Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies

The climate change group at TISS, started active inter-disciplinary research in the area of climate change and sustainable development in 2008. The group was formalised into a Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies in the year 2012. A two year M.A./M.Sc. Programme in Climate Change and Sustainability Studies was also started, in the academic year 2012-2013.

Drawing from the overall vision of the School of Habitat Studies, the Centre foregrounds the search for equitable and sustainable solutions to the issues and problems associated with climate change mitigation and adaptation. In the context of sustainability, including climate ...

Centre for Environmental Health

In 2012, the World Health Organisation estimated nearly 12.6 million global deaths due to living or working in an unhealthy environment. About one in four deaths are due to diseases and injuries caused by environmental risk factors like air, water and soil pollution, chemical exposures, climate change, and UV radiation. All these environmental risk factors together contribute to more than 100 diseases and injuries which fall in both Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) and communicable diseases. Air pollution is the biggest killer with around 8.2 million deaths due to respiratory illnesses, lung cancer, stroke, and heart disease. WHO (2016) estimates ...

Centre for Regulatory Policy and Governance

Regulation is increasingly seen as a vital mode of governance. Economic liberalization of developing countries has ushered in a new era of re-regulation that goes beyond the conventional narrative of deregulation. The global database of agencification of regulatory governance shows the deep sectoral penetration of autonomous regulatory agencies in the governance of public services.

In India, the re-regulation era is witnessed in the post-1991 economic liberalization. Several prominent regulatory agencies such as the Electricity Regulatory Commissions (1999-2003), Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (1999), Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (1997), Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (2003), Petroleum and ...

Centre for Science, Technology and Society

The Centre for Science, Technology & Society made significant research and policy advocacy progress in 2021-2022, with the support from state government of Maharashtra and funding from national and international agencies. Recently, the District Administration of Chandrapur, Government of Maharashtra has entered into an agreement with the Centre to identify potential areas for livelihood enhancement in hundred community forest recognised villages of Chandrapur District. This is a flagship programme of the ITDP, Chandrapur to create model CFR villages to be adopted by CFR recognised villages in the district. Earlier this year, the Centre worked with State Government of Kerala and ...

Centre for Urban Policy and Governance

The contemporary world is urban, with the locus of urbanisation shifting to the Global South. India, particularly, is at the cusp of a transition from a primarily agrarian society to one that is urbanising in a markedly unsustainable manner. Knowledge on the challenges of urbanisation however, is uneven, limited by disciplinary silos, and policies usually lack the perspective of marginalised actors. It is here that the Centre for Urban Policy and Governance (CUPG) seeks to make substantial contributions to theory and practice by producing situated, critical and interdisciplinary knowledge about urbanisation and the city. CUPG is committed to imagining and ...

Centre for Water Policy and Governance

The Centre for Water Policy and Governance was set up along with the School of Habitat Studies in 2008, along with other two centers, namely Centre for Science, Technology and Society as well as Center for Urban Policy and Governance. This Centre was renamed as the Centre for Water Policy, Regulation and Governance (CWPRG) in 2012 owing to its extensive involvement and contribution in the area of regulatory studies in the water sector.

The CWPRG had been involved primarily in the research and advocacy activities for a period of three years since its inception in the area of water-regulation in ...