Madhav G. Badami
Joint appointment with the听Bieler School of Environment
Ph.D., University of British Columbia
M.E.Des., University of Calgary
M.S., Indian Institute of Technology
B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology
Ph.D. dissertation
A multiple-objectives approach to address motorized two-wheeled vehicle emissions in Delhi, India
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Professor Badami has a joint appointment in the School of Urban Planning and the Bieler School of Environment. After having studied mechanical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, he spent nine years in diesel engine development in the Indian truck and bus industry. He then obtained a Master's degree in environmental science at the University of Calgary, and a Ph.D. from the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia.听Apart from his joint appointment, he is a core faculty member in the inter-faculty听BA&Sc programme in Sustainability, Science and Society.
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Research and Teaching Interests
Environmental policy and planning; urban infrastructure and services; urban transport; alternative transport fuels; and environment and development.
My geographic areas of interest are the Indian sub-continent, Asia and North America. I attempt to study issues in their multiple (scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional, and human behavioural) dimensions, in a manner that is policy-relevant and contextually grounded. I am interested in the following issues and approaches: policy and technology choice; science-policy interactions; political economy of decision-making; techno-economic and life-cycle analyses; multi-criteria decision-making; equity impacts of policies; and institutional mechanisms for effective policy-making and implementation.
Selected Fellowships, Memberships, and Recognitions
Engineering Class of 1944 Award for Outstanding Teaching, 平特五不中, 2021
Member, Advisory Council for the World Resources Institute Ross Prize for Cities (), since February 2018
Member, Governance Council, Sustainability Projects Fund, 平特五不中 Office of Sustainability, 平特五不中, 2020-2022
Member-at-Large, Executive Council, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, 2018-19
Faculty Advisor, McCall MacBain Scholarships, 平特五不中, 2021
Visiting Senior Research Fellowship, Global Urban Research Centre, School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester, April-June 2015
at the Bartlett, University of College London, January-March 2015
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Recent Peer-reviewed Publications (since 2017)
Note: Students and Research Associates are identified with an asterisk
Leclerc, S.H.* and M.G. Badami. 2024. 鈥淓xtended producer responsibility: An empirical investigation into municipalities' contributions to and perspectives on e-waste management鈥�. Environmental Policy and Governance. Vol. 34. pp. 111鈥�124. .
Leclerc, S.H.* and M.G. Badami. 2023. 鈥淚nformal E-Waste Flows in Montr茅al: Implications for Extended Producer Responsibility and Circularity鈥�. Environmental Management. Vol. 72. pp. 1032鈥�1049. .
Hickson, S.*, M.G. Badami, K. Manaugh, J. DeWeese*, and A. El-Geneidy. 2023. 鈥淲ho is buying SUVs and Light Trucks in Montreal? A Factor and Cluster Analysis鈥�. Transportation Research Record. Vol. 2677, Issue 8. pp. 541鈥�552. .
Seufert, V.*, S. E. Austin*, M.G. Badami, S. Turner, and N. Ramankutty. 2023. 鈥淭he diversity of organic farmer motivations and livelihoods in the Global South 鈥� A case study in Kerala, India鈥�. Geoforum. Vol. 138, Article 103670. .
Leclerc, S. H.* and M.G. Badami. 2022. 鈥淢aterial circularity in large organizations: Action-research to shift information technology (IT) material flows鈥�. Journal of Cleaner Production. Vol. 348, Article 131333. .
Krelling, C.* and M.G. Badami. 2022. 鈥淐ost-effectiveness analysis of compressed natural gas implementation in the public bus transit fleet in Delhi, India鈥�. Transport Policy. Vol. 115, pp. 49-61. .
Leclerc, S.H.* and M.G. Badami. 2020. 鈥淓xtended producer responsibility for E-waste management: Policy drivers and challenges鈥�. Journal of Cleaner Production. Vol. 251, Article 119657. .
Krelling, C.* and M.G. Badami. 2020. 鈥淐NG and diesel urban buses in India: A life-cycle cost comparison鈥�. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. Vol. 14, No. 8. pp. 591-605. .
Sadoway, D.*, G. Gopakumar, V. Baindur, and M.G. Badami. 2018. 鈥淛NNURM as a Window on Urban Governance -- Its Institutional Footprint, Antecedents and Legacy鈥�. Economic & Political Weekly. Vol. 53, No. 2. pp. 71-81. .
van Lierop, D.*, M.G. Badami, and A.M. El-Geneidy. 2018. 鈥淲hat influences satisfaction and loyalty in public transport? A review of the literature鈥�. Transport Reviews. Vol. 38, Issue 1. pp. 52-72. .
Verbich, D.*, M.G. Badami, and A.M. El-Geneidy. 2017. 鈥�Bang For The Buck: Toward A Rapid Assessment Of Public Transit From Multiple Perspectives In North American Cities鈥�. Transport Policy. Vol. 55. pp. 51-61. .
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Non-refereed Articles (since 2017)
Badami, M.G. 2021. 鈥淐oronavirus as warning shot鈥�. The Ecologist.
Badami, M.G. 2020. "Addressing the Urban Air-Pollution Challenge". Invited op-ed on the theme of "Cleaning City Skies" in the Voices series. One Earth. Volume 2, Issue 2, 21 February 2020, Pages 113-116. .
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Scholarly Public Lectures, Seminars, Presentations, and Workshops (since 2017)
Invited panelist in the session on 鈥淗ow to incorporate sustainable transport principles in Transportation Education鈥�, in the Inaugural Sustainable Transportation Round Table, 平特五不中鈥檚 Sustainable Growth Initiative, 平特五不中 Desautels Faculty of Management, April 5, 2024. /desautels/channels/event/inaugural-sustainable-transportation-round-table-356144.
Invited public seminar titled 鈥淐ompressed Natural Gas Buses in India: Seeing through the Air Pollution Lens, Darkly鈥� delivered in the DPU Dialogues in Development series, Development Planning Unit, University College London, June 1, 2023. .
Invited panel presentation titled 鈥淭he Urban Transport Prospects, Challenges and Strategies in the Global South鈥� in the Global Transportation session in the 平特五不中 Sustainability Research Symposium on Sustainable Transportation, February 11, 2022. .
Invited presentation titled 鈥淪ustainability Challenges, Prospects, Strategies鈥� in the Canada-Africa Innovation Fellowship Program, Engineers Without Borders, July 14, 2021.
Invited Jury Member, 2022 BRIDGE Sustainability case competition, 平特五不中, January 23, 2022.
Invited Jury Member, Environmental Policy Case Competition, organized by the Research and Sustainability Network, 平特五不中, November 11, 2021.
Invited Jury Member, 平特五不中 Policy Association Case competition on housing policy in Mumbai, organized by the 平特五不中 Policy Association and the International Development Studies Students Association (IDSSA), 平特五不中, February 26, 2021. .
Invited participant, Experts鈥� Workshop on low-carbon transport and sustainable development goals, organized by the OPTIMISM India project team at Ahmedabad University, July 7, 2020.
Invited workshop and brainstorming session titled "Urban Transport Challenge in India: The Gap between Needs and Policy", including a panel discussion with Sudhir Badami, Hussain Indorewala, Ratoola Kundu, and Sujit Patwardhan, at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, December 24, 2019.
Invited public seminar titled "Operational and Financial Performance of Delhi鈥檚 CNG Bus Transit Fleet: A Critical Evaluation" delivered at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, December 23, 2019.
Participant in, and panelist, along with G.S.R. Chaitanya on "Missing public in policy" at, the Do Din 2019 event organized by the Hyderabad Urban Lab, Hyderabad, December 21-22, 2019.
Invited public seminar titled "Urban Transport in India: Why are things the way they are, and what can we do about it?" at the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, December 20, 2019.
Invited presentation on "Sustainable Cities and Communities: Challenges, Prospects and Approaches" at the Conference on Engaging India and Canada: Gandhian Approach to Sustainable Development Goals, organized by the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, April 29, 2019.
Invited participant in the inter-disciplinary workshop on "Approaches to Frontiers in Urban Infrastructure Research and Action", held at the Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester, November 12-13, 2018.
Invited panel discussant on "Urban Mobility and Public Transit in the Global South", at the XVI International Conference on the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, held at Concordia University, October 24-27, 2018.
Presentation titled "Discontents of Sustainable Mobility in Indian Cities." with Govind Gopakumar at the Conference on Engaging India and Canada: Challenges of Sustainable Development Goals, organized by the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, India International Centre, New Delhi, June 8-9, 2018.
Invited Discussant, Workshop on 鈥淗uman Rights-based Approach to Development: A Case of Access to Water in Pakistan鈥�, by Mr. Fayyaz Baqir, 平特五不中 Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law, October 25, 2017.
Poster presentation titled 鈥淪hastri Indo-Canadian Institute Funding: Long-term Impacts鈥�, with Christian Krelling, at the Shastri 50 - India 70 - Canada 150: A Celebration of Collaboration between India and Canada event, in the Commonwealth Room, House of Commons, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, October 5, 2017.
Invited panelist, Panel discussion on Society & the Environment: a Multidisciplinary Perspective, organized by WWF 平特五不中 and the AUS 平特五不中 Environmental Council, 平特五不中, January 17, 2017.