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- Decentralised Wastewater Treatment & Reuse Policy Workshop
Date: 3rd - 4th March, 2011
CSE is organising a two day programme focusing on how urban areas can establish decentralised wastewater treatment system (DWWT) particularly in unsewered areas that would facilitate recycling and reuse of water.
Contact Details:
Mirajuddin Ahmad
Deputy Coordinator,
Urban Water Programme
Centre for Science and Environment
#41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area,
New Delhi 110062
Phone: 011-29955124/29955125 (Ext. 280)
Fax: 011-29955879
Email: ahmad@cseindia.org
- Urban Rainwater Harvesting
A course for civil engineers, architects, urban planners, environment consultants and NGOs, students and academicians
Date: 22nd - 25th March, 2011
Last Date for Applying: 10th March, 2011
Course Module:- Overview – Water – yesterday, today and tomorrow
- Science of rainwater harvesting
- Technology of rainwater harvesting
- Harvesting the city’s water endowment
- Policy framework for rainwater harvesting
- Making water everybody’s business: A primer for action
Contact Details:
Debasis Tudu
Research Associate, Water Programme
Centre for Science and Environment
#41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area,
New Delhi 110062
Phone : 91 (011) 29955124 (Ext. 280)
Mobile : +91 9013338906
Email: debasis@cseindia.org
- Urban transportation reforms for clean and liveable cities: An orientation programme for policy makers
Date: 22nd - 24th March, 2011
Course Module:- Challenges of urbanization – especially air pollution, congestion, public health impacts, energy and climate impacts of motorization etc.
- Why vehicles are a special challenge?
- Challenges of mobility management
- Strategies to scale up public transport and design multi-modal integration
- Bus sector reforms
- Implementation of bus rapid transit system
- Making cities walkable
- Non-motorised transport
- Parking policy as a congestion reduction strategy
- Funding mechanism for public transport and rationalisation oftransport related taxes to promote public transport usage
- Issues for city mobility plan and the reform agenda under the JNNURM programme for effective time bound action
Contact Details:
Priyanka Chandola
Centre for Science and Environment
#41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area,
New Delhi 110062
Tel: 011 - 29955124
9810414938 (Mobile)
Fax: 011 - 29955879
Email: priyanka@cseindia.org
- Agenda for Survival
A month-long summer certificate course on environment and development issues
Date: 1st - 30th June, 2011
Last date for applying: 15th April, 2011
Course Module:- 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
Contact Details:
Sharmila Sinha
Assistant Coordinator
Anil Agarwal Green College
38, Tughlakabad Institutional Area
New Delhi–110062
Phone : 91 (011) 29955124 (Ext. 280)
Mobile: +91 9818482018
Email: sharmila@cseindia.org
- International Conference on Compliance and Liability in Climate Change Negotiations
Date: 1st March, 2011
Venue: Magnolia Hall, India Habitat Centre, Delhi
Centre for Science and Environment brings experts from across the globe to discuss these challenges and illuminate upon solutions that we must work towards. The panel comprises renowned environmental lawyers, professors and climate negotiators who will be facing NGOs, campaigners,researchers and together will try to find answers to one of the most challenging quandaries that climate change harbingers.
Contact Details:
Adityo Ghosh at g_aditya@cseindia.org
- CSE organises a 2 day long media workshop on Forest Rights Act in Bhubaneshwar
Date: 4th - 5th March, 2011
Contact Details:
Papia at papia@cseindia.org