Priyam Das PhD

PhD, Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles | M.L.A., Landscape Architecture, The Pennsylvania State University | B.Arch., Architecture, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India

Dr. Das studies water governance in the global South, particularly the barriers to extending water and wastewater infrastructure and services to settlements outside so-called formal planning systems. Broadly framed by two key questions – to what extent are such barriers related to issues of governance and how do strategies deployed by different actors to improve access to such services inform planning and policy – her research sharpens focus on problems of inequality, poverty, and disenfranchisement.