan
received
her
PhD
from
Stanford
University’s
Emmet
Interdisciplinary
Program
in
Environment
and
Resources.
Her
research
framework
integrated
both
centralized
and
decentralized
approaches
to
urban
water
supply
in
India.
She
has
also
worked
on
quantifying
and
modelling
vulnerability
of
water
use
under
environmental
change.
As
a
post-doctoral
scholar
at
Stanford,
Dr.
Srinivasan
was
instrumental
in
developing
a
framework
for
a
Global
Freshwater
Initiative
at
Stanford,
conducting
a
meta-analysis
of
interdisciplinary
water
case
studies
to
trace
patterns
in
the
nature
and
causes
of
global
water
crises.
Prior
to
joining
ATREE,
Veena
worked
for
several
years
in
the
private
and
non-profit
sectors
on
energy,
water,
and
forest
policy
issues
in
India.
Veena Srinivasan’s research interests include inter-sectoral water allocation, threats to freshwater from local to regional to global scales, impacts of multiple stressors including demographics, climate change and urbanization on water resources, sustainable water management policy and practice, bi-directional feedbacks in human-water systems and comparative studies of socio-hydrologic systems.