Samraj Sahay

Ph.D from university of Delhi, India, has carried research on impacts of climate change on public health (dengue incidence) and economic evaluation of the coping strategies adopted by households in Delhi. Has worked on several research projects at University of Delhi, mainly related to economics of adaptation, mitigation, development of decision support tool for urban health adaptation, adaptation to flood risks in river basin including risk assessment in Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region, Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) for adaptation measures; nature-based solutions as adaptation; sustainable agriculture; socio-economic modeling (shared socio-economic pathways – SSPs) for climate scenarios, greenhouse gases emission in urban areas (monitoring and inventorization), water and sanitation, and waste management.

His research mainly focuses on quantitative and empirical approaches involving application of econometric models. His research interests include Climate change adaptation, nature-based solutions as adaptation in urban areas, health effects and adaptation, Ecosystem based adaptation (EBA), CBA for adaptation measures; socio-economic modelling for future climate scenarios; flood risk, mitigation, water and sanitation; renewable energy; greenhouse gases; waste management and econometric modelling. Apart from publishing research papers in highly reputed and good impact international journals and presenting research papers in national and international conferences he has been consistently contributing to academic research as peer reviewer for high impact and reputed international journals and served as Expert Reviewer for the Second Order Draft (SOD) and First Order Draft (FOD) of the Working Group II (WGII) Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) and IPBES Nexus Assessment.

Joined 2016

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