School of Habitat Studies

Projects & Initiatives

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Transforming M Ward

  Transforming M Ward : Leveraging Knowledge for Social Transformation The M-East ward, one of the twenty four administrative divisions of Mumbai and home to over 8,07,720 (Census 2011) residents, is also one of the poorest areas in the city. Its human development index is the lowest in the city representing an infant mortality rate of around 66.47 per thousand live births, out-of-school children between the ages of 6 to 14 years is 1,490, more or less equally divided between boys and girls, and more than 50 percent children are malnourished (HDR, 2009). The child malnutrition levels in the area, ...

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The socio-economic and environmental impact of Konkan Railways

The Konkan Railway (KR) was built in order to cater to the long standing demand for a railway line providing cheap and fast mode of transport through the Konkan region. The Konkan region is a part of the western coastal strip of India called Western Ghats. It is the biggest railway construction endeavour in independent India and the first railway service in India to provide an intermodal freight transport service titled the Roll on-Roll off (Ro-Ro) service. The construction of the KR began in 1990. A number of political and environmental controversies later, the complete line of 760 km became ...

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CAPacity Building in Sustainability and Environmental Management (CAPSEM)

The Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies, TISS is one of the nine partnering institutions along with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, TU Delft, University of Lisbon, Mekerere University, Mekerere University Business School, Mbara University of Science and Technology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu University and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, in the EU Erasmus+ sponsored Capacity Building in Sustainability and Environmental Management (CAPSEM) project. Running from March 2017 to March 2019, the project in the context of developing global frameworks for sustainable development aims to create a multi-regional network for knowledge exchange in Sustainability and Environmental Management between ...

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Resource Rights, Governance & Jurisprudence

Research Project Leader: Geetanjoy Sahu, Associate Professor, TISS, Mumbai The research work in the field of resource rights, governance and jurispurdence was initiated in 2012 as a collective exercise by students and faculty members for research and learning on the above subjects. Subsequently, a resource rights research group having interest in the above field was formed in 2017 to critically examine the intertwined challenges of accessibility, use and governance of resources confronting the world today, with a particular focus on the issue of forest and land. The TISS RRGJ aims to provide the students and scholars with an opportunity for ...

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