Aromar Revi
Aromar Revi is the founding Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) India’s prospective interdisciplinary national urban University. Over fifteen years, he built IIHS into one of the world’s leading education, research, training, advisory and implementation-support institutions, located in the global south.
He is a polymath, global practice and thought leader, educator and institution builder with close to 40 years of local to global interdisciplinary experience. He is an alumnus of IIT-Delhi and the Law and Management schools of the University of Delhi.
Aromar has led 235 major practice, consulting and research assignments across a dozen broad areas. He has deep governance, institutional development, management and implementation experience, across public, private, civil society and academic institutions.
He is an globally cited scholar across half a dozen fields. Aromar’ policy, practice and research work lie at the interface of four themes: sustainable development and sustainability science; sustainable urbanisation and the emerging discipline of ‘urban science’; climate action and climate science; and disaster risk reduction and risk science. Aromar has lectured and taught at over 100 leading universities across all six continents.
Aromar has been a senior advisor to multiple ministries of the Government of India, since the late 1980s; consulted with a wide range of international development institutions, national and transnational firms on economic, environmental and social change at global, regional and urban scales. He has helped structure, design and review development investments of $ 15 billion; worked on 5 of the world’s 10 largest cities; urban and rural areas across India; and on projects in over a dozen countries.
Aromar is a global expert on implementing Sustainable Development; Co-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), where he led a successful global campaign for an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 11) for the UN. He is a member of the UCLG-Ubuntu, Commissioner of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water that presented its report to the UN Global Conference on Water 2023.
Aromar is one of the world’s leading experts on global environmental change. He is a Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) of the: IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15), 2022 synthesis chapter on Climate Resilient Development Pathways and member of the Core Writing Team (CWT) of the 2023 IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report (SYR). In 2014, he was a CLA of the IPCC Assessment Report 5 (AR5) on Urban Areas. He was a co-lead of the 2022 four report Summary for Urban Policymakers series of the IPCC AR6 cycle launched at CoP27 and CLA of the Scaling up Climate Finance Report 2021, commissioned by the Green Climate Fund.
He is one of South Asia’s most experienced risk and disaster management professionals having led teams to plan & execute rehabilitation programmes for ten major earthquake, cyclone and flood events affecting over 5 million people. Aromar has been a member of the UNDRR' Advisory Board for eight of its Global Assessment of Risk (GAR) reports.
He is a polymath, global practice and thought leader, educator and institution builder with close to 40 years of local to global interdisciplinary experience. He is an alumnus of IIT-Delhi and the Law and Management schools of the University of Delhi.
Aromar has led 235 major practice, consulting and research assignments across a dozen broad areas. He has deep governance, institutional development, management and implementation experience, across public, private, civil society and academic institutions.
He is an globally cited scholar across half a dozen fields. Aromar’ policy, practice and research work lie at the interface of four themes: sustainable development and sustainability science; sustainable urbanisation and the emerging discipline of ‘urban science’; climate action and climate science; and disaster risk reduction and risk science. Aromar has lectured and taught at over 100 leading universities across all six continents.
Aromar has been a senior advisor to multiple ministries of the Government of India, since the late 1980s; consulted with a wide range of international development institutions, national and transnational firms on economic, environmental and social change at global, regional and urban scales. He has helped structure, design and review development investments of $ 15 billion; worked on 5 of the world’s 10 largest cities; urban and rural areas across India; and on projects in over a dozen countries.
Aromar is a global expert on implementing Sustainable Development; Co-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), where he led a successful global campaign for an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 11) for the UN. He is a member of the UCLG-Ubuntu, Commissioner of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water that presented its report to the UN Global Conference on Water 2023.
Aromar is one of the world’s leading experts on global environmental change. He is a Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) of the: IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15), 2022 synthesis chapter on Climate Resilient Development Pathways and member of the Core Writing Team (CWT) of the 2023 IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report (SYR). In 2014, he was a CLA of the IPCC Assessment Report 5 (AR5) on Urban Areas. He was a co-lead of the 2022 four report Summary for Urban Policymakers series of the IPCC AR6 cycle launched at CoP27 and CLA of the Scaling up Climate Finance Report 2021, commissioned by the Green Climate Fund.
He is one of South Asia’s most experienced risk and disaster management professionals having led teams to plan & execute rehabilitation programmes for ten major earthquake, cyclone and flood events affecting over 5 million people. Aromar has been a member of the UNDRR' Advisory Board for eight of its Global Assessment of Risk (GAR) reports.
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The experiences of the contributors, many of whom have actively contributed their expertise to disaster management and recovery, help us understand what problems require a swift response and which aspects should be based on detailed analyses keeping in mind local conditions. Reconstruction is seen as offering an opportunity to rebuild society such that all sections of the population are empowered and brought into the community’s decision-making process. It is also an opportunity to develop construction techniques that are suited to local materials and skills but are also more earthquake-resistant than the old. And finally, there is the realisation that the best first responders are local community groups which need to be nurtured, and trained in crisis management and risk mitigation
The volume articulates the role of habitat and housing processes as 'organizing principles' and entry points into the process of social mobilization and poverty alleviation, through a mixture of perspective papers and detailed case studies from child focused development, the Rights of the Child to technology, finance and project management. The cases are primarily from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and India, with a few other international examples"
Chapters by Aromar Revi
The foundation for the book is detailed city case studies on Bangalore, Bangkok, Dar es Salaam, Durban, London, Manizales, Mexico City, New York and Rosario. Each of these was led by authors who contributed to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment and are thus acknowledged as among the world’s top specialists in this field.
This book highlights where there is innovation and progress in cities and how this was achieved. Also where there is little progress and no action and where there is no capacity to act. It also assesses the extent to which cities can address the Sustainable Development Goals within commitments to also dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In this, it highlights how much progress on these different agendas depends on local governments and their capacities to work with their low-income populations.
Working Group II contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (WGII AR5) evaluates how patterns of risks and potential benefits are shifting due to climate change and how risks can be reduced through mitigation and adaptation. It recognizes that risks of climate change will vary across regions and populations, through space and time, dependent on myriad factors including the extent of mitigation and adaptation"
inevitably face in conception as well as implementation.