Inaugural meeting of Sciences Po South Asia Program

 

Facing environmental crisis in South Asia: challenges and responses

29 and 30 April 2024
28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris

 

 

Day One 29 April

9:30: Introductory remarks by Mrs Chandrika Kumaratunga (Former President of Sri Lanka and a Sciences Po alumnus)

10:00 – 12:30 : A crisis of a different magnitude

Isha Ray (Berkeley/LSE)
Hydric Stress in South Asia

Christophe Jaffrelot (Sciences Po - CERI / CNRS and Hemal Thakker
Air Pollution and Deforestation in India

Lunch break

2:00 – 5:00 South Asian Cities and Climate Change

Chair: Sukriti Issar (Sciences Po)

Discussant : Laurent Gayer (Sciences Po-CERI)

Lalitha Kamath (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai)
Fisher Stories that Reframe Climate Action in Mumbai

Umair Javed (Lahore University of Management Studies, Lahore)
Urban Villages, Environmental Transformation, and Local Politics in Lahore

Kazi Khaleed Ashraf (Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements, Dakha)
The Future is Fluid: Water as an existential theme in architecture and urbanism in Bangladesh

 

Day Two
30 April

 

9:00 – 11:00: Rural issues and agricultural innovations

Frédéric Landy (Nanterre University)
An agriculture adapted to the instability of tropical climates, but not yet to climate change

Anne Sophie Poisot, Office of Innovation, FAO
Micro-farming and macroeconomic transitions towards climate-resilient agroecology in Andhra Pradesh, India

11:00 – 13:00: Mitigation, adaptation and resistance

Manisha Anantharaman (Sciences Po)
From performative to transformative environmentalism: Seeking cross-class coalitions for climate justice

Clément Imbert (Sciences Po)
Climate Change and Seasonal Migration in India: Evidence from Railway Data

13:00 – 14:00: Lunch break

 

14:00 – 16:00 South Asia and Climate Negotiations

Lola Vallejo (Iddri)
Joseph Delatte (Institut Montaigne)