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China is weaponizing water and worsening droughts in Asia Nikkei Asian Preview, 28 October 2019 By Brahma Chellaney	Haryana verdict likely to boost regional satraps Hindustan Times , 25 October 2019 By Neelanjan Sircar
The Fragrance of Nature Open, 25 October 2019 By Shylashri Shankar	Looking beyond the Mamallapuram summit The Hindu Business Line, 25 October 2019 By G Parthasarathy
Haryana shows BJP isn’t invincible in assembly polls. But here’s what saves it in the end The Print, 25 October 2019 By Rahul Verma and Pranav Gupta	There is no doubt that the vote was against the ruling establishment Hindustan Times, 24 October 2019 By Rahul Verma
For India, Development Innocent of Climate Change is Not an Option The Quint, 23 October 2019 By Navroz K Dubash	Delhi’s pollution battle: What odd-even can do, what it cannot do \| Analysis Hindustan Times, 23 October 2019 By Santosh Harish and Dr Sagnik Dey
Leaving the door open to a border settlement The Hindu, 23 October 2019 By Zorawar Daulet Singh	पर्यावरणीय गैर-अनुपालन के लिए विनियामक सुधार India Water Portal, 23 October 2019 By Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli

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India and China: Myths and Realities of their Economic Rise

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Zorawar Daulet Singh

Intellectual Property Rights Infringement and Remedies

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Ananth Padmanabhan

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

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

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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

India's Health Insurance Scheme for the Poor: Evidence from the Early Experience of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana

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Robert Palacios, Jishnu Das, and Changqing Sun

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

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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
Decentralised Approach to Tackling Nutrition Yojana Magazine, 1 May 2018 By Avani Kapur	Cascading biases against poorer countries Nature Climate Change, 27 April 2018 By Sivan Kartha, Tom Athanasiou, Simon Caney, Elizabeth Cripps, Kate Dooley, Peter Singer, Navroz K Dubash, Teng Fei, Paul G Harris, Christian Holz, Bård Lahn, Darrel Moellendorf, Benito Müller, J Timmons Roberts, Ambuj Sagar, Henry Shue, and Harald Winkler
The Numbers Game - How Well Has It Served the Cause of Education? Economic and Political Weekly, 14 April 2018 By Kiran Bhatty	An Unresolved Legal Question About Forest Rights Human Rights Law Journal, 9 April 2018 By Kanchi Kohli
Towards demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change Nature Climate Change, 3 April 2018 By Felix Creutzig, Joyashree Roy, William F. Lamb, Inês M. L. Azevedo, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Holger Dalkmann, Oreane Y. Edelenbosch, Frank W. Geels, Arnulf Grubler, Cameron Hepburn, Edgar G. Hertwich, Radhika Khosla, Linus Mattauch, Jan C. Minx, Anjali Ramakrishnan, Narasimha D. Rao, Julia K. Steinberger, Massimo Tavoni, and Diana Ürge-Vorsatz & Elke U. Weber	The legal character and operational relevance of the Paris Agreement's temperature goal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 2 April 2018 By Lavanya Rajamani and Jacob Werksman

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The Evolution and Governance Architecture of the United Nations Climate Change Regime

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Daniel Bodansky and Lavanya Rajamani

South Asia: Environmental Concerns and Human Rights Violations

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Shashi Motilal and Prakriti Prajapati

The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities in the international climate change regime

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Lavanya Rajamani

Human Rights in the Climate Change Regime

By

Lavanya Rajamani

Innovation and Trends in Water Law

By

Philippe Cullet

The Right to Water in Rural India and Drinking Water Policy Reforms

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Philippe Cullet

An Uneven Flow? Navigating Downstream Concerns Over China’s Water Policy

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Nimmi Kurian

Central Concepts in the Paris Agreement and How They Evolved

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Lavanya Rajamani and Emmanuel Guérin

The Supreme Court and India’s Judicial System

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Madhav Khosla and Ananth Padmanabhan

Guiding Principles and General Obligation (Article 2.2 and Article 3)

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Lavanya Rajamani

Unacknowledged Urbanisation: The New Census Towns in India

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Kanhu Charan Pradhan

Shedding Light on Social and Economic Changes in Small Towns Through the Prism of Local Governance: A Case Study of Haryana

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Marie-Hélène Zérah

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Budget Brief 2019-20: Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana - Gramin (PMAY - G) 25 January 2019 By Sahithya Venkatesan, Avani Kapur	TRAI Consultation Paper on Regulating Over-the-Top Communication Services: A Response 7 January 2019 By Ananth Padmanabhan, Meghna Bal
Study on Household Containment Systems in Selected States in India 30 December 2018	Closing the Enforcement Gap: Community-led Groundtruthing of Environmental Violations in Mormugao, Goa 30 December 2018 By CPR-Namati Environmental Justice Program
Building Regulations For Faecal Sludge Management: Review of Building Regulations From Indian States 4 December 2018 By Arkaja Singh	India: Using open school data to improve transparency and accountability 26 October 2018 By Mridusmita Bordoloi, Varun Kapoor
Ethnography of Sanitation in Small Towns: A Study of Angul and Dhenkanal, Odisha 22 September 2018 By Ranjita Mohanty, Anju Dwivedi	Training Manual on Non-Sewered Urban Sanitation 18 September 2018 By Shubhagato Dasgupta, Anju Dwivedi, Ambarish Karunanithi, Swati Dhiman, Deepti Raj, Neha Agarwal
Note on Faecal Sludge Management in Rural India: Graded Solution, legal and Regulatory implications and Possible Administrative Structure 30 August 2018 By Arkaja Singh, Anindita Mukherjee	An Overview of the Smart Cities Mission in India 24 August 2018 By Ashwathy Anand, Ajai Sreevatsan, Persis Taraporevala

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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
Exclusion, Informality, and Predation in the Cities of Delhi 25 August 2015 By Cities of Delhi Team	Use of standardised patients to assess quality of tuberculosis care: a pilot, cross-sectional study The Lancet, 11 August 2015 By Jishnu Das, Ada Kwan, Benjamin Daniels, Srinath Satyanarayana, Ramnath Subbaraman, Sofi Bergkvist, Ranendra K Das, Veena Das, and Madhukar Pai

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Accountability Initiative	Cities and Climate Change	Clearing the Air? Seminar Series on Delhi's Air Pollution
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	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 – 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	Namati Environmental Justice Program	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	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