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Environment and Development
Prof. Ngamjahao Kipgen · IIT Guwahati
About
The course will consist of theoretical application and environmental knowledge pertaining to sustainable development. The course analyses the reciprocal interaction between the physical environment, the social organization and human behaviour in the context of development. The course will introduce students with an overview of environmental ethics, debates and change and to facilitate their understanding and analysis of the inter-relationship between environment and development issues and apply them to their own experience and work. To enhance the students’ knowledge of the nature of and underlying causes of the most pressing environmental concerns and to understand how these impact on the lives and livelihoods of the local community. To look at the possibilities for environmental regeneration providing an analysis of case studies of local sustainable development initiatives and community based natural resource management. After the successful completion of the course the students will be able to comprehend the complexity and various forms and dimensions of development and environment issues and ground them in current issues and real life experiences.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: UG and PG students of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sciences and Engineering.
Lectures
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Environmentalism
Week 3: Approach to Environment
Week 4: Debates on Environmental Ethics
Week 5: Religion, Environment and Conservation
- Lec 12: Religion, environment and histroical roots of ecological crisis
- Lec 13: Biodiversity conservation ethics in Buddhism and Hinduism
- Lec 14: Christian religion in the age of ecological crisis
Week 6: Natural Resource Management
- Lec 15: Natural resource management
- Lec 16: Common property vs. private property
- Lec 17: Livelihoods, forests, and conservation
Week 7: Displacement, Dispossession and Development
- Lec 18: Conservation-induced displacement
- Lec 19: Environment impact assessment and national rehabilitation and resettlement policy
- Lec 20: Dispossession and land acquisition
Week 8: Mainstream Development Trajectory: Strenghthening or Weakening of Indigenous Peoples
- Lec 21: Mining, development, and indigenous people
- Lec 22: Competing visions of development along the Narmada
- Lec 23: Dams, development, and resistance: Case studies
Week 9: Gender and Development
- Lec 24: Development theory and gendered approach to development
- Lec 25: Gender, environment and sustainable development
Week 10: Environment and Climate Change
- Lec 26: Climate change interventions and policy framework
- Lec 27: Eastern Himalayas and climate change
Week 11: Belief and knowledge Systems, Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainability
- Lec 28: Ecological knowledge, biodiversity conservation and sustainability
- Lec 29: Traditional religion and conservation of nature in Northeast India: Case study
Week 12: Local Knowledge in the Environment-Development Discourse
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Guwahati
- Department
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher
- Prof. Ngamjahao Kipgen
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Society and politics
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
- NPTEL states: "Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike / CC BY - NC - SA", beside a BY-NC-SA badge.
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