Aditi Khodke

DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development

Thesis

Electric mobility, gender, and justice: the case of shared electric vehicles in Delhi and London

Supervisor(s)

Dr Nigel Mehdi 

Dr David Howard

Biography

Aditi is a climate change and urban sustainability researcher, and a part-time doctoral student in Sustainable Urban Development. She has earned two masters' degrees: MSc in Sustainable Urban Development from the University of Oxford and MSc in Sustainability from the United Nations University. 

Currently she works as a research fellow for IGES Japan, urban sustainability and universal accessibility consultant for the World Bank, and is accredited as a lead expert for urban strategic planning and transnational capacity building for URBACT III programme.

Publications

Selected publications

Khodke, A., Watabe, A. and Mehdi, N., 2021. Implementation of accelerated policy-driven sustainability transitions: Case of Bharat Stage 4 to 6 leapfrogs in India. Sustainability, 13(8), p.4339.  https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084339

Khodke, A., Maeda, T., Sethi, G. and Tachibana, M., 2021. Strategies to Promote Energy-Efficient Compressed Air Systems Among Indian Companies. In Energy Efficiency in Motor Systems (pp. 491-501). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69799-0_35

Koide, R., Lettenmeier, M., Akenji, L., Toivio, V., Amellina, A., Khodke, A., Watabe, A. and Kojima, S., 2021. Lifestyle carbon footprints and changes in lifestyles to limit global warming to 1.5° C, and ways forward for related research. Sustainability Science, 16(6), pp.2087-2099. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01018-6

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). 2021. Kyoto in 2030: Envisioning 1.5-Degree Lifestyles. Policy Report. Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Hayama, Japan. https://doi.org/10.57405/iges-11896

鶴川正寛, 橘美加, Aditi khodke and 前田利蔵, 2019. 海外レポート アジア諸国の環境事情 (11) インドの省エネルギー政策事情: 省エネ証書取引制度 (PAT) を中心として. 環境技術= Journal of environmental conservation engineering, 48(4), pp.219-221. 

Papers and lectures

Conference presentations 

  •  Footprint Conference, Durham Town Hall, United Kingdom, 2022

  • URBACT: European exchange and learning program, 2021

  • The Road to Malmö – ICLEI World Congress Webinar, 2021

  • Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, 2019

  • International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Motor Driven Systems (EEMODS), 2019

  • International Perspective on Water Resources and the Environment, 2016

  • Asian Development Bank Research Forum, 2016

  • UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (side events), 2015

Research interests

Gender mainstreaming in low carbon sociotechnical transitions;

Climate proofing of building regulatory frameworks; 

Scalable climate action and urban resilience; 

1.5C Lifestyles and sustainable consumption.