Environmental governance grounded in lived experience — from smog-belt Punjab to flood-vulnerable Sindh to the glacier-fed north. We produce assessments, district-level data and policy advocacy for an environmental transition that is both ecologically serious and socially just.
Each focus area is structured around four to six durable sub-themes — research questions that recur and need consistent, longitudinal evidence rather than one-off studies.
District-level PM2.5 exposure, smog-belt geography, the political economy of seasonal burning, and the public-health consequences. Open data and citizen-facing dashboards.
Inter-provincial water sharing, groundwater depletion, urban water access, and the institutional architecture of irrigation. Mixed-methods work on contested basins.
District-level vulnerability mapping, flood and drought exposure, and the population-level economic consequences of climate shock.
Coal phase-down, agricultural transition, and the workforce implications of decarbonisation. Who pays, who benefits, and how the bill is shared.
Each focus area is supported by one or more DemTech tools — for fieldwork, citizen engagement, monitoring or open-data publication.
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Commission a study, propose a partnership, contribute data, or support the focus area through a programmatic grant.