READINGS

Overview of the Environment-Development debate

Environment-development challenges in contemporary India

Aditya Batra, Programme Director, Board & Funding, CSE,
Email: aditya@cseindia.org

Readings:
• Stories from Down to Earth

Resource Governance

Field Visit : Mehrauli walk

Jaya Iyer
Independent Consultant on Culture, Heritage and Art,
Email: junglejaya@gmail.com

Readings:
• What is a Baoli
• Raajaon Ki Baoli
People's Media: Advocacy for Governance

Shivam Vij
Founder of online news portal
Email: vij.shivam@gmail.com

Readings:
• Kafila.org
• Scroll.in
• New York Times Digital Innovation Report
Roll out of campaign: People and Road

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
Food Security in India: Crises and Campaign

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
Reporting from the field: Local as Global and Global as Local

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
Governing the Environment: Function of Regulatory Authorities in India

Dr D.D Basu,
Former Director CPCB
Email: basu@cseindia.org

Presentation:
• Governing the Environment: Function of Regulatory Authorities in India

Campaign Strategy Buildup

How we advocated for green norms in industries

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
Films & Discussion
Chilka Banks: Stories from India's Largest Coastal Lake


Akansha Joshi
Independent Filmmaker
Email: akajoshi@gmail.com

Sustainable Growth

The informal economy of waste: Is it the way forward

Chintan Team

Readings:

• CHINTAN INDIA
Urban ecology: governance issues

Mukta Naik
Architect & Urban Planner

Readings:
• Mukta's Blog
• More Cities, Greater Responsibilities
Understanding Rivers

Manoj Mishra

Presentation:

• Understanding River
Why Green Makes Sense: Living With Nature

Gaurav Shorey
Visiting Faculty Member at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
Access To Medicine

Leena Menghaney
Access Campaign India Coordinator at Medecins Sans Frontieres)

Presentation:
• The Patent System

Climate Change

Energy Conundrum: Renewables(Solar , Biogas, Wind)

Navjyoti Goswami
Programme Director, Renewable Energy, CSE

Presentation:
• The Energy Conundrum
Climate change negotiation: From past to present- Rio to Rio - Politics and Facts

Utthara Radhakrishnan
Senior Research Advocate

Presentation:
• Global Energy Politics
Adaptive Capacities of Rural Communities to Climate Change

Sucharita Sen
Associate Prof Centre for Studies for Rural Development, JNU

Presentation:
• Adaptation of Rural Communities

Environment Conflicts

Food security: Who decides what we eat?

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
Zone of Conflicts:Communities , Forest and Resources

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

Forest Rights Act: Issues and Solutions

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

Great Himalayan National Park: Communities , Forest and Politics

Guman Singh
Convener, Him Neeti Abhiyan
Email: gumanhna@gmail.com

Readings:
• Him Niti Abhiyan: Grass Root people defending local livelihood
Environmental Crises in Punjab and finding solution in Organic Farming

Umendra Dutt
Convener, Kheti Virasat Mission
Email: umendradutt@gmail.com

Readings:
• Kheti Virasat Mission
• Umendra Datt on Environmental Issues in Punjab