Under Civilian Training Programme Indian Technical & Economic Cooperation (ITEC) & Special Commonwealth Assistance for Africa Programme (SCAAP)
Organized by Centre for Environmental Management National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research Ministry of Human Resource Development Government of India Chennai, India 600 113 Course Coordinators P Pr ro of f. . D Dr r. . S S. . M Mo oh ha an n D Dr r. . G G. . J Ja an na ar rd dh ha an na an n
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 3 2. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME .................................................................... 3 3. STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAMME .................................................................... 4 4. TEACHING METHODOLOGY AND ASSESSMENT ................................................. 5 5. PROGRAMME SCHEDULE .................................................................................... 6 6. WEEKLY THEME OF MAIN COURSE ..................................................................... 7 7. RESOURCE PERSONS ......................................................................................... 7 8. FIELD VISIT .......................................................................................................... 7 9. DOCUMENTARIES TO BE SCREENED ................................................................. 8 10. CURRICULUM CONTENT AND TRAINING MODULE .............................................. 9 11. FEEDBACK OF PREVIOUS PARTICIPANTS ........................................................ 11
Our biggest challenge in the new century is to take an idea that seems abstract Sustainable development and turn it into a reality for all the worlds people - Kofi Annan
3 1. INTRODUCTION
Sustainable development has occupied a place on the global agenda since at least the Brundtland Commissions 1987 report Our Common Future. The world continues to face various critical challenges such as: anthropogenic climate change, the rapid depletion of natural resources, the frequency of natural disasters, the spread of (old and new) infectious diseases, the loss of biodiversity, the violation of human rights, increased poverty, the dependency of our economic systems on continuous growth in consumerism and so forth. Technology has been identified with a host of problems and solutions that are closely linked with aims for sustainable development in low and middle- income countries. It is an essential enabling feature of globalization, and local applications of technology offer possibilities for building infrastructures and creating opportunities. The impact of new technologies on society and development affects various interests and domains, and the effective and appropriate use of technology requires consideration of social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental contexts and effects. The opportunities and challenges applying the technologies to old problems require the guidance from a new breed of professionals and policymakers who can integrate technological expertise and a clear understanding of its wider ramifications as a guide to strategies for applying technology to the tasks of achieving sustainable development. Thus, the need of the hour is to strike a balance and have a proper blend between techno-economic and environment concerns. At the UN conference on Environment and Development held in 1992 at Rio, the world community reached an unprecedented consensus on the need to fully integrate environmental concerns into the main stream of economic decision making. Thus, Sustainable development (SD) has become a vehicle around the globe for expressing the need to depart from present dominant models of development which appear unable to balance the needs of people and the planet in the pursuit of peace and prosperity. Sustainable development needs to be described for each of these dimensions in their interrelation in time (past-present-future) and in space (near-far). A sustainable environmental management (planet) refers to the management of development in natural ecosystems in ways that maintain the carrying capacity of the earth and respect the non-human world. This course will examine policy responses to environmental problems caused by economic development with special attention to innovation. The central topic of the course is awareness for the environment, which is explored through a number of lectures and discussion meetings.
2. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME
The basic vision of this course is to inculcate the values, behaviour and lifestyles required for a sustainable future and for positive societal transformation. Translated objectives are:
To provide an understanding on the methods and approaches for sustainable environmental development and understand the interrelationships among socio, economic and environmental issues; To provide the mode of assess the impact of developmental project on environment and to suggest appropriate remedial measures; To enhance the knowledge in environmental legislations, green buildings, clean development mechanism and corporate social reasonability; To identify the gaps and analyze the weakness in the regulatory and institutional frameworks, and assess the mode in national capacity building.
Courses have subject coverage from these three broad areas:
3. STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAMME
Advance Certificate Course in Sustainable Development and Environmental Management is structured into three major modules totaling up to 12 units. Course is proper blend of lecture, demonstration and field studies in preexisting related courses (text or lecture-note based). Course explores the subject through resources, development, impact and management.
The first module introduces the concept of sustainability covering basic concepts like historical background, technology, sustainable development, international development cooperation and the deliberations taken place in the world. This module introduces the major stakeholders and institutions that drive change toward SD. Environmental Perspective Economic Perspective Socio- Cultural Perspective
5 The second module focuses on environmental management, acknowledging the action of each stakeholder. Participants are introduced to environmental and social standard setting bodies, certification and firm-level tools used to implement SD strategies. Ways and mean to assess the environmental impact and suggestive remedial measures will be learnt in this module.
The third module addresses the strategies to implement sustainable environmental management. Initiatives taken at the national and international level will be discussed. Clean Development Mechanism, Rain Water Harvesting, Green Building Concepts, Corporate Social Responsibility etc., Application of GIS and other technology to establish sustainable environmental management will be discussed in detail.
4. TEACHING METHODOLOGY AND ASSESSMENT
The teaching methodology includes face to face lectures by resource persons followed by discussions, blended method of theme paper presentation, experience sharing, individual and group tasks and case studies presentation. Field visits will also be arranged for the training purpose. In addition to this participants need to make presentation about their country sustainable practices for environmental management. The learning activities in the each module are distributed in such a way to ensure the achievement of the learning objectives in a flexible manner. In fact there are different types of assessment strategies with precise dates and deadlines to be observed: RESOURCES How the Natural System Works ? DEVELOPMENT How People explore and use the natural resources? IMPACT Developmental impact on the environment MANAGEMENT How environment can be made sustainable?
Mandatory readings: these are the documents that you have to read Interactive weekly quiz: based on the lectures for synchronous learning Evaluation of field visit report: there will be scheduled visit in which they will be exposed to SD Project work evaluation.
The deadlines for submitting exercises and ssignments will be discussed in the respective lecturer class and module.
5. PROGRAMME SCHEDULE Duration of the programme: January 18 th 2012 to March 15 h 2012.
Induction and Orientation Phase January 18 th to 20 th 2012 (CIA Coordination) Main Course January 23 rd to March9 th 2012 Project work seminar March 13 th 2012 Certificate distribution and Valediction March 15 th 2012
Sustainable Development & Environmental Management Induction & Orientation Phase Main Course Project seminar Mode of training Lectures Field Visit Experience sharing Group discussion Video presentation
7 6. WEEKLY THEME OF MAIN COURSE
7. RESOURCE PERSONS
Prof. Dr. S. Mohan Director & Head, CEM, Course Coordinator Dr. G. Janardhanan Visiting Faculty, CEM, Course Co-coordinator Prof. Dr. S. Dhanapal Professor & Head, Curriculum Development Centre Prof. Dr. V.K. Natarajan Professor & Head, Centre for Sustainable Development Dr. E. S. M. Suresh - Associate Professor, Educational Media Centre Dr. T. Jagatharakshan Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering Er. K. S. A. Dinesh Kumar - Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering Guest Faculty 8. FIELD VISIT Secured Hazardous waste landfill TNWML LEED Rated Green Building Sites Central Ground Water Board Facilities, Chennai CPR Environmental Education Foundation, Chennai Sustainable Development Fundamentals Historical roots of the SD concepts Biodiversity in SD Ecological and ecnomic analysis of SD January 23- 27, 2012 Millennium Development Goals Indicators of SD LEED and GRIHA Rating of Green Buildings Sustainbale Design using REVIT Architecture January 30 - February 3, 2012 Country report on SD and EM Education for SD Technology and SD Implications of human population growth. February 6 -10, 2012 Pollution causes and its effect Definition and scope of environmental management Waste Management Design and Operation February 13 -17, 2012 Environmental Impact Assessment Integrating Environment and Sustainable Development into Policy and Law making. February 20-24, 2012 Introduction to GIS Practice Session in GIS packages Practice in MAP3D GPS & Image Interpretation Application of GIS in SDEM. February 27 - March 2, 2012 Rainwater Harvesting CDM and CSR Technological innovations Field Visit Stay in Sustainable Village Intl Workshop. March 5 - 9, 2012 Technological innovations Project Work. Seminar Presentation Valediction and Certificate distribution March 12- 15, 2012
Dashkina Chitra CSR Visit to two industries in and around Chennai Pichavaram Mangrove Forest Auroville, Pondicherry Visit to Sustainable Village Outstation visit during the first week of March, 2012 (Tentatively March 8 th - 11 th 2012)
9. DOCUMENTARIES TO BE SCREENED
This courses relies upon active-learning methods in which participants take responsibility for their own learning through documentaries. Well study through 14 documentaries available in the library of CEM and infer based on the examination and discussion about the same. Based on the copyright issues for educational purpose, the documentaries will be telecasted during the course.
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE DESIGN E 2
THE SUSTAINABLE CITY WHAT A WAY TO GO: LIFE AT THE END OF EMPIRE EARTH HOME ERIN BROCKOVICH MOVIE END: CIV RESIST OR DIE FREEDOM FUELS GARBAGE WARRIOR THE 11 th HOUR FIVE WAYS TO SAVE THE WORLD
9 10. CURRICULUM CONTENT AND TRAINING MODULE MODULE - I SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT History and Introduction to Sustainable Development Definitions and Principles of Sustainable Development - History and emergence of the concept of sustainable development Environment and Development linkages Globalization and environment - Millennium Development Goals: Status (global and Indian) - Impact on approach to development policy and practice in India, future directions. International Developmental Cooperation Role of developed countries in the development of developing countries International summits Stockholm to Johannesburg Rio Principles Agenda 21 - Conventions Agreements Tokyo Declaration - Doubling statement- Transboundary issues Integrated approach for resource protection and management Implementing sustainable development Sustainability indicators - Hurdles to Sustainability - Operational guidelines Interconnected prerequisites for sustainable development Science and Technology for sustainable development Performance indicators of sustainability and Assessment mechanism Constraints and barriers for sustainable development. Education for sustainable development Introduction - Meanings of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) - Reorienting education for a sustainable future - United Nation Contribution National Policies and Frameworks for ESD - ESD in Formal Education - Structures in Informal and Non-Formal Education - ESD Research and Development. MODULE - II ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT Introduction to Environmental Management Implications of human population growth Pollution causes and its effect - Definition and scope of environmental management The context of environmental management Problems and Needs newer concepts of corporate environmental management - Environmental Ethics. Environmental Impact Assessment Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Evolution Need of EIA - Legal and Regulatory aspects Types and limitations of EIA - EIA cycle and Procedures Impact Prediction - Assessment of alternatives, delineation of mitigation measures and environmental impact statement - Public hearing Environmental Legislation Constitutional Provisions for Environmental Protection: Specific Provisions for Environmental Protection in the Constitution of India, Provisions in the Directive Principles of State Policy - Environmental Justice, Equity and Governance - Integrating Environment and Sustainable Development into Policy and Law making
MODULE - III STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT Application of GIS in SEM Introduction to GIS & GPS R2V conversion ARC GIS Arc View Arc Analysis Case studies Application of GIS in Environmental Management Case studies - AUTOCAD CIVIL 3D Green Building Concepts Introduction to Green Building rating scheme LEED: National and International Rating scheme GRIHA Green building in sustainable development Energy efficiency - Climate Change in sustainable development - Introduction to Sustainable Design using AUTODESK REVIT Architecture CDM/CSR Introduction to CDM Standardized baseline under CDM - Methodologies for CDM project activities - Methodologies for afforestation and reforestation CDM project activities - Certified emission reduction (CER) credits - Introduction to Corporate Social Responsibility - Approach and Methodology Policy and Framework of CSR Project Work The project, based on the themes of the course, will involve close work with a faculty of our institute or company, a voluntary organization or a government agency to study the innovative use of a technology for sustainable development. Each project will be undertaken by an interdisciplinary and multicultural group of 3 participants (maximum).
Participants are encouraged to come up with new topics for their project work. The group will attempt to understand the complexities of technology choices, transfer and absorption in a specific case and the relationship to the development process. List of few project titles are given below: Academic Institutes and Industries Network Technology Technology Development and Climate Change Environmental Technology assessment Sustainable technologies for coastal zone management Sustainable technologies for waste management E-village Energy efficient building technologies The last two weeks afternoon session will be devoted to the writing and presentation of the project report.
11 11. FEEDBACK OF PREVIOUS PARTICIPANTS
SDEM OTC PARTICIPANTS 2011 - Intl Seminar Photo
About Centre for Environmental Management
Centre for Environmental Management in National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research Chennai, was established in the year 1990 with the assistance from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India. It has been upgraded with latest equipments for both water and air quality analysis. The centre has a rich tradition of teaching, continuing education, research, consultancy and extension services. Present focus is on areas such as water and air quality, pollution abatement, Impact of climate change on water management, waste water treatment and reuse, landfill design, integrated solid waste management, testing on solid waste (municipal and hazardous), green and sustainable development, geoenvironmental engineering, coastal zone management, Remote sensing and GIS application and environmental impact assessment. In carrying out projects, the centre collaborates with national and international agencies including business, industry and service sectors.
We at Centre for Environmental Management shall strive constantly To educate the future leaders of the environmental profession and to inculcate skills and foundations for life- long learning and growth. To conduct research and create new knowledge as an integral part of our education programme and the continued renewal of the profession. To contribute towards sustainable management and utilization of natural resources, combat and reduce pollution of air, water and soil, enhance technical management knowledge and develop and promote technology for sustainable management.
To learn more about Centre for Environmental Management please visit: www.nitttrc.ac.in/~cem
For further details, please contact Prof. Dr. S. Mohan Director National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India Taramani, Chennai 600 113 Tel. : +91 - 44 22545406 +91 - 44 22545460 Fax : +91 - 44 22541126 E-mail : smohan@nitttrc.ac.in; director@nitttrc.ac.in