Welcome to the website of the research project Transformation Decisions for the Adaptation and Sustainability of Cities in the Face of Environmental and Socio-economic Change (TRANSCEND).

TRANSCEND is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research under the FONA programme.

Latest news

27/11/2024
Resulting from our research in the Mumbai case study, and co-developed with our local partners from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, we published a paper presenting the downscaled shared socio-economic pathways (SSPs) for Mumbai in the Nature Partner Journal Climate Action.
30/10/2024
On October 30th 2024, Deepal Doshi, a PhD candidate of the TRANSCEND project, supervised by Prof. Dr. Matthias Garschagen, successfully defended her PhD research titled “Social contracts for adaptation to climate change – Conceptual contributions, methodological innovations, and empirical insights from flood risk management in Mumbai”. Congratulations to Deepal!