Publications

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Karnataka Scraps State Environmental Clearance Committee Overlooking Possibility Of Review And Reform, click here.
Report of The Access Initiative (TAI) – India Workshop/Public Launch, click here.
Green Tapism: A Review of the Environmental Impact Assessment Notification – 2006, click here.
Notes for the India Workshop of Governance of Socio Technical Transformation Project (GoST), click here.
Interrogating Governance and Financial Implications of ‘Smart Cities’, click here.
- Part I Report, click here.
- Part II Report, click here.
Environmental Justice: Visiting Different Social and Ecological Landscapes and Areas of Environmental Contestations in Karnataka, India: Course Report, click here.

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ESG’s Climate Action Plan for Bengaluru – A Blueprint for integrated, participatory and inclusive urban governance

Inaugural Session Report, Week 1 Webinar Report, click here.
Public Health, Sanitation and Waste Management: Is A Decentralized Approach the Way Out?, Week 2 Webinar Report, click here.
Making Bengaluru Water Secure, Week 3 Webinar Report, click here.
Food for Thought – Towards an Environmentally Sustainable and Socially Just Food System, Week 4 Webinar Report, click here.
Securing Biodiversity Rich, Healthy, Socially Inclusive and Economically Viable Commons in Bengaluru, Week 5 Webinar report, click here.
Making Bengaluru Energy Independent, Week 6 Webinar report, click here.
Securing Clean Air and Inclusive Mobility for Bengaluru, Week 7 Webinar Report, click here.
Reimagining Bengaluru’s Infrastructure as Resilient to Climate Change, Week 8 Webinar Report, click here.
Consolidating Visions for Bengaluru’s Climate Action Plan, Week 9 Webinar Report, click here.

ESG Webinar Series on Tackling Air Pollution

Role of Science, Public Health and Governance in Tackling Air Pollution, Report of first webinar ESG Webinar Series on Tackling Air Pollution, click here.
Right to Clean Environment, Report of second webinar ESG Webinar Series on Tackling Air Pollution, click here.

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Independent Report On Status of Lakes in Bangalore Under Lake Development Authority, click here.
Report Of The One Day Workshop On “People’s Participation in Activating District Level Protection Committees”, click here.
Five Taluk-level Workshops for Bengaluru Rural District – Decentralised Governance of Lakes and other Water Commons, Workshop Report (English & Kannada).
Protection, Conservation and Rehabilitation of Lakes & Raja Kaluves in Chitradurga, Workshop Report, (English & Kannada).
Building Environmental Jurisprudence to Reclaim Lakes as Commons for Posterity: Compilation of ESG Lake Work, click here.
How to Protect Lakes and Raja Kaluves? : Webinar Report, click here.

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Protecting the fundamental and democratic rights of the congregation of All Saints Church, click here.
ESG letter regarding protecting the fundamental and democratic rights of the congregation of All Saints Church, dated 7th December, 2019, click here.
Report on ‘A Thirsting, Monstrous City’, a seminar of environmentalists against excessive growth and water use in Bengaluru, click here.
Report of An ‘Open House’ on Bengaluru Metro Expansion That Was Not, click here.
ESG Imaginaries To Make Cities Work
- Waste And Governance, Week 1 Webinar Report (English & Kannada).
- Challenges of Securing Urban Commons, Week 2 Webinar Report (English & Kannada).
- Mobility & Infrastructure, Week 3 Webinar Report (English & Kannada).
- Making Cities Of the 21st Century Inclusive, Week 4 Webinar Report (English & Kannada).
‘Better Bus Bengaluru’ – Webinar Series
- Inaugural webinar, Session 2 Report, click here.
- Bus From Anywhere To Anywhere Else – Making Bus Lanes A Priority, Session 2 Report, click here.
- Fearlessly cycle, walk and bus everywhere – Making urban mobility infrastructure accessible to all, Session 3 Report, click here.
- Making public transport affordable to all, Session 4 Report, click here.
Contested Urban Spaces, Report on ESG Program for University of Washington at Seattle, click here.

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Karnataka High Court monitors state of Solid Waste Management in Bangalore, click here.
Status Of Law, Policy & Practices Solid Waste Management In Bengaluru, Workshop Report (English & Kannada).
Workshop Report On Access To Safe Water: Challenges And Opportunities In Mavallipura, click here.
SACODI: Development of Guidelines for Segregation, Collection and Safe Disposal of Hazardous waste, click here.

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“Beerappa’s Tallanna” Screened At Indian Institute Of Science Following Earlier Screenings At National Institute For Advanced Studies, ICTS And ATREE, click here.
Deconstructing Notions Of ‘science Capital’ And ‘world Class City’ In The Context Of Bangalore And The Proposed ‘science City’ In Challakere, Report of a conversation with Prof. Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies Director, Program on Science, Technology and Society Harvard Kennedy School John F. Kennedy School of Government, click here.

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Seed Activism: Patent Politics And Litigation In The Global South, Report of the book talk organised by ESG, click here.
Protecting Brinjal from piracy at a time when MoEF&CC dilutes biodiversity laws, by Sachin P Sand & Nidhi Hanji for the Counter Currents, click here.

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‘Agro-ecological Farming is the way to India’s Future’ – Report of the workshop, click here.
“Beyond Corporate Driven Industrial Agriculture to Climate Resilient Agroecology: For a Hunger Free, Suicide Free, Poison Free Republic” – Delhi Workshop Report, click here.

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[expand title = “Other publications” tag =”h6″]

Governance lessons that could keep us prepared for pandemics, click here.
Report on the National Symposium On ‘The Handmade’, click here.
How to read and create maps to narrate public interest environmental and social stories?, Mapping Webinar Report, click here.

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