Tracking change: From villages to cities
By Anumita Roychowdhury,
Executive Director, Research and Advocacy and Head of the Air Pollution and Clean Transportation Programme, CSE

Readings
• Presentation
• Blog posts by Anumita Roychowdhury from the CSE website Essay: 'Politics of Environment' by Anil Agarwal

Environmental Histories and Environmental Change: Should the ‘Past’ talk to the 'Future'
By Rohan D'Souza, Assistant Professor, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Readings
• Presentation
•' Benign Capitalism by Another Name: Understanding Collapse’ review published in Conservation and Society
• Study: ‘Wealth is not health’ by the CSE

Rights and entitlements: The development debate in contemporary India
By Kavita Srivastava, Secretary, People’s Union for Civil Liberties

Readings
• Website of People’s Union for Civil Liberties

Current environmental pollution issues in India with special reference to the role of regulatory authorities
By B Sengupta, Former Member Secretary, Central Pollution Control Board, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India

Readings
• Presentation
• Website of the Central Pollution Control Board

Water resources of India : How much, for whom and for how longss
By Gita Kavarana, Executive Director of Research and Development, Head of Rural Water Programme, CSE

Readings
• Presentation (on Water resources of India)
• Presentation (on Urban water crisis)
• Blog posts by Gita Kavarana on the CSE website
• Analysis: ‘Conflict over Ganga’ from Down To Earth

Field trip: Rajao Ki Boali
By B Sengupta, Former Member Secretary, Central Pollution Control Board, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India

Readings
•‘Dighis and Baolis’ from rainwaterharvesting.org
Photo album

Film: Village Republic
Produced by the Centre for Science and Environment

Readings
• Buy from CSE Store
• Article: ‘Sukhomajri Model Village’ from rainwaterharvesting.org

Have forest, be poor: Ecological basis of poverty in India
By Richard Mahapatra, Senior Editor, Down To Earth

Readings
• Presentation
• Richard Mahapatra’s articles from Down To Earth magazine
• Article: ‘Phulmai's walk - a day in the life of a headloader’
by Richard Mahapatra from Down To Earth

Watershed as a unit of development
By Sucharita Sen, Fulbright scholar with Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Readings
• Presentation
• Film: Preparing a Watershed Plan produced by Myrada

Food security: A critique of government-led initiatives
By Biraj Patnaik, Principal Advisor to the Supreme Court Commissioners on the right to food

Readings
• Website of the Right to Food Campaign, India
• Facebook page of the Right to Food Campaign, India

Environmental governance
By Manju Menon, Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Fellowship (Visiting Assistant in Research, Yale University)

Readings
• Presentation
• Article: ‘Red card to green logic’ by Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli from the Financial Express

Looking beyond the economy
By Yamini Gupt, Assistant Professor, University of Delhi

Readings
• Presentation
• Essay: ‘Up the gross natural product’ by Anil Agarwal from Our Planet magazine
• Editorial ‘Learning from mistakes’ by Anil Agarwal from Down To Earth

Development 'Outsourced'
By Atul Sood, Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Readings
• Presentation
• Overview of the book The Political Economy of Corporate Responsibility in India

Ecological rights and conflicts: The tribal question
By Shankar Gopalakrishnan, Campaign for Survival and Dignity, New Delhi

Readings
• The Forest Rights Act, a website maintained by the Campaign for Survival and Dignity
• The article ‘India: Forest Areas, Political Economy and the "Left-Progressive Line" on Operation Green Hunt’ by Shankar Gopalakrishnan from Monthly Review magazine

Water sharing in South Asia: Cooperation and conflicts
By Himanshu Thakkar, South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People

Readings
• Presentation
• Website of the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People

Intellectual Property Rights: Patenting and how it affects farmers
By Latha Jishnu, Senior Editor, Down To Earth

Readings
• Presentation
• Articles from Down To Earth magazine

Film and discussion: Blood and Iron
By Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Educator and journalist

Readings
• Clip from film

Environment Impact Assessments and Public Consultations in India
By Kanchi Kohli, Member, Kalpavriksh Environment Action Group

Readings
• Presentation
• Review of the publication Calling the Bluff: Revealing the state of Monitoring and Compliance of Environmental Clearance Conditions
• Website of Kalpavriksh Environment Action Group

An overview of the history of development in Modern India
By Amitabh Behar, Executive Director, National Foundation for India

Readings
• Website of National Foundation for India

What sustainable industrialization means to India
By Monali Zeya Hazra, Program Management Specialist, USAID and Distribution Reform, Upgrades and Management

Readings
• Presentation
• Statement: ‘Mining Overview’ by the CSE’s Industry and Environment Unit

Food Safety: a take on government policy and CSE's campaign on food safety
By Savvy Soumya Misra, Food Safety group, Centre for Science and Environment

Readings
• Website of the CSE’s Food Saftey group

Air quality and mobility challenges in cities: A primer
By Vivek Chattopadhyay, Clean Air Campaign team, Centre for Science and Environment

Readings
• Presentation
• Clean Air Campaign team section of the CSE website

Designing Bus Rapid Transit System
By Sandeep Gandhi, Architect, S G Architects

Readings
• Presentation
• Interview: Sustainable Transport

Film and discussion: Counterbalance: How privatization of waste is affecting the life of waste recyclers
By Santu, Safai Karamchari, Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group

Readings
• Clip from the film
• Website of Chintan

Sustainable city: Models
By Tanmay Tathagat, Architect, Environmental Design Solutions

Readings
• Website of Environmental Design Solutions
• Green Buildings section of the CSE website

Urban Water: From sewage to sanitation
By Suresh Rohilla, Programme Director, Urban Waste Water Management, CSE, New Delhi

Readings
• Presentation
• Website on rainwater harvesting from the CSE
• Website on decentralized wastewater treatment from the CSE

Film - Feacal Attraction: The political economy of deification

Readings
• Buy the film from the CSE Store
• Clip from the film
• Article: ‘Ecologically Mindless’ by Sunita Narain and Manoj Nadkarni

Field trip: Boat ride on the Yamuna river

Readings
• Overview of the book Sewage Canal: How to Clean the Yamuna
• Photo album

Film and discussion: Mean Sea Level
By Aditya Ghosh, Climate Change Adaptation Team, CSE

Readings
• Clip from the film
• Buy online from the CSE Store

Transport and energy
By Anumita Roychowdhury, Executive Director, Research and Advocacy and Head of the Air Pollution and Clean Transportation Programme, CSE

Readings
• Presentation
• Website on climate and transport from the CSE

Renewable energy: Non-conventional technologies
By Soumyabrata Rahut, Assistant Coordinator, Renewable Energy Group, Centre for Science and Environment

Readings
• Presentation

The role of science and technology policy in mitigating climate change
By Ambuj Sagar, Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Readings
• Article abstract: ‘Climate Change Research and Analysis in India: An Integrated Assessment of a South-North Divide’ from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
• Article: ‘Smoke in the kitchen’ by Monya from Down To Earth

Southern responses to climate change
By Kushal Pal Singh Yadav, Climate Change Group, Centre for Science and Environment

Readings
•Presentation
• Website on climate change from the CSE
• Book: Global Warming in an Unequal World by Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain

Discussion with Sunita Narain
By Sunita Narain, Director General of the Centre for Science and Environment and publisher of Down To Earth

Readings
• Blog posts by Sunita Narain on the CSE website
• Editorial: ‘In Rio, think of Kalavati Devi’ by Anil Agarwal from Down To Earth

Central Himalayan Rural Action Group
By Chirag

Readings
• Website of Chirag
• Photo album
• Article: 'Connecting water and community'

Pan Himalayan Grassroots Development Foundation (Grassroots)

Readings
• Website of Grassroots
• Photo album

Project Butterfly

Readings
• Report on Mission Butterfly
• Article: ‘Nanital - paradise revived’

The Forest Rights Act

Readings
• Presentation

Wetlands

Readings
• Presentation

India’s energy choices post-Fukushima Daiichi

Readings
• Presentation (on nuclear energy)

Food and agriculture - from green to evergreen revolution

Readings
• Items at the India Environment Portal tagged ‘Green Revolution’

POSCO in Odisha

Readings
• Items at the India Environment Portal tagged ‘POSCO’

Land acquisition in India

Readingss
• Items at the India Environment Portal tagged ‘Land Acquisition’

Connections between the Arab Spring and the environment

Water - should it be a state issue or a central issue?