Inequalities and Interventions: Autonomous Adaptation to Climate Change
暫譯: 不平等與干預：自主適應氣候變遷

Nisar Kannangara is a social anthropologist with Ph.D. in anthropology from Pondicherry University (Central), India, in 2019, focusing on the study of democracy and violence in Kerala. Currently he is a Consultant at Academic and Research Team, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) Bengaluru. From February 2021 to March 2024, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Inequality and Human Development Programme at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru, India. Prior to joining NIAS, he held research positions at the Anthropology Research Wing of Kerala Institute for Research Training and Development Studies of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (KIRTADS) and the Directorate of Culture, Government of Kerala. His area of research includes the social and cultural dynamics of democracy and political parties, ethnographies of indigenous housing, and inequality and autonomous adaptation to climate change in South Asian contexts. He is a recipient of the prestigious British Academy Knowledge Frontier Symposia Follow-on Award in 2023.

Kalaiarasi Kandhan Sagunthala is currently working at the M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai. Before this she was working as the Project Associate at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru, where she worked on the autonomous adaptation to climate change. She holds a Masters Degree in climate science and policy from TERI University, New Delhi and has done her bachelors in Geography. Her area of interest includes Climate change adaptation, food security, water conservation, and disaster management. She has also worked in the areas of gender mainstreaming in forest resource management, mapping stakeholders for devising Incentive-Based Mechanisms for natural resource management in different locations of the countries.

尼薩爾·卡南加拉（Nisar Kannangara）是一位社會人類學家，於2019年在印度龐迪榭里大學（Pondicherry University）獲得人類學博士學位，專注於喀拉拉邦的民主與暴力研究。目前，他是印度人類住區研究所（Indian Institute for Human Settlements, IIHS）班加羅爾的學術與研究團隊顧問。從2021年2月到2024年3月，他在印度班加羅爾的高級研究國家研究所（National Institute of Advanced Studies, NIAS）擔任博士後研究員，專注於不平等與人類發展計畫。在加入NIAS之前，他曾在喀拉拉邦計劃與發展研究所（Kerala Institute for Research Training and Development Studies of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, KIRTADS）的人類學研究部門及喀拉拉邦政府文化局擔任研究職位。他的研究領域包括民主與政黨的社會與文化動態、原住民住房的民族誌，以及南亞背景下對氣候變遷的不平等與自主適應。他是2023年英國學院知識前沿研討會後續獎的獲得者。

卡萊亞拉西·坎丹·薩古恩塔拉（Kalaiarasi Kandhan Sagunthala）目前在印度金奈的M.S.斯瓦米納坦研究基金會（M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation, MSSRF）工作。在此之前，她曾在班加羅爾的高級研究國家研究所（NIAS）擔任專案助理，專注於氣候變遷的自主適應。她擁有德里TERI大學的氣候科學與政策碩士學位，並取得地理學學士學位。她的興趣領域包括氣候變遷適應、糧食安全、水資源保護和災害管理。她還曾在森林資源管理中的性別主流化、為不同地區的自然資源管理設計基於激勵機制的利益相關者映射等領域工作。