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The national security threat from within Hindustan Times, 2 February 2020 By Brahma Chellaney	The budget does not address the crisis of demand Hindustan Times, 1 February 2020 By Yamini Aiyar
Will children get attention in budget? Hindustan Times, 31 January 2020 By Avani Kapur and Mridusmita Bordoloi	Is land a constraint for Modi govt’s ambitious expansion programme for renewables? Financial Express , 31 January 2020 By Eswaran Somanathan
India can’t continue to overlook Trump’s diplomatic slights. Time to redefine ties sensibly ThePrint, 27 January 2020 By Zorawar Daulet Singh	Imran Khan stumbles on Kashmir ambitions The Hindu Business Line, 27 January 2020 By G Parthasarathy
BJP & AAP know regularising Delhi colonies is smart policy, but it’s an incomplete plan ThePrint, 26 January 2020 By Mukta Naik and Manish	Ominous signs for India as China regains pole position in Myanmar Economic Times, 24 January 2020 By Shyam Saran
Two-front War: A Convenient Fiction India Today, 24 January 2020 By Bharat Karnad	कश्मीर पर पाकिस्तान की नई चाल Live Hindustan, 24 January 2020 By Zorawar Daulet Singh

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Promoting Compliance in An Evolving Climate Regime

Edited by

Jutta Brunnée, Meinhard Doelle, and Lavanya Rajamani

Climate Change Liability: Transnational Law and Practice

Edited by

Richard Lord, Silke Goldberg, Lavanya Rajamani, and Jutta Brunnée

Himalayan Stalemate: Understanding the India-China Dispute

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Zorawar Daulet Singh

India and China: Myths and Realities of their Economic Rise

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Zorawar Daulet Singh

Decentralization, Local Governance, And Social Wellbeing In India: Do Local Governments Matter?

By

Rani Mullen

Handbook of Climate Change and India: Development, Politics and Governance

Edited by

Navroz K Dubash

Water Law in India: An Introduction to Legal Instruments

Edited by

Philippe Cullet and Sujith Koonan

Water Law for the Twenty-first Century: National and International Aspects of Water Law Reforms in India

Edited by

Philippe Cullet, Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri, Roopa Madhav, and Usha Ramnathan

Human Rights and Climate Change: A Review of the International Legal Dimensions

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Siobhan McInerney-Lankford, Mac Darrow, and Lavanya Rajamani

Re-visioning Indian Cities: The Urban Renewal Mission

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K C Sivaramakrishnan

Implementation of International Environmental Law

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S Maljean-Dubois and Lavanya Rajamani

Beyond Binaries: Border States and Foreign Policy in India and China

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Nimmi Kurian

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India and Climate Change: Evolving Ideas and Increasing Policy Engagement Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 1 October 2018 By Navroz K Dubash, Radhika Khosla, Ulka Kelkar, and Sharachchandra Lele	The centralization vs decentralization tug of war and the emerging narrative of fiscal federalism for social policy in India Journal of Regional and Federal Studies, 24 September 2018 By Yamini Aiyar and Avani Kapur
Defining Citizenship: Assam on the Edge Again Economic & Political Weekly, 28 July 2018 By Sanjoy Hazarika	Appellate Authorities under Pollution Control Laws in India: Powers, Problems and Potential Law Environment and Development Journal, 23 July 2018 By Shibani Ghosh, Sharachchandra Lele, and Nakul Heble
India’s energy and emissions future: An interpretive analysis of model scenarios Environmental Research Letters, Volume 13, Number 7, IOP Publishing Ltd., 4 July 2018 By Navroz K Dubash, Radhika Khosla, Narasimha D Rao, and Ankit Bhardwaj	National climate change mitigation legislation, strategy and targets: a global update Climate Policy, 4 July 2018 By Gabriela Iacobuta, Navroz K Dubash, Prabhat Upadhyaya, Mekdelawit Deribe, and Niklas Höhne
Democracy and India's Foreign Policy Economic and Political Weekly, 30 June 2018 By Zorawar Daulet Singh	Whose carbon is burnable? Equity considerations in the allocation of a “right to extract” Climatic Change, 24 May 2018 By Sivan Kartha, Simon Caney, Navroz K Dubash, and Greg Muttitt
The State of Emergency in India: Böckenförde’s Model in a Sub-National Context German Law Review, 7 May 2018 By Shylashri Shankar	Transboundary politics of cooperation: Telugu ganga project, India Regional Environmental Change, 18(4): 1-10, 2 May 2018 By Srinivas Chokkakula

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Deconstructing Institutional Barriers to Basic Urban Services in India

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Anjali Chikersal

The Fundamental Right to Property in the Indian Constitution

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Namita Wahi

Rights: Breadth, Scope and Applicability

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Ananth Padmanabhan

Subregionalising IR: Bringing the Borderlands Back In

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Nimmi Kurian

International Law and the Constitutional Schema

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Lavanya Rajamani

Housing, Spatial-Mobility and Paid Domestic Work in Millennial Delhi: Narratives of Women Domestic Workers

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Sonal Sharma

Unpacking the “Unauthorized Colony”: Policy, Planning and Everyday Lives

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Shahana Sheikh and Subhadra Banda

Public Participation in Indian Environmental Law

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Lavanya Rajamani and Shibani Ghosh

Locating Indian Constitutionalism

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Climate Change through the Lens of Energy Transformation

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Navroz K Dubash

Tibet and the Himalayan Borderlands: Thinking Sub-regionally about Sustainable Development

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Nimmi Kurian

BCIM Sustainability Dialogue(s): A Network Approach to Capacity Building

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Nimmi Kurian

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Country Report – England: Regulating Waste Water and Urban Sanitation 30 March 2019	Country Report – Republic of South Africa: Regulating Water and Urban Sanitation 30 March 2019
Policy Note: Dialogues On Sanitation: Legal Perspectives on Sanitation in Urban India 30 March 2019 By Scaling City Institutions for India: Sanitation	Sanitation in Large and Dense Villages of India: The Last Mile and Beyond 30 March 2019 By Aditya Bhol, Shubhagato Dasgupta, Anindita Mukherjee, Aastha Jain
White Paper on Regulating E-Commerce in India: Need for Principles-based Approach 20 March 2019 By Ananth Padmanabhan, Arjun Sinha	Assembling Private Sector Participation for a Safe and Sustainable Urban Sanitation Future-Discussions from the Dialogue 14 March 2019
What Matters for Urban Women’s Work: A Deep Dive Into Falling Female Labour Force Participation Oxfam India, 1 March 2019 By Shamindra Nath Roy, Partha Mukhopadhyay	The Cubbyhole of Area Studies: Why Indian IR is at an Analytical Cul-de-Sac 1 March 2019 By Nimmi Kurian
Towards furthering action research for sanitation workers’ safety: Discussions from the Workshop 25 February 2019 By Pooja Gupta, Tripti Singh	Closing the Enforcement Gap: Groundtruthing of Environmental Violations in Bodai-Daldali, Chhattisgarh 15 February 2019 By CPR-Namati Environmental Justice Program

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Impact of China Slowdown on India 24 February 2016 By Geetima Das Krishna and Sakshi Bhardwaj	Penalising Environmental Violations: An Analysis of The Ministry’s Proposal 25 January 2016 By Shibani Ghosh
Indradhanush-Banking Sector Reforms 25 January 2016 By Rajiv Kumar, Geetima Das Krishna, and Sakshi Bhardwaj	Reforming the Liability Regime for Air Pollution in India 30 December 2015 By Shibani Ghosh
Channelling household savings to productive uses through the capital markets 27 November 2015 By Geetima Das Krishna, Vardhana Pawaskar, and Sakshi Bhardwaj	Education reforms, bureaucracy and the puzzles of implementation: A case study from Bihar International Growth Centre, 10 November 2015 By Yamini Aiyar, Ambrish Dongre, and Vincy Davis
How Will Bihar Shake Out? 6 November 2015 By Neelanjan Sircar, Bhanu Joshi, and Ashish Ranjan	What Do Bihar’s Voters Want? 30 October 2015 By Neelanjan Sircar, Bhanu Joshi, and Ashish Ranjan
Elaborating in the INDC context 20 September 2015 By Neha B Joseph	Taxes: Price of Civilization or Tribute to Leviathan? 2 September 2015 By Lant Pritchett and Yamini Aiyar

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Accountability Initiative	Cities and Climate Change	Clearing the Air: Air Quality Regulation and Governance in India
Community of Research and Practice (CORP) Seminar Series	Conflicts Around Water Use in Rainfed Agriculture	Constitutional Right to Property
Coordination in accessing climate finance	CPR-CSH Urban Workshop	CPR-CWC Dialogue Forum (TREAD Talks)
CPR-TCPD Dialogues on Indian Politics	Energy and Climate Change in Buildings	Environment Regulation of urban construction projects
Environmental Justice Program	Epidemiologically-based mosquito elimination strategies for dengue control	Globalisation in Question
Governance and Public Policy Initiative	India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development	India Infrastructures and Ecologies Program
India – Urban Rural Boundaries and Basic Services (IND-URBBS)	Indian Development Cooperation Research	Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment
Interstate river water cooperation in India	JNNURM	Land Acquisition in India
Land Rights in Scheduled Areas	Land Rights Initiative	Mapping Land Legislation in India
Mapping Power	Metamorphoses - Talking Technology	Missing Middle: Census Towns in India
Multiple Objective based Energy and Climate Policy	Planning Commission, Working Group on Water Governance for the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-2017)	Powering Through a Transition: The Political Economy of India’s Electricity Future
Public Accountability and Governance in Education	Right to Sanitation	Roads and the politics of thought: Ethnographic approaches to infrastructure development in South Asia
Role of local communities in forest governance: An online course on Forest Rights and Forest Governance	Scale, institutions and Networks II (SINets II)	Scaling City Institutions For India: Sanitation
State Action Plans on Climate Change in India	Strengthen and Harmonise Research and Action on Migration in the Indian Context (SHRAMIC)	Sub Group on "National Water Framework Law" for the Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012-2017)
Sub-group on Legal Issues related to groundwater management and regulation, including the strengthening of the groundwater regulatory authorities at the Centre and States	Subaltern Urbanisation in India (SUBURBIN)	The Jobs Initiative
The role of small cities in shaping youth employment outcomes in India and Indonesia	The Supreme Court and interstate river water disputes	The Tacit Knowledge Urban Research Network (TURN)
The Technology and Society Initiative	Toward a Robust Development Focused INDC for India	TREADS (Transboundary Rivers, Ecologies and Development Studies)
Understanding Metropolitan Homelessness	Water and Federalism	Water Policy, Law, and Conflict