This interdisciplinary month-long summer certificate course on environment/development issues allows participants to understand and critically evaluate issues that lie at the interface of environment and development; poverty; democracy, equity and justice.
Course design: Classroom lectures, seminars, several local field excursions, a week-long field visit to rural India, together with innovative, challenging project individual and/or group work. Participants are given an intense briefing on issues that are of concern to India and other developing countries. Field trips and meetings with communities serve to illustrate innovations and eco-restoration efforts that communities make to enable them to face the challenges of managing their natural resources base.
Participants will get time to read, report, watch films and review them, attend seminars, and interact with guest speakers, eminent activists and policy makers. As part of their assignment, participants will put together a journalistic product -- online documentary project using text, video and audio; alternatively they will also report, edit and design a magazine (see details, produced by the 2008 batch).
Faculty: Leading experts across various fields. The core faculty, however is drawn from CSE’s experienced research and programme staff. Visiting faculty and guest lecturers include working development professionals, eminent environmentalists, noted academicians from leading universities, grassroots activists and prominent policy makers, among others.
The course is inspired by a concern that animated the work of eminent environmentalist Anil Agarwal, whose ideas on environment and sustainability remain relevant even today: the need to balance economic growth and ecological concern. He called it ‘the challenge of the balance’.
COURSE MODULES
- State of India’s environment: An overview
- The environmental movement in India
- Poverty and the biomass economy
- Ecological rights & natural resource management
- Land and its use: Agriculture, food security
- Conservation & conflict: wildlife management debate
- Urban growth challenges: Water & waste management, air pollution & mobility
- Sustainable industrialisation & public health concerns
- Climate change & global environmental governance
- A week-long field trip to rural India to explore eco-restoration efforts at the grassroots level.
Medium of Instruction: English
Course Duration: June 1- 30, 2010
ADMISSION CRITERIA
A total of 30 participants will be selected. The course is open to young professionals and college students from any stream. Candidates are required to send their latest CV/resume by April 16, 2010 to AAGC. In addition, they are required to submit a 750-word essay on any one of the following topics:
- What is your vision of a world-class city (infrastructure, water, energy, etc.) Discuss.
- Climate change is really about equity and sharing economic growth between nations and between people. Explain why you agree or disagree with this statement
LAST DAY FOR SUBMISSION OF YOUR ESSAY & CV/Resume: Friday, April 16, 2010
COURSE FEE: Rs 5000/
Includes training fees, local and outstation field excursions, select reading materials, together with lunch and refreshments during training days.
Note: The fees (including the fee for accommodation, if needed) may be paid after your participation in the course is confirmed.
ACCOMMODATION: Rs 7000/
We will arrange accommodation (shared, air-conditioned rooms close to the training venue) for select outstation participants. (Additional details here)
KAMLA CHOWDHRY FELLOWSHIPS
The prestigious Kamla Chowdhry Fellowships will be awarded to select candidates on the basis of their performance in the entrance essay. Preference will be given to outstation (non-Delhi) candidates to cover a part of their stay costs in Delhi and to support their participation in the course. A distinguished academic and an ardent Gandhian, Dr Chowdhry’s multifaceted interests spanned issues relating to forestry, ecology, environment, women’s rights and people’s participation.
ANIL AGARWAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR SOUTH ASIA
These prestigious Fellowships support the participation of two to three development professionals and students from South Asia (Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Pakistan, Myanmar and Bangladesh; other than Indian nationals), in each training programme conducted by AAGC. It is open to students, development professionals (NGOs/CBOs), and government representatives, among others.
The fellowship programme has been instituted in the memory of Anil Agarwal, CSE’s founder-director and a pioneer in India’s environmental movement who spent his lifetime studying the relationship between environment and development and advocating policies that involve people in sustainable natural resource management. A prolific writer and commentator, Agarwal has hundreds of articles and more than 20 books to his credit.
Agarwal’s efforts in environmental research and advocacy have been widely recognized, and he was the recipient of several international and national awards, including the prestigious Padma Bhushan, awarded by the Government of India.
More Fellowship details here
Read about Anil Agarwal here
COURSE CONTACT
Sharmila Sinha
Anil Agarwal Green Centre
Tel: 91-11-29955125, Ext: 270
Fax: 91-11-29955879
M: +919818482018
E-mail: sharmila@cseindia.org;
aagc@cseindia.org;
cseindiasharmila@gmail.com
TRAINING VENUE
Anil Agarwal Green Centre
38, Tughlakabad Institutional Area
New Delhi–110062