A report on the national energy model that DESTA built in collaboration with CSTEP has been published. This report highlights the key model assumptions and what future scenarios it produces.…
DESTA kicked-off its engagement with CInI (Collectives for Integrated Livelihood Initiatives), an initiative of Tata Trusts, to enable them to apply systems thinking into their program. The aims of this…
The report 'Identifying Climate Adjacency: Key findings from four case studies and a synthesis' was released by Rohini Nilekani. The report is an outcome of DESTA's engagement with Rohini Nilekani…
As part of our engagement with the India Climate Collaborative, DESTA carried out climate adjacency workshops with Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT), ATE Chandra Foundation and Edelgive Foundation to understand the…
The first-year students of PGP - Sustainable Management, IIM Lucknow interacted with Mihir as a part of the course ‘Systems Thinking’ by Prof. Dipti Gupta. He discussed how modeling, which…
Mihir taught an online course on introduction to systems thinking and system dynamics modeling to MA students of Natural Resource Governance at TISS, Hyderabad. The students learned making BOTGs, Causal Loop…
Mihir taught an online course on systems thinking for social change to students at Indian School of Development Management, Noida. This year the students learned the tools of systems thinking…
The paper ‘Building Insights in a Complex Social-Ecological System: A Case from the Banni Grasslands (abstract available here) was selected for a parallel session presentation at the International System Dynamics…
DESTA was a proud sponsor at the International System Dynamics Conference 2020 organized by the System Dynamics Society (SDS), Bergen 2020, and held virtually in 2D and 3D formats. DESTA…
DESTA conducted a 4 day online workshop with COLLECTIVES FOR INTEGRATED LIVELIHOOD INITIATIVES (CInI), an initiative of TATA Trusts, in collaboration with India Climate Collaborative (ICC). This workshop was aimed at identifying climate…
Kabir Sharma was one of the 40 young leaders from India selected under the #ClimateSolutions series, under the #YouthforFuture campaign run by SELCO Foundation and India Climate Collaborative. He spoke…
Mihir and Kabir co authored a paper on Limits to Growth published in the Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Springer. This paper reviews the origins of limits to growth…
A webinar was conducted on modeling scale scenarios for social missions aimed at improving human well being, using systems thinking and system dynamics simulation modelling. The focus was to better…
Click here to see DESTA feature in the International System Dynamics Society's June Newsletter. In it, we describe DESTA's ongoing work using systems thinking and system dynamics modelling in India. Next…
Arun Maira, Kabir Sharma and Mihir Mathur demonstrate, through systems thinking, the impacts of COVID 19 on India. In this session they take you through the causal loops showing the…
Mihir Mathur conducted a Master Class on Systems Thinking for Indian School for Development Management, Noida. This webinar focused on demonstrating real world application of systems thinking in India. A…
Mihir delivered a Master Class on Social Ecological Approach to Livelihood at the ILDC conference on 3rd March at the India International Center, New Delhi. The conference had practitioners and…
Banni: In a Time of Change Android Mobile App was used to facilitate a day-long workshop with youth of Banni, Kutch, India, at RAMBLE as part of newly launched Salim…
The Android Mobile App, Banni: In a time of change was released at the ATREE Work Seminars 2019, and is now available on Google Play store as a free download,…
Mihir conducted a two day workshop on systems thinking for sustainable development for the 2019-20 cohort of the India Fellows. The cohort learnt and applied tools of systems thinking -…
Kabir was invited to represent DESTA at the 14th session of the Conference of Parties (COP 14) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) held between 2nd and 13th September, 2019 in…
Mihir participated in the 6th Asia Agriculture Insurance Conference which was held in New Delhi on the 12-13 September with the theme of “Feeding the world with SMART Agrotech” and…
Mihir and Kabir conducted a three day workshop on ‘Systems Thinking for Social Change’ at Indian School for Development Management (ISDM) that had participants from 9 organisations across 2 countries…
Kabir went to School for International Training (SIT), Jaipur in Oct 2019 to give lectures titled 'Introduction to Systems Thinking and Resilience' with an Indian context, to the cohort of…
Mihir conducted a workshop on system dynamics modeling for the participants at Student Conference on Conservation Science at IISC,Bengaluru. The workshop focused on teaching basics of causal loop diagrams and…
Mihir Mathur conducted the third webinar on systems thikning for real world problems hosted by Indian School of Development Management on 30th April. The webinar was attending by more than 50 attendies and…
Mihir Mathur conducted a two day workshop on systems thinking for sustainable development at Pegasus Outbound Facility, for Aritra's leadership program at Bangalore on 8th and 9th May. The participants worked in…
Mihir Mathur conducted a short workshop on systems thinking for social startups at IIMB NSRCEL's graduation ceremony in Bangalore on 10th May. Over 50 participants from social startups and think tanks attended…
On Day 5 at the India Leaders for Social Sector (ILSS) Leadership Program Mihir Mathur introduced the cohort to the inter connectedness of the various parts of a system and…
Change Public focuses on mainstreaming climate change in social development and Impact sector by having a public dialogue around climate change concerns. In their recently held public conference Mihir Mathur spoke on Green…
GPIW held a 3 day gathering including a mix of small group discussions and large group reflections on environmental issues and our possible futures. A day was spent at a beautiful…
It is possible to analyse data sets of climate trends, both historic and recent, to predict and project extreme climate events and their impact on disaster reduction, agriculture and food,…
Mr Mihir Mathur taught a week long system dynamics course at Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Hyderabad, India. The course included introduction to systems thinking and system dynamics, causal loop diagram,…
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