Dear All
The KRR Government College, Kodad has organized the National Seminar on "Human Rights - Environmental Protection (HREP)", during 20-21st January 2017. I had an opportunity to be part of this and presented the invited talk on "Healthy Environment - Opportunities for Sustainable Development".
The Abstract of the same presentation is pasted below as:
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Healthy
Environment works as a platform for Development with better Sustainability and
Quality. Such environments are well connected with the human rights with better
space and access. Effectiveness of Human Rights works to lead for the duty to
respect, the duty to protect, and the duty to fulfill and supports for clean,
healthy, protective, wealthy, and accessible environments. Utilization of resources
supports for people oriented development. The move towards business oriented
development resulted for unethical challenges including marginalization,
migration, or isolation of larger group of population with poor quality of
life. Exploitation of land, soil, water, mineral and other resources added with
poor resettlement and rehabilitation affected the health and wealth of the
people as well as the environment sometimes making irreversible. The challenges
of global warming and climate change are visible all over the globe and
threatening the human survival itself. The SWOT Analysis of development results
for challenges on one side and open gates for opportunities to work with
innovation and creativity. All such challenges forces to look for better
alternatives as a solution. The shift from welfare to development to
empowerment to rights; relief centric to risk reduction; top down to bottom up
approaches; single to multidisciplinary; receivers to ownership or partnership;
physical to technological connectivity; and other changes has resulted for
change in the service delivery systems with more of rights based strategies and
interventions. Sustainable Development Goals gives more thrust for human rights
as a tool to address environmental issues. The Non Governmental Organizations
plays a key role to facilitate between governments and people with a toll of
empowerment on life cycle basis. The community initiatives and models suggested
are simple, replicable, sustainable and scalable to the dynamics of given
environment.
Key Words: Development, Empowerment, Environment,
Rehabilitation, Rights, Sustainability, Quality.
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The Organizers have brought out the Souvenir with Abstracts and Soft Copy of the Full papers. The printed form of the Full papers is expected to come out shortly.
It was a good experience to be with the organizers and other delegates, students and others.
Looking forward to do more in this direction. .
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