Karnataka

Course Content:

This course provides an overview of the key concepts and principles in environmental management, areas of global and national environmental concern, and strategies and tools for effective environmental management. Attempt to understand the genesis of environmental problems; the concerns that lead to various international and national initiatives to tackle them have been made in this course. Various tools, which can be used to address environmental problems and the role that the professionals can play in managing environment in their respective areas would be discussed.

1. Principles of Environmental Management
2. Principles of Ecology, Environment & Environmental Management.
3. Policies and Legal Aspect of Environmental Management

Organizer: Pipal Tree

Venue: Fireflies Inter-religious Ashram, Bangalore, India

Organizer: Bhoomi Network for Sustainable Living

Venue: St. John's Auditorium, Koramangala, Bangalore

Organizer: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)

Venue: Bengaluru

Organizer: Vinish Gupta, Centre for Holistic Learning

Venue: Huthina Betta campus, Sirsi

Description:

The workshop addresses the self in the human being. It draws attention to human needs - need for human relationships, inherent desire to seek knowledge, and the joy that we naturally derive from these. In our current situation, we might be seeking different things. Thus, it brings about a dialogue between what we are and what we want to be. It does not posit happiness in an after-world, but here and now, based on a "humanness" common to all human beings. The approach is rational, secular and universal.

Organizer: Rain Water Concepts (I) Pvt Ltd

Venue: ACC Limited, Gauribidanur, Karnataka

Description:

The entire project was designed and executed by Rain Water Concepts (I) Pvt Ltd, Bangalore. Mr. Ayyappa Masagi is the Founder Director of the company who was a Mechanical Engineer with L&T Komatsu, Bangalore prior to this stint.

Svaraj – the society for Voluntary Action Revitalisation and Justice – is a small but well known national development voluntary organisation. head quartered in Bangalore.  Our vision – a just society in a just environment. Our programmes include strengthening food, water and livelihood security through fair and just management and protection of our ecosystem, responding to needs of disaster affected families and providing vital physiotherapy care for people with disabilities; research and policy analysis, communications and promoting individual philanthropy.

Organizer: Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society

Venue: Centre for Advanced Sanitation Solutions (CASS), Bangalore

This paper discusses the reasons for building tanks in ancient India and mentions ancient texts like 'Samarangan Sutradhar' to indicate how wells and other water bodies were constructed.

These water storage systems indicate the knowledge of geology, soil engineering, construction engineering and structural engineering in ancient times.

Organizer: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)

Topics:

• Basics of GIS/RS data structure and analysis
• Cartographic principles
• Basic principles of remote sensing
• Digital Image Processing
• Spatial data sources
• GPS theory
• Field data collection and processing

Venue: Bangalore

Description:

This intensive course will provide participants with an opportunity to learn the basic principles of remote sensing, geographical information systems and GPS. The course will also provide rigorous, individualized hands-on training in GIS/RS techniques using state-of-the art software.