Indira Venkatraman: Breaking the Wall of Coastal Climate Risks

Indira Venkatraman, University of Canterbury

This study seeks to create wellbeing portfolios for rural coastal lowland adaptation options. For this purpose, social, economic, environmental, and cultural wellbeing in coastal systems are looked at from a community perspective. These wellbeing portfolios are also studied under the lenses of accounting and accountability.

Indie is a doctoral student at the University of Canterbury, reading in Accounting and Information Systems. Her doctoral work is funded by NIWA, under a MBIE grant: "Future Coasts Aotearoa. Her current research interests are in climate adaptation options, ocean accounting, green bonds, carbon budgets and pragmatic constructivist view of management accounting.