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Environmental Sustainability: a key element in climate change adaptation

Environmental Sustainability: a key element in climate change adaptation

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Environmental Sustainability: a key element in climate change adaptation
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<strong>SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY </strong> a talk on <strong>Environmental Sustainability: a key element in climate change adaptation</strong> Speaker: <strong>Prof. Syed E. Hasan</strong> Professor Emeritus, Environmental Geoscience, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO, USA. Date: <strong>2nd February 2016</strong> <strong>Abstract: </strong>Environmental sustainability is one of the key elements in adaptation to climate change that calls for multi-pronged approach to achieve the 2oC goal by the end of the current century. One of the proven ways to reduce energy and water consumption, transportation cost, and "going green" has evolved at a university in the United States Midwest in recent years. The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) through a collaborative approach, involving students, faculty and staff, formed a sustainability team with clear and achievable annual goals toward greening the campus. This initiative has resulted in remarkable progress in meeting the university's goal of zero-waste, campus greening, lower energy use, and waste minimization. These efforts led to UMKC's ranking as the top school in 2013 in the U.S. in the annual Recycle Mania competition, and its listing among the top 100 Cool Schools in the U.S. by the prestigious Sierra Club magazine. Details of the sustainability program and the role played by the campus community in achieving national honors, along with recommendations on how to design a similar program at other campuses, will be discussed in the presentation.

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.