Milind Kandlikar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1676900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Milind Kandlikar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Milind |
| FAMILY NAME | Kandlikar |
| SIGNATURE | KANDLIKAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7368-371X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
PHIMBYs and the politics of transit-oriented development
As cities seek solutions to reduce GHG emissions, transit-oriented development (TOD) is increasingly recognized as a promising approach, given that transportation is a major emitter in urban areas. However, densification and TOD are subjects of intense debate and controversy. This research sheds light on urban residents’ perceptions of transit-oriented development, focusing on an initiative recently approved by the City of Vancouver, the Broadway…
Forest doesn't burn anymore
Historically, many Indigenous communities across the world have practiced seasonal burning to manage their local ecosystems. This practice shaped forest terrains worldwide and established an intentional and active relationship between humans and fire. Yet, perceived as a threat to wildlife and biodiversity, colonial policies have banned the burning of forests, and customary fire management remains a point of disagreement between conventional fore…
Governing gene-edited crops
This paper explores the role and responsibilities of agricultural genomics experts in governing gene editing (GE) for food and agriculture, engaging with the frameworks of technological determinism and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). We interview agricultural genomics experts in Canada to study expert views on risks, benefits, and regulatory challenges of GE crops and the extent to which agricultural genomics experts exercise the RRI p…
How can machine learning help in understanding the impact of climate change on crop yields
Ordinary least squares linear regression (LR) has long been a popular choice among researchers interested in using historical data for estimating crop yield response to climate change. Today, the rapidly growing field of machine learning (ML) offers a wide range of advanced statistical tools that are increasingly being used for more accurate estimates of this relationship. This study compares LR to a popular ML technique called boosted regression…
Locating Kadu in Adivasi portrayals of protected forest areas in Southern India
Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data
Power tariffs for groundwater irrigation in India
Incomplete transitions to clean household energy reinforce gender inequality by lowering women’s respiratory health and household labour productivity
Weather and Climate Variability May Be Poor Proxies for Climate Change in Farmer Risk Perceptions
Despite long-standing assertions that climate change creates new risk management challenges, the climate change adaptation literature persists in assuming, both implicitly and explicitly, that weather and climate variability are suitable proxies for climate change in evaluating farmers’ risk perceptions and predicting their adaptive responses. This assumption persists in part because there is surprisingly little empirical evidence either way, alt…
Can we sustain success in reducing deaths to extreme weather in a hotter world
Misunderstanding conservation agriculture
Integration anxiety
Explaining the rapid emergence of battery-rickshaws in New Delhi
Measuring and tracking the flow of climate change adaptation aid to the developing world
The developed world has pledged to mobilize at least US $100 billion per year of ‘new’ and ‘additional’ funds by 2020 to help the developing world respond to climate change. Tracking this finance is particularly problematic for climate change adaptation, as there is no clear definition of what separates adaptation aid from standard development aid. Here we use a historical database of overseas development assistance projects to test the effect of…
Sources of Variation in Life Cycle Assessments of Desktop Computers
Life cycle assessment (LCA) studies of desktop personal computers (PCs) are analyzed to assess the environmental impact of PCs and to explain inconsistencies and disagreements across existing studies. Impacts, characterized in this work in terms of primary energy demand and global warming potential, are decomposed into inventory components and impact per component in order to expose such inconsistencies. Additional information from related studie…
Science, decision‐making and development
This article addresses the role of scientific knowledge in decision‐making with respect to climate variability and change in the developing world, with a focus on scientific capacity. We propose a ‘systemic’ view of scientific capacity for studying the relationship between science and decision‐making vis‐à‐vis climate variation, one that encompasses knowledge production, as well as its translation for and use in decision‐making. We analyze the ch…
Who participates in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and why
This paper presents a quantitative analysis of international representation in the activities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change using expert authorship counts by country in each of the four IPCC assessment reports (1990, 1995, 2001 and 2007). Overall, we find that 45% of countries, all Non-Annex 1, have never had authors participate in the IPCC process; on the other hand, European and North American experts are make up more than 75…
How hybrid-electric vehicles are different from conventional vehicles
An increasingly diverse set of hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) is now available in North America. The recent generation of HEVs have higher fuel consumption, are heavier, and are significantly more powerful than the first generation of HEVs. We compare HEVs for sale in the United States in 2007 to equivalent conventional vehicles and determine how vehicle weight and system power affects fuel consumption within each vehicle set. We find that heavi…
Climate change research and analysis in India
Who participates in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and why
This paper presents a quantitative analysis of international representation in the activities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change using expert authorship counts by country in each of the four IPCC assessment reports (1990, 1995, 2001 and 2007). Overall, we find that 45% of countries, all Non-Annex 1, have never had authors participate in the IPCC process; on the other hand, European and North American experts are make up more than 75…
Climate change research and analysis in India
Incomplete transitions to clean household energy reinforce gender inequality by lowering women’s respiratory health and household labour productivity
Integration anxiety
Science, decision‐making and development
This article addresses the role of scientific knowledge in decision‐making with respect to climate variability and change in the developing world, with a focus on scientific capacity. We propose a ‘systemic’ view of scientific capacity for studying the relationship between science and decision‐making vis‐à‐vis climate variation, one that encompasses knowledge production, as well as its translation for and use in decision‐making. We analyze the ch…
Locating Kadu in Adivasi portrayals of protected forest areas in Southern India
Misunderstanding conservation agriculture
Climate change research and analysis in India
How hybrid-electric vehicles are different from conventional vehicles
An increasingly diverse set of hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) is now available in North America. The recent generation of HEVs have higher fuel consumption, are heavier, and are significantly more powerful than the first generation of HEVs. We compare HEVs for sale in the United States in 2007 to equivalent conventional vehicles and determine how vehicle weight and system power affects fuel consumption within each vehicle set. We find that heavi…
Science, decision‐making and development
This article addresses the role of scientific knowledge in decision‐making with respect to climate variability and change in the developing world, with a focus on scientific capacity. We propose a ‘systemic’ view of scientific capacity for studying the relationship between science and decision‐making vis‐à‐vis climate variation, one that encompasses knowledge production, as well as its translation for and use in decision‐making. We analyze the ch…
Who participates in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and why
This paper presents a quantitative analysis of international representation in the activities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change using expert authorship counts by country in each of the four IPCC assessment reports (1990, 1995, 2001 and 2007). Overall, we find that 45% of countries, all Non-Annex 1, have never had authors participate in the IPCC process; on the other hand, European and North American experts are make up more than 75…
Sources of Variation in Life Cycle Assessments of Desktop Computers
Life cycle assessment (LCA) studies of desktop personal computers (PCs) are analyzed to assess the environmental impact of PCs and to explain inconsistencies and disagreements across existing studies. Impacts, characterized in this work in terms of primary energy demand and global warming potential, are decomposed into inventory components and impact per component in order to expose such inconsistencies. Additional information from related studie…
Measuring and tracking the flow of climate change adaptation aid to the developing world
The developed world has pledged to mobilize at least US $100 billion per year of ‘new’ and ‘additional’ funds by 2020 to help the developing world respond to climate change. Tracking this finance is particularly problematic for climate change adaptation, as there is no clear definition of what separates adaptation aid from standard development aid. Here we use a historical database of overseas development assistance projects to test the effect of…
Explaining the rapid emergence of battery-rickshaws in New Delhi
Integration anxiety
Weather and Climate Variability May Be Poor Proxies for Climate Change in Farmer Risk Perceptions
Despite long-standing assertions that climate change creates new risk management challenges, the climate change adaptation literature persists in assuming, both implicitly and explicitly, that weather and climate variability are suitable proxies for climate change in evaluating farmers’ risk perceptions and predicting their adaptive responses. This assumption persists in part because there is surprisingly little empirical evidence either way, alt…
Can we sustain success in reducing deaths to extreme weather in a hotter world
Misunderstanding conservation agriculture
Power tariffs for groundwater irrigation in India
Incomplete transitions to clean household energy reinforce gender inequality by lowering women’s respiratory health and household labour productivity
Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data
Governing gene-edited crops
This paper explores the role and responsibilities of agricultural genomics experts in governing gene editing (GE) for food and agriculture, engaging with the frameworks of technological determinism and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). We interview agricultural genomics experts in Canada to study expert views on risks, benefits, and regulatory challenges of GE crops and the extent to which agricultural genomics experts exercise the RRI p…
How can machine learning help in understanding the impact of climate change on crop yields
Ordinary least squares linear regression (LR) has long been a popular choice among researchers interested in using historical data for estimating crop yield response to climate change. Today, the rapidly growing field of machine learning (ML) offers a wide range of advanced statistical tools that are increasingly being used for more accurate estimates of this relationship. This study compares LR to a popular ML technique called boosted regression…
Locating Kadu in Adivasi portrayals of protected forest areas in Southern India
Forest doesn't burn anymore
Historically, many Indigenous communities across the world have practiced seasonal burning to manage their local ecosystems. This practice shaped forest terrains worldwide and established an intentional and active relationship between humans and fire. Yet, perceived as a threat to wildlife and biodiversity, colonial policies have banned the burning of forests, and customary fire management remains a point of disagreement between conventional fore…
PHIMBYs and the politics of transit-oriented development
As cities seek solutions to reduce GHG emissions, transit-oriented development (TOD) is increasingly recognized as a promising approach, given that transportation is a major emitter in urban areas. However, densification and TOD are subjects of intense debate and controversy. This research sheds light on urban residents’ perceptions of transit-oriented development, focusing on an initiative recently approved by the City of Vancouver, the Broadway…
Geography (13 works) · Climate change (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Environmental Science (8 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Climate change impacts on agriculture (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works)