Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

P R O F E S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E

Centre for Science and Environment
New Delhi

1982 to Present

Sunita Narain, Director of CSE
Has worked in various program units of the Centre involved in research, communication and advocacy on environmental issues. Has co-edited publications on the State of India’s Environment, conducted in-depth research on the governance and management of the country’s environment, attended major international meetings as a speaker and as an advocate. Has also worked to set up numerous programme units, recruited staff and helped to build the institution to its current strength of 100 odd personnel. Currently, also incharge of the management units of the Centre.

Publisher of the fortnightly newsmagazine, Down To Earth. since 1992 Has worked to launch and produce the newsmagazine that is widely considered as the best in the region.

Vikram Sarabhai Institute for Development Research
Ahmedabad 1980-1981

Research Assistant
Worked to research a publication on the state of environment of Gujarat and to organise a state level conference on the subject.
E D U C A T I O N

1980 - 1983: B. A. Delhi University   Delhi.

P U B L I C A T I O N S

Numerous articles in newspapers, magazines including a weekly/fortnightly/column on environment and development, Green Politics and Down To Earth for leading dailies. Also co-authored, co-edited the following publications:
2001: Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain and Indira Khurana. Making Water Everybody’s Business: Policy and Practice of Water Harvesting, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi

2001: Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain, Anju Sharma and Achila Imchen. Poles Apart : Global Environmental Negotiations 2, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi

1999: Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain and Srabani Sen. State of India’s Environment: The Citizen’ Fifth Report, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi.

1999: Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain and Anju Sharma. Green Politics: Global Environmental Negotiations - 1, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi.

1997: Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain. Dying Wisdom: Rise, fall and potential of India’s water harvesting systems, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi.

1992: Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain. Towards a Green World: Should environmental management be built on legal conventions or human rights? Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi.

1991: Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain. Global Warming in an Unequal World: A Case of Environmental Colonialism, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi.

1990 : Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain. Involving the Landless and Women in Afforestation: Six Cases Studies, International Labour Organisation, Geneva.

1989. Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain. Towards Green Villages: A strategy for Environmentally Sound and Participatory Rural Development, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi.

1987: Centre for Science and Environment. The Warth of Nature: The impact of environmental destruction on floods and droughts, New Delhi.

1985: Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain (editors). State of India’s Environment 1984-85: The Second Citizens’ Report, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi.

P O S I T I O N S     H E L D

1990-1999: Member, Grant in Aid Committee for assistance to voluntary agencies under the scheme of ‘Environmental Orientation to School Education’, Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
1995-1999: Member, National Standing Committee on Rural Technology of the Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology, Ministry of Rural Areas and Employment, Government of India.

1995-present: Member, Program Committee of the Urban Waste Expertise Program of WASTE Consultants set up to oversee the project by the Netherlands Ministry of Development Cooperation, Gouda.

1995: Member, Independent Expert Group on Global Forest Policy established by the Swiss and Peruvian governments, Geneva.

1996- present: Chairperson, Disaster Mitigation Institute, Ahmedabad.

1997: Member, Mid-size grant task force, Global Environmental Facility, Washington.

1997- present: Member, Global Water Contract, established by The Group of Lisbon under the chairpersonship of Mr. Mario Soares, former President of Portugal.

1997: Member, Scientific Planning Committee for the Global Environmental Change and Human Security Research Project of the International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change.

1999- present: Founding Board Member, ILEIA Foundation (The information centre for low external input and sustainable agriculture), the Netherlands.

2000 – present: UNDP CSO Committee to provide strategic, policy and substantive guidance to the Administrator of UNDP.

M A J O R     L E C T U R E S

1993: Public Debate with Hans Alders, Dutch Environment Minister organised by the Evert Vermeer Foundation of the Dutch Labour Party, The Hague, the Netherlands.
1995: Public Debate with Wolfgang Sachs, Chairperson, Greenpeace, Germany on "Towards Global Governance", at the First Conference of Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, Berlin, Germany.

1996: Public Debate with Andrew Steer, Director, Environment Department, World Bank, on Global Environmental Concerns – At whose expense? at the Head to Head Debate organised by the Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society, Oxford, UK.

1996: Publishing Environmental News: How do you support sustainable development, at the Workshop on Reporting for Sustainable Development in Asia Pacific organised by UNEP, Beijing, China.

1997: Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the World Trade Organisation at the Symposium on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development, Organised by the World Trade Organisation, Switzerland.

1997: Environmental Security, plenary talk at the 1997 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, IIASA, Austria.

1997: How to build bridges between trade, environment and development to improve the effectiveness of global environmental policies at the Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Ways and Means workshop organised by Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, The Netherlands.

1997: Sustainable development from the perspective of the South at the ‘Way out of the Growth Trap" Congress organised by the Heinrich-Boll-Stiftung, Germany.

1997: Government’s Agenda or Ours? The NGO Agenda in the forthcoming period at the workshop, Beyond Rio, organised by World Economy, Ecology and Development, Germany.

1998: NGO workshop on Emission Trading and Entitlements: organised by CSE and co-sponsored by German NGO FORUM, Stadthalle, Bonn, Germany.

1999: Debate 21: The Debate on Instruments for Sustainable Development for the Climate Sector organised by WEED and GERMANWATCH, Germany.

1999: What possibilities there are for Green Politics in Asia and what is meant by Green Politics in the Asian context, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

1999: We all live downstream: Urban industrial growth and its impact on water systems; Plenary lecture, 9Stockholm Water Symposium, Sweden.

2000: The Future of India’s Urban Environment, paper presented at the Swedish-Asian Forum on the Future of Asia’s Environment, Stockholm 15-17, 2000.

AWARDS

November 8, 2002: Dr B C Deb Memorial Award for Popularisation of Science presented by the Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata.

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