The essential support systems at CSTEP, including Human Resources, Information Technology, Administration, Finance, and Communication and Policy Engagement teams, keep the organisation running smoothly. These teams work together to provide a robust foundation for CSTEP's research and policy engagement efforts. Their collective aim is to create an efficient, collaborative environment that drives the organisation's mission forward.
Developing GIS tools for planning, mitigation and preparedness for large scale emergencies and disasters
Emergency and disaster management involves four stages: Mitigation (Planning), Preparedness, Response and Relief. Concerned authorities at different levels (central, state, district, etc.) play different roles and have different responsibilities in each phase of emergency and disaster management. GIS-based tools have been shown to be useful in the response and recovery phases of an emergency. In this paper, we propose how GIS-based simulation tools can be used in the Mitigation and Preparedness phases of emergencies and disasters.
Annual Report 2011-12
This is CSTEP's Annual Report for the year 2011-12.
Annual Report 2010-11
This is CSTEP's Annual Report for the year 2010-11.
Design beyond design: Design Thinking & Design Acting
In essence this paper seeks to answer the question: what are the essential elements of
designing as a human activity that makes it possible to transfer these skills and attitudes
beyond the world of design?
The Flip Side of Metcalfe’s Law: Multiple and Growing Costs of Network Exclusion
The study of networks and network science has grown in the last decade, but most network models fail to capture the costs or loss of value of exclusion from the network. Intuitively, as a network grows in size and value, those outside the network face growing disparities. This new direction is relevant too for the design of policy interventions as well as for shifting the scholarly research agenda toward greater focus on inequality and exclusion.
Annual Report 2009-10
This is CSTEP's annual report for the year 2009-10.
Annotation in design and product engineering: an introduction to the special issue
The annotation of a document involves the embedding of data such as a textual note, a symbol or structured data in an original document at a specific location.The scope of annotations has been considerably enlarged by the latest developments in digital technologies allowing the manipulation of 3D geometry through a simple web browser and the combination of geometrical information with more complex semantic structures.The goal of this special issue is to explore a number of these particular challenges of the application of annotation in design and product engineering.
Public Policy Research in South Asia Nature of Demand
Evidence-based, rigorous, relevant and up-to-date research is vital to the public policymaking process; it enhances the effectiveness and efficiency of policy decisions.
Simulation, Planning and Operational Platform for Emergency Management Systems II (SIMPLANEMS II)
CSTEP undertook a project to develop a platform that would help model the scale and impact of disasters and provide analysis, tools and exercises to handle it. The researchers examined processes that will help refine procedures for institutional arrangements, resources and asset management. The platform envisaged in the project, called the "Living Lab", can be the central location for the Emergency Management System where all major decisions are made.
Skilling India's Workforce
This policy brief highlights the problems facedand the skills required to sought them Problem Highlight:
India needs to 500 million trained
workers by 2022
Current capacity and skill levels
are inadequate
Proposed Solutions:
Strengthen existing institutions
and hold them responsible
Have a single agency to
coordinate training programmes
Create more inclusive programmes