Shreedhar Kumbhar Bakul Rao, and Sushma Kulkarni, “Water Quality Assessment and Nutrient Management by SWAT from Sanitation and Agricultural Sources in Warana River Basin, MH, India”, Tuijin Jishu/Journal of Propulsion Technology, ISSN: 1001-4055 (Accepted, 2024).
Diwakar Y, and Rao B, "Evolution of the National Evaluation System in India" (2023), Asia Pacific Journal of Evaluation, Volume 1, Issue 1
Kumar A, Rao B., and De A.K., "Islands of Milk Insecurity in World’s Leading Milk Producer: A Case of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India" (2023), Sustainability, Volume 15, PP 206- https://doi.org/10.3390/su15010206
Bagade N, Rao B., Kedare S. B., Yambal M, and Vekhande S, "Parameters Influencing the Farm Net Income in an Agrarian Distressed Area of India". (2022), Journal of Sociological Research, Volume 13, Issue21, PP 21-43
Chandana N, and Rao B, "Status of Sustainable Sanitation Chain in Rural, Semi-urban, and Urban regions: A case study of Maharashtra, India" (2021), Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, Volume 11, Issue-1, PP 112-125
Chandana N, and Rao B, "Evaluating the physicochemical, nutrient, and pathogenic characteristics of fecal sludge for fertilizer application: A case from Vadgaon Maval, Maharashtra, India" (2021), Journal of Environmental Engineering, Volume 147, Issue 3
Bagade N, Rao B., Kedare S. B., and Vekhande S, "Developing a financial rank to assess the financial performance of farm households". (2021), International Journal of Multidisciplinary and Current Educational Research, Volume 3, Issue 5, PP 105-117
Singh R, Sontakke M., Vivek J. M., Rao B. and Asolekar S. R," Environmental Sound Management of Asbestos-Containing Wastes Generated from Industries in India" (2019), Waste Management and Resource Efficiency, PP 597-611
Chandana N and Rao B., “Evaluating the physicochemical, nutrient, and pathogenic characteristics of fecal sludge for fertilizer application: A case from Vadgaon Maval, Maharashtra, India”., Journal of Environmental Engineering, 2021, 147(3)
Chandana N and Rao B., “Status of Sustainable Sanitation Chain in Rural, Semi-urban, and Urban regions: A case study of Maharashtra, India”. Journal of Water, Sanitati on and Hygiene for Development (2021) 11 (1): 112–125.
Kumar, Ashish, Bakul Rao, and Rahi Jain. "Development of analytical hierarchy process based dairy index for assessment of the dairy sector in different states of India." Current Science 118.7 (2020): 1019-1021.
Singh, R., Cherrie, J. W., Rao, B., & Asolekar, S. R. (2020). “Assessment of the future mesothelioma disease burden from past exposure to asbestos in ship recycling yards in India”. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 225, 11 3478.
Richa Singh, John W. Cherrie, Bakul Rao, and Shyam R. Asolekar "Assessment of the future mesothelioma disease burden from past exposure to asbestos in ship recycling yards in India," International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Volume 225, April 2020, 113478
Singh, R., Rao, B., Maillacheruvu, K., and Asolekar, S. R. (2019). “Reusing Fractions of Legacy Municipal Solid Wastes in India: A Circular Economy Approach”. Productivity, 60(3), 227-238.
Jain R, and Rao B. “Role of laboratory services in primary health center (PHC) outpatient department performance: an Indian case study”. Prim Health Care Res Dev. 2019 Jul 16;20: e112. doi: 10.1017/S1463423619000537. PMID: 32800012; PMCID: PMC6635801
Richa Singh, Bakul Rao, Krishnanad Maillacheruvu and Shyam R. Asolekar, "Reusing Fractions of Legacy Municipal Solid Wastes in India: A Circular Economy Approach," Journal Productivity, Vol. 60, No. 3, October – December, 2019 DOI: - https://doi.org/10.32381/PROD.2019.60.03.1
Jain R., and Rao B. "Health care facility vulnerability in developing nations: strengthening health care policy-making and implementation” Journal of Public Health (Berl.), 26(6), 2018, pp653-662
Kumar, A. Rao, B., and De, A.K. "Milk proteins, health issues and its implications on National Livestock Breeding Policy of India" accepted Current Science, 2018
Jain R., Ajmera H. and Rao B. "Reducing resource disparity in healthcare resource allocation of laboratories in countries with limited resources by empowering policy making and implementation" accepted Current Science, 2018
Jain R., Rao B., and Mishra S., “Comparative analysis of antibiotic residue removal efficiency of different type of adsorbents”, Indian Journal of Marine Sciences, 47(06), 2018, pp 1148-1153.
Jain R., Rao B. and Tare A. "Comparative Analysis of the Spectrophotometric based Total Phenolic Acid Estimation Methods," Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Vol.72 9:, 2017, pp.972-976
Sharma N. and Rao B. "Life cycle atmospheric emissions and energy use of the collection phase of a typical Indian sewerage system," Energy, Ecology and Environment, 2017
Singh R., Vivek J.M., Rao B., and Asolekar S.R. (2019), “Significance of the Presence of Asbestos in Construction and Demolition Wastes in India”. In: Kalamdhad A., Singh J., Dhamodharan K. (eds), Advances in Waste Management. Springer, Singapore
Thampi, A., and Rao, B. "Application of Multi-criteria decision making tools for technology choice in treatment and disposal of Municipal Solid Waste for Local Self Government Bodies: A case study of Kerala, India” The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management, Vol.41 1:, 2015, pp.84-95
Jain, R., and Rao, B. "Medical diagnostic laboratories provisioning of services in India”, CHRISMED Journal of Health and Research (2015), Vol.2, pp.19-31
Jain, R., and Rao, B. "Critical analysis of India's National Mission on Medicinal Plants (NMMP) in providing access to quality botanical drugs to improve public health, Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine (2015), Vol.6, pp.198-207
Kumbhar, S., Kulkarni, N., Rao, A.B., and Rao, B. "Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Traditional Bricks in Western Maharashtra, India," Energy Proceedia, Vol.54 :, 2014, pp.260-269
Rao, B., Mane, A., Rao A.B., Sardeshpande V. "Multi-criteria Analysis of Alternative Biogas Technologies," Energy Proceedia, Vol.54, 2014, pp.292-301
Jain, R., and Rao, B. “Application of AHP tool for decision making of choice of technology for extraction of anti-cancer bioactive compounds of plant origin”. International Journal of Analytic Hierarchy Process, Vol.5, 1, 2013, pp.3-29.
Rahi Jain and Bakul Rao, “Application of AHP tool for decision making of choice of technology for extraction of anti-cancer bioactive compounds of plant origin”. International Journal of Analytic Hierarchy Process, (2013), Vol.5, pp.3-29.
Rao, B.H. “Issues in Water Resource Management for Urban Centres”. Business Review, 2008.
Rao, B.H. and Asolekar, S.R., “QSAR Models to Predict Effect of Ionic Strength on Sorption of Chlorinated Benzenes and Phenols at Sediment-Water Interface”. Water Research 35, 14, 3391-3401, 2001.
Rao, B.H., Swaminathan, R., and Asolekar, S.R., “Washing of Marine Coastal Sand in a Batch Reactor: Sorption and Desorption of BTEX”. Air & Waste Manage Assoc. 51, 1043-1059, 2001.
Rao, B.H., “Conditions Imposed by the MoEF While Granting Environmental Clearance”. Environmental Impact Assessment Quarterly 2000.
Conference Papers
Diwakar, Y, and Rao, B*., "Assessing Government MIS quality: Case Study of India" (9 to 12 November 2022), Evaluation 2022
Vamsee Krishna Bodasingi, Bakul Rao*, and Harish K. Pillai, "Low-cost soil moisture and EC sensor design for soil salinity assessment" (2023), 19th IEEE International Colloquium on Signal Processing and Its Applications, Malaysia
N Chandana, Bakul Rao*, Meghraj Garad, Megha Nikam, Kanchan Malkhede and Hemlata Suryawanshi, "Exploring the facts associated with waste management in semi-urban areas of India by household social survey" (2020), The 35th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management at Annapolis (Washington, D.C. area) U.S.A.
Amruta Garud, Bakul Rao*, "Deriving Municipal Solid Waste Miles for an Indian metropolitan city: A case of Pune city" (2020), The 35th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management at Annapolis (Washington, D.C. area) U.S.A.
Amruta Garud, Bakul Rao*, "Understanding the implications of the loss of peri-urban arable land on an urban system– A case of Pune Metropolitan Region" (2020), Poster presentation at 1st International Conference on Urban Science and Engineering
Meghraj Garad, Megha Nikam, Bakul Rao*, Hemlata Suryanshi, Kanchan Malkhede, "Need for integrated planning of Environmental services for small town- a case study" (2020), 1st International Conference on Urban Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay Mumbai
Swapnil Labde, Shraddha Vekhande, Nilesh Vadgave, Bakul Rao*, "Assessment of Soil Health Card Scheme with a Participatory Approach – A case study of Palaskhel Village, Maharashtra, India" (2019), Conference proceedings - Book of Abstracts
Kumar, A., Rao, B., "Milk safety issues in developing economies" (23 to 26 August 2022), 19th Asian Australasian Animal Production Congress 2022
Singh R., Rao B., and Asolekar S. R, "Morphological Characterization and Structural Alteration of Acid Treated Asbestos-containing Wastes for Gainful Applications". (Nov 27-30, 2019), In 9th International Conference on Sustainable Wastes Management Towards Circular Economy (IconSWM – CE 2019) at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Singh R., Rao B., and Asolekar S. R, "Gainful Utilization of Legacy Waste Fractions Recovered from Mining of old Dumpsites in India – A Circular Economy Approach". (Nov 27-30, 2019), 9th International Conference on Sustainable Wastes Management Towards Circular Economy (IconSWM – CE 2019) at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Patil B, Rathore A, Garud A, and Rao B, "Social and Policy Study for Municipal Solid Waste Management Planning for Small Towns in Maharashtra: Case of Mowad" (2020), Recent Developments in Waste Management. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Kumar, A. and Rao, and B. Zebu cattle, "Milk proteins and the Livestock Breeding Policy of India: Is there a cross talk?" 18th Asian-Australasian Animal Production Congress, 2018, Malaysia
Garud A. and Rao B. "Urbanizing India and the need for Natural Resources Planning," American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) India conference, 2017, New Delhi
Sharma N. and Rao B. "Understanding the economic implications of the collection phase of a conventional Indian sewerage system: a life-cycle analysis,"American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) India conference, 2017, New Delhi
Kumar, A. and Rao, B. “Status Quo of India's fight against milk safety issues," 3rd International Conference on Global Food Security, Cape Town 2017 Poster
Singh R., Vivek J. M., Rao B. and Asolekar S. R. (2016). “Environmental Sound Management of Asbestos Wastes Generated from Industries in India”. In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Solid Waste Management, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal during 22 and 26 Nov, 2016
Singh, R., Rao, B. and Asolekar S, R., (2017). “Treatment and Disposal of Glass-wool and Asbestos Bearing Waste-Insulation Materials from Ship Dismantling Yards in India”, In 15th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (CEST 2017) held during Aug 31 and Sept 2, 2017 in Island of Rhodes, Greece.
Jain, R. and Rao, B. "Role of laboratory in Primary health care: A case study of Osmanabad district, Maharashtra, India," 6th Asia Pacific Conference on Public Health, 2016, Bangkok, Thailand
Kumar, A. and Rao, B. "A risk analysis framework for the long-term management of aflatoxins in milk," Proceedings of International Conference on Public Health, 2016, New Delhi
Kumar, A. and Rao, B. "Integrating crops and livestock in Indian agriculture systems: What is the way forward?” Proceedings of 3rd Biennial National Conference of Indian Academy of Veterinary Nutrition and Animal Health, 2015, Palampur
Jain, R., and Rao, B. “Application of AHP Tool for Choosing a Medical Research Area”, 6th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering,2015, Dubronvik, http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11128-5\_251
Yaparla, D., Rao, A.B., and Rao, B. "Comparison of household level drinking water treatment technologies using Analytical Hierarchy process, "International Symposium on Analytic Hierarchy Process, 2014, Washington DC,
Maloo, N., Seetharaman, S., Rao, B., Kumar, D., Nishane, I. J. "Standardization of the baseline study to plan for roads and transportation in villages: Case of Chikurde and Bhulane in Maharashtra,"11th Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries, 2014, Mumbai
Kirubaharan Jeremiah, and Bakul Rao, “Use of Open Source Tools for Water Resources Planning and its use in Vulnerability Assessment”, International Conference on Agriculture and Climate Change, New Delhi, organized by TERI, January 29-30, 2013.
Rao, B. Rao, A.B. Mane,A. Sardeshpande, V. "Multi-criteria analysis of alternative biogas technologies for India's sustainable development," International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER) 2013, 2013, Mumbai,
Kumbhar, S. Kulkarni, N. Rao, B. Rao, A.B. "Social and Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Brick making in Western Maharashtra, India," International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER) 2013, 2013, Mumbai
Nishant Maloo and Bakul Rao, "Towards environmental assessments for change in land use of Industrial to Residential and Commercial Land Use Conversions in Core City," 15th International Conference on Humane Habitat (Theme: Reinventing Our Metropolises as Sustainable Humane Habitats), Mumbai organized by The International Association for Humane Habitat (IAHH) February 2-4, 2013.
Anitha Thampi and Bakul Rao, "Development of a DecisionMaking tool for Choice of Technology in Municipal Solid Waste Management for Local Self Government Bodies - A Case Study of Kerala, India." 27th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management, Philadelphia, PA, USA March 11 - 14, 2012.
Yaparla Deepthi, Bakul Rao, Anand B. Rao "A Comparative Study on Household Level Technologies for Treating Drinking Water" at the National Conference on Water Purification Technologies & Management (InDACON-2012), Mumbai, India organized by SIES & Indian Desalination Association February 8 - 9, 2012.
Mahindrakar, A.B., Rao, B.H., and Asolekar, S.R., “Comparison of In-situ and Ex-situ Techniques for decontamination of Earth Matrices”. Technical Poster. Proceedings of EnvironVision-2002, 5th Annual Conference of Indian Environmental Association entitled ‚ “Advance in Environmental Management and Technology”, Mumbai, May 31st - June 1st, 2002.
Mahindrakar, A.B., Rao, B.H., and Asolekar, S.R., How clean is “clean”?: Technologies for Physico-chemical remediation of soils, aquifers, and sediments. Oral Presentation. Proceedings of Conference, Pune, May 3rd, 2002.
Rao, B.H., Sudhasri, K., and Asolekar, S.R., “Clean-up of Soils Contaminated with Hazardous Wastes”, Technical Poster. Proceedings of EnvironVision-2000 3rd Annual Conference of Indian Environmental Association entitled ‚ÄúIndustrial Wastewater Recycle and Reuse‚Äù, Mumbai, May 5th -6th, 2000.
Rao, B.H. and Asolekar, S.R., “Characterisation of Hazardous Waste” Proceedings of the Workshop on ‚ “Hazardous Waste Management” organised by the Mahad Manufacturers Association in association with the National Solid Waste Association of India, Mahad, August 21st, 1999.
Rao, B.H. and Asolekar, S.R., “Physico-Chemical Fate Processes of Hydrophobic Organic Pollutants in Natural and Engineered Aquatic Environment”, Technical Poster. Proceedings of EnvironVision-1999, 2nd Annual Conference of Indian Environmental Association entitled ‚ “Wastewater Management in Next Decade”, Mumbai, May 14-15th, 1999.
Rao, B.H. and Asolekar, S.R., “Characterisation of Hazardous Waste” Proceedings of the Workshop on‚ “Hazardous Waste Management” organised by the National Solid Waste Association of India, Mumbai, November 7th, 1998.
Rao, B.H. and Asolekar, S.R., “Structure Activity Relationship for Prediction of Sorption of Chlorobenzenes and Phenols at the Soil-Water Interface”. Oral presentation. Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation Technical Conference and Exhibition WEFTEC Asia, Singapore, March 7th -11th, 1998.
Rao, B.H. and Asolekar, S.R., “Sorption of Benzene and Toluene on the Patalaganga River Sediments”. Oral Presentation. Proceedings of the National Workshop on Environmental Pollution and Control, Belgaum, April 12th -13th, 1997.
Rao, B.H. and Asolekar, S.R., “Ex-Situ Washing of Patalaganga River Sediments Contaminated with Hydrophobic Non-Ionic Organic Pollutants”. Oral presentation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Pollution and Control Technologies, Hyderabad, November 17th -19th, 1997.
Rao, B.H., Swaminathan, R., and Asolekar, S.R., “Interaction of Petroleum Fractions with Silicates in Coastal Environment - Physio-Chemical Fate Process Model Development and Treatment Technology”. Technical Poster. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Chemical Engineering, Madras, December 11th -13th, 1996.
Rao, B.H. and Asolekar, S.R., “Interactions of Natural Waters with Soils Contaminated with Hazardous Wastes. Technical Poster. Proceedings of the National Symposium on Management of Radioactive and Toxic Wastes” [Smart 95], Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, March 20th -21th, 1995.
Rao, B.H. and Asolekar, S.R., “Remediation of Soils Contaminated with Hydrophobic Non-Ionic Organic Pollutants in a Soil Washing Reactor”. Oral Presentation. Proceedings of the XIth National Convention of Environmental Engineers and Seminar on Environmental Control Technology - Advances, Law, and Awareness to Curb Pseudoism, Roorkee, November 10th -11th 1995.
Conference Papers - Not Published in Proceedings
Meghraj Garad, Pooja Gaikwad, and Bakul Rao*, "Appropriate Water Quality Testing Sensors/Kits Addressing the Rural Water Quality Testing Needs" (5-7 Dec 2023), 3rd International Conference on Water Technologies, Organized by Water Innovation centre: Technology, Research & Education, IIT Bombay.
Chandana N, and Rao B, “History of Indian sanitation and paradigm shift required for rural sanitation” (2020), 2nd international conference on “Rural Technology Development and Delivery", Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Shraddha Vekhande, and Bakul Rao, "Developing a systemic approach for perusal of agriculture practices" (1-3 Mar 2023), International Conference titled ‘SWARAJ: Native Models of Self-governance" Organised by Karnataka State Rural Development along with the Panchayat Raj University, Gadag, Karnataka, India
Digvijay Patil, Meghraj Garad, and Bakul Rao*, “Feasibility Analysis of Faecal Sludge as Fertilizer on Co-Compositing with Agro Waste” (1-3 Mar 2023), International Conference titled ‘SWARAJ: Native Models of Self-governance" Organised by Karnataka State Rural Development along with the Panchayat Raj University, Gadag, Karnataka, India
Vamsee Krishna Bodasingi, and Bakul Rao*, "Low-cost soil moisture and EC sensor design for soil salinity assessment" (3-4 Mar 2023), 19th IEEE International Colloquium on Signal Processing and Its Applications, Malaysia
Vamsee Krishna Bodasingi, and Bakul Rao*, "Evaluation of a low-cost soil moisture and EC sensor in different soil types" (25 - 27 Sept 2023), IEEE Conference on Agrifood Electronics
"Shraddha Vekhade, and Bakul Rao*, ""Developing a systemic approach for perusal of agricultural practices"" (2-3 Nov 2023), The Agriculture-Livestock-Forestry Nexus in Asia: Contributions and Potential for Improving Farmers’ Livelihoods, Soil Health, and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation"
Meghraj Garad, and Bakul Rao*, "Ground Complexities in Providing Safe Drinking Water - A Case Study" (2023), 55th IWWA Annual Convention Pune-2023 ‘Sustainable Management of Water & Sanitation: Availability for All’
Bagade N, Rao B*., Kedare S. B., Vekhande S, and Honkalaskar, V, "Farm Household Accounting System for Financial analysis in Distressed Area of Rural India" (2020), RuTag IIT Madras 2020.
Dulla S, and Rao B*, "Evaluation of Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission" (2020), 2nd international conference on “Rural Technology Development and Delivery
Garud A, and Rao B*. “Integrating Sustainable Food System Planning to Regional Land Use Planning: A Case of Pune Metropolitan Region, India.” (June 22, 2019). Abstract Proceedings of 2019 International Conference on Resource Sustainability - Cities (icRS Cities). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3408267
Rao, B.H.*, “Remediation of Ground Water” Oral Presentation. “National Seminar on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering”, Dayanand College of Engineering, Bangalore, September 15th, 2006.
Rao, B.H.*, “Project Design Documents for fuel switch in the public transport sector and bio-fuel production for power generation for rural electrification in two villages of Karnataka” - Oral Presentation Delhi GHG Forum January 31st - February 1st, 2006.
Rao, B.H.*, “Clean Development Mechanism in India” Institute Seminar Indian Institute of Technology, Mechanical Dept, February, 23rd 2006
Rao, B.H.*, “Clean Development Mechanism: Addressed by EMPRI with GEF Support Clean Development Mechanism: An Update Opportunities and Challenges in CDM Project Development in South India Workshop organised by TERI under the Integrated Capacity Strengthening for CDM Programme, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan. July 26th -27th, 2005
Rao, B.H.*, “Waste water treatment for pharmaceutical industries” Oral Presentation Al-Ameen College of Pharmacy, Bangalore, 2004.
Rao, B.H.*, “Remediation of Ground Water” AICTE sponsored Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Bangalore, 2004
Rao, B.H.*, “Problems in Current Management of WEEE: A Chemical Perspective UNIDO-ICAMT”, Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Bangalore, 2003.
Rao, B.H., “Challenges and Opportunities of Eco-city Development UNIDO-ICAMT”, Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Bangalore, 2003.
Rao, B.H., “Studies on Treatment of Coffee Pulping Waste an Integrated Approach” Oral Presentation. Workshop of Coffee Board entitled ‚ “Water pollution caused by Coffee effluent and its abatement”, Bangalore, July 5th, 2001.
Books/Reports/Book Chapters
State of Environment
Report, Bangalore – 2008 Published by EMPRI,
Government of Karnataka and GTZ
Eco-Reckoner - A compendium
of ecological terms – 2008,
Published by the Indo-Norwegian Environment Programme
State of Environment
and Action Plan, Karnataka – 2003 – Published by the
Government of Karnataka
and World Bank
Patents
International
National (Filed)
Device and a method for measuring moisture and bulk electrical conductivity of soil
A sampler to retrieve undisturbed Faecal sludge in on-site sanitationtechnologies for better Faecal Sludge Management
