• Sustainable energy policy
• Bioenergy
• Energy economics
• Climate policy and governance

Journal Publications

• Swami, D., Dave, P., Parthasarathy, D., (2018). Agricultural susceptibility to monsoon variability: A district level analysis of Maharashtra, India. Science of the Total Environment, 619, 559-577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.328.

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D., (2020). A multidimensional perspective to farmers’ decision making determines the adaptation of farming community. Journal of Environmental management, 264, 110487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110487.

• Swami, D., Dave P., Parthasarathy, D. (2020). Understanding farmers’ suicidal ideation: a structural equation modeling study in Maharashtra, India. Climatic Change, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02935-8.

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D., (2021), Dynamics of exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity, and agricultural vulnerability at district scale for Maharashtra, India. Ecological Indicators, 121, 107206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107206.

• Swami, D., Dave, P., & Parthasarathy, D. (2021). Analysis of temperature variability and extremes with respect to crop threshold temperature for Maharashtra, India. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-021-03558-4

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D., (2022), Assessing effectiveness of adaptation strategies in context of crop loss: A case study of Indian subcontinent. Regional Environmental Change. https://doi.org/1007/s10113-022-01921-3

Media articles and reports

• Swami, D and Gurtoo, A. (2020). Criticality of Midday Meals for School Children Post COVID-19. IISc CSP, Bangalore. 01C/06/2020. https://csp.iisc.ac.in/01C-06-2020/.

• Swami, D., Gurtoo, A., & Afsharia, B. (2020). Impact on nutrition through Mid-Day meals: building a comprehensive assessment model.

• http://www.iitb.ac.in/en/research-highlight/india%E2%80%99s-farmlands-vulnerable-to-climate-change

• https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMED33B..08S/abstract

• https://researchmatters.in/news/how-do-indian-farmers-adapt-climate-change-amid-socio-economic-hurdles

• https://poshan.outlookindia.com/story/poshan-news-india-faces-nutritional-crisis-for-school-children-dependent-entirely-on-midday-meals-amid-covid-19/360433

Conferences

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2020), Effectiveness of Adaptation strategies in context of Climate change, presented at International conference on Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Climate change perspective, EMPRI Bangalore, 10-11^th December, 2020

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2020), Rising inequalities and suicide rate among farming community in India: Role of Climatic, Socio-Economic, Infrastructural and Institutional factors, presented at EADI ISS General Conference 2020: Solidarity, Peace and Social Justice, 13^th May, 2020

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2019), Response to Climate variability: Challenges in Vidarbha region, Maharashtra, India, presented at Indian Society of Ecological Economics, Hyderabad, 6-9^th November, 2019

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2019), Decentralization vs National and State action plan on climate change, presented at Workshop on Environmental Policy: Scope and Challenges for Local Regulation, Matheran, 9-11^th September, 2019

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2019), Climate change: local vs global challenges, presented at World Conference on Disaster Management, IIT Bombay, 28-31^st January, 2019

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2018), Climate change adaptation in Maharashtra: Household level perspectives on agricultural, governance and sociological dynamics, presented at Workshop on Democracy, Devolution and Climate Policy, IIT Bombay, 2-4 October, 2018

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2018), Challenges and approaches to vulnerability and adaptation to climate change: Empirical evidence from household survey of farmers in Maharashtra, India. Abstract ED33B-08 presented at 2018 fall meeting, Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D., & Dave. P. (2018), Spatio-temporal temperature variability and agricultural vulnerability: District scale analysis for Maharashtra, India, Abstract EGU2018-16004 presented at 2018, European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, 8-13 April

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2018), Vulnerability of Mumbai megacity: Socio-economic challenges and water scarcity, presented at Livable cities: transforming sustainability and its challenges, New Delhi, 5-7 February

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2018), Water Crisis in Maharashtra, India, presented at Livable cities: transforming sustainability and its challenges, New Delhi, 5-7 February.

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2017), Determinants of adaptation to Climate Variability for Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India, Indian Society of Ecological Economics

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2017), Increasing Water Vulnerability of Indian Megacity, Mumbai: Interconnected web of Politics and Policies, Indian Society of Ecological Economics

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D., & Dave. P. (2016), Regional agricultural susceptibility to climate variability: a district level analysis of Maharashtra, India, Abstract GC53E-1340 presented at 2016 fall meeting, Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, Calif., 11-15 December

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D., & Dave. P. (2016), Improving preparedness of farmers to Climate Variability: A case study of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India, Abstract PA14 B-06 presented at 2016 fall meeting, Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, Calif., 11-15 December

• Swami, D., Parthasarathy, D. (2016), Freak weather phenomenon: A district level analysis of Maharashtra, India, presented at 9^th International Geographical Union, New Delhi, 18-20 March

• Carbon neutral government institute: A pilot project to achieve carbon neutrality for Karnataka, India, (PI): Deepika Swami, Supported by State government of Karnataka. (6 Lakhs)

• Impact of Climate change on population under poverty for India, (PI): Deepika Swami, Supported by State government of Karnataka. (10 Lakhs)

M.Tech Thesis Supervision

• Ashish Tiwari (Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering)

• Shiv Shakti Singh (Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering)

• Assistant Professor, Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; Since December 2021.

• Climate Change Fellow, Environmental Management Policy Research Institute, Department of Forest, Ecology, and Environment, Government of Karnataka; October 2020-December 2021

• Post-doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; March -September 2020

• Research Associate, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; October,2019-Feburary, 2020

• Senior Associate: Research and Content, Quantinsti; July-October, 2019

• Fellowship from Indian Society of Ecological Economics, November, 2019

• Travel fellowship (Indo-German Collaboration) for presenting the work on Environmental Policy, Scope and Challenges for Local Regulation, September 2019

• Fellowship from IIT Bombay to attend European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria, April 2018

• Student Travel grant from American Geophysical Union, 2018

• Fellowship from Indian Society of Ecological Economics (INSEE), Kerala, November 2017

• Berkner travel fellowship from American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2016

• Fellowship from Indo-European SAHYOG summer school, Tezpur, July 2014

• University Gold-medalist (Top Rank holder) during Masters’ degree, 2013

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