Upasna Sharma
Assistant Professor
Humanities and Social Sciences
The Indian Institutes of Technology, Delhi
India
Biography
Upasna’s research interests lie at the intersection of two domains – adaptation to climate change and disaster risk reduction and management policy. Her research focuses on questions related to assessment of impacts of natural hazards, public-response to hazard early warning systems, measuring vulnerability, relationship between development and generic adaptive capacity, adaptation financing under UNFCCC, science policy interactions and effect of governance and institutional features on risk management systems.
Research Interest
Disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, hazard early warning systems, agro-met advisories for farmers
Publications
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Sharma, Upasna, Anna Scolobig and Anthony Patt (2012). “The effects of decentralization on production and use of risk assessment: insights from landslide management in India and Italyâ€, Natural Hazards, 64 (2): 1357-1371.
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Panda Architesh, Upasna Sharma, K.N.Ninan, Anthony Patt (2013). Adaptive capacity contributing to improved agricultural productivity at the household level: empirical findings highlighting the importance of crop insurance, Global Environmental Change, 23(4): 782-790.
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Sharma, Upasna, Anand Patwardhan and Anthony Patt (2013). Education as a determinant of response to cyclone warnings: Evidence from coastal zones in India, Ecology and Society, 18(2): 18.
