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The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) is a national education institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements. IIHS is India’s first prospective independently funded and managed national university for Innovation that focuses on its ongoing urban and development transformation. It is a first-of-its-kind, practice and innovation-oriented knowledge institution that seeks to bridge the conventional excellence, scale and inclusion divide.

Description:
It is for a period of 2 days, in Bangalore. It will start at 9:00 am on 23rd Mar 2012 and end at 7:00 pm on 24th Mar 2012. We would recommend that you be in Bangalore on the night of 22nd March 2012.

Organizer: Sanctuary Asia

Venue: St. Joseph's College of Arts and Science,
            St. Xaviers Auditorium,
            Bangalore

Organizer: Center for Science & Environment (CSE)

Venue: Anil Agarwal Green College
           38, Tughlakabad Institutional Area
           New Delhi–110062

Objective: 
This inter - disciplinary month long structured course on environment / development issues is for about 25 participants from various international institutions of learning. For this summer school we have collaborated with Engineers Without Borders (EWB) United Kingdom, and EWB chapters in South Asia as well.

Organizer: Center for Science & Environment (CSE)

Venue: Anil Agarwal Green College
            38, Tughlakabad Institutional Area
            New Delhi–110062

Description:
A month-long summer certificate course on environment and development issues. Interdisciplinary month-long summer certificate course on environment/development issues allows Indian participants to understand and critically evaluate issues that lie at the interface of environment & development; poverty; democracy, equity & justice.

SaciWATERs is a private, not-for-profit policy research organisation working at a south Asia level. It is committed to bringing about structural changes in the dominant water resources management paradigm in South Asia. Within this ambit, the focus is on transforming water resources knowledge systems. The key ideas are an interdisciplinary approach to understanding water resources issues from a pro-poor, gender sensitive and human development perspective with emphasis on exchange, interaction and regional collaboration at the South Asia level.

Article Courtesy : Seedmap

Video Courtesy: Voice WOTR

Organizer: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore

Venue: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore,
            716 CMH Road,
            Indiranagar 1st Stage,
            Bangalore 560 038

The Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore, offers language courses, organises cultural events and has a Library. We determine our main areas of interest in consultation with our Indian cooperation partners from the fields of art, science and media, from NGOs and select companies, with whom we jointly develop appropriate programmes and projects. Our activities range from film screenings, exhibitions, theatre performances and concerts to workshops and conferences particularly on innovative topics such as video and media art.

Description:
The request for proposal is issued by Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) to obtain proposal from firms/agencies for collecting the latitude and logitude of utilities & infrastructures using GPS devices and to create GIS database from the collected data for all the 27 districts of Assam.

Article Courtesy : Resources Centre for Sustainable Development

The interactive GIS mapping of wetlands and MUS intervention sites is one of the outputs of the project. 

Interactive layers are present on the left panel of the pdf file.