SUSTAINABLE HYDERABAD PROJECT

THEMATIC SECTION | 1
NEWS OF THE
SUSTAINABLE HYDERABAD PROJECT
ISSUES 05 AND 06 - SPRING/SUMMER 2011
Foto: Kishor Krishnamoorthi
EDITORIAL
by Dr. Andrea Koch-Kraft,
Managing the Research Priority
on Future Megacities*
In 2005, the German Federal Ministry
of Education and Research (BMBF)
inaugurated a research priority emphasis
on Future Megacities as a part of its “FONA –
Research for Sustainable Development” framework,
contributing to international dialogue as
outlined in BMBF’s “High-Tech Strategy 2020
for Germany”. Now in its main phase until
August 2013, implementation of energy- and
climate-efficient structures in urban growth centres
is the main focus. The “Sustainable Hyderabad
Project” is one of nine bilateral research
teams working on these issues.
Future Megacities projects are to research,
plan, develop and realise in an exemplary manner
technical and non-technical innovations
for the establishment of energy- and climateefficient
structures. These should enable each
respective city, along with its decision makers
and inhabitants, to bring about increased performance
and efficiency gains in energy production,
distribution and use. Likewise, resource
consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of
the energy-using sectors are to be reduced in a
sustainable way in the future.
Projects were sought which link several segments
of a power supply’s performance and
value-creation chain – from the supply of raw
materials, energy production and distribution,
right up to the energy demand of sectors such
as construction, traffic, industry and private consumption
– and to formulate an integrated research
design and/or a systems solution.
Under the heading of climateefficient
structures, projects have
been promoted which further the
adaptation of urban areas, structures
and urban development concepts to
foreseeable climatic changes and increasing
weather extremes and which
reduce severe climatic effects. Under
the right circumstances, projects may also seek
to harness the economic or ecological opportunities
brought about by climate change to an
urban agglomeration.
Over the past six years, across its various
projects, this research priority emphasis has involved
more than 250 researchers and stakeholders
from eleven countries. In 2010, intermediate
results were presented to an international
audience at BMBF’s conference “Future Megacities
in Balance: New Alliances for Energy- and
Climate-efficient Solutions,” which took place in
Essen, Germany.
What is notable about this programme?
It is unique in many senses. It was the first
and remains the longest-running international
funding programme focusing on future megacities.
It is innovative with respect to research
principles, which include being
• solution-oriented: aimed at meeting the real
needs of people affected;
• multi-dimensional: including the interaction
of ecological, economic and social transformations
and offering system solutions;
• transdisciplinary: including all disciplines
needed and their practitioners;
• integrative: the whole is more then the sum
of its parts;
• implementation-oriented and demand-driv-
Content
1 Editorial
2 News from the Project
5 Policy Section
7 Thematic Section
9 Investing in the Future
11 New Staff
Calendar
14–17 September 2011
IASC European Meeting, Plovdiv,
Bulgaria
10–14 October 2011
Sustainable Hyderabad Meeting
to Initiate the Pilot Projects
12–14 October 2011
International Conclave and
Exhibition on Climate Change
(ICCC), Hyderabad
21–23 March 2012
International Conference on Cooperative
Responses to Global
Challenges, Berlin

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* PT-DLR Project Management
Agency for the German Federal
Ministry of Education (BMBF)
†
Further reading:
www.future-megacities.org
www.bmbf.de
www.hightech-strategie.de/en/
index.php
www.fona.de/en/index.php
Announcement
Sustainable Hyderabad Session at
International Conclave on Climate
Change (ICCC). Our project will
host a session at the ICCC in Hyderabad,
12–14 October 2011. Further,
PTV will present its step-wise
approach to identifiying, quantifying
and prioritizing the impacts and
adaptation requierements related
to climate change for the transport
infrastrucutre.
The ICCC aims to bring policy
makers, top government official,
decision makers and industries on
the same platform for discussions
on issue relating to policy designing
for National action Plan for Climate
Change (NAPCC) and implementations.
More information on the conference,
registration and programme
at: www.iccc-esci.com
Discussion between Participants
during our National Workshop
en: research for and not on a certain future Overall, this BMBF research priority emphasis,
challenges the ingenuity of all participants:
megacity; and
• user-oriented: taking participatory approaches
developed in close co-operation with de-
excellence in new findings and academic dis-
Not only do they have to prove their scientific
cision makers and stakeholders in the host course (output). They also have to provide evidence
that their research is integrated with the
country, involving civil society and considering
gender issues.
concerns of stakeholders and policy makers in
The expected outcomes of the research are order to have an impact after the funding has
strategies and pilot projects (good or even best come to an end, meaning lasting outcomes and
practice) that reveal new ways for the introduction
of energy- and climate-efficient structures and cities involved.
contributions to the practitioner communities
in urban growth centres through:
The Project Management Agency of the
• technical innovations in urban infrastructure, BMBF has to ensure that the research of each
adapted to local conditions and accepted by Future Megacities project is in compliance with
the citizens;
the funding body’s above-mentioned goals and
• new approaches to political decision processes,
new forms of political decision making Project” is pursuing a very ambitious research
research principles. The “Sustainable Hyderabad
and governance;
agenda, with a strong focus of non-technical innovations.
Ultimately, the value and quality of
• new management instruments in urban decision
making;
the agenda need to be measured with respect
• tools to evaluate the effectiveness of urban to its degree of implementation. Since good or
planning measures;
even best practice examples for energy- and
• capacity building and vocational training climate-efficient urban structures are in high
measures; and
demand among many other future megacities,
• new partnerships for combating climate the Hyderabad project should seize its window
change.
of opportunity and serve as a role model by the
summer of 2013, so as to leave its “footprint”
far beyond. †
NEWS FROM THE PROJECT........................................................
NATIONAL WORKSHOP
Our most recent National Workshop took place The second and third day were dedicated to
from 18–20 May 2011 at Humboldt University several project planning-related events and involved
a presentation and valuable comments
Berlin. During the first day, our young researchers
and DAAD fellows had the opportunity to by Carola Best, from the Project Management
present their latest research results. Prof. Hagedorn,
project leader and head of RESS, and Prof. the Steering Committee Meeting took place,
Agency DLR BMBF. On Thursday 19 May 2011,
Mann, Scientific Leader of the Humboldt India with committee members discussing the next
Project (HIP), opened the day, consisting of steps of the project, including a 10-point road
twelve presentations organised in five sessions: map, Milestone Report 2011, planning for our
(1) Urban Planning and Transport; (2) Food and discussion paper series, and upcoming events,
Health; (3) CATHY as a Common Tool for Sustainable
Planning; (4) Energy, Water and Pollu-
the International Conclave on Climate Change,
such as the International Project Workshop and
tion; (5) the Role of Institutions, Collective Action
and Citizen Participation. Dr. CSRK Prasad, October. On the last day a workshop on CATHY
both of which take place in Hyderabad in early
Professor & Head of the Transportation Division introduced the partners to the tool; during another
workshop, Pilot Projects and Capacity
in the Department of Civil Engineering at NIT,
Warangal, India, and Prof. Dr. Rama Padma, of Building Measures were discussed among the
the Indian Institute of Health & Family Welfare, partners. A follow-up workshop to our December
2010 event, focusing on the role of insti-
were invited by our project and supported by
DAAD to contribute to the Young Researchers’ tutional analysis in our project, was headed by
Day. The discussion with the international audience
provided valuable feedback, which will be by Dr. Diana Reckien and Dr. Ramesh Chenna-
Dr. Srinivasa Srigiri. A wrap-up session, headed
of great help to further improve our work. maneni, closed the workshop.
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Work Package Leader Prof. Markus Hanisch
INSTITUTE FOR COOPERATIVE STUDIES, DIVISION OF COOPERATIVE
SCIENCES, HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY, BERLIN (IFG)
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
MARKETING: BEST PRACTICE
EXAMPLES FOR HYDERABAD
A significant share of
global greenhouse gas
emissions results from the production, distribution
and consumption of agricultural products.
Rapidly changing lifestyles, but also the modernisation
of production and retailing structures
around megacities, play their roles in this. The Division
of Cooperative Sciences is examining the
current state of the pesticide-free and organic
food sector in major urban markets of South and
West India. One study compares market structures
and different approaches to sustainable
agriculture marketing, assessing their economic,
social and environmental sustainability. Also, a
number of selected case studies of emerging initiatives
that are building local organic food networks
– such as consumer cooperatives, farmers
markets and box delivery schemes – have been
analysed, illustrating obstacles that sustainable
agriculture marketing initiatives face as well as
success factors. Such experiences from other
regions can provide role models for Hyderabad,
where the organic food sector is still at a nascent
stage. Overall, the sustainability assessment
and case studies show that localised urban food
provisioning systems can be an important part
of efforts to reduce the climate impact of food
production, distribution and consumption in
Indian megacities. Furthermore, vertical supply
chain integration and participation in local food
networks can increase ownership of food supply
systems for both farmers and consumers, while
offering holistic alternatives to various trends:
ranging from the increasing pressure to intensify
agricultural production in peri-urban areas
to the spread of unsustainable dietary patterns
and lifestyle diseases in urban centers. Based
on the above results, Markus Hanisch and Nina
Osswald have co-authored a research report on
“Sustainable agriculture marketing: Best practice
examples for Hyderabad”, completed in August
2011 and carried out in cooperation with the International
Competence Centre for Organic Agriculture
(ICCOA, Bangalore). Research results
will also be used for a joint publication, as well as
a contribution to a book published by ICCOA, to
be co-authored by Nina Osswald, Kishore Rao,
Manoj Menon, and Markus Hanisch.
Announcement
Tropentag 2011: Development on
the margin; University of Bonn,
Germany; October 5–7 2011;
www.tropentag.de
The annual Conference on Tropical
and Subtropical Agricultural and
Natural Resource Management
(TROPENTAG) is jointly organised
by the universities of Bonn,
Goettingen, Hohenheim, Kassel-
Witzenhausen, Hamburg, and
Zurich as well as by the Council for
Tropical and Subtropical Research
(ATSAF e.V.) in co-operation with
the GIZ Advisory Service on Agricultural
Research for Development
(BEAF). All students, PhD students,
scientists, extension workers, decision
makers, politicians and practical
farmers interested and engaged
in agricultural research and rural
development in the tropics and
subtropics are invited to participate
and to contribute.
Work Package Leader Prof. Christoph Dittrich
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF GOETTIN-
GEN (CULT – GEO)
NEW BACKGROUND STUDY
ON THE DYNAMIC TRAN-
SITION OF HYDERABAD’S
FOOD SYSTEM RELEASED
A comprehensive “Indepth
analysis of changes
in Hyderabad’s food system and food culture:
consumption patterns, food supply chains and
impacts on sustainability and climate change”
was released by Ms Sarah Nischalke in February
2011. This background study analyses the current
state and recent dynamics of Hyderabad’s
food system as well as major external and internal
drivers. In order to understand structures,
dynamics, new risks and potential vulnerabilities,
major transformations within the urban food
system are examined and Hyderabad’s food basket
is inspected in detail. Consumption profiles,
trading, urban infrastructure and origin/food
supply chains are investigated. Furthermore,
new trends in retailing and legislative and institutional
foundations are introduced, in order to
see how current food system changes are translated
into policies and actions. The study aims at
providing a knowledge base for the conceptual
development of new food governance as well as
mitigation and adaptation strategies.
WORKSHOP ON CONCEPTS FOR SUSTAIN-
ABLE STREET FOOD IN HYDERABAD
A one-day workshop on Concepts for Sustainable
Street Food in Hyderabad was held
in Hyderabad on 19 February 2011. It served
as a participative, comprehensive platform for
the initial phase of the pilot project Sustainable
Street Food Plan, linking together participants
of various backgrounds related to street food
Workshop on Concepts for Sustainable Street Food
News
WORK PACKAGE 2.2 TRANS-
FERRED FROM FREIBURG UNI-
VERSITY TO THE UNIVERSITY OF
GOETTINGEN
In March 2011, the WP 2.2
leader received a full professorship
(W3) for Human Geography
at the University of Goettingen.
In July, the WP was successfully
transferred from the University of
Freiburg i. Br. to Goettingen. New
contact information is as follows:
Institute of Geography, University
of Goettingen, Dept. of Human
Geography, Goldschmidtstrasse 5,
D-37077 Goettingen (http://www.
uni-goettingen.de/de/23590.html);
Prof. Dr. Christoph Dittrich: Phone:
+49-0551398021, Email: christoph.
dittrich@geo.uni-goettingen.de;
Anne Dahmen: Phone: +49-
05518055, Email: anne.dahmen@
geo.uni-goettingen.de.

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vending in Hyderabad. During the workshop
sessions, representatives from vendors associations
and self-help groups discussed the issue
with respective NGOs and governmental agencies.
The delegate of the Mission for Elimination
of Poverty in Municipal Areas (MEPMA) – the
major agency negotiating for implementation of
the street vendors bill in Andhra Pradesh – was
able to use the workshop results for understanding
better the currently dynamic legal situation
of street vendors in Hyderabad. The input of
the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation
(GHMC) food inspectors and the Food and Nutrition
Board representatives covered the important
issue of how to improve food safety standards.
Obstacles facing the vendors’ community
during their day-to-day work were also intensely
discussed. By the end of the day, concepts for
three best practice activities as integral elements
of the Sustainable Street Food Framework were
finalised. Even more decisive, the discussions
among the attendees shaped the way ahead
concerning implementation of those activities in
the very near future.
Work Package Leader Dr. Christine Werthmann and Dr. Srinivasa Srigiri
DIVISION OF RESOURCE ECONOMICS, HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY,
BERLIN (RESS)
Dr. Srinivasa Reddy Srigiri was
leading so far the activities of
the WP on Industrial Pollution
Abatement as a DAAD postdoctoral
fellow. Since August
2011, Srinivasa has been leading
WP5 comprising research
on ‘Institutions and Governance
Structures’ in different focus
fields of the project. By applying
the Institutions of Sustainability
framework to specific
potential-intervention
areas,
Srinivasa seeks to contribute to
the discourses for better institutions
and governance systems.
News
Dr. Zikos chaired the Urban Planning
session at the 4th World Scientific
and Engineering Academy and
Society International Conference on
Urban Planning and Transportation
(UPT’11), Corfu, Greece, 14–16 July
2011, where MSc Chidambaram
presented the paper Development
of a comprehensive integrated
framework based on on-road
vehicle emissions estimation in
Hyderabad, India.
Dr. Srinivasa Reddy Srigiri
TERI AND RESS INITIATE
NEW PILOT PROJECT
In 2010, partners from
TERI, RESS and IfG conducted
a survey on household
energy consumption patterns in Hyderabad,
finding that a significant percentage of the
urban poor still use firewood for cooking. After
analysis of the results, the project team decided
to initiate a pilot project in March 2011 that will
experiment with collective action towards facilitating
the shift from firewood to Liquefied Petroleum
Gas (LPG) for the urban poor. This pilot
project, conducted with stakeholders from Hyderabad,
aims to facilitate the urban poor meeting
their energy needs while shifting to cleaner
and modern fuels. More details about this pilot
project are presented in the policy section on
page 5.
COOPERATION IN GERMANY
RESS has increasingly invested in building
strong ties not only with Indian partners, but
also with German and European researchers and
projects working on similar contexts. As such,
Prof. Hagedorn, project leader; Dr. Zikos, scientific
coordinator; Dr. Srigiri, WP5 leader; and
MSc Kimmich, researcher, participated on 29
July in a round table discussion with Dr. Padmanabhan,
project coordinator of the BioDIVA
project, to explore common ground of the two
projects. The meeting concluded with further
activities being envisioned, such as joint publications
that will materialise in the near future.
Collaboration between Dr. Zikos from the
Sustainable Hyderabad Project and Dr. Otto-
Banaszak from the Guantig Project (China) resulted
in co-chairing of two sessions on “Multiple-methods
analysing the complexity of human
behaviour and the interactions with socio-ecological
systems” at ESEE 2011 in Istanbul, where
they presented a paper based on experimental
research conducted by their respective projects
on irrigation. This is considered the first step
for a more ambitious collaboration, aiming at
exploring and explaining similarities and differences
in agricultural practices and in farmers’
behaviour in Guantig and Hyderabad. At the
same session, MSc Kimmich presented the paper
“Understanding concerted action through
methodological pluralism: The electricity-irrigation
nexus in Andhra Pradesh, India”: a direct
output of research conducted under Sustainable
Hyderabad Project.
INDIAN DELEGATION OF JOURNALISTS
MEETS RESS RESEARCHERS
On 24 June 2011 a delegation of Indian
journalists – consisting of VIJAYARAGHAVAN,
SHOBA (Sr. Reporter, The Indian Express)
KULKARNI, SAGARARVIND, (Spl. Correspondent,
Press Trust of India) MUDUR, GANAPATI,
(Science Editor, The Telegraph), RAMACHAN-
DRAN, RAMASESHAN, (Associate Editor, Frontline
/ Hindu), SHARMA, DINESH CHANDRA,
(Science Editor, Mail Today), GANESH, NA-
RAYANI, (Sr. Editor, The Times of India), and
DUTTAGUPTA, ISHANI (Editor, Global Indian) –
visited our colleagues at Humboldt’s Division of
Resource Economics (RESS). Dr. Srinivasa Reddy
Srigiri first introduced the main ideas and aims
of our Project. Afterwards, Christian Kimmich
and Ranjan Kumar Ghosh explained their PhD
research projects and how their results are linked
with our Project.
Indian Delegation of Journalists at HU Berlin
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Work Package Leader Dr. Angela Jain
INSTITUTE FOR COOPERATION MANAGEMENT AND INTERDISCIPLIN-
ARY RESEARCH (NEXUS)
TWO STUDIES CONCLUDED
ON CLIMATE CHANGE
AWARENESS AND ACTI-
VATION OF YOUTH
NEXUS, working under
the Sustainable Hyderabad project and aiming
to contribute to the targets set in the vision of
India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change,
conducted two relevant studies. Both studies
have been recently concluded and seek to explore
the level of awareness of climate change
among youth (junior college) and to analyse crucial
factors for responsible environmental behaviour
in schools.
A brief outline of the conclusions is presented
in the thematic section on page 8.
News
PTV held another seminar on
sustainabl transporting planning at
NIT Warangal in February 2011 and
will conduct the next seminar there
in October 2011. That seminar will
be the starting point for the threephase
capacity building programme
on comprehensive mobility planning,
developed and implemented
jointly with Prof. Prasad.
Work Package Leader Tanja Schafer
TRAFFIC, MOBILITY AND LOGISTICS, KARLSRUHE (PTV)
PROF. PRASAD FROM NIT
WARANGAL VISITS PTV
HEADQUARTER IN GERMANY
From 16 May to 22 June,
Prof. CSRK Prasad, Head of
the Transportation Division
of the Department of Civil Engineering at National
Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal,
India, visited Germany on an expert exchange
scholarship funded by DAAD. This brief and very
intense visit consisted of a one-week National
Workshop put on by the Sustainable Hyderabad
Project in Berlin and a four-week stay at PTV
headquarter in Karlsruhe.
The weeks in Karlsruhe where filled with
fruitful discussions and knowledge exchange between
Prof. Prasad and various PTV Colleagues
and, of course, firsthand experiences with the
German transport system. One major outcome
of the visit is a capacity building programme
on Comprehensive Mobility Planning, starting
in October 2011 at NIT Warangal. The programme
will be carried out jointly by NIT Warangal
and PTV and is designed for a one year
term, which is meant to be repeated every year.
Starting with the educating of students, the concept
is to gradually expand the programme to
train professional planners over the course of
the year. Another important result of the visit is
progress made in the definition of the various
concrete Pilot Project Activities aimed at bringing
consideration of climate change issues into
the transport planning process in Hyderabad.
Overall, the visit has strengthened understanding
and cooperation between Prof. Prasad and
PTV, laying the groundwork for further joint
research activities. But besides the intellectual
achievements, his stay here has also given him
some firsthand experience of the German way of
life and work culture. As Prof. Prasad commented,
“I am impressed with the high standards of
work ethics and devoted commitments here. I
found that Germans are sincere, hard working,
time conscious, ingenious in delivery of work,
friendly and innovative. And I am honored to be
in Germany for this short visit.”
Announcement
Prof. Dr. Christoph Walther (PTV)
accepted a call to a chair at the Faculty
for Construction Engineering,
Bauhaus-University in Weimar. He
is now Professor at the Division for
Real-Estate Investment Products.
Prof. Prasad with PTV Staff
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COLLECTIVE ACTION FOR FUEL TRANSITION AMONG URBAN
POOR: A CASE OF HOUSEHOLD RESOURCE POOLING FOR LPG IN
TWO HYDERABAD SLUMS
by Veena Aggarwal, TERI
Background
Cooking energy constitutes
a major share in
the total household energy demand. A survey
on household energy consumption patterns
in Hyderabad, conducted by the project team
(comprising TERI and Humboldt University) in
2010, revealed that a significant percentage of
the urban poor still use firewood for cooking.
Such cooking practices in an urban setting have
adverse impacts on environment as well as on
the health of household members. A transition
towards cleaner cooking fuels, like LPG, has the
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Interviewing Slum Residents Concerning
LPG Use and Cooking Attitudes
Traditional Stove Fueled by Firewood
Modern Stove Fueled by LPG
urban areas, while making more efficient use of
energy and helping to halt deforestation.
The survey also found that monthly costs on
LPG in the urban slums of Hyderabad is as much
as for firewood or kerosene. Mostly women
collect fuel wood from nearby common lands,
spending about 6 to 8 hours a week on this task.
This not only wastes a lot of productive time,
it also adds to the drudgery of these people.
With rapid expansion of the city and fast disappearance
of these common lands, sources of
fuel wood for these urban poor are also being
rapidly squeezed out. This raises the question of
why so many households are still using firewood
(or other biofuels) instead of switching to the
“cleaner”, “healthier” and “more convenient”
LPG. The reason for this has been found to be
the high upfront costs facing the households 1 .
In order to obtain an LPG connection, households
must invest in a stove, a cylinder (security
deposit for the cylinder plus the initial cost of
fuel), a regulator, and documentation charges.
Altogether, this often adds up to the average
monthly income of a slum dweller, and most often
households cannot afford these initial payments.
The study team found that there is no
available government scheme under which the
urban poor can pay for establishing a connection
in installments. There is also no government
support financing scheme under which they can
obtain a loan on soft terms. The Deepam subsidy
scheme for establishing gas connections has limited
reach. The project team therefore decided
to experiment with collective action via a pilot
project for facilitating the shift from firewood to
LPG for the urban poor.
The Pilot Project
The pilot project aims at facilitating urban
slum households in pooling their resources to
meet upfront energy costs, enabling poor households
to shift to cleaner and more modern fuels
like LPG. In this regard the project team has collaborated
with APMAS, a leading NGO having a
network of Self Help Groups (SHGs) in the slums
of Hyderabad, two of which were identified for
the pilot: Banjara Colony and Nandanavanam,
in the L B Nagar area. There are 479 households
in Banjara Colony, with only 142 households
having access to LPG, whereas in Nandanvanam
760 households out of 1,785 households use
LPG. The rest of the households in both of the
slums use fuel wood and kerosene for cooking.
In Banjara Colony, the fuel wood is sourced locally,
whereas in Nandanvanam households
mostly purchase it on the open market. As part
of this pilot, one LPG group has been formed in
each slum, each consisting of around 30 households
that do not have LPG connection. Only
those households having required documents
like proof of residence and ration cards are eligible
for LPG group membership.
Several rounds of meetings were organised
among the member households in both groups
to arrive at a consensus on an appropriate mechanism
to mobilise resources among themselves
to meet the upfront costs for a new LPG connection.
Field staff from APMAS as well as researchers
from TERI and RESS participated in some
of these meetings. The researchers also carried
out a trust game in both the slums involving the
members of the LPG group. The project and AP-
MAS teams also met with LPG dealers close to
the pilot slums to discuss the pilot idea and seek
their cooperation in providing LPG connections
with the least 2 possible upfront costs.
Progress
The pilot commenced in March 2011, which
is when the LPG group started functioning in
Nandanvanam. The local Hindustan Petroleum
(HP) gas dealer agreed to provide connections
to five households every month and
charge Rs. 3,618 per cylinder connection, along
with an LPG stove and other necessary accessories.
The group decided to mobilise Rs. 600
from each member household every month (Rs.
18,000 to be mobilised in total every month) for
six months. It also decided to choose the five
households receiving a connection every month
by lottery, with these households in addition
paying Rs. 18 (i.e., a total of Rs. 618) in respective
months to meet the total cost. The group is
functioning smoothly, and 25 households have
got LPG connections already (between April and
August 2011). Though this group had initially
decided to borrow from the cluster fund of the
Slum Level Federation (SLF) 3 to meet monthly
contributions, later the member households felt
they could themselves contribute Rs. 600 every
month without much hardship.
The LPG group in the Banjara Colony slum
was formed in April 2011. The local Indane gas
dealer agreed to provide connections to all 30
households of the group at Rs. 3,600 per single
cylinder connection, along with an LPG stove
and other necessary accessories. However, the
group almost took two months to reach a consensus
about the resource pooling mechanism
and recently has decided to each contribute Rs.
1,200 every month (Rs. 36,000 to be mobilised
every month) for 3 months. With these resources,
10 member households will receive an LPG
connection every month, with the households
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being selected by lottery. This LPG group is now
working well, and 20 households have already
got LPG connections (as of last week of July
2011).
Households Talking about LPG Project
Policy Relevance
This collective action model of resource pooling
for LPG has important policy relevance, as
the Government of India is working on a scheme
to provide one-time financial assistance of Rs.
1,400 to below poverty line (BPL) households
for obtaining LPG connections (Economic Survey
2010-11, Government of India, p. 269). This
proposed scheme would cover all BPL households
in the country and plans to provide new
LPG connection for 3.2–4.2 million households
annually. The annual financial outlay for this
scheme is estimated to be Rs. 4.9 billion, which
will be met through budgetary support from
the government and corporate social responsibility
(CSR) funds from the six public sector oil
companies, shared equally. The major difficulties
in the operationalisation of this scheme would
be targeting the right beneficiaries and raising
financial resources. A similar capital-subsidy
scheme named Deepam was launched in 1999
in the state of Andhra Pradesh and has very
limited reach for several reasons. Moreover, allocating
Rs. 2.45 billion annually will be an additional
burden for the already cash-starved public
sector oil companies. The community-based resource
pooling model outlined above can complement
this proposed scheme, as the assistance
of Rs. 1,400 (against the actual upfront cost of
Rs. 3,600 to Rs. 4,200) will not enable many
poor households to pay the remaining amount.
Hence, institutionalising such collective action
initiatives has the potential to expand energy access
for the poor. These collective action groups
also have the potential to curb illegal connections,
as the applications get scrutinised at the
community level before getting to the LPG distributors.
1
The other major impediment for
the urban poor in India is lack of
proof of residence/identity cards.
In Andhra Pradesh, particularly the
people in the slums visited in Hyderabad,
however, did have proof
of identity.
2
Though the price of the LPG,
security deposit for LPG cylinders,
documentation charges, and prices
of other accessories, like regulators
etc., are fixed by the gas companies,
upfront costs are more than
the stipulated prices, as the distributors
sell some other accessories, like
LPG stoves, at higher prices and
make them mandatory for all new
customers. However, as per the
rules of the gas companies, customers
are free to purchase these items
on the open market.
3
SLF is a federation of SHGs supported
by APMAS in the slums of
Hyderabad.
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TOPIC 1: SUSTAINABLE STREET FOOD PLAN: NEW PILOT PROJECT
by Prof. Christoph Dittrich
The conceptual frame of the
WP 2.2 pilot project “Sustainable
Street Food Plan”
was derived over a period
of more than three years of
networking, awareness raising and intensive research
on various aspects of Hyderabad’s food
system. The project is based on four intervention
areas identified and selected during field
campaigns and networking workshops by relevant
stakeholders, social scientists, activists, and
vendors’ representatives: (1) legal certainty, the
most crucial issue in the process of restructuring
and modernising the urban street food provisioning
system; (2) food safety; (3) food culture;
and (4) empowerment (see figure 1). The major
objectives of the pilot project are to (a) improve
food security of urban dwellers, (b) secure livelihoods
of petty trade vendors, (c) improve food
safety standards and (d) contribute to socially
inclusive and low-emission urban development.
Different instruments are being used to raise
awareness and sensitise urban stakeholders, research
institutions, social activists, vendors’ associations,
the media and consumer groups (e.g.
scientific background studies, street food festivals,
workshops and group discussions, information
desks, media campaigns). Capacity building
measures are targeted at the state and municipal
administration to implement the long-pending
National Policy on Street Vendors in Andhra
Pradesh (in close cooperation with MEPMA) and
at local organisations (e.g. NASVI) to improve the
knowledge and skills of the vendor community.
Three best practice activities are experimentally
testing the conceptual frame of the pilot
project through applied micro-projects. The first
is being conducted in close cooperation with the
Food & Nutrition Board, the Government of India,
and food inspectors of the Additional Com-
Figure 1: Conceptual Frame of the WP2.2 Pilot Project
on Sustainable Street Food
News
The past months have been particularly
intense in terms of conference
participation and presentations. For
a complete overview of Sustainable
Hyderabad’s publications please
see:
www.sustainable-hyderabad.de/
index.php?page=New_publications

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News
TEA TALK ON “URBAN DEVELOP-
MENT IN INDIA” AT THE INDIAN
FILM FESTIVAL “BOLLYWOOD
AND BEYOND” IN STUTTGART
“Urban researcher” Dr. Angela
Jain (NEXUS) reported on trends
in Indian urban development,
while introducing the Sustainable
Hyderabad Project to visitors of the
8th Indian Film Festival in Stuttgart
(21–24 July 2011). The “Tea Talks”
at the festival, which cover topics
on Indian culture, politics, economy
and society, enjoy wide popularity
with different age and target
groups.
See: www.bollywood-festival.de/
events/tea-talks/stadtentwicklungin-indien.html
1
Prime Minister of India’s Council
on Climate Change (2008): National
Action Plan on Climate Change
(NAPCC). New Delhi. p. 1. Online:
http://pmindia.nic.in/Pg01-52.pdf
[Accessed 04.03.2011]
2
Development Alternatives Group,
New Delhi, India. Online: http://
www.devalt.org/newsletter/sep03/
of_1.htm [Accessed 15.06.2011]
3
Poldas, B. (2011). Analysing
junior college students’ awareness
of climate change in the emerging
megacity of Hyderabad and developing
teaching modules to augment
their knowledge on the issue. DAAD
Postdoc Research Programme, Sustainable
Hyderabad Project, Berlin.
missioner Health and Sanitation, Veterinary and
Transport and GHMC. It focuses on the improvement
of street food safety standards by providing
knowledge, skills and on-site training to the
vendor community. A street food safety manual
in the English and Telugu languages compiles
information on important food safety areas, like
the purchase of safe and healthy raw materials,
energy-efficient food preparation, safe handling
and waste-reducing practices. The second best
practice activity highlights street food as part
of Hyderabad’s cultural heritage. A street food
festival, which will be conducted every January
as part of the National Vendors’ Day initiative,
showcases the importance of the local street
TOPIC 2: AWARENESS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ACTIVATION OF
YOUTH IN THE MEGACITY OF HYDERABAD
by Dr. Bhaskar Poldas, Dr. Angela Jain and Jenny Haberer
Though governments, gov-
to enable the [parties] to participate fully in and
ernmental and non-governmental
organisations
are aware of the threats of
climate change and are actively
engaged in the fight
against it, public participation in campaigns and
development of action plans seems to be lacking.
But without citizen involvement, the outcomes
will be one-sided and ineffective. Given India’s
particular demographical situation, the coming
generation will play a decisive role; hence, a key
leverage point for activation and promotion of
sustainable lifestyles is education.
To achieve the aims set in the vision of India’s
National Action Plan on Climate Change
(NAPCC) “to create a prosperous, but not
wasteful society, an economy that is self-sustaining
in terms of its ability to unleash the creative
energies of [its] people and is mindful of
[its] responsibilities to both present and future
generations,” 1 the awareness of climate change
among citizens needs to be strengthened. One
commitment of the partner countries of the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC), including India, is the development
and implementation of educational and publicawareness
programmes on climate change and
its effects. To fulfil these commitments, they
need to promote and facilitate education, training
and awareness programmes at the national
and regional levels, as required under Article 6
of the UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change: “Education, training and public awareness
have been identified as the important
components of capacity building in developing
countries.” They “will facilitate capacity building
food sector in providing safe, healthy, affordable
and culturally embedded foods. During the
festival, training seminars for vendors and cooking
classes for visitors will be conducted, just as
the need to involve vendors in urban planning
processes will be highlighted. The third activity
focuses on the issue of empowering homeless
women as the most vulnerable social segment of
urban India, undertaken together with Aashray,
of the NGO’s Network for Citizens’ Shelters,
Hyderabad. This aspect of the project aims to
provide assets, knowledge and skills to sustain
marginalized women’s livelihoods as street food
vendors and food safety trainers.
to implement effectively their commitments under
the Convention, and for their effective participation
in the Kyoto Protocol Process.” 2
Towards helping to achieve these ends, Sustainable
Hyderabad Project has conducted the
two studies outlined below.
In Hyderabad District there are a total number
of 272 junior colleges, out of which 22 (8%)
are government run and 250 (92%) are private
institutions. 129 students from 38 different Hyderabad
colleges were asked to participate in a
survey 3 . In light of the results, it can be concluded
that students are aware of climate change,
but their knowledge about it can be described
as rather superficial. Therefore, there is a genuine
necessity to develop strategies to convey to
them more accurate and in-depth information
on climate change, its causes and impacts. On
the other hand, the potential for activating such
students in order to change their habits and to
get them involved in concrete activities and projects
seems to be promising. The answers to the
question “Who do you think is responsible to
undertake measures against climate change?”
show that a majority (69 students) delegate first
responsibility to every citizen. In a further ques-
Figure 2: Responsibility for action against climate
change (source: Poldas 2011)
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tion, they were asked about who will have the
best chances to minimise climate change and
its effects. Again, a majority mentioned that
best results will come if each individual acts by
changing his or her consumption habits (see figure
2). This again indicates that they are aware
of the responsibility of every human being to act
against climate change.
Improved understanding and awareness
about the environment and the consequences
of modern lifestyles and consumption patterns
can form a critical basis in motivating students
towards greater engagement with environmental
issues. However, knowledge alone does not
necessarily lead to a change of behaviour. It is
also vital to offer moral, social, and economic
incentives. In this regard, schools can be very interesting
experimental grounds, as they offer an
environment with highly dynamic social interaction
patterns.
Figure 3: Conceptual model for promoting responsible
environmental behaviour (ource: based on Hines’ et al.
(1986, cited in Kollmuss & Agyeman, 2002) 5 )
Our second study analysed factors for
achieving responsible environmental behaviour, 4
revealing that provision of abstract knowledge
does have an influence on a person’s threat appraisal
and increases awareness. However, these
results are not necessarily directly related to
changes in behaviour. With regard to attitude
formation, it was found that increased concrete
knowledge affects attitude, yet this will be dependent
on a person’s elaboration level. In practice,
sources (parents, teachers, media) having
high credibility and attractiveness in providing
their message are quite important for generating
motivation and interest in the audience-persuasion
process.
The quality and standards of teaching, materials
and student’s development in Hyderabad’s
school education is significantly lower in government-run
schools than in most private ones.
Particular problems are a lack of evaluations and
control of teachers, combined with overloaded
curricula and high competition between schools
in terms of final exam results. This leads to time
constraints and low motivation for responsible
environmental behaviour.
When intending to implement a pilot project
that targets participative learning of sustainability
and life-cycle oriented thinking, the following
needs to be kept in mind: A pilot project like
“Education for Sustainable Lifestyles”, which
aims at self-managed infusion of a new topic
into the existing curriculum and teaching at a
school, needs thorough pre-planning and, moreover,
evaluation and control measures, including
rewards, and the production of useful results.
This implies that a strategy for implementation
of measures at the school level has to include
the design of innovative activities away from the
regular school routine in a way that students and
teachers can internalise the relative advantages,
compatibility and degree of complexity of innovative
ideas and, in turn, become enabled to be
opinion leaders within their communities so as to
disseminate them.
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HUMBOLDT INDIA PROJECT WORKSHOP
by Sadia Bajwa, Seminar for South Asian Studies – IAAW; HU-Berlin
The first workshop of the Humboldt India
Project (HIP), which took place on 8 July 2011,
was a reaffirmation of the value of such forums
for intra-university exchange. Doctoral students
working on topics ranging from history and library
sciences to urban-planning and sustainable
development came together at the Institute of
Asian and African Studies (IAAW) for the halfday
workshop. And while the presentations differed
vastly in terms of their disciplinary backgrounds,
they all had one thing in common: their
focus on India and South Asia. The workshop
succeeded in opening a conversation between
young scholars who all share an interest in the
region but who might otherwise not have come
into contact with each other. Following each ses-
4
Haberer, J. (2010). Sustainable
Development Research - An analysis
of determining factors for responsible
environmental behaviour.
Master’s thesis at Anglia Ruskin
University (ARU), Cambridge, UK,
and Mudra Institute of Communications,
Ahmedabad (MICA).
5
Kollmuss, A. & Agyeman, J.
(2002). Mind the Gap: why do
people act environmentally and
what are the barriers to pro-environmental
behavior? Environmental
Education Research, 8/3, pp.
239-260.
Announcement
International Conference “Cooperative
Responses to Global
Challenges”
21–23 March 2012 in Berlin
Organised by Humboldt University
and the German Cooperative and
Raiffeisen Confederation (DGRV)
in cooperation with the United
Nations, the focal point of this
conference is the cooperative idea
as a design principle and the ways
in which it can be implemented in
practice. Key aims of the conference
are to critically discuss, collect evidence
regarding and demonstrate
the capabilities of cooperatives
to respond to global challenges.
The event is meant to provide an
interdisciplinary platform for setting
future research agendas in the field
of cooperative studies beyond the
year 2012. The programme comprises
two high-ranking keynote
addresses, followed by a sequence
of plenums and parallel sessions,
complemented by two podium discussions,
a poster session and a best
practice exhibition. Selected paper
contributions will be published in a
peer-reviewed journal.
For further information:
www.coopsyear.hu-berlin.de

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News
SUSTAINABLE HYDERABAD AT
THE “LANGE NACHT DER WISSEN-
SCHAFTEN 2011”
“Paradox City: Urban development
in India through the example
of Hyderabad.” Under this motto,
Lina Polom and Tobias Kuttler from
NEXUS presented inspiring details
about the “Sustainable Hyderabad
Project” in front of more than 100
interested listeners at the Berlin-
Charlottenburg city hall. Central to
their discourse, which was embedded
in a discussion forum about
“Unfamiliar world metropolises:
Urban development in North Africa,
Iran and India,” was a focus on
the rapid urbanisation processes in
newly industrialising and developing
countries, illustrated through our
work in Hyderabad. The presentation
was given on 28 May 2011 at
the 11th Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
(“Long Night of the Sciences”):
an annually held chance for
interested visitors to gain a broad
insight into current research projects
at research institutes in Berlin and
Brandenburg.
sion of short presentations that were meant to
act as formal self-introductions, the scholars had
a chance to engage with each other informally
during coffee breaks. As hoped, this exchange
proved fruitful for the 15 participants and led to
a number of interesting ideas for avenues for future
interdisciplinary collaborative projects. This
first HIP workshop included doctoral students
AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE TRAFFIC SOLU-
TIONS
Bhuvanachithra Chidam-
values that tend to influence decisions made,
baram’s PhD is focusing on
developing a comprehensive
integrated framework
that combines vehicle emissions
estimation and traffic
simulation, complemented by social-institutional
analysis. The lack of concrete methods and primary
data to measure and to derive meaningful
relationships between vehicle emissions and
traffic congestion in Hyderabad, suggests the
need for on-road vehicle emissions estimation.
The current development action plans include
only road-improvement projects, like constructing
flyovers. Yet, the problem of traffic congestion
or emissions still remains, as the current solutions
are only based on physical aspects such
as roads and vehicles. In addition to these, however,
there is always human behaviour, which
is shaped by culture, attitudes, emotions and
of Prof. Hagedorn, who heads the “Sustainable
Hyderabad Project”; Prof. Seadle, head of the
Berlin School of Library and Information Science
(IBI) and dean of Philosophical Faculty I; and, last
but not least, Prof. Michael Mann, head of the
South Asian Studies Seminar, all three of whom
have been and continue to be instrumental in
the realisation and further development of HIP.
individually or collectively, during road travel.
This novel approach has provided insight for
conducting a social-institutional analysis of the
problem, with the transport parameters derived
from vehicle emissions estimation serving as an
input. A transport route-mode choice game will
be developed, based on Common Pool Resource
(CPR) theory, where roads are a manmade resource
system acting as an urban commons
shared by heterogeneous groups of vehicles
varying in shape, size, speed, and age. The use
of such an experimental tool is able to study the
typical social dilemma (individual versus group’s
optimum) among vehicle drivers in an urban
transport setting, and to identify trade-offs under
different institutional set ups. Key findings
from this study will be communicated to transport
planners in Hyderabad to support sustainable
transport solutions.
UNDERSTANDING INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS: VEGETABLE
VALUE CHAINS IN HYDERABAD
Rajeshwari Mallegowda governance structures, with special emphasis on
is conducting doctoral research
under the working title
“Marketing Systems and
Sustainability: An Institutional
and Economic Analysis
of Vegetable Supply Chains in the Emerging
Megacity of Hyderabad, India”. Her research is
based on two key frameworks: ‘Economics of
Institutions’ (Williamson) and ‘Institutions of
Sustainability’ (Hagedorn). Her main areas of investigation
are social capital of the various actors
across the value chain, institutional setups, and
transaction costs involved in various chains and
incentive structures/resource allocation. ‘Institutional
innovation’ is another area of interest,
based on the observation that previously existing
vegetable markets have evolved new institutional
structures like the Rythu bazaar, organic
markets and contract farming. Principal component
analysis will be used to analyse social capital
data, while econometric tools will be used to
identify transaction costs incurred in the marketing
of vegetables.
Imprint
Dr. Dimitrios Zikos
Humboldt University Berlin
Division of Resource Economics
Philippstr. 13, House 12
D-10115 Berlin, Germany
+49/(0)30/2093 6740
www.sustainable-hyderabad.de
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NEW STAFF........................................................................
Seema Singh
Seema joined the project as a DAAD postdoctoral fellow in February
2011 to study climate change-related health problems facing the urban
poor in Hyderabad. In 2005, she completed her doctoral work
in biology at the Environmental Health Research Institute, University
of Duesseldorf, focused on health risks related to nanoparticles.
In 2006-2007, she worked at The Energy and Resources Institute
(TERI) in New Delhi as a research associate on the project “Capability,
governance, and nanotechnology developments,” with a special
focus on India. She has a BSc (Honors) Degree in Zoology and
an MSc Degree in Microbiology.
Raghu Chaliganti
Raghu, who joined the project in June 2011 as a DAAD postdoctoral
fellow, will assist the Work Package “Institutions and Governance
Structures in Natural Resource Management”. In addition, he will
conduct an empirical study, employing the Delphi method, to investigate
how consensus among stakeholders can be achieved in the
current climate change policy process. Expected practical outputs
include the tool “crafting rules by discourse”, which aims at changing
institutions and governance structures towards a sustainable
Hyderabad. In his PhD studies, he researched the Indian bio-fuel
policy process, focusing on the discursive institutional arrangements
at various governance levels. He has been actively involved in the
earlier phases of the project, for which he also conducted two pilot
studies. Raghu earned his MSc degree in Natural Resource Management
from the Georg-August-University Goettingen.
Helene Grenzebach
Helene completed her graduate studies in Geography at Bonn University
in 2010. Her Diploma thesis was on “Conflict and Conflict
Management in the Context of Climate Change and Societal Transformation
in Konso/Ethiopia”. She joined the project as a junior fellow
and PhD candidate in August 2011, focusing on urban society,
conflict and public space, with particular emphasis on mobile petty
trade vendors.

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HU Berlin - RESS
Project Leader
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Konrad Hagedorn
+49 (0)30 20 93 63 20
k.hagedorn@agrar.hu-berlin.de
Project Coordination
Dr. Ramesh Chennamaneni
+49 (0)30 20 93 63 92
r.chennamaneni@agrar.hu-berlin.de
Dr. Dimitrios Zikos
+49 (0)30 20 93 67 40
dimitrios.zikos@agrar.hu-berlin.de
Humboldt University Berlin
Department of Agricultural Economics
Division of Resource Economics
Visitor’s address: Philippstr. 13, House 12
Postal address: Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin, Germany
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NEXUS
Dr. Hans-Liudger Dienel
+49 (0)30 318 054 63
dienel@nexusinstitut.de
Institute for Cooperation Management and
Interdisciplinary Research, Berlin (NEXUS)
Otto-Suhr-Allee 59
D-10585 Berlin, Germany
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PTV
Tanja Schäfer
+49 (0)721 96 51 168
tanja.schaefer@ptv.de
PTV Planung Transport Verkehr AG
Stumpfstr.1
D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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HU-Berlin - IfG
Prof. Dr. Markus Hanisch
+49 (0)30 20 93 65 00
hanischm@rz.hu-berlin.de
Humboldt University Berlin
Division of Cooperative Sciences and
Berlin Institute for Co-operative Studies (IfG)
Luisenstrasse 53
D-10099 Berlin, Germany
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CULT-GEO
Prof. Dr. Christoph Dittrich
+49 (0)551 39 80 21
christoph.dittrich@geo.uni-goettingen.de
Institute of Geography
University of Goettingen
Department of Human Geography
Goldschmidtstrasse 5
D-37077 Goettingen, Germany
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PIK
Dr. Diana Reckien
+49 (0)331 288 26 28
reckien@pik-potsdam.de
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
PO 601203
D-14412 Potsdam, Germany
PROJECT HOUSE IN HYDERABAD
Kausar Villa H.No. 34-A
Road No. 12, MLA Colony | Banjara Hills
Hyderabad - 500034 | India
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