Research

My PhD examines the spectrum of governmental interventions (or lack thereof) to adapt people to environmental change in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, India.

It assesses the well-being of people that have been relocated, adapted in-situ, or non-adapted; and investigates whether people’s perceptions of fairness towards climate change adaptation policies (accounting both for processes and outcomes) affect their subjective well-being.

The study has three parts. It firstly examines the state of multidimensional well-being in the relocated, adapted, and non-adapted communities accounting for material, subjective, and relational dimensions. This allows to draw a direct comparison on how well people are doing in in diff

The study firstly examines how the decision-making processes (procedural justice) and the distribution of outcomes (distributive justice) influence citizens’ perceptions of fairness, with perceptions being the social acceptability of unequal processes and outcomes; and secondly explores how perceptions of fairness interact with and influence citizens’ constructs of wellbeing