Sustainability Issues in the Human Development Framework: Measurements & Accounting
March 10-11, 2016
(Thursday-Friday)
1. Pragyan Bharati, PhD (India Director, Global Footprint Network)
Pragyan is leading Global Footprint Network’s Sustainable Development Return onInvestment (SDRoI) project in India. Supported by the Barr Foundation and the Skoll Foundation, the project is collaboration between Skoll Foundation awardees Global Footprint Network, Escuela Nueva, Gram Vikas and International Development Enterpise-India (IDE-India), with expert advisement from Camfed. The project aims to measure a community’s progress toward its own lasting development. It also should support donor agencies and social entrepreneurs to generate a high sustainable development return on their investments.With a doctorate in sociology, Pragyan is a social development specialist with expertise in executing socio-economic developmental projects. Prior to joining Global Footprint Network she worked with other international agencies such as ONE DROP and UNICEF on projects relating to social arts and popular education in community mobilization and WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene).
3. Ngamjahao Kipgen, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati)
Kipgen teaches and researches in Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He completed his PhD in Sociology from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi. He has primarily worked on identity, land-use, traditional knowledge and ethnic-nationalism. His research interests are: environmental sociology, political sociology, religion and cultural politics. He has taught earlier at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He has published his research on development projects and ecological limits in various journals and conference proceedings. He is currently actively engaged in an Indian Council of Social Science Research sponsored project on Ecotourism and Sustainable Livelihoods
5. Mrinal Kanti Dutta, PhD ( Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati)
Mrinal Kanti Dutta has been serving as a faculty member of economics in the Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati since 2003. His areas of interest are Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics and Regional Economic Development. He has authored a book, edited a volume and published a number of journal articles in national and international journals.
2. Anamika Barua, PhD (Executive Director, SaciWATERs)
Anamika is an Ecological Economist; She has a Masters degree in Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics and a Ph.D in Ecological Economics from the University of Leeds, UK. DrAnamika has been working as an Associate Professor in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati and at present she is on 2 years leave from IIT Guwahati. Her research is interdisciplinary and she uses theories and methods from both the natural and social sciences to understand environmental change and livelihood dynamics. Her core research to date has focused on assessing social vulnerability to climate change, its impact on water resources and the related livelihood dynamics in the Eastern Himalayan Region of India.She has published peer-reviewed articles in several leading international journals, as well as book chapters, working papers, newspaper articles and policy reports on environmental issues. She has collaborative projects with the University of Lund, Sweden and the University of Leeds, UK which are funded by international organizations like the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). She has also conducted studies for national and international organizations like the European Statistical Office (EUROSTAT), The International Union for Conservation and Nature (IUCN), and Wild life Trust of India (WTI) on issues related to environment and livelihood.
4. Rajshree Bedamatta, PhD (Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati)
Rajshree is a Development Economist and researches on issues of food security and human development. She completed her PhD from the University of Calcutta with junior and senior research fellowships from the Indian Statistical Institute. She conducts policy research on issues related to the social sector in India. Her teaching and research interests are on poverty, food security and human development. Her work is published in various national journals and edited books.Rajshree worked as a core member of the Assam Human Development Report headed by the OmeoKumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development and has co-authored chapters on “Literacy and Education” and “Subjective Wellbeing in Assam”. She has in the past worked as Consultant with the Social Sciences Division of the International Rice Research Institute Philippines and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development Kathmandu. She is currently in the research network of the India project of Global Footprint Network. She is also actively collaborating with the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi for the Food Insecurity Atlas of Odisha.