Publication 

2024

• Lin, Y., Bardhan, R., Debnath, R., and Mukherjee, B. (2024). Are heatwaves more deadly for women? Significance Magazine, Royal Statistical Society, https://significancemagazine.com/long-read-areheatwaves-more-deadly-for-women/  

• Bardhan, R. (2024) Climate Adaptation: How Can Design Science Help the Transition?, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)  HORIZON 2034 26 March 2024. https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2024-hvnmn. (Invited)

• Zuñiga-Gonzalez, A., Madhavapeddy, A. and Bardhan, R. (2024) Green Urban Equity: Analyzing the 3-30-300 Rule in UK Cities and Its Socioeconomic Implications, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-20833.

• Li, H., Zhao, Y., Wang, C., Ürge-Vorsatz, D., Carmeliet, J., and Bardhan, R. (2024) Harnessing cooling from urban trees: Interconnecting background climates, urban morphology, and tree traits, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-234.

• Pan, J., Chen, S. and Bardhan, R. (2024) Reinventing Hybrid Office Design through a People-Centric Adaptive Approach. Building and Environment, 252, 1 February 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.111219.

• Sun, M, and Bardhan, R. (2024) Identifying Hard-to-Decarbonize Houses from Multi-Source Data in Cambridge, UK. Sustainable Cities and Society, October 2023, 105015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2023.105015.

2023

• Bardhan, R., Debnath, R., and Mukherjee, B. (2023). Factor in gender to beat the heat in impoverished settlements, Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02632-3

• Pan, J., Cho, T.Y., Sun, M., Debnath, R., Lonsdale, N., Wilcox, C. and Bardhan, R. (2023). Future workspace needs flexibility and diversity: A machine learning-driven behavioural analysis of co-working space, PLOS One 

• Bardhan, R., & Pan, J. The Why? How? What? and What-ifs of Mass Slum Rehabilitation Housing in India. In Informal Settlements of the Global South (pp. 254-275). Routledge.

• Zhao, Y., ..., Bardhan, R., Derome, D., Ürge-Vorsatz, D., & Carmeliet, J. (2023). Beating urban heat: Multimeasure-centric solution sets and a complementary framework for decision-making. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 186, 113668. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser. 2023.113668

• Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., & Bell, M. L. (2023). Lethal heatwaves are challenging India’s sustainable development. PLOS Climate, 2(4), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000156.

• Zhao, Y., Li, H., Bardhan, R., Kubilay, A., Li, Q., & Carmeliet, J. (2023). The time-evolving impact of tree size on nighttime street canyon microclimate: Wind tunnel modeling of aerodynamic effects and heat removal. Urban Climate, 49(101528) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2023.101528

• Chen, S., Li, Y., Zheng, Y., Wu, B., Bardhan, R., & Wu, L. (2023). Technical Efficiency Evaluation of Primary Health Care Institutions in Shenzhen, China, and Its Policy Implications under the COVID-19 Pandemic. International journal of environmental research and public health, 20(5), 4453.

• Bardhan, R., Li, H., Abong’o, B., Raman, H., & Zhao, Y. (2023). Indoor heat stress mitigation in low-income Kenyan homes with mosquito prevention intervention. Cambridge Infectituous Disease Symposium 2023, Cambridge, UK - Invited talk

• Malik, J., & Bardhan, R. (2023). A localized adaptive comfort model for free-running low-income housing in Mumbai, India. Energy and Buildings, 281, 112756.

• Li, H., Zhao, Y., Bardhan, R., Chan, P. W., Derome, D., Luo, Z., ... & Carmeliet, J. (2023). Three decades' trends and extremes of building cooling demand in Hong Kong, Sydney, Montreal, Zurich and London. arXiv e-prints, arXiv-2301 - (under review)

• Bardhan, R., (2023) Built Environment for precision prevention in health, Institute for Security Science and Technology Talks: Climate Resilience, Imperial College, UK, July 18, 2023

• Bardhan, R., (2023) Built Environment as health impact assessment parameter, Urban Burden of Disease Symposium, UK, July 21, 2023

2022

• Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., Shah, D.U., Mohaddes, K., Ramage, M.H., Alvarez, M.R., and Sovacool, B. (2022) Social media enables people-centric climate action in the hard-to-decarbonise building sector. Nature Scientific Reports 12, 19017 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23624-9

• Dong, B., Liu, Y., Mu, W., Jiang, Z., Pandey, P., Hong, T., Olesen, B., Lawrence, T., O’Neil, Z., Andrews, C., Azar, E., Bandurski, K., Bardhan, R., Bavaresco, M., Berger, C., Burry, J., Carlucci, S., Chvatal, K., de Simone, M., … Zhou, X. (2022). A Global Building Occupant Behavior Database. Nature Scientific Data, 9(1), 369. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01475-3

• Peng, Z., Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., and Steemers, K., (2022) Machine learning-based evaluation of dynamic thermal-tempering performance and thermal diversity for 107 Cambridge courtyards. Sustainable Cities and Society, Elsevier (Accepted, in press)

• Sunikka-Blank, M., Bardhan, R., & Mohandas, P., (2022): From informal to formal: understanding gendered energy transitions through filmmaking in Cape Town and Mumbai, Gender, Place & Culture, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2115982 

• Pan, J., Cho, T.Z., Bardhan, R., (2022) Occupancy level prediction based on a sensor-detected dataset in a co-working space. The Future of Work, Workplaces and Smart Buildings (FoWSB) 2022, at The 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments - BuildSys 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563357.3566133 

• Bardhan, R., Pan, J., Alemayehu, E. & Asres, B. (2022). Heat and health risks in transitional housing of Ethiopia. Cambridge Africa Day, 6th July 2022.

• Bardhan, R., (2022)GeoInfuse for urban form classifications, Indian Symposium on Machine Learning (IndoML – 2022), hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) between 15-17 December 2022. 

• Bardhan, R., Gupta, P., & Majumdar, A. (2022). GeoInFuse - A data-driven information fusion for intra-urban form classification in data-scarce heterogeneous cities. Cities, 103762. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103762

• Peng, Z., Bardhan, R., Ellard, C., & Steemers, K. (2022). Urban climate walk: A stop-and-go assessment of the dynamic thermal sensation and perception in two waterfront districts in Rome, Italy. Building and Environment, 221, 109267. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109267

• Pan, J., Bardhan, R. & Chen, S. (2022) How do occupants perceive thermal comfort in a hybrid office space? A case study of a co-working space in London. 3rd Conference on Comfort at the Extremes Resilient Comfort: Designing to Survive (CATE2022).

• Pan, J., & Bardhan, R. (2022). Evaluating the risk of accessing green spaces in COVID-19 pandemic: A model for public urban green spaces (PUGS) in London. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 74, 127648. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2022.127648

• Bardhan, R., (2022). Novel Data Fusion Framework for Classifying Heterogeneous Cities of the Global South, The PASC22 Conference - The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), June 27 to 29, 2022, Basel, Switzerland.

• Bardhan, R (2022), Deep Built Environment Design , Data science and AI for sustainability conference, hosted by Interdisciplinary Research Centres Energy and C2D3 Cambridge, 27th April 2022. 

• Bardhan, R., & Debnath, R. (2022). Embodied Carbon: Breaking Construction Dependencies. Building and Cities. https://www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/commentaries/embodied-carbon.html

• Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., Misra, A., Hong, T., Rozite, V., & Ramage, M. H. (2022). Lockdown impacts on residential electricity demand in India: A data-driven and non-intrusive load monitoring study using Gaussian mixture models. Energy Policy, 164, 112886. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112886

• Kumar, N., Bardhan, R., Kubota, T., Tominaga, Y., & Shirzadi, M. (2022). Parametric study on vertical void configurations for improving ventilation performance in the mid-rise apartment building. Building and Environment, 108969. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.108969

• Malik, J., Bardhan, R., Hong, T. et al. Developing occupant archetypes within urban low-income housing: A case study in Mumbai, India. Build. Simul. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-022-0889-9 

• Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., Reiner, D. M., and Miller, JR (2022) Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental dimensions of electric vehicle adoption in the United States: A social-media interaction analysis. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111707 

• Jana, A., Sarkar, A., & Bardhan, R. (2022). Evaluating well-being in low-income mass housing in India with specific reference to natural ventilation. Area Development and Policy, 0(0), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2022.2043171

• Peng, Z.,  Bardhan, R., Steemers, K., (2022) The effects of urban morphology on enriching thermal experience: microclimates of courtyard spaces in Cambridge, Annual Conference Proceedings of the XXVIII International Seminar on Urban Form - "Urban Form and the Sustainable and Prosperous City", Glasgow, 1522-1529, https://doi.org/10.17868/80146

• Pan, J., Bardhan, R. & Cho, T.Y. (2022) Shared spaces in low-income neighbourhoods in pandemic: A comparative analysis between case studies in Ethiopia and India. Cambridge ESRC DTP Conference, 11th March 2022. 

Book Chapter - 

• Rajadhyaksha A., Sunikka-Blank, M., Bardhan R., Schupp J. (2022) Indian Cinema as a Database for Socio-Energy Behavior in Chawls. In: Penz,  F., Schupp, J. (eds) The Everyday in Visual Culture, vol 121. Routledge, London. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003107309 

2021

• Sunikka-Blank, M., Dawod, A., Bardhan, R., (2021) We need ground space: urban densification and transitional housing in Ethiopia, Journal of the British Academy, 9(s9), 81-110, https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/009s9.081

• Sung, J., Troilo, M., Howarth,N., Bardhan, R., Grene, H., Golden,M., Furness,I., Maddock,I., Debnath, R , (2021), Better energy efficiency policy with digital tools, International Energy Agency, https://www.iea.org/articles/better-energy-efficiency-policy-with-digital-tools

• Pan, J. & Bardhan, R. (2021) COVID-19 proof parks: a risk assessment model for public urban green spaces (PUGS) in London. AGU Fall Meeting, 13-17th December 2021.

• Pan, J., Cho, T. Y. & Bardhan, R. (2021) Redesigning the working space for social distancing: Modelling the movement in an open-plan office. CIBSE Technical Symposium, 13-14th July 2021 

• Pan, J., Bardhan R., & Jin, Y. (2021). Spatial distributive effects of public green space and COVID-19 infection in London. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 62, 127182. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127182

• Malik J., Bardhan R. (2021) Integrating Occupant Behaviour in Thermal Comfort Assessment of Low-Income Dwellings. In: Iyer-Raniga U. (eds) Sustainability in the Built Environment in the 21st Century: Lessons Learned from India and the Region. SDRAP 2019. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61891-9_5

• Malik, J, and Bardhan, R., 2021. “Thermal Comfort Perception in Naturally Ventilated Affordable Housing of India.” Advances in Building Energy Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512549.2021.1907224.

• Ainalis, D., Bardhan, R., Bell, K., Cebon, D., Czerniak, M., Farmer, J. D., Fitzgerland, S., Galkowski, K., Grimshaw, S., Harper, G., Hunt, H., Jennings, N., Kehsav, S., Mackie, E., Maroto-Valer, M., Michalopoulou, E., Reay, D., Seddon, N., Smith, S. M., Smith, T., Simpson, K., Stranks, S. D., Tennyson, E. M., Uekert, T., Vera-Morales, M. and Woodcock, J. (2021). Net-zero Solutions and Research Priorities in the 2020s: COP26 Universities Network Briefing. https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_808253_smxx.pdf

• Peng, Z., Bardhan, R., Steemers, K., (2021)  The Effects of Urban Morphology on Enriching Thermal Experience: Microclimates of Courtyard Spaces in Cambridge, XXVIII International Conference on Urban Form ISUF2021: URBAN FORM AND THE SUSTAINABLE AND PROSPEROUS CITIES 29th June – 3rd July 2021, Glasgow

• Gaur, A, and Bardhan, R.,. 2021. “Editorial: Past, Present, and Future Impacts of Climate on Infrastructure.” Frontiers in Water 3: 27. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2021.670950.

• Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., Darby, S., Mohaddes, K., Sunikka-blank, M., Cristina, A., … Isa, A. (2021). Words against injustices : A deep narrative analysis of energy cultures in poverty of Abuja , Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro. Energy Research & Social Science, 72(January), 101892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101892

• Kumar, N.; Kubota, T.; Yoshihide, T.; Mohammadreza, S.; Bardhan, R. (2020) CFD simulations of wind-induced ventilation in apartment buildings with vertical voids: Effects of pilotis and wind fin on ventilation performance. Building and Environment 107666 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.107666

• Mehrotra, S., Subramanian, D., Bardhan, R., & Jana, A. (2021). Urban Climate Effect of surface treatment and built form on thermal profile of open spaces : A case of Mumbai , India. Urban Climate, 35(September 2020), 100736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2020.100736

• Sarkar, A., & Bardhan, R. (2021). Analysing the impact of interior design on indoor ventilation in low-income housing, 1st International Conference on Urban Science and Engineering (ICUSE 2020), Mumbai, February 28-29, 2020.  Best Poster Award. 

• Sarkar, A., Kumar, Nikhil., Jana, A., & Bardhan, R. (2021). Association between built-environment and liveability: Case of Mumbai slum rehabs. 1st International Conference on Urban Science and Engineering (ICUSE 2020), Mumbai, February 28-29, 2020.

Book Chapter - 

• Malik J., Bardhan R., Banerji P. (2021) Understanding the Effect of Occupant Behaviour on Thermal Comfort and Energy Use in Slum Rehabilitation Housing. In: Jana A., Banerji P. (eds) Urban Science and Engineering. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 121. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4114-2_23 

• Sarkar A., Bardhan R. (2021) Analysing the Impact of Interior Design on Indoor Ventilation in Low-Income Housing of Mumbai. In: Jana A., Banerji P. (eds) Urban Science and Engineering. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 121. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4114-2_20

• Sarkar A., Bardhan R. (2021) Cooling Energy-Saving Potential of Naturally Ventilated Interior Design in Low-Income Tenement Unit. In: Bose M., Modi A. (eds) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research. Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5955-6_9

• Sarkar A., Kumar N., Jana A., Bardhan R. (2021) Association Between Built-Environment and Livability: Case of Mumbai Slum Rehabs. In: Jana A., Banerji P. (eds) Urban Science and Engineering. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 121. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4114-2_6

• Sarkar, A., & Bardhan, R., (2021) Computation-driven design heuristic for environmentally-sustainable compact cities. Advances in Urban Planning in Developing Nations: Data Analytics and Technology.  in Jana, A., (eds), Taylor & Francis. 

•  Sarkar, A., & Bardhan, R. (2021) Analysing the housing condition and ventilation performance of low-income settlements: Comparing the rural-urban divide among states of India. Advances in Urban Planning in Developing Nations: Data Analytics and Technology. in Jana, A., (eds), Taylor & Francis. 

2020

• Debnath R. & Bardhan R., (2020).  India nudges to contain COVID-19 pandemic: a reactive public policy analysis using machine-learning based topic modelling. (March), 1–25. PLoS One https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238972

• Bardhan, R., Debnath, R., Gama, J., & Vijay, U.(2020) . REST framework: A modelling approach towards cooling energy stress mitigation plans for future cities in warming Global South. Sustainable Cities and Society, 102315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102315 

• Debnath, R., Darby, S., Bardhan, R., Mohaddes, K., & Sunikka-blank, M. (2020). Grounded reality meets machine learning : A deep-narrative analysis framework for energy policy research. Energy Research & Social Science, 69(July), 101704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101704

• Debnath, R.; Simoes, G.M.F.; Bardhan, R.; Leder, S.M.; Lamberts, R.; Sunikka-Blank, M. (2020), Energy Justice in Slum Rehabilitation Housing: An Empirical Exploration of Built Environment Effects on Socio-Cultural Energy Demand. Sustainability , 12, 3027. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12073027 

• Sunikka-blank, M., Bardhan, R., Schupp, J., Prabhu, J., & Penz, F. (2020). Films as source of everyday life and energy use : A case of Indian cinema. Energy Research & Social Science, 69(January), 101655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101655 

• Sarkar, A., & Bardhan, R. (2020). Socio-physical liveability through socio-spatiality in low-income resettlement archetypes - A case of slum rehabilitation housing in Mumbai ,. Cities, 105(June), 102840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102840

• Jana,A., Sarkar, A.,Bardhan, R. (2020). Land Use Policy Analysing outdoor airflow and pollution as a parameter to assess the compatibility of mass-scale low-cost residential development. Land Use Policy, 99(November 2019), 105052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105052

• Mehrotra, S., Bardhan, R., & Ramamritham, K. (2020) Diurnal Thermal Diversity in Heterogeneous Built Area: Mumbai, India, Urban Climate https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2020.100627 

• Malik, J., Bardhan, R.;Hong, T.; Piette, M.A.; (2020) Contextualising adaptive comfort behaviour within low-income housing of Mumbai, India. Building and Environment https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.106877

• Kshetrimayum, B.; Bardhan, R.; Kubota, T. (2020) Factors Affecting Residential Satisfaction in Slum Rehabilitation Housing in Mumbai. Sustainability 12, 2344  https://doi.org/10.3390/su12062344  

• Malik J., Bardhan R.,  Banerji P.,(2020) Rethinking Indoor Thermal Comfort in the Era of Rebound & Pre‐bound Effect for the Developing World: A Systematic Review, Indoor Air, https://doi.org/10.1111/ina.12664

• Malik J., Bardhan R., (2020) Thermal comfort in affordable housing of Mumbai, India, Energise-Energy Innovation for a sustainbale economy, pp66-74, 11-13 February, 2020, Hyderabad, India

• Sathyakumar V, RAAJ R & Bardhan R., (2020) Geospatial approach for assessing spatiotemporal dynamics of urban green space distribution among neighbourhoods: A demonstration in Mumbai, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126585  

• Sarkar A., Bardhan R., (2020) Improved indoor environment through optimised ventilator and furniture positioning: A case of slum rehabilitation housing, Mumbai, India, Frontiers of Architectural Research https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2019.12.001 

• Malik J., Bardhan R., (2020) Energy target pinch analysis for optimising thermal comfort in low-income dwellings, Journal of Building Engineering, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2019.101045 . 

• Lueker J, Bardhan R, Sarkar A, Norford L,(2020) Indoor air quality among Mumbai'sresettled populations: Comparing dharavi slum to nearby rehabilitation sites, Building and Environment(2019), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.106419.

• Pardeshi P, Jadhav B,  Singh R, Kapoor N, Bardhan R, Jana A, David S, Roy N (2020)Association between architectural parameters and burden of tuberculosis  in three resettlement colonies of M-East Ward, Mumbai, India, Cities & Health (Special issue : Asian City Futures) https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1731919  

• Bardhan, R. (2020) Invited Speaker - Energy from 70mm – Using films as a resource for quantifying energy behaviour. 3rd workshop on Media Analytics for Societal TrendsIn conjunction with ACM MM 2020, October 12, 2020, Zoom

• Bardhan, R. (2020). WeD: Well-Being in Developing Countries - Built environment as the confounding factor: Case India. In S. Webb, E. W. Sheffield, & B. Flinn (Eds.), Towards Healthier Homes in Humanitarian Settings. Proceedings of the Multi-sectoral Shelter & Health Learning Day (p. 21). 

• Bardhan R., Ying, J. (2020) COVID-19 proof parks: risk modelling of London parks, RAPID ASSISTANCE IN MODELLING THE PANDEMIC: Task 6 Human Dynamics in Small Spaces, Newton Institute IDP Programme, July 15, 2020

• Sarkar A., Bardhan R. (2020) Cooling Energy-Saving Potential of Naturally Ventilated Interior Design in Low-Income Tenement Unit. In: Bose M., Modi A. (eds) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research. Springer Proceedings in Energy. ICAER 2019. Mumbai, India, December 10-12, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5955-6_9.

Book Chapter - 

• • Bardhan R., Debnath R. (2020) Building Energy Performance with Site-Based Airflow Characteristics in Naturally Ventilated Conditions in Low-Income Tenement Housing of Mumbai. In: Singh S., Ramadesigan V. (eds) Advances in Energy Research, Vol. 1. Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2666-4_50 

  • Malik J., Bardhan R. (2020) User Experience and Perception in First-Generation Green-Rated Office Buildings in India. In: Singh S., Ramadesigan V. (eds) Advances in Energy Research, Vol. 1. Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2666-4_51 

2019

• Malik J., Bardhan R. (2019) Integrating occupant behaviour in thermal comfort assessment of low-income dwellings, Sustainable Development Research in the Asia-Pacific Conference, 9th-21st December 2019, Gwalior, India.

• Bardhan R., Sunikka-Blank M., Nasra-Haque A., (2019) Sentiment analysis as tool for gender mainstreaming in slum rehabilitation housing management in Mumbai, India. Habitat International, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2019.102040 

• Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., & Sunikka-Blank, M., (2019) How does slum rehabilitation influence appliance ownership? A structural model of non-income drivers, Energy Policy, Elsevier (Gold Open Access), Volume 132, September 2019, Pages 418-428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.06.005 

• Mehrotra, S., Bardhan, R., & Ramamritham, K. (2019). Urban form as policy variable for climate-sensitive area planning under heterogeneity: a geographically weighted regression approach. Area Development and Policy.https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2019.1609368

• Sarkar, A., & Bardhan, R., (2019) Optimal interior design for naturally ventilated low-income housing: a design-route for environmental quality and cooling energy saving, Advances in Building Energy Research https://doi.org/10.1080/17512549.2019.1626764

• Malik, J., Bardhan, R., Banerji, P. (2019) Simulating The Dynamics Of Occupant Behaviour For Thermal Comfort In Social Housing , 16th IBPSA , September 2-4, 2010, Rome

• Sarkar, A., Bardhan, R., (2019) Efficient Indoor Design in Slum Rehabilitation: A Systematic Simulation for Optimized Energy and experiential Indoor Environmental Quality (e-IEQ) , 16th IBPSA , September 2-4, 2010, Rome

• Kumar, N.,  Kubota,T.,  Bardhan, R., Tominaga, T., (2019) Analysis Of Airflow In Voids For Better Cross Ventilation In Midrise Buildings In Hot And Humid Climates, 16th IBPSA , September 2-4, 2010, Rome

• Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., & Sunikka-Blank, M., (2019) Discomfort and distress in slum rehabilitation housing- Investigating a rebound phenomenon using a backcasting approach, Habitat International, Elsevier (Gold Open Access). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2019.03.010 

• Kumar, N., Wang, Z., Kubota, T., Tominaga, Y., Bardhan, R., Wind Tunnel Experiment on Ventilation Effect of Void Spaces for Low-Cost Apartments in the Tropics. The 15th International Conference on Wind Engineering (ICWE) to be held in Beijing, China in September 1-6, 2019 

• Mehrotra, S., Bardhan, R., & Ramamritham, K. (2019). Outdoor thermal performance of heterogeneous urban environment: An indicator-based approach for climate-sensitive planning. Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.152 

• Bardhan R., Debnath R., Jana A., (2019) Evolution of sustainable energy policies in India since 1947: A review. WIREs Energy and Environment https://doi.org/10.1002/wene.340  (Invited paper) (Link)

• Sunikka-Blank M., Bardhan R., Nasra-Haque A., (2019) Gender, domestic energy and design of inclusive low-income habitats: A case of slum rehabilitation housing in Mumbai, India. Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 49, March 2019, Pages 53-67.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.10.020 (Link)

• Mehrotra, S., Mammen, P. M., Ramamritham, K., & Bardhan R. (2019). Data Driven Monitoring of Thermal Profile : Towards Sustainable Urban Habitats. In ACM-ICTD’19 Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (pp. 1–5). Ahmedabad, India: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3287098.3287133 (Link)

• Kshetrimayum, B., & Bardhan, R. (2019). Assessment of life satisfaction in slum rehabilitation housing in developing countries. In 4th World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM-2019). Mumbai, India.29th January – 1st February 2019

• Mehrotra, S., Bardhan, R., & Ramamritham, K. (2019). Heat stress and urbanisation pattern in Megacity- Mumbai: Towards climate – resilient urban policies. In 4th World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM-2019). Mumbai, India.29th January – 1st February 2019

• Malik, J., Bardhan, R., (2019) Exploring the influence of occupant behaviour on thermal comfort in social housing, National Environment Conference, Mumbai, January 31 – February 2, 2019.

• Sarkar, A., Bardhan, R., (2019) Optimizing air-outlet and furniture location for improved indoor air quality in low-income tenement units of Mumbai, India,  National Environment Conference, Mumbai, January 31 – February 2, 2019.

• Kshetrimayum, B., Bardhan, R. (2019). Appraisal of residential satisfaction in slum rehabilitation housing in Mumbai. 7th Annual International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering (ACE 2019), Singapore.

2018

• Sathyakumar V, RAAJ R & Bardhan R., (2018): Linking remotely sensed Urban Green Space (UGS) distribution patterns and Socio-Economic Status (SES) – A multi-scale probabilistic analysis based in Mumbai, India, GIScience & Remote Sensing, DOI: 10.1080/15481603.2018.1549819 (Link)

• Bardhan R., Debnath R., Malik J., Sarkar A.; (2018) Low-income housing layouts under socio-architectural complexities: A parametric study for sustainable slum rehabilitation; Sustainable Cities and Society,Volume 41, August 2018, Pages 126–138  (Link)

• Debnath R., Bardhan R.; (2018) Resource Symbiosis Model through bricolage: A livelihood generation assessment of an Indian village; Journal of Rural Studies, 60:c, doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.03.010R (Link)

• Bardhan R., Debnath R., Jana A., Norford L; (2018) Investigating the association of healthcare-seeking behavior with the freshness of indoor spaces in low-income tenement housing in Mumbai; Habitat International 71 (December), 156–168 (Link)

• Nutkiewicz A., Jain R., & Bardhan R.; (2018) Energy modeling of urban informal settlement redevelopment: Exploring design parameters for optimal thermal comfort in Dharavi, Mumbai, India; Applied Energy 231 (December), 433-445 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.09.002 (Link)

• Mehrotra, S., Bardhan R., & Ramamritham, K. (2018) Urban Informal Housing and Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity : Exploring Spatial Association in the City of Mumbai. Environment and Urbanization Asia, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1177/0975425318783548 (Link)

• Sarkar, A. & Bardhan, R., 2018. An expert system framework for holistic development of Rurban clusters in India: Case of tribal Orissa. In 12th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International : Spatial Systems: Social Integration, Regional Development and Sustainability, May 29 – June 1. Goa, India.

• Malik. J., Bardhan R.; (2018) Optimizing Thermal Comfort in Low-Income Dwellings: A Pinch Analysis Approach, Building Simulation & Optimization Conference, BSO2018, University of Cambridge, 11-12 September 2018 ( Link)

• Sarkar A., Bardhan R.; (2018) Evaluating the impact of interior layout on indoor air quality in low-income tenement unit: A case of Mumbai, Building Simulation & Optimization Conference, BSO2018, University of Cambridge, 11-12 September 2018

• Haque A., Sunikka-Blank M., Lemanski C., Bardhan R., Choudhury R., & Prabhu J. (2018) Gender and household energy: female participation in designing domestic energy in India’s slum rehabilitation housing, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2018, Cardiff University, 28-31 August, 2018 (Link)

• Avery Bick I.,Bardhan R., Beaubois T.; (2018) Applying Fuzzy Logic to Open Data for Sustainable Development Decision-Making: A Case Study of the Planned City Amaravati; Natural Hazards, 91:3, pp 1317–1339 (Link)

• Bardhan R., (2018) Visualizing Urban spaces from spaces: decoding the digital earth, International Conference on the Networked Digital Earth, March 7-9, 2018, Kharagpur, India (Link)

• Bardhan R., Debnath R., (2018) Evaluating building material based thermal comfort of a typical low-cost modular house in India. – Materials Today:Proceedings (Link)

• Bardhan R., Debnath R., (eds); (2018) Building Science for low-income habitat – Report (Link)

• Bardhan R., (2018) “Gender equality through design in low-income communities – A case study of SRA in Mumbai”, Gender Colloquium: Gender Issues in Urban Transformation Focus on The Adolescent Girl and Urbanisation 23-24th August, 2018.

• Kshetrimayum, B., Bardhan, R., & Jana, A. (2018). Assessment of neighbourhood qualities in slum rehabilitation housing in Mumbai, India. Urban Transitions 2018, Spain.

• Kshetrimayum, B., Bardhan, R., & Jana, A. (2018). Impact of built environment on residents’ health in slum rehabilitation Housing in Mumbai, India. Urban Transitions 2018, Spain.

• Mehrotra, S., Bardhan, R., Ramamritham, K. & Kshetrimayum B. (2018). Imprints of urban development pattern on its thermal environment in the megacity Mumbai. Urban Transitions 2018, Spain.

2017

• Bardhan R., Debnath R.; (2017) Investigating building energy performance with site-based airflow characteristics in wind-driven naturally ventilated conditions in low-income tenement housing of Mumbai. 6th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research 2017, December 12–14, 2017, Mumbai, India

• Malik J., Bardhan R., (2017) User Experience & Perception in First Generation Green Rated Office Buildings in India. 6th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research 2017, December 12–14, 2017, Mumbai, India

• Sathyakumar, V., Ramsankaran, RAAJ.,Bardhan R., ; (2017) Multiscale Analysis of the Relationship between Socio-Economic Status (SES) and Remotely Sensed Spatial Patterns of Urban Green Spaces (UGS) in Mumbai, India. The 38th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS 2017), New Delhi, India. Oct 23-27 (Link)

• Basu R., Jana A., Bardhan R., Bandyopadhyay S.; (2017) Pinch Analysis as a Quantitative Decision Framework for Determining Gaps in Health Care Delivery Systems; Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability 1 (3), 213-223 (Link)

• Chikaraishi M., Jana A., Bardhan R., Varghese V., Fujiwara A.; (2017) A framework to analyze capability and travel in formal and informal urban settings: A case from Mumbai. Journal of Transport Geography65 (September), 101–110 (Link)

• Ronita Bardhan (2017): Integrating rapid assessment of flood proneness into urban planning under data constraints: a fuzzy logic and bricolage approach, Area Development and Policy, DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2017.1338523 (Link)

• Debnath R., Bardhan R., Banerjee R, (2017) ‘Taming the killer in the kitchen : mitigating household air pollution from solid-fuel cooking through built-environment’, Clean Technologies and Environment Policies. doi: 10.1007/s10098-016-1251-7 (Link)

• Debnath R., Bardhan R., Jain R., (2017) A data-driven and simulation approach for understanding thermal performance of slum redevelopment in Mumbai, India, IBPSA, Aug 7-9, 2017 San Fransisco, USA

• Bardhan R; Beaubois Terry (eds), Sustainable Urban Solutions in India-CEE 244A Winter 2017, Sustainable Urban Systems Initiative- Stanford University, (Link)

• Bardhan R., Debnath R., (2017) Building Performance Study of Indira Awas Yojana for Smart Village; 2017 IEEE International Conference on Energy, Communication, Data Analytics and Soft Computing(ICECDS), Chennai, India, VI, pg 1-6. (Link)

2016 and previous years

• Bardhan R., Debnath R., (2016) Towards daylight inclusive bye-law: Daylight as an energy saving route for affordable housing in India, Energy for Sustainable Development. Vol-34, October.pp 1-9.doi:10.1016/j.esd.2016.06.005 .(Link)

• Debnath R., Bardhan R., Banerjee R, (2016) ‘Investigating the age of air in rural Indian kitchens for sustainable built environment design’, Journal of Building Engineering; doi:10.1016/j.jobe.2016.07.011 (Link)

• Debnath R., Bardhan R., Jain R. K, (2016) A data driven-design framework for urban slum housing: Case of Mumbai, BuildSys ’16, November 16-17, 2016, Palo Alto, CA, USA ACM. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2993422.2996406 (Link)

• Basu, R., Jana, A. & Bardhan R., A Health Care Facility Allocation Model for Expanding Cities in Developing Nations: Strategizing Urban Health Policy Implementation. Appl. Spatial Analysis (2016). doi:10.1007/s12061-016-9208-0 (Link)

• Jana A., Bardhan R., Sarkar,S, Kumar V; (2016) Framework to assess and locate affordable and accessible housing for developing nations: empirical evidences from Mumbai; Habitat International. doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2016.07.005. (Link)

• Bardhan R., Debnath R., (2016) Evaluating building material based thermal comfort of a typical low-cost modular house in India. PMME-2016 – Materials Today : Proceedings (In Press)

• Debnath R., Bardhan R., (2016) Fulfilling SDG-3:DALYs averted in rural kitchens through design, UN-IARC, Mumbai, India (in press).

• Mehrotra, S., Bardhan R., Ramamritham K., (2016) Built Form Determinants of Urban Land Surface Temperature: A Case of Mumbai, Sustainable Built Environment Conference: Expanding Boundaries, Systems Thinking in the Built Environment 13-17 June 2016, Zurich, Switzerland

• Bardhan R., Debnath R., Banerjee R., (2016) ‘Evaluating Differences In Airflow Patterns For Similar Rural Kitchens Using CFD’, 6 th International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation(ICCMS), June, 27- July, 1, Mumbai; pp 391-395. (Link)

• Sangoi S., Jain A., Jana A., Bardhan R., Velaga N., (2016) Behavior of Housing Prices Within the “Equi-influence” Zone of Metro Corridor in Mumbai, India: A Fuzzy Logic Approach. Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

• Chikaraishi M., Jana A., Bardhan R., Varghese V., Fujiwara A., (2016) Revisiting Travel Time in Mumbai: Value of Time Saving or Value of Access? Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

• Debnath R., Bardhan R., (2016) Daylight performance parameter of a naturally ventilated building as a parameter for energy management. Energy Procedia (Link)

• Ghosh, S, and Bardhan R., (2016) Understanding variables for contextual re-generation of Urban Areas, 52nd ISOCARP Congress 2016 – Cities we have vs Cities we need; September 12-16, 2016, Durban, South Africa

• Bardhan R., (2016) “Inaugural Editorial of Urban Planning: Redefining City Planning Agendas under the Contextual Realm,” Urban Planning, vol. 1, pp. 1-4. (Link)

• Bardhan R., Jana, A., and S. Sarkar, (2016)”Informality,” in Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, A. M. Orum, Ed., ed: The Wiley Blackwell, 2016.(In press)

• Chikaraishi, M.,Jana, A., Bardhan R., & Fujiwara, A. (2016); Time Use of Urban Poor and Rural Poor on Activity and Travel in Gujarat, India: Similarities and Differences, Asian Transport Studies, Volume 4 Issue 1, 19-36. (Link)

• Jana, A., Bardhan R., (2016), Planning transit system for India cities: Opportunities and challenges in Handbook of Research on Emerging Innovations in Rail Transportation Engineering. eds Rai. U. ISBN:: 978-1-5225-0084-1 (Link)

• Bardhan R., Debnath R., Bandopadhyay, S., (2016).A conceptual model for identifying the risk susceptibility of urban green spaces using geo-spatial techniques. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment. doi:10.1007/s40808-016-0202-y.(Link)

• Bardhan R., V Varghese, A Jana;(2015), Analyzing Regional Travel Patterns in India: Disaggregated Analysis of Social, Health and Pilgrimage Trips. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies; Vol. 11, p.362-378 (Link)

• Varghese, V; Sarkar, S; Bardhan R., Velaga, NR; Jana, A; (2015) Transport network characteristics and real-estate undercurrents: The effect of spatial non stationarity on property pricing in Mumbai; 3rd Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (3rd CTRG); 17 – 20 December, 2015, Kolkata, INDIA

• Bardhan R., Sarkar, S; Jana, A; Velaga, NR, (2015) Mumbai slums since independence: Evaluating the policy outcomes; Habitat International, Vol 50, Dec-2015, pp 1–11. doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.07.009 (Link)

• Bardhan R., Bandopadhyay, S, & Gupta, K. (2015). Rapid Estimation of Flood Prone Zones under Data Constraint Scenario: A Fuzzy Modelling Approach. Paper presented at the HYDRO 2015 International :20th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and River Engineering, Roorkee, India.

• Bardhan R., Bahuman, C, Pathan, I, & Ramamritham, K. (2015, 9–12 December 2015). Designing a game based persuasive technology to promote Pro-Environmental Behaviour (PEB). Paper presented at the Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC), 2015 IEEE Region 10, Cebu City, Philippines.10.1109/R10-HTC.2015.7391844 (Link)

• Bardhan R., Varghese, V; Jana, A; Analyzing Regional Travel Patterns in India: Disaggregated Analysis of Social, Health and Pilgrimage Trips; Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies – EASTS 2015 Conference :Resilient and Inclusive Transportation Systems through Smarter Mobility, Cebu, Philippines; 09/2015

• Chikaraishi M.,Jana, A., Bardhan R., Varghese V;& Fujiwara, A. (2015); Revisiting travel time in Mumbai: the value of time saving or the value of access?, 52nd Conference on Infrastructure Planning and Management 2015; JSCE, 21 to 23 November, 2015, Japan.

• Chikaraishi, M.,Jana, A., Bardhan R., & Fujiwara, A. (2015); Time Use of Urban Poor and Rural Poor on Activity and Travel in Gujarat, India: Similarities and Differences, 11th EASTS Conference: Resilient and Inclusive Transportation Systems through Smarter Mobility, 11 to 14 September, 2015, Cebu , Philippines. (Link)

• Jana, A., Bardhan R., & Sarkar, S., (2015). Future Place making in Mumbai: Analyzing Mumbai Development plan 2034, Future of Places International conference – UNHabitat, Stockholm, Sweden, 29 June to 1 July 2015. (Link)

• Bardhan R., Kurisu, K., Hanaki,K.; (2015) Does compact urban forms relate to good quality of life in high density cities of India? Case of Kolkata, Cities, 48, pp 55-65, ISSN 0264-2751, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2015.06.005. (Link)

• Chikaraishi, M., Jana, A., Bardhan R., & Fujiwara, A. (2015). Urban-Rural Comparison of Time Use in India: Gender, Education, and Economic Affluence .Transportation Research Board (TRB) 94th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C, USA.(Link)

• Bardhan R., 2014. Urban quality of life in growing megacities – a case of Kolkata, India. International Symposium on MEGACITIES, November, 11 – 14, 2014, Kolkata, India.

• Bardhan R., 2013. Simulation of Land Use Consequences of Urban Corridor in Kolkata: An Integrated Spatial and Expert System Model, Environment and Urbanization Asia 4: 267-286, doi:10.1177/0975425313510767.

• Bardhan R., Kurisu, K. H., & Hanaki, K. , 2013. Relating urban form to objective quality of life using pattern recognition technique – a case study: megacity region of Kolkata, India. 2013 AAG Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California.(Link)

• Bardhan R., 2013, Process of Incubation of Environmental Leader: Lessons learned from field research in Great Pearl River Delta, China, 2012. International Symposium on “Fostering Future Leaders for Sustainable Society, (http://www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/info/en/entry/31_entry35/); Tokyo, Japan, 9th January, 2013.

• Kyoungjin, A. Bardhan R., 2012 Response to sustainable urban water use and management: exploring field-oriented environmental education curricula for leadership development. IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition, Busan, Korea; 16th-21st September, 2012.

• Bardhan R., 2012 Assessment tool for Land Use consequences of Urban Corridors: An Investigation of Location, and Use Effect Case Study: 2nd Vivekananda Bridge & Belghoria Expressway, Kolkata, India. 10th Conference of Asian City Planning (10thACP), Tokyo; Japan, 23rd June, 2012.

• Bardhan R., Kurisu H, K.Hanaki K., 2011. Linking Urban Form & Quality of Life in Kolkata, 47th ISOCARP Congress Liveable cities – Urbanizing World: Meeting the Challenge, organized by ISOCARPand the People’s Government of Wuhan Municipality (UPSC), Wuhan (China), October 24, 2011, Congress CD-ROM Proceedings, ISBN: 978-94-90354-12-1; (Link)

• Bardhan R., Jana, A 2010 Incorporating The Concept of Zero Energy In The Newly Developed Satellite Towns of India – Case Study Rajarhat, Kolkata, India. India-Japan Symposium On Emerging Technologies, Tokyo;Japan, 7 October, 2010

• Chattapadhyay. S., Bardhan R., Jana A., 2006. Growth Dynamics Vs Sustainability – The Dichotomy of twin mining towns Joda & Barbil, XXXIV IAHS, World Congress on Housing Sustainable Housing Design Emphasizing Urban Housing. Naples, Italy 20-23 September 2006.

• Bardhan R., 2006, “An Urban Corridor in Transition: VISION 2020”, ITPI Newsletter (No. XXXIII), West Bengal Regional Chapter, Dec 2006.