Presentations and Publications

  • 2012: “Greywater and Rainwater Study for California's People: Their Concerns and Decision Drivers” and “Greywater Residential Study: Lessons Learned” presented at Greywater in California: Design, Managing, and Monitoring conference by Tuolumne County Environmental Health and http://www.sierrawatershedprogressive.com
  • 2012: “Urban Agriculture directory, a tool for tracking urban agricultural diversity and climate change adaptation" paper presented at the third International Urban Biodiversity Conference, URBIO 2012 at Mumbai, India. 

  • 2012: “Regenerative urban ecosystems: Role of greywater, rainwater and urban agriculture for urban water and food security" paper presented at the third International Urban Biodiversity Conference, URBIO 2012 at Mumbai, India. 

  • 2012: “Urban Agriculture-An (unlikely) biodiversity conservation tool?” paper presented at the International Conference on Multifunctional Agriculture and Urban-Rural Relations, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, April 2012. 

  • 2011: Paper “Contribution of urban agriculture to food security, biodiversity conservation and reducing agricultural C foot print” published in Springer book titled “Social, Economic and Political Aspects of Climate Change” as a part of new book series “Climate Change Management”. http://www.springer.com/economics/environmental/book/978-3-642-14775-3 

  • 11/ 2009: “Role of agrobiodiversity and indigenous knowledge conservation in food and global health in the climate change scenario”, KLIMA 2009 conference, http://www.klima2009.net/ 

  • 11/ 2009: “Contribution of urban agriculture to food security, biodiversity conservation and reducing agricultural C foot print”, KLIMA 2009 conference, http://www.klima2009.net/ 

  • 05/ 2009: “Climate change and food security in the cities” presented at the World Bank sponsored Urban Research Symposium ‘Cities and climate change: responding to an urgent 
agenda’ www.urs2009.net, 28-30 June 2009, Marseille, France. http://www.urs2009.net/papers.html 
  • 01/ 2009: “Implication for international trade on agrobiodiversity conservation and food security in climate change scenario” at the NCCR Climate Change Conference (http://www.nccr- climate.unibe.ch/conferences/climate_policies/programme.pdf) at Bern, Jan 21-23, 2009. 

  • 2007: Gender Mainstreaming: A key driver of development in environment and energy UNDP Conceptual Overview. This conceptual overview is accompanied with UNDP EEG portfolio review and sector specific concept papers in sustainable land management, energy and chemical management available at http://www.undp.org/environment/publications.shtml. 

  • 2005: Wild Farm Alliance’s farm biodiversity conference and the 25th annual ecological farming conference-“Shining light on sustainable agriculture: A summary”. http://www.akamaiuniversity.us/pjst6_1_4.pdf