SOME PLACES STILL AVAILABLE
This summer school gives 25 participants from various international universities, some from the developing countries of South Asia, the opportunity to understand and critically evaluate issues that lie at the interface of environment and development; poverty; democracy, equity and justice; and culture.
COURSE MODULES
- Natural resource management – water, forests
- Change agents: Environmentalism of the poor
- Governance imperatives
- Poverty and the biomass economy
- Environmental conflicts
- Urban growth challenges: water, waste, pollution, mobility
- Towards sustainable industrialization
- Climate change from a Southern perspective
DEBATE, DELIBERATE, DISCUSS
Lectures, workshops, local field trips, case studies, readings, film reviews. Faculty includes policy makers, development professionals, leading activists, researchers and eminent academics from premier universities.
EXPLORE, EXPERIENCE RURAL INDIA
Observe. Immerse. Engage. Learn from community-led eco restoration initiatives. Talk to change makers working at the grassroots level. Spend time with them over a week.
CREATE
Write, design, edit & illustrate your own magazine. Or, create a web documentary.
http://cseindia.org/challenge_balance/index.htm
ELIGIBILITY, SELECTION CRITERIA
This interdisciplinary course is for students, researchers and young professionals from any stream. Email a 500-word cover note on why you wish to attend this course, what makes you a suitable candidate and how will it help you in future. Send it together with your latest curriculum vitae to the course contact.
COURSE ENQUIRIES
Course details: http://www.cseindia.org/node/1259
CSE Contact: Sharmila Sinha
sharmila@cseindia.org /aagc@cseindia.org / cseindiasharmila@gmail.com
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