Chandni Singh

Chandni Singh works at the interface of climate change and development in rural and urban geographies within the Global South. At IIHS, she works on issues of climate change adaptation, differential vulnerability and wellbeing, disaster risk and recovery, livelihoods transitions, and rural-urban migration. Chandni has worked on climate change projects such as the IDRC/FCDO-funded Adaptation at Scale in Semi-arid Regions (ASSAR) and SDC-funded CapaCITIES’ Migration, Livelihoods and Climate Resilience. She has led interdisciplinary, international projects such as IIED-funded Long-term Impacts of Humanitarian Action in Chennai (2016–2017), British Academy-funded Recovery with Dignity (2018–2021), and Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture as Green Infrastructure (2019–2022). Using a social-ecological systems lens, her work examines human dimensions of global environmental change, pathways for transformational change, and levers for equitable adaptation. Chandni is a Lead Author of the IPCC’s Assessment Report 6 in 2022 on ‘Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability’ and a Contributing Author of the IPCC’s 2018 Special Report on 1.5°C. Chandni serves on the editorial boards of Regional Environmental Change, Climate and Development, and IIHS’ in-house journal Urbanisation. She is the Domain Editor on Vulnerability and Adaptation at WIREs Climate Change and a Contributing Editor with Carbon Brief.

She has previously worked in research and practice-based organisations such as the University of Reading (UK), Bioversity International (Italy), Pragya, and WWF India across South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. She has taught postgraduate level courses on climate change adaptation, sustainability, research methodology, and development studies. She is also interested in science communication for lay audiences and is a published poet.