Supriya Krishnan
Climate risk · Urban planning · Policy

Supriya
Krishnan.

Urban planner & architect, analysing physical climate risk in cities and how it shapes long-term growth and investment decisions. PhD from TU Delft's Faculty of Technology, Policy & Management focusing on planning under deep uncertainty, with advisory and knowledge support to UN, intergovernmental, and government bodies — UNDRR, the CDRI, CUDRR&R, India's NDMA, and the NIPFP.

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Selected Work & Publications

Theory & Frameworks

2026 The Future Ground: Urban Planning Under Climate Uncertainty PhD thesis · TU Delft
2024 TIMEWISE: Temporal dynamics for urban resilience npj Urban Sustainability
2023 RISE-UP: Resilience in urban planning for climate uncertainty Cities

Methods

2024 FutureScapes: Blending computational models & scenario narratives Scenarios · Environment & Planning B
2022 Integrated framework for climate risk in urban land-use change modelling Land-use · ESREL
2021 Planning Support Systems for long-term climate resilience: a critical review Text mining · Urban Informatics & Future Cities, Springer
2021 RE-GROUND: Resilient land-use scenarios for the Amsterdam region Scenarios · Expert consultation, TU Delft Resilience Lab

Application

2019—26 Land-use models for the Amsterdam & Mumbai metropolitan regions Comparative cases · data-rich vs. data-poor governance
2020 Health and disaster risk management in India Public Health & Disasters, Springer
2019 Interdisciplinary design of vital infrastructure to reduce flood risk — Edogawa, Tokyo Geosciences

Practice

2024 G20 Recovery Readiness Assessment Framework G20 Declaration on Disaster Risk Reduction
2018—19 Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure — IWDRI Lead programme coordinator · UNDRR & Government of India
2022 Geospatial tools for urban resilience Geospatial World Forum, Netherlands
— Advisory — NDMA · NIPFP · CUDRR&R Knowledge support on urban development, resilient infrastructure & DRR
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Talks, Media & News

Mar 2026
NewsPhD defended at TU Delft.
2026
Op-edHeat Stress is Not a Temperature — The Print
2025
TalkOpen geospatial trends — Cesium Developer Summit
2025
TalkGeography of Digital Twins — Harvard CGA
2025
EventsESRI UC, San Diego · USGIF GEOINT, St Louis
2024
TalkData-rich vs. Data-poor: land-use models for urban resilience — Harvard Salata Institute
2024
AwardAllianz Climate Risk Award — Riding Out the Storm
2024
FeatureThe Future Ground — TU Delft Stories of Science
2024
TalkWho Plans? — 5th India Public Policy Network Conference, IIT Bombay
2023
TalkRisk to Resilience — Global Coastal Cities Summit, Mumbai
2022
WorkshopResilience for All — UN-Habitat World Urban Forum, Katowice (co-organiser)
2022
Op-edCurbing bridge collapses in India — Scroll
2021
TalkPlanning for a Resilient Mumbai — Netherlands Consulate, Mumbai
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