Ronita Bardhan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1901616 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ronita Bardhan |
| PRENOMES | Ronita |
| SOBRENOME | Bardhan |
| ASSINATURA | BARDHAN R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5336-4084 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 115 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
From physical surfaces to human-centric heat stress
Heat exposure connects the built environment and public health, directly shaping the livability and sustainability of urban areas. Fully understanding the spatial heterogeneity of heat exposure and its driving factors is therefore a vital prerequisite for climate-adaptive urban planning. However, most planning-oriented studies rely on land surface temperature (LST), and whether LST adequately represents human heat exposure and how it differs from…
Cultural Dimensions of Energy Transitions and Clean Cooking in Informal Settlements
This study aims to understand the environmental aspects of energy transitions and clean cooking in informal settlements by focusing on domestic practices, gender roles, and employment status in Mukuru, Nairobi. Adopting a mixed-method approach, household surveys and focus group discussions (FGDs), the research asks: What drives the adoption of clean cooking in informal settlements? How are economic conditions and cultural norms intertwined in wom…
Public Communication about Science in 68 Countries
This 68-country survey ( n = 71,922) examines science information diets and communication behavior, identifies cross-country differences, and tests how such differences are associated with sociopolitical and economic conditions. We find that social media are the most used sources of science information in most countries, except those with democratic-corporatist media systems where news media tend to be used more widely. People in collectivist soc…
Residential satisfaction in a country that prioritises happiness
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries
Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns with a preregistered 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents and found that in most countries, most p…
Cooling efficacy of trees across cities is determined by background climate, urban morphology, and tree trait
Urban planners and other stakeholders often view trees as the ultimate panacea for mitigating urban heat stress; however, their cooling efficacy varies globally and is influenced by three primary factors: tree traits, urban morphology, and climate conditions. This study analyzes 182 studies on the cooling effects of urban trees across 17 climates in 110 global cities or regions. Tree implementation reduces peak monthly temperatures to below 26 °C…
Identifying Hard-to-Decarbonize houses from multi-source data in Cambridge, UK
Heatwave interventions must reduce invisible gendered challenges in the Global South
Breathing space in a compact city
Redevelopment of low-income settlements by re-densifying cities is a common approach in the Global South to improve living conditions and tackle the housing shortage. However, the effectiveness of the housing design in redevelopment schemes remains to be questioned. This study evaluates a proposed design of a slum redevelopment project in Mumbai, India, by comparing the environmental performance of three design schemes: the existing low-income ho…
Protecting heritage
Machine learning-based evaluation of dynamic thermal-tempering performance and thermal diversity for 107 Cambridge courtyards
The dynamic thermal conditions profoundly impact on the quality of physical, cultural, and social experiences in courtyard spaces. This research aims to identify the microclimatic dissimilarities between courtyards in terms of tempering seasonal–diurnal thermal extremes and enriching ground-level thermal textures. The methodology included field measurements in summer-2021 and winter-2022 in Cambridge, UK; microclimatic simulations of 107 courtyar…
Relating three-decade surge in space cooling demand to urban warming
Rising demand for space cooling has been placing enormous strain on various technological, environmental, and societal dimensions, resulting in issues related to energy consumption, environmental sustainability, health and well-being, affordability, and equity. Holistic approaches that combine energy efficiency optimization, policy-making, and societal adaptation must be rapidly promoted as viable and timely solutions. We interpret the 30 year cl…
Technical Efficiency Evaluation of Primary Health Care Institutions in Shenzhen, China, and Its Policy Implications under the Covid-19 Pandemic
(1) Background: Primary health care institutions (PHCI) play an important role in reducing health inequities and achieving universal health coverage. However, despite the increasing inputs of healthcare resources in China, the proportion of patient visits in PHCI keeps declining. In 2020, the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic further exerted a severe stress on the operation of PHCI due to administrative orders. This study aims to evaluate the effic…
Evaluating well-being in low-income mass housing in India with specific reference to natural ventilation
The social well-being and health of the occupants of low-income housing depends not just on improved infrastructure and security of tenure but also on neighbourhood and apartment design characteristics. This study compares 14 best-practice habitat design models for low-income mass housing in nine Indian states, with Dharavi slum and slum rehabs in Mumbai paying particular attention to the drivers of natural ventilation which impacts the spread of…
From informal to formal
Provision of affordable housing and energy access is an urgent challenge in India and South Africa. This study adopts a participatory filmmaking approach to understand women’s agency in low-income domestic housing in Mumbai and Cape Town. Through their films, the women shared insights of how the transitional housing environment has impacted their everyday routines and how they are utilising the access to energy. By employing creative, participato…
GeoInFuse - A data-driven information fusion for intra-urban form classification in data-scarce heterogeneous cities
Understanding the variability in intra-urban forms is essential for protecting future-proofing cities from climate volatilities. However, the classification of urban forms is costly due to its reliance on high-resolution datasets, limited in the Global South's low-income cities. Additionally, the current classifiers are constrained in characterizing urban forms in heterogeneous cities where the built environment has an isomorphic footprint but va…
Words against injustices
Slum rehabilitation housing (SRH) are critical transitional spaces in urban informality that has deep-rooted implications on poverty alleviation efforts. However, current literature reports systemic injustices in SRH on access to essential services, including energy injustices. This study investigated distributive injustices in the SRH across three cities, Abuja, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro, developing ‘energy cultures’ narratives. It employed a co…
Rest framework
Future cities of the Global South will not only rapidly urbanise but will also get warmer from climate change and urbanisation induced effects. It will trigger a multi-fold increase in cooling demand, especially at a residential level, mitigation to which remains a policy and research gap. This study forwards a novel residential energy stress mitigation framework called REST to estimate warming climate-induced energy stress in residential buildin…
Grounded reality meets machine learning
Text-based data sources like narratives and stories have become increasingly popular as critical insight generator in energy research and social science. However, their implications in policy application usually remain superficial and fail to fully exploit state-of-the-art resources which digital era holds for text analysis. This paper illustrates the potential of deep-narrative analysis in energy policy research using text analysis tools from th…
Films as source of everyday life and energy use
Analysing outdoor airflow and pollution as a parameter to assess the compatibility of mass-scale low-cost residential development
Socio-physical liveability through socio-spatiality in low-income resettlement archetypes - A case of slum rehabilitation housing in Mumbai, India
Informality
The progress of urbanization in the developing world has had various consequences. Of these, informality is one of the most significant. The complex demographic makeup of the developing world has made the difference between formality and informality vague. In this entry, urban informality is examined by looking at evidence from the city of Mumbai. Mumbai's urban fabric is a complex mosaic of formal and informal spaces. The study analyzes the phen…
Urban form as policy variable for climate-sensitive area planning under heterogeneity
Although built-up areas exacerbate the urban heat island (UHI) effect, the thermal impact of heterogeneous urban areas remains unknown. In this study geographically weighted regression (GWR) is used to examine the locally variable relationship between land surface temperatures (LSTs) and urban built form (UBF) indices. Sky view factor, built coverage, vegetation, building height, distance to ecosystem services and surface elevation are shown to h…
Discomfort and distress in slum rehabilitation
Slum rehabilitation policies in India is observed to have a rebound effect on the occupants, where rehabilitated occupants move back to the horizontal slums. In this study, we investigate the cause behind this rebound phenomenon based on a theory of homeostasis, where the loss of homeostasis refers to occupants' heightened discomfort and distress in their built environment. A novel methodological framework was developed to investigate it based on…
Does compact urban forms relate to good quality of life in high density cities of India? Case of Kolkata
Mumbai slums since independence
Discomfort and distress in slum rehabilitation
Slum rehabilitation policies in India is observed to have a rebound effect on the occupants, where rehabilitated occupants move back to the horizontal slums. In this study, we investigate the cause behind this rebound phenomenon based on a theory of homeostasis, where the loss of homeostasis refers to occupants' heightened discomfort and distress in their built environment. A novel methodological framework was developed to investigate it based on…
Gender, domestic energy and design of inclusive low-income habitats
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries
Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns with a preregistered 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents and found that in most countries, most p…
Socio-physical liveability through socio-spatiality in low-income resettlement archetypes - A case of slum rehabilitation housing in Mumbai, India
A framework to analyze capability and travel in formal and informal urban settings
Investigating the association of healthcare-seeking behavior with the freshness of indoor spaces in low-income tenement housing in Mumbai
Framework to assess and locate affordable and accessible housing for developing nations
Sentiment analysis as tool for gender mainstreaming in slum rehabilitation housing management in Mumbai, India
From informal to formal
Provision of affordable housing and energy access is an urgent challenge in India and South Africa. This study adopts a participatory filmmaking approach to understand women’s agency in low-income domestic housing in Mumbai and Cape Town. Through their films, the women shared insights of how the transitional housing environment has impacted their everyday routines and how they are utilising the access to energy. By employing creative, participato…
Resource Symbiosis Model through bricolage
Evaluating well-being in low-income mass housing in India with specific reference to natural ventilation
The social well-being and health of the occupants of low-income housing depends not just on improved infrastructure and security of tenure but also on neighbourhood and apartment design characteristics. This study compares 14 best-practice habitat design models for low-income mass housing in nine Indian states, with Dharavi slum and slum rehabs in Mumbai paying particular attention to the drivers of natural ventilation which impacts the spread of…
Grounded reality meets machine learning
Text-based data sources like narratives and stories have become increasingly popular as critical insight generator in energy research and social science. However, their implications in policy application usually remain superficial and fail to fully exploit state-of-the-art resources which digital era holds for text analysis. This paper illustrates the potential of deep-narrative analysis in energy policy research using text analysis tools from th…
Films as source of everyday life and energy use
Analysing outdoor airflow and pollution as a parameter to assess the compatibility of mass-scale low-cost residential development
Breathing space in a compact city
Redevelopment of low-income settlements by re-densifying cities is a common approach in the Global South to improve living conditions and tackle the housing shortage. However, the effectiveness of the housing design in redevelopment schemes remains to be questioned. This study evaluates a proposed design of a slum redevelopment project in Mumbai, India, by comparing the environmental performance of three design schemes: the existing low-income ho…
GeoInFuse - A data-driven information fusion for intra-urban form classification in data-scarce heterogeneous cities
Understanding the variability in intra-urban forms is essential for protecting future-proofing cities from climate volatilities. However, the classification of urban forms is costly due to its reliance on high-resolution datasets, limited in the Global South's low-income cities. Additionally, the current classifiers are constrained in characterizing urban forms in heterogeneous cities where the built environment has an isomorphic footprint but va…
Words against injustices
Slum rehabilitation housing (SRH) are critical transitional spaces in urban informality that has deep-rooted implications on poverty alleviation efforts. However, current literature reports systemic injustices in SRH on access to essential services, including energy injustices. This study investigated distributive injustices in the SRH across three cities, Abuja, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro, developing ‘energy cultures’ narratives. It employed a co…
Urban form as policy variable for climate-sensitive area planning under heterogeneity
Although built-up areas exacerbate the urban heat island (UHI) effect, the thermal impact of heterogeneous urban areas remains unknown. In this study geographically weighted regression (GWR) is used to examine the locally variable relationship between land surface temperatures (LSTs) and urban built form (UBF) indices. Sky view factor, built coverage, vegetation, building height, distance to ecosystem services and surface elevation are shown to h…
Simulation of Land Use Consequences of Urban Corridor in Kolkata
The probability of land use to transform under the influence of transport corridors is an economic measurement unit of a specific land use defined by its accessibility level, economic level and spatial interactions. This study examines land use transitions due to development of transport corridor using expert judgement analytic hierarchy process (AHP) for measuring priority ranking of a particular land use to transit to other use, along the secon…
Does compact urban forms relate to good quality of life in high density cities of India? Case of Kolkata
Mumbai slums since independence
Framework to assess and locate affordable and accessible housing for developing nations
Integrating rapid assessment of flood proneness into urban planning under data constraints
To increase city climate resilience, a rapid data-constrained flood-proneness assessment (FPA) technique for the Kolkata Metropolitan Region (KMR) in India is proposed, and a conceptual urban-climate plan (UCP) framework capable of incorporating the FPA outputs into the mainstream planning process is developed. To overcome data and computational demands of FPA mapping, this integrated framework is based on the concept of data bricolage and integr…
A framework to analyze capability and travel in formal and informal urban settings
Low-income housing layouts under socio-architectural complexities
Urban Informal Housing and Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity
Urbanization leads to the densification of built-up areas, and thereby increases surface heat island intensity which is one of the growing concerns in the rapidly urbanizing cities. Another notable aspect of cities like Mumbai is the uncontrolled growth of informal slum housing clusters, which have emerged as a significant urban built form in the landscape of cities. This study presents a case of Mumbai that aims to explore the linkages between s…
Gender, domestic energy and design of inclusive low-income habitats
Resource Symbiosis Model through bricolage
Investigating the association of healthcare-seeking behavior with the freshness of indoor spaces in low-income tenement housing in Mumbai
Informality
The progress of urbanization in the developing world has had various consequences. Of these, informality is one of the most significant. The complex demographic makeup of the developing world has made the difference between formality and informality vague. In this entry, urban informality is examined by looking at evidence from the city of Mumbai. Mumbai's urban fabric is a complex mosaic of formal and informal spaces. The study analyzes the phen…
Urban form as policy variable for climate-sensitive area planning under heterogeneity
Although built-up areas exacerbate the urban heat island (UHI) effect, the thermal impact of heterogeneous urban areas remains unknown. In this study geographically weighted regression (GWR) is used to examine the locally variable relationship between land surface temperatures (LSTs) and urban built form (UBF) indices. Sky view factor, built coverage, vegetation, building height, distance to ecosystem services and surface elevation are shown to h…
Discomfort and distress in slum rehabilitation
Slum rehabilitation policies in India is observed to have a rebound effect on the occupants, where rehabilitated occupants move back to the horizontal slums. In this study, we investigate the cause behind this rebound phenomenon based on a theory of homeostasis, where the loss of homeostasis refers to occupants' heightened discomfort and distress in their built environment. A novel methodological framework was developed to investigate it based on…
Sentiment analysis as tool for gender mainstreaming in slum rehabilitation housing management in Mumbai, India
Rest framework
Future cities of the Global South will not only rapidly urbanise but will also get warmer from climate change and urbanisation induced effects. It will trigger a multi-fold increase in cooling demand, especially at a residential level, mitigation to which remains a policy and research gap. This study forwards a novel residential energy stress mitigation framework called REST to estimate warming climate-induced energy stress in residential buildin…
Grounded reality meets machine learning
Text-based data sources like narratives and stories have become increasingly popular as critical insight generator in energy research and social science. However, their implications in policy application usually remain superficial and fail to fully exploit state-of-the-art resources which digital era holds for text analysis. This paper illustrates the potential of deep-narrative analysis in energy policy research using text analysis tools from th…
Films as source of everyday life and energy use
Analysing outdoor airflow and pollution as a parameter to assess the compatibility of mass-scale low-cost residential development
Socio-physical liveability through socio-spatiality in low-income resettlement archetypes - A case of slum rehabilitation housing in Mumbai, India
Words against injustices
Slum rehabilitation housing (SRH) are critical transitional spaces in urban informality that has deep-rooted implications on poverty alleviation efforts. However, current literature reports systemic injustices in SRH on access to essential services, including energy injustices. This study investigated distributive injustices in the SRH across three cities, Abuja, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro, developing ‘energy cultures’ narratives. It employed a co…
Evaluating well-being in low-income mass housing in India with specific reference to natural ventilation
The social well-being and health of the occupants of low-income housing depends not just on improved infrastructure and security of tenure but also on neighbourhood and apartment design characteristics. This study compares 14 best-practice habitat design models for low-income mass housing in nine Indian states, with Dharavi slum and slum rehabs in Mumbai paying particular attention to the drivers of natural ventilation which impacts the spread of…
From informal to formal
Provision of affordable housing and energy access is an urgent challenge in India and South Africa. This study adopts a participatory filmmaking approach to understand women’s agency in low-income domestic housing in Mumbai and Cape Town. Through their films, the women shared insights of how the transitional housing environment has impacted their everyday routines and how they are utilising the access to energy. By employing creative, participato…
GeoInFuse - A data-driven information fusion for intra-urban form classification in data-scarce heterogeneous cities
Understanding the variability in intra-urban forms is essential for protecting future-proofing cities from climate volatilities. However, the classification of urban forms is costly due to its reliance on high-resolution datasets, limited in the Global South's low-income cities. Additionally, the current classifiers are constrained in characterizing urban forms in heterogeneous cities where the built environment has an isomorphic footprint but va…
Protecting heritage
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