Organizer: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)
Venue: Bengaluru
Description:
The last few decades have seen a dramatic increase in the attention given to environmental issues in rural development. Rural development practitioners and analysts are confronted with rapidly changing debates that are often filled with jargon, talking at cross-purposes, resting on divergent assumptions and utilizing inadequate scientific knowledge. Buzzwords keep emerging and disappearing before they can be internalized. Markets, state and civil society keep getting invoked by everybody in all contexts but with vastly differing underlying concerns and assumptions.
This interdisciplinary course is aimed at going ‘back to basics’, i.e., revisiting and internalizing the fundamental concepts, theories and debates in natural resource management (NRM) based rural development, and thereby building capacity to examine and analyze topical and emerging issues in this area.
Topics:
- Basic development theory
- The emergence of environmental concerns and their various forms
- Alternative approaches to the environment-development linkage
- Related topics in forest ecology and water resources management
Course Cost: participants are expected to cover their travel costs and pay Rupees 2,000/- as a nominal course fee. Accommodation and local hospitality for outstation participants will be provided by ATREE.
Last date for submission: Applications should be submitted in the prescribed format to the course coordinator by January 31st, 2011.
Applicants will be informed of the decision by 15th February 2011. Selected candidates must send the course fees as soon as they are informed of their selection.
Contact Details:
The Academy for Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)
Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur Post
Bangalore, 560064
Phone: +91-(80)-23635555
Email: madhavi@atree.org
Website: http://atree.org