Dr Radhika Khosla
About
Dr Radhika Khosla's work examines the productive tensions between urban transitions, energy services consumption and climate change, with a focus on developing country cities.
Her research looks at two sets of interrelated questions. How does consumption of energy-related services change as cities urbanize? What are the socio-technical drivers, systems and institutional structures that shape energy and carbon emission pathways? And what forms of governance and political rationalities characterize the varied urban responses to climate change in rapidly developing cities, given their (often competing) objectives to provide urban services?
She also leads the Future of Cooling Programme at the Oxford Martin School, and is a member of the UK Government’s UK-India Advisory Committee. She is a contributing author to the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and lead author of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report (2020).
Expertise
- Energy
- Energy consumption/demand
- Climate change
- Development
- Cities
- Urban transitions
- Cooling
Selected publications
- Health risks of extreme heat (2021)
- The what, why, and how of changing cooling energy consumption in India's urban households. (2021)
- Cooling for sustainable development (2020)
- Socially constructed or physiologically informed? Placing humans at the core of understanding cooling needs (2021)
- Advances Toward a Net-Zero Global Building Sector (2020)
- Successful clean energy technology transitions in emerging economies: learning from India, China, and Brazil (2020)
- Towards demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change. (2018)
- Beyond technology: demand-side solutions for climate change mitigation (2016)