BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b2fd024b5a6823660b0983d03c315745 CATEGORIES:Lecture / Reading / Talk CREATED:20211120T121114 SUMMARY:“Revisiting Environmental Impact Assessment In India”- Talk By Dr. Geetanjoy Sahu (Tata Institute Of Social Sciences, Mumbai) DESCRIPTION:\n\nDr. Geetanjoy Sahu is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Science, Technology & Society, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Soc ial Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. His research and teaching interests include en vironmental jurisprudence, environmental regulation and policy, forest righ ts and governance, the political economy of public policy and institutions, and environmental movements. He earlier served as Post-Doctoral Associate at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development (CISED), Bengaluru. In 2010, he was selected for the Erasmus Mundus (EMEA) Scholarship from European Union and was associated with Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Department, ITC, Netherlands as a Visiting Fel low. He has served on various government committees in different capacities . \n\n\nFor more details about the speaker, please refer to http://www.tiss .edu/view/9/employee/geetanjoy-sahu/ \n\n\nAbstract of the talk:\n Environm ental regulation in India is at the crossroad today. Perhaps no other count ry in the world has as many environmental laws as India have but the enforc ement of rules and regulations has not been effective. There are several re asons which include: lack of financial and human resource capacity of the r egulatory bodies, political interference in the functioning of the regulato ry bodies, non-availability of experts in the regulatory bodies, dismal fun ction of pollution control boards, etc. The scale and form of implementatio n challenges further changed in the post-liberalisation phase due to increa sing demands for industrialisation and urbanisation, and indiscriminate div ersion of resources in the name of public interest. Though new rules and no tifications like EIA have been introduced in 1994, the process of EIA has d rawn several criticisms. In this presentation, I primarily seek to establis h how the current form and structure of environmental impact assessment has been diluted and violated to serve the interests of neoliberal policies. I n doing so, I discuss several policy and legal instruments including the de cisions of the Indian Judiciary and argue how the EIA process is increasing ly centralised at the cost of community rights and natural resources. While the rhetoric is more about sustainable development at the policy level tho rugh EIA, concrete evidence suggests that the process of EIA has been bypas sed to serve the interests of the market without emphasis on social justice and sustainable development. \n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Dr. Geetanjoy Sahu is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Sc ience, Technology & Society, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. His research and teaching interests incl ude environmental jurisprudence, environmental regulation and policy, fores t rights and governance, the political economy of public policy and institu tions, and environmental movements. He earlier served as Post-Doctoral Asso ciate at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Develo pment (CISED), Bengaluru. In 2010, he was selected for the Erasmus Mundus ( EMEA) Scholarship from European Union and was associated with Urban and Reg ional Planning and Geo-Information Department, ITC, Netherlands as a Visiti ng Fellow. He has served on various government committees in different capa cities. 


For more details about the speaker, please refer to http://www.ti ss.edu/view/9/employee/geetanjoy-sahu/ 


Abstract of the t alk:
Environmental regulation in India is at the crossroad today. Perh aps no other country in the world has as many environmental laws as India h ave but the enforcement of rules and regulations has not been effective. Th ere are several reasons which include: lack of financial and human resource capacity of the regulatory bodies, political interference in the functioni ng of the regulatory bodies, non-availability of experts in the regulatory bodies, dismal function of pollution control boards, etc. The scale and for m of implementation challenges further changed in the post-liberalisation p hase due to increasing demands for industrialisation and urbanisation, and indiscriminate diversion of resources in the name of public interest. Thoug h new rules and notifications like EIA have been introduced in 1994, the pr ocess of EIA has drawn several criticisms. In this presentation, I primaril y seek to establish how the current form and structure of environmental imp act assessment has been diluted and violated to serve the interests of neol iberal policies. In doing so, I discuss several policy and legal instrument s including the decisions of the Indian Judiciary and argue how the EIA pro cess is increasingly centralised at the cost of community rights and natura l resources. While the rhetoric is more about sustainable development at th e policy level thorugh EIA, concrete evidence suggests that the process of EIA has been bypassed to serve the interests of the market without emphasis on social justice and sustainable development. 
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