Publication 

2023

• 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.

• 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., 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.

• Zhao, Y., Sen, S., Susca, T., Iaria, J., Kubilay, A., Gunawarden, K., ... Bardhan, R. & Carmeliet, J. Beating the Heat: Solution Sets for Developed Cities.(under review)

• 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)

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 - 

• Pan, J., Bardhan, R.(2023) The Why? How? What? and What-ifs of mass slum rehabilitation housing in India. In eds. Karunaratne, G., Informal Settlements in the Global South, in eds. Schoonderbeek, M., Awan, N., Staničić, A., (2023) Architectural Borders and Territories, Taylor and Francis, Routledge. (in Press)

• 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.