About Paroma Wagle
Dr. Paroma Wagle's research has been in the areas of urban planning and policy, urban geography, environmental sustainability, urban climate justice, interacting human-environment systems, and inequalities in access to urban services especially in water access.
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Planning and Resource Management, Community Development, International Development PlanningSelected Publications
- Wagle P., 2024. Water Access Disparity in Mumbai, India: Using Spatial and Structural Attributes as Formal Conditionalities, Journal of Urban Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1080/073521... (first published online in 2022)
- Wagle P., 2023. Contextuality of the strategy of the human right to water: Struggle for water access to slum-dwellers in Mumbai, India, Journal of Human Rights, DOI: 10.1080/14754835.2023.2259420
- Wagle P. and Phillip K., 2022. Climate Justice is Social Justice: Articulating Peoples' Rights to the City in Mumbai, Environment and Urbanization, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F09562478221113632
- Wagle P., 2022. Securing Human Right to Water of Slum-dwellers in Mumbai, India: Achievements, Limitations, and Institutional Appropriation. Geoforum, 132, 1–9, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geof...
Recent Courses Taught
- UAP 5244: Multicultural Cities: Race, Place, and Poverty (Fall 2024, Fall 2023)
- SPIA 4454: Future of Cities (Fall 2024)
- UAP 5564: Information Technology, Society, and Public Policy (Spring 2024)
- SPIA 2554: Collaborative Policy-making and Planning (Fall 2023)
Office Phone
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Blacksburg, Virginia
Last Updated: July 31, 2026
