The issue features 17 valuable contributions from practitioners, researchers, and institutions working across Maharashtra’s heat resilience landscape. These include:

• An introduction on “Extreme Heat and Everyday Resilience”, framing 2025 as a turning point for Maharashtra’s heat governance.
• Articles on NDMA–MSDMA collaboration, the Maharashtra State Cooling Action Roadmap, and the state’s modernised SEOC, landslide plan, and mitigation works.
• Evidence and case studies on cool roofs in slums, biomimicry and Wada architecture, ocean-informed coastal cooling, smart ventilation, and cotton farmers’ resilience to extreme heat.
• A focus on partners in cooling – TISS, YASHADA, MSDMA and civil society – showing how institutions, research, and communities are working together to make Maharashtra “heat-ready, heat-resilient, and heat-smart.”
• A “Way Ahead” roadmap outlining five priority actions for a just and inclusive “cooling transition” in Maharashtra. (from the document.)