Ms. Shruthi Dakey

Shruthi Dakey is a Ph.D. student at the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), India, in the Department of Architecture and Planning. She is a civil engineering urban planner. Her research and academic interests include the following: disaster risk reduction, coastal socio-ecological systems, resilience, and urban and rural planning. She is currently working on her Ph.D. research, titled: “Socio-ecological system approach for gaining resilience in coastal regions in India”. She has also worked on "Planning for climate-resilient coastal cities: the case of Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh." She was a Pan-Asia Risk Reduction Fellow and an IRDR Young Scientist (a joint program of ISC and UNISDR). She researched “the need for socio-ecological resilience as a sustainable development Strategy for sitios (villages) in the Philippines” during her fellowship at the University of Los Banos, Philippines. She is a member of the research project “Socio-Ecological Resilience as a Sustainable development strategy in Different geo-climatic zones in India.”