Role of Science, Public Health and Governance in Tackling Air Pollution
Report of the first webinar in ESG Webinar Series on Tackling Air Pollution focussed on Role of Science, Public Health and Governance.
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Transformations to Sustainability: Governance of Sociotechnical Transformations
A video by Belmont Forum and International Science Council on ‘Governance of Sociotechnical Transformations” (GoST) project in which ESG is a partner to discover pathways of Transformations to Sustainability.
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Week 1 of ESG Imaginaries To Make Cities Work: Waste And Governance
For over two decades, ESG has focussed on the emerging urban environmental and socio-economic challenges and has been working with multiple communities, government agencies, academia, media, etc. The approach has always been about finding viable and inclusive solutions to vexatious problems advocating deeply democratic processes that draw on intersectoral, interdisciplinary, intersectional experiences, knowledge and histories. Bangalore and other cities today are in a mess as they follow highly centralised governance approaches that drift from existing legal provisions in which the various local publics find no place to imagine their futures as part of a collective imagining of the city’s future.
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Report of 5 Taluk-level Workshops for Bengaluru Rural District – Decentralised Governance of Lakes and other Water Commons
For over two decades, ESG has focussed on emerging urban environmental and socio-economic challenges and worked with multiple communities, government agencies, academia, media, etc. in attending to these issues and conflicts.
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ESG’s Climate Action Plan for Bengaluru – A Blueprint for integrated, participatory and inclusive urban governance
Download the Bengaluru’s Climate Action Report by ESG India. Available for download in English & Kannada.
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A New Chapter in Decentralised Governance of Lakes of Karnataka: Principal Bench of Karnataka High Court directs the State to constitute District Lake Protection Committees in Environment Support Group v. State of Karnataka (WP No. 817 of 2008)
On 15 June 2021, the Principal Bench of the Karnataka High Court headed by Chief Justice Abhay Oka pronounced an order that will significantly change lake governance across Karnataka state, in rural and urban areas. This order will now pave the way for truly decentralised governance of lakes as commons, allowing the local public direct access to these Committees. The order was issued in response to an application made by Leo F. Saldanha, Coordinator of Environment Support Group, who sought modifications to the landmark 2012 judgment in ESG’s Lakes PIL Environment Support Group v. State of Karnataka (W.P. No. 817/2008), to strengthen lake governance from the ground up.
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Interrogating Governance and Financial Implications of ‘Smart Cities’ – Part I Report
In collaboration with Program on Science, Technology and Society, Harvard Kennedy School, USA & Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Germany, as part of a project on Governance of Sociotechnical Transformation in this interrogating discussion on Governance and Financial Implications of ‘Smart Cities’.
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Interrogating Governance and Financial Implications of ‘Smart Cities’ : Workshop
The core idea was to develop a critical outlook to the Smart Cities Mission in the overall landscape of governance and planning.
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Governance lessons that could keep us prepared for pandemics
Leo Saldanha of Environment Support Group speaks on rethinking aspects of our governance system in post-pandemic times.
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Vulnerabilities of Indian Governance in handling Climate Crisis Amid COVID-19 Pandemic and Recession
ESG’s Leo Saldhana in “Vulnerabilities of Indian Governance: in handling Climate Crisis
Read moreNotes for the India Workshop of Governance of Socio Technical Transformation Project (GoST)
Prepared by Leo F. Saldanha, Principal Investigator Bhargavi S. Rao, Associate Principal Investigator GoST India Project Governance of Socio Technical
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Governance of Socio Technical Transformations Project (GoST) Workshop, Bangalore, India
ESG is organising the India – GoST workshop on 14th January 2019 (Tuesday – full day). Prof. Sheila Jasanoff of Harvard University, who has undertaken pioneering research in STS, will participate along with her colleagues in the workshop, and set the tone for our day long conversations. We welcome you to join us.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 04
This issues focusses on ecologically sensitive threatened regions, regulatory collapse, reckless urbanisation, plastic and air pollution and climate change.
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Building Imaginaries of Hope & Inclusivity in Tackling Climate Change
The report of the workshop series organised by ESG and Art By Children initiative of Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 03
This issue focuses on environmental jurisprudence, issues with renewable solutions, encroachment of commons, mitigation for climate change impacts, mining, GMOs and thriving biodiversity.
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ESG Webinar Series on Tackling Air Pollution
‘ESG Webinar Series on Tackling Air Pollution’ is a 4-part webinar series organised by ESG which will address pertinent questions relating to the deteriorating air quality in India and other places.
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Reclaim & Turn Inclusive, Bengaluru and its Blue-Green Common
Read the report of a workshop ESG organised to introspect how Bengaluru metropolis’ blue green commons can be reclaimed & transformed into healthy, sylvan, inclusive and accessible spaces.
Read moreEnvironment Justice Matters Vol. 3 Issue 15
The 2022 year end issue of Environment Justice Matters
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Seed Activism: Patent Politics And Litigation In The Global South
In “Seed Activism”, Karine Peschard explores how patenting seeds and turning them into financialised, corporatised and commodified industrial products threatens farm and food securities of the world now and into the future.
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Online Workshop: How To Protect Lakes and Raja Kaluves ?
When: 20 December 2022, 4pm to 6pm
This workshop will explain how to:
Legally Protect Lakes and Raja Kaluves from encroachment and pollution.
Build a Lake and Raja Kaluve Protection Committee.
Rehabilitate Lakes and Raja Kaluves in ecologically sensitive and socially inclusive ways.
Where : Via Zoom
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EJ Matters Vol 3. Issue 13 : Climate Change and the 27th Conference of UNFCCC Parties (COP27) and more
27th COP of United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change at the seaside resort city of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt during 6th – 20th November 2022. The main gain, it appears, is the decision to establish and operationalize a ‘loss and damage fund’ which most vulnerable countries have been demanding for decades now
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NATIONAL CONSULTATION ON PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS IN INDIA
Indian Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change is proposing to amend all environmental laws of India, by a process that is widely considered as undemocratic and intransparent. ESG in collaboration with NLSIU organised a National Consultation on these proposals. Access the report of this consultation.
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Concrete galore: The transformation of Bengaluru
The concretising didn’t stop with roads; like a cancer it spread across to pavements, as paved regions into parks, and even into urban forests like Turahalli where, thankfully, public resistance stopped it. But the phenomenon is so widespread now, that it shows up in satellite imageries, and when it rains, the city floods in no time as there is simply no open ground for water to percolate. And in summer ‘heat islands’ result, desiccating what little greenery is left.
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