My current work is exploring the following research areas-

1. Extreme climatic events - What are the risks of extreme climatic events under the projected climate change? And how will changes and variability in extreme climate affect energy and infrastructure demands? How to assess the risk of geographical regions through the hazard risk vulnerability assessment (HRVA) framework?
2. Impacts of climate variability and change on agriculture and water- how climate variability affects precipitation and temperature in the crop growing seasons, which in turn influence crop yield at regional and global scales.
3. Application of nitrogen budget model- to understand the environmental implications of excess nitrogen use in Indian agriculture, I am also interested in exploring the nitrogen use pattern of different categories of the farmer.
4. Understanding different dimensions of sustainability using a social lifecycle assessment framework.
5.  Mapping circular economy of Industrial units in India.
6. Exploring stakeholders and environmental stewardship in the ESG framework of corporate strategy in India. 

Journal Publications (submitted)

1. Paul B, Patnaik U, Murari K K (submitted) What determines industrial behaviour of solid waste management? Evidence from small and medium enterprises in India. Journal of Cleaner Production.

Journal Publications and conference proceedings

1. Jayaraman T and Murari K K (2014), "Climate Change and Agriculture: Current and Future Trends, and Implications for India”, Review of Agrarian Studies, 4 (1), 1-49.

2. Murari K K, Ghosh S, Patwardhan A, Daly E and Salvi K (2015), “Intensification of future severe heat waves in India and their effect on heat stress and mortality” Regional Environmental Change, 15(4):569-579. DOI 10.1007/s10113-014-0660-6

3. Aravindhan Nagarajan, Murari K K, T Jayaraman, Goutham Radhakrishnan, (2015), "Appraising the Debate on Biodiversity Conservation in the Western Ghats", Economic & Political Weekly, 50 (30), 49-56.

4. Murari K K, Sahana A, Daly E, Ghosh S, (2016), "The influence of the El Niño Southern Oscillation on heat waves in India", Meteorological Applications 23 (4): 705-713.

5. Murari K K, Jayaraman T, Swaminathan M (2017) Climate change and agricultural suicides in India. Proceeding of National Academy of Science USA, 115 (2): E115,doi: 10.1073/pnas.1714747115

6. Murari K K, Mahato S, Jayaraman T, Swaminathan M, (2017) “Impacts of climate variability on crop yields: an empirical study of Karnataka” in proceedings of 8th annual conference on climate change on climate action: mitigation and adaptation in post-Paris world, Mumbai, August 4-5, 2017, pp 102-106.

7. Murari K K, Mahato S, Jayaraman T, Swaminathan M (2018) “Extreme Temperatures and Crop Yields in Karnataka, India”. Review of Agrarian Studies, 8(2). http://www.ras.org.in/extreme_temperatures_and_crop_yields_in_karnataka_india.

8. Paul B, Patnaik U, Murari K K, (2019) “How do micro/small enterprise organize waste in India: a scenario of common purpose or a tragedy”. Submitted to XIV Annual Conference of Knowledge Forum on the theme Technology and Economy to be held on 10-13 Nov., 2019 in Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai.

9. Paul B, Patnaik U, Jaganth G, Murari K K (2021) “Employment, technology, and value chain in Indian leather industry”. Science Technology and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/09717218211010618

10. Paul B, Patnaik U, Murari K K, Sahu S K, Muralidharan T (2021), “The impact of COVID-19 on the household economy of India.” The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41027-021-00352-8

11. Paul B, Patnaik U, Sasidharan S, Murari K K, Bahinipati C S (2022), “Fertilizer Use, Value, and Knowledge Capital: A Case of Indian Farming.” Sustainability, 14(19), https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912491

12. Paul B, Murari K K, Patnaik U, Bahinipati CS, Sasidharan S (2023), “Sustainability transition for Indian agriculture”, Scientific Reports, 13(1), 7290. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-34092-0

Book chapters

1. Murari K K, Jayaraman T, Chakraborty S (2017) “Fertilizer use and the small-scale farms”, in How do small farmers fare? Evidence from village studies in India, Swaminathan M and Baksi S (eds.),Tulika books, New Delhi, pp 201-229.
2. Murari K K, Ghosh S (2018) “Heat waves impacts and projections”, in Climate Change Signals and Response: A Strategic Knowledge Compendium for India, Venkatraman C and Mishra T (eds.), Springer India. (in preparation)
3. Murari K K (2021) “Fertilizer use in West Bengal: a case study of three villages" in Socio-economic survey in three villages of West Bengal: a study of agrarian relationship. Tulika Books, 171-195.

Presentations on Seminar, Conference, and Workshops

1. Anshuman, Narula K K, Murari K K, Mahadev H and Banerji P (2010), “Assessment of groundwater resources and implementation of water conservation intervention through groundwater recharge: A case study from Neelamangla in Karnataka”, Ground Water Resources Estimation. Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi. 275 p.
2. Murari K K, Daly E and Ghosh S (2012), “Change in the intensity-duration relationship of extreme temperature episodes in transient climate over India”, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) and American Geophysical Union (AGU) joint assembly, Singapore.
3. Jayaraman T and Murari K K (2014), “Smallholder agriculture in India and adaptation to current and future climate variability and climate change”, American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting, 15-19 Dec 2014, San Francisco (USA).
4. Murari K K, Mahato S, Jayaraman T (2014), “Empirical evidence of the direct impact of extreme temperatures on wheat yield in the major wheat-growing region of India.”, American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting, 15-19 Dec 2014, San Francisco (USA).
5. Murari KK, Jayaraman T, Chakraborty S (2016), “Fertilizer use on small farms”, paper presented at the conference on small-scale farming in India: results from field surveys Thiruvananthapuram, December 2-3.
6. Murari KK (2018), “Towards non-toxic South East Asia”, November 27-29, 2018, Bangkok, Thailand.
7. Murari KK (2019), “Heat stress and health responses-challenges and concerns in India” presented in conference “Combating the urban climate change in South East Asia: towards the implementation of new urban agenda” in Urban Thinkers Campus Kualalumpur (Malaysia), December 7-9, 2019.
8. Attended Conference of Parities 27 (COP27) meeting as UNFCCC observer from 14 Nov to 18 Nov 2022 in Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt).
9. Attended 2nd SFWG meeting of G20 delegates in Sustainable Finance as Special Invitee from 21 March 2023 to 23 March 2023 in Udaipur, India.

Articles in popular media and blogs

1. The effect of extreme temperature on crop yield in Karnataka (June 2017) in Foundation of Agrarian Studies Blog. (https://fas.org.in/blog/the-effects-of-extreme-temperature-on-crop-yield-in-karnataka/)
2. Misunderstanding data, poor analysis, and wrong conclusions: the spurious linkages between extreme temperatures and farmer suicides (August, 2017) in Newsclick. (https://www.newsclick.in/misunderstanding-data-poor-analysis-and-wrong-conclusions)
3.  Data analytics in WASH sector. In Klaymatrix Blog. (https://klaymatrix.com/2018/07/10/data-analytics-in-water-sector/)
4. The Amazon fire that lacks proportion (Sept, 2019), in The Hindu oped. (https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-amazon-fires-an-alarm-that-lacks-proportion/article29377123.ece)
5. Doubling rate of COVID-19 cases: how does India fare? (May, 2020), in Klaymatrix Blog. (https://klaymatrix.com/2020/05/20/doubling-rate-of-covid-19-cases-how-does-india-fare/)
6. India’s commitment on climate change: The Paris agreement and Post-agreement progress (Nov. 2021), in Director’s Today (Special Issue on Climate Change) https://www.iodglobal.com/flipapp/admin/uploads/projectlogo/72ed1d9435e38c55874fad821f477ad0.pdf

Patent Received

Received German Utility Model Patent for Invention as a co-inventor on “A system to account for the impact of COVID-19 on household economics in India.”, facilitated by Ideas2IPR. The IPR granted by German Patents and Trademark Office (grant no. 202022102361.1).  The patent is for the invention of methodology in the area of Resource Planning and Analytics (WIPO code G06Q 10/06).

Projects (or consultancy work) at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

1. Community resource management plan for the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers in Gondia district of Maharashtra, sponsored by department of forest, Gondia division (completed). (Role- Co-PI.
2. Climate change adaptation to industrial areas of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, sponsored by INTEGRATION Environment and Energy GmbH, Germany (Completed)
3. Climate change and agricultural yields in Karnataka, sponsored by Karnataka Agriculture Price Commission (Completed). (Role- Co-PI.
4. Socio-economic and environmental assessment of Konkan railways, sponsored by 3ie - International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, Delhi (Completed). (Role- Co-PI)
5. Impact of agricultural interventions on farmers wellbeing: evidences from semi-arid regions of rural India, project grant sanctioned by Indian Council of Social Science Research. (Completed). (Role- Co-PI)
6. Low-cost innovative technology for water quality monitoring and water resources management for urban and rural water systems in India- jointly sponsored by Department of Science and Technology and European Commission. (Ongoing). (Role- Co-PI)
7. Modelling the Community-Scale Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Productivity Across Different Agro-Ecological Zones in India- Sponsor-University of Sydney and TISS partnership collaboration award. (ongoing). (Role-PI)
8. Knowledge partner for sustainable finance working group (SFWG) for India’s presidency for G20 summit 2022-23. Sponsor- Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. (ongoing). (Role- Co-PI)

Courses teaching

1. Introduction to climate science (2 credits, for ECCSS) [Currently not teaching]
2. Water and sustainable development-I (2 credits, for ECCSS) [Currently not teaching]
3. Extreme events and disasters (2 credits, for ECCSS and also open to WPG and DS) [Currently not teaching]
4. Climate change modelling (2 credits, for ECCSS)
5. Introduction to Geographical Information System (2 credits, for ECCSS, UPG, MSA)
6. Macro data analysis (2 credits, for all programmes in SoHS) [Currently not teaching]
7. Data analysis using R (in the executive programme, MSA)
8. Research Methodology (2 credits, for all programmes in SoHS)
9. Energy and Climate Change (2 credits, for ECCSS)
10. Energy Modeling (2 credits, for ECCSS)
11. Mitigation and climate policy (2 credits for ECCSS)
12. Introduction to Machine Learning (for MSA) 
13. Fundamentals of Environmental Studies (for BS in Analytics and Sustainability)

Note- ECCSS- Environment, Climate Change and Sustainability Studies

UPG- Urban Policy and Governance

WPG- Water Policy and Governance

DS- Development Studies

CBCS- Choice Based Credit System

RG- Regulatory Governance

MSA- Master of Science in Analytics

SoHS- School of Habitat Studies

Lectures delivered (Outside TISS)

1.  "Impact of current climate variability and climate change on Indian agriculture and lessons for rural adaptation", Round Table Discussion on Climate Change by Alliance Française de Bombay, the Science & Technology Service of the French Embassy in India (2016).
2. “Data and methods in climate analysis”, in a workshop on the impact of climate change in Indian agriculture, organized by Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore (2016).
3. “Climate models, Downscaling, and Projections”, in research methodology workshop on impact evaluation of issues related to climate change and agriculture, organized by NABARD and Institute of Economic Growth (Delhi) (2016).
4. “Evaluating the added value in regional climate model simulations of extreme temperatures in India”, in Indo-US joint partnership workshop organized by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune (2017).
5. “Climate variability and climate change: extremes, their manifestation, and their societal impact” in SERB and GUJCOST sponsored training programme on “Capacity building on interdisciplinary research on climate change” organized by Charotar University of Science and Technology, Anand (2018)
6. “Climate data and models” in Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai (2019)
7. “Earth’s changing climate: politics of scientific consensus” in UGC-Stride conference in climate change at Central University of Tamil Nadu (2022).
8. “Climate change: global perspectives” in UGC-STRIDE (C-1) conference for college/university faculties at Central University of Tamil Nadu (9-10 Nov 2022).