Overview of the Environment-Development debate
Aditya Batra, Programme Director, Board & Funding, CSE,
Email: aditya@cseindia.org
Readings:
• Stories from Down to Earth
Resource Governance
Jaya Iyer
Independent Consultant on Culture, Heritage and Art,
Email: junglejaya@gmail.com
Readings:
• What is a Baoli
• Raajaon Ki Baoli
Shivam Vij
Founder of online news portal
Email: vij.shivam@gmail.com
Readings:
• Kafila.org
• Scroll.in
• New York Times Digital Innovation Report
Ruchita Bansal
How friendly are they, Participants will be interviewing stakeholders on the road (roadside vendors, rickshaw pullers, auto walas, commuters etc).
This will be a) Perception study b) Feasibility study
Readings:
• Presentation: Designing mobility for safe accessibility and integration
• Street Design Guidelines for Equitable Road Space
• Come out Claim the Road
• Audit Checklist
Biraj Swain
Independent Researcher and Commentator , Adjunct Faculty-SLU Uppsala and Pondicherry Central University
Email: biraj_swain@hotmail.com
Readings:
• Presentation: Food Justice and Agrarian Agenda: Challenging Hunger and Exclusion
• Presentation: An Uncommon Suffering: Hunger and Malnutrition in India
• Who do ICDS and PDS Exclude
• Of False Premises, Faulty Reportage and Declining Hunger
• Every Hungry Belly Counts
Richard Mahapatra
Managing Editor , Down to Earth
Email: richard@cseindia.org
Readings:
• Presentation: 21st Century VS Reporting Globalisation
• Richard Mahapatra' articles from Down To Earth magazine
• Blogs
• Reclaiming retail democracy
• Phulmai's walk - a day in the life of a headloader
• Guar Mine
Suresh Rohilla
Programme Director, Water Management
Email: srohilla@cseindia.org
Readings:
• Curse of Excess
• Beris to Rescue
• Why 700 li daily may be a far cry for Delhi
• Ganga returns to its sluggish, dirty state
• Presentation: Our Water Resources: What Have We Done to Them-What can we have Hope of the future
• Decentralised Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
Dr D.D Basu,
Former Director CPCB
Email: basu@cseindia.org
Presentation:
• Governing the Environment: Function of Regulatory Authorities in India
Campaign Strategy Buildup
Priyavrat Bhatti
Programme Director, Green Rating Project
Email: priyavrat@cseindia.org
Readings:
• GRP Presentation
• How to Green the Corporate Sector
• Future of clean coal: murky
Chilka Banks: Stories from India's Largest Coastal Lake
Akansha Joshi
Independent Filmmaker
Email: akajoshi@gmail.com
Sustainable Growth
Harsh Mander (Activist, Writer)
Readings:
• Battle for the idea of India
• Inequality and Indifference in India
• Amartya Sen interview: India must fulfil Tagore's vision, not Gandhi's
• The idea of India revisited
Mukta Naik
Architect & Urban Planner
Readings:
• Mukta's Blog
• More Cities, Greater Responsibilities
Gaurav Shorey
Visiting Faculty Member at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
Leena Menghaney
Access Campaign India Coordinator at Medecins Sans Frontieres)
Presentation:
• The Patent System
Climate Change
Navjyoti Goswami
Programme Director, Renewable Energy, CSE
Presentation:
• The Energy Conundrum
Utthara Radhakrishnan
Senior Research Advocate
Presentation:
• Global Energy Politics
Sucharita Sen
Associate Prof Centre for Studies for Rural Development, JNU
Presentation:
• Adaptation of Rural Communities
Environment Conflicts
Latha Jishnu
Senior Editor , Down to Earth
Email: latha@cseindia.org
Readings:
• Blogs
• Why experts want GM freeze
• Gene patent verdict is as good as it gets
• Maize Mania
• Who is watching GM crops?
• Unravelling the food mess
Ghazal Sahabuddin
Associate Professor, School of Human Ecology, Ambedkar University
Email: ghazalafarzin@yahoo.com
Readings:
• Mendha Lekha residents gift all their farmlands to gram sabha
• Mendha Lekha Updates
Field Trip
Madhu Sarin
Forest and Livelihood Expert
Email: madhu.sarin1@gmail.com
Readings:
• Chulhas vs LPG: Which is the cleaner fuel?
Kothi Village: Changing face of a Himachal and related controversies
Arti Gupta
English Scholar turned Wilderness
Email: info@mountaincruize.com
Readings:
• Himalyan Ski Village
• Impact of the proposed ski village
BBNIA: Industrial Pollution and Sand mining issues
Bal Krishna Sharma
Secretary, Him Parivesh
Phone: 9459028044
Readings:
•Industrial area communities gear up to fight pollution, 'pollutants'
• LANDMARK JUDGEMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT JUSTICE IN THE COUNTRY: HIM PARIVESH
• JAL Thermal Plant: THE DUST REFUSES TO SETTLE
• Govt may amend TCP Act
Guman Singh
Convener, Him Neeti Abhiyan
Email: gumanhna@gmail.com
Readings:
• Him Niti Abhiyan: Grass Root people defending local livelihood
Umendra Dutt
Convener, Kheti Virasat Mission
Email: umendradutt@gmail.com
Readings:
• Kheti Virasat Mission
• Umendra Datt on Environmental Issues in Punjab
