Getting together to participate in a three-week long summer school on sustainable
habitats are around 32 PhD students from multi-disciplinary background from Germany,
South East Asia and India
Around 32 PhD students from multi-disciplinary background
from Germany, South East Asia and India will participate in a three week long summer
school on sustainable habitats in Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environment Education
and Research (BVIEER) Pune, from September 5 to 23.
This will guide them in introducing the concept of sustainable development, its
approach and implementation in urban contexts.
Organised by the German International Cooperation (GIZ), the topics includes the
issue of sanitation, low cost housing, energy efficiency, which will be addressed
within the topic of urban sustainability concepts and the national urban policy
framework, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), at different
locations in India. Apart from Pune, similar summer schools are held in Bangalore,
Mysore and Kochi.
Erach Bharucha director BVIEER said that the programme will be in the process of
discussion and it will be carried out in exciting ways of learning. The students
will be taken on field trips from Pune to Mulshi to understand the changes in land
use pattern. The key person in the summer school sustainable habitat is Prof. Frauke
Krass, head, department of Geography, Cologne University, Germany. "It aims to contribute
towards sustainable development in India through bridging the communication gap
within research and its implementation at policy level. Through improved communication
and networking, the mutual benefits could be achieved at different levels," he
said.
Kranti Yardi, faculty, BVIEER said that the three-week programme will introduce
participants to the areas of governance (think globally, act locally), concepts
for urban sustainability and its implementation in India and the world and thirdly
on the concepts for sanitation, waste management and low-cost housing and energy
efficiency.
It intends to meet the requirements of the current labour market and responds to
India's needs for creative and decisive intellectuals, future decision-makers and
representatives of their country within the increasingly international governance
framework.
She pointed out that some objectives and challenges for sustainable habitats in
the country includes the understanding of complex topic and policy frameworks for
urban policy, specifically linking with national sanitation, housing, energy policy
towards a strategy for implementation, transcending life worlds of different classes
and castes by common action research and offering international experiences, among
others.
Courtesy: Education Times
