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Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment
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Add: ISEC Campus
Nagarabhavi
Bangalore - 560072
Karnataka
Tel: 91-80-23217013 , 80-23217008
Email: cised@isec.ac.in
Website: http://www.cised.org
Contact: Coordinator
Purpose: Agriculture, Climate Change, Community Development,
Development(General), Energy, Environment, Forestry, Indigenous
Knowledge, Joint Forest Management, Livelihood, Natural
Resource Management, Pollution, Poverty, Rural Development,
Science and Technology, Self Help Groups, Sustainable
Development, Training, Water
Aim/Objective/Mission: South Asia, home to over a billion
people, has widespread degradation of the environment
and natural resources, often beyond the limits of sustainability.
It is the poor and marginalised who suffer the most when
the environment is degraded. Addressing this complex and
inter-related set of issues at the environment-development
interface requires a holistic approach that cuts across
traditional disciplinary divides. The Centre for Interdisciplinary
Studies in Environment and Development (CISED) was formed
with a mission of promoting environmentally sound and
socially just development by contributing critically and
constructively to public and academic debates. CISED's
mandate is to work on issues at the interface of environment
and development through rigorous interdisciplinary research,
teaching, research networking and dialogue with civil
society. Our practice of interdisciplinarity is intended
to bridge not only the divide between the natural and
the social sciences, but also the divisions among different
disciplines within these two categories. This will be
achieved through collaboration between disciplinary experts
as well as the integration of multiple disciplines into
individual work. In order to ensure relevance, we will
work in the problem addressing mode on environment and
development issues. The magnitude and range of problems
at the environment-development interface requires a large
community of interdisciplinary researchers. To enhance
the capacity for such research elsewhere in the region,
we will conduct teaching and training programmes, collaborate
with like-minded researchers and institutions, and foster
academic debates. This can only improve the quality and
reach of our research. While furthering interdisciplinary
research, we will also acquire and incorporate into our
research detailed and rigorous knowledge from each discipline.
We are also committed to participating in political and
transformatory action within civil society. Such participation
will involve both sharing the knowledge generated through
our academic activities with fellow academics, activists,
practitioners, policy-makers and the lay public, and getting
input from these actors to make our analysis more rigorous
and relevant. CISED?s research attempts to cover the two
broad categories of environment-development issues: natural
resource management, and energy and pollution issues.
Within these broad areas, CISED will identify and focus
on certain thrust areas. Currently, the thrust areas chosen
are forests, watersheds, water resources, and nuclear
energy. We will also pursue research on some themes that
cut across these areas. Currently, two cross-cutting themes
have been identified: institutions and democratic decentralisation,
and science, technology and society. Comprised of a small
group of researchers trained in both the natural and social
sciences who share a common concern for sustainable and
just development and a commitment to rigorous interdisciplinary
work, CISED is uniquely placed to undertake research at
the interface of environment and development. CISED also
benefits from being hosted in and supported by the Institute
for Social and Economic Change, one of the largest social
science research institutes in the country, and by being
located in a city with several centres of higher learning
and research. As part of the commitment to work towards
building a democratic society, the CISED team is structured
in a non-hierarchical fashion in its internal functioning
and aspires to be accountable to civil society and academia. |
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