Project-Flyer - Sustainable Hyderabad

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
The Project integrates concepts of institutional, economic,
political and technological change to achieve the following
specific research objectives:
• To develop specific knowledge and a rich data base on
climate change, mitigation and adjustment opportunities,
energy efficiency and bio-energy in Hyderabad
• To formulate a “Sustainable Development Framework”
for the metropolitan area Greater Hyderabad with priority
on mitigation and adjustment strategies
• To foster generation and application of local knowledge
to initiate institutional innovation and governance reforms
that support sustainability objectives
• To develop strategies of communication and co-operation
between policy makers and stakeholders, also addressing
gender issues
• To come up with a “Sustainable Urban Food and Health
System” to meet the nutritional and health demands of a
growing population, coping in parallel with the adverse
effects of climate change and energy scarcity
• To design institutional and policy solutions for “Sustainable
Environmental Management”, focusing on climate
and energy in urban and peri-urban regions
• To formulate an action plan based on energy efficiency,
mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change
with special reference to food, bio-energy, health and
environmental management
• To secure adoption of the action plan by politicians, agencies,
groups and firms by employing cooperation mechanisms
and capacity building measures
• To set up an advanced programme for excellent academic
education of PhD students and Post-docs
APPLICATION PERSPECTIVES
The Project aims at the following knowledge-based innovations:
• To develop a Sustainable Development Framework (SDF)
which focuses on mitigation and adaptation strategies for
climate change as well as energy provision and efficiency
• Based on that, to design a strategy for a Perspective Action
Plan (PAP), focusing on the resolution of these problems,
including related core issues concerning nutrition, health,
environment and natural resources
• To implement selected Pilot Projects at the community
level and organise learning processes for their adoption by
setting up appropriate institutions and governance structures
that enable fruitful policies and technologies
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The focus of the Project is the South Indian emerging Megacity
of “Greater Hyderabad”, which is expected to reach 10.5
million inhabitants by 2015. Driven by consumption and lifestyle
changes, per capita greenhouse gas emissions are constantly
increasing in the emerging Megacity. The use of traditional
biomass for fuel (e.g. firewood) is high in peri-urban
areas; at the same time, modernization and urbanization processes
have led to a growth of commercial energy and indirect
energy uses, e.g. of energy embodied in products and services,
indicating Hyderabad’s shift towards a modern consumer society.
Severe floods in 2002, strong heat waves in 2003 and
altogether three drought years between 2000 and 2007 have
caused serious damage to human life, property and economic
advancement. Therefore, the role of climate change in everyday
life of the people in Hyderabad has become a central
issue that the Project aims to explore and contribute to the
resolution of the arising problems. This requires commitment
of numerous actors to subscribe to institutions of sustainability,
which the Project encourages by organizing discourses for
changing the rules-in-use.