2025
Beyond tokenistic integration: rethinking extended producer responsibility for a just circular economy transition in India (With N C Narayanan). In the SUM 2025 8th multidisciplinary symposium on circular economy and urban mining, organized by International Waste Working Group (IWWG) | 23-25 May 2025 | Procida, Italy.
Co-creating solutions: Enablers and barriers to participatory solid waste governance in a small town in Global South (With N C Narayanan). In EGU General Assembly 2025 organized by European Geosciences Union| 26 April- 02 May 2025 | Vienna, Austria. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-16868
Composting in India: Policy gaps and governance challenges in circular economy transitions (With N C Narayanan). In the Recycle 2025, 5th International Conference on Waste Management. organized by Waste Management Research Group. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati | 5-6 June 2025| Guwahati, India.
Pathways to Circular Economy: Rethinking Waste-to-Energy in India (With N C Narayanan). In the First International Conference on SDGs, Built Environment and Southern Urbanism organized by USM’s Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies and University of Florida, College of Design, Construction and Planning | 8-9 January 2025| Mumbai, India.
2023
Deliberative Platforms to deepen participatory solid waste governance: Experiences from a Kerala town, India (With N C Narayanan). In the 6th International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP6), organized by International Public Policy Association | 27- 29 June 2023 | Toronto, Canada. Link
Demand and Supply Side Factors to Feminization of Labor: A Study of Waste Sector in Kerala, India (With N C Narayanan). In International Round Table Conference on Urban Risk and Informality organized by Jamsetji Tata School of Disaster Studies, TISS in collaboration with IIT Madras and SMUS| 24-25 January 2023 | Mumbai, India.
2022
Review of Waste picker Livelihoods in India. In Conference on Deepening local governance for sustainable management of solid and liquid waste in small towns in India organized by Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay in collaboration with University of Lousanne, Switzerland and IDS Sussex, UK | 26-27 April 2022 | Mumbai, India. Link
From Waste Pickers to Entrepreneurs: Case of Haritha Karma Sena in Kerala. In Conference on Deepening local governance for sustainable management of solid and liquid waste in small towns in India organized by Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay in collaboration with University of Lousanne, Switzerland and IDS Sussex, UK | 26-27 April 2022 | Mumbai, India. Link
2024
Name of Workshop: IGP (Indo German Partnership) summer school titled "Mumbai to Munich: Shaping a climate resilient future".
Work Presented:
1. Participated in the dialogue on "Policy and technology aspects of water, sanitation and hygiene, energy and climate change"
2. Presented “Comparitive assessment of municipal solid waste management in Germany and India”
Place and Date: Technical University of Munich, Germany| 28 June - 5 July 2024
2023
Name of Workshop: Workshop on “Challenges of municipal solid waste management: Learning from post-crisis governance initiatives in South Asia” organized by the Research for Development (R4D) Programme funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
Work Presented: “A Bottom-Up Methodology for Quantification and Characterization of Commercial waste in Small Towns, India”
Place and Date: Columbo, Srilanka| 15-17 January 2023
2022
Name of Workshop: Winter School on Localizing Climate Governance organized by Technical University Munich, Germany and IIT Bombay
Theme: Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural exposure to issues of climate change and disasters for arriving at sustainable solutions
Place and Date: Kuttanad, Kerala, India | December 2022