Admission Announcement from CSE

[Chandra Kishore]

Agenda for survival: A certificate course on the policies and practices of environmental management in India (June 1- 30, 2011, New Delhi)

The education and training unit of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) - Anil Agarwal Green College - is conducting a month long course Agenda for survival: A certificate course on the policies and practices of environmental management in India (June 1- 30, 2011, New Delhi).

This interdisciplinary month-long summer certificate course is on the policies, politics and practices of environmental management in India. This is targeted to young professionals and college students from any stream. It allows participants to understand and critically evaluate issues that lie at the interface of environment and development; poverty; democracy, equity and justice.

Participants have one month to explore the complexities underlying the environment-development debate in India. Lectures. Readings. Presentations. Occasions to debate, deliberate, appear before an audience. Time to read, or report. Watch a film, and review it. Attend seminars, interrogate the guest speakers, eminent activists and policy makers. We want you in the classroom, and out of it too. Students will report, edit and design a magazine as part of the course assignment.

Check out the student magazine of 2010 >> http://cseindia.org/userfiles/Twenty%20Eight.pdf
http://www.cseindia.org/agenda2010/index.htm

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 explore eco-restoration efforts in rural India

Eligibility: A total of 30 participants will be selected. The course is open to young professionals and college students from any stream. Applicants must submit a 750-word essay on any one of the following topics:
1 - What does it mean to be an 'environmentalist'?
2 - Ecologically rich - economically poor. Why are poor concentrated in ecologically rich the world over? Why are these most insurgency infested? What are the linkages between environment, economy and insurgency?
The essay must reach CSE latest by April 15, 2011, together with a résumé / CV.

Course fee: Rs 8,000. This includes the training fees, local and outstation field excursions, reading materials, together with lunch and refreshments during training days. We will arrange for accommodation for select outstation candidates for a nominal charge of Rs. 10,000 for one month (stay and food). Some fellowships are available to support outstation candidates.

Medium of Instruction: English

For details please see: http://www.cseindia.org/node/1701
Some fellowships are available to support outstation candidates. http://www.cseindia.org/node/447#kamla

Contact:

Refer to the posting on http://www.paryavaran.com

 

Sharmila Sinha
Education & Training
Centre for Science and Environment
41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi - 110062
Mobile: [phone]
Tel: [phone]/125 (Ext.270)
Fax: [phone]

[GOPI KANTA GHOSH]

Good information...thanks