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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
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David Schlosberg
Best known for his work in environmental justice, Schlosberg is author of Defining Environmental Justice (2007) and Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism (1999). Most recently, he is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society (2011). His current work includes climate justice and adaptation, the social challenges of climate change, the place of the nonhuman world in justice theory and practice, and the materialist foci and practices of a new generation of environmental movements.

Professor, Department of Government and International Relations The University of Sydney Ph.D., Political Science, University of Oregon. 1996. M.S., Political Science, University of Oregon. 1991. B.A., Politics (with Honors) and Psychology, University of California at Santa Cruz. 1985.

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PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

2011- : University of Sydney, Australia Professor, Department of Government and International Relations 1996-2011: Northern Arizona University. August 2008-2010: Director, Environmental Studies Program July 2005-June 2008: Chair, Department of Politics and International Affairs 2006-2011: Professor, Department of Politics and International Affairs 2001-2006: Associate Professor, Department of Politics and International Affairs

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1996-2001: Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and International

BOOKS

The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society (2011)

Environmentalism in the United States: Changing Patterns of Action and Advocacy(2008)

Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature(2007)

Debating the Earth: The Environmental Politics Reader , 2nd edition(2005)

Green States and Social Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, Britain, Germany and Norway(2003)

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Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism: The Challenge of

The Leverhulme Trust. Visiting Professorship, Keele University, UK. 2010.

AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

Northern Arizona University Research and Creative Activity Awards, 2009.

National Science Foundation, Social and Economic Sciences, Social Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology: Ethics and Values Studies.

Research Experience for Undergraduates supplement to SES-0322662 awarded December 2004.

Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship, Australian-American Fulbright Commission. Social and Political Theory Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.

4/12/12 Intramural Grant Program, Northern Arizona University, 2002-03, 2000-01,

Phil McManus
In his own words: My current research focuses on sustainable cities, urban forestry and representations of nature in the construction of a range of environmental issues. Within the area of sustainable cities I am researching the potential to develop Industrial Ecology, the use of metrics such as Ecological Footprints and migration issues such as the tree-change phenomenon in Australia. My research on nature includes thoroughbred breeding and the uses of nature. My work combines urban environmental history with policy and planning research that is futureoriented.

Associate Professor, Geography, The University of Sydney.

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BOOKS

Connell J. and McManus, P. (2011) Rural Revival? Place Marketing, Tree Change and Regional Migration in Australia. Ash gate, UK.

McManus, P. (2005) Vortex Cities to Sustainable Cities: Australias Urban Challenge.

McManus, P., ONeill, P., and Loughran, R., (2000), Journeys: The Making of the Hunter Region. Allen & Unwin, Sydney

Pritchard, W. and McManus, P. (2000), Land of Discontent: The Dynamics of Change in Regional and Rural Australia.

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Refereed Conference Papers

The changing port-city interface: moving towards sustainability? State of Australian Cities National Conference 2007.

Sydney sucks! (chews and spits): Defining and measuring vortex cities and sustainable cities, State of Australian Cities 2nd Conference, Paper: Environment 05, 30 November-2 December, 2005.

Sustaining inequity? Rethinking the history of Nepalese forest policy in Calver, M. et al Proceedings of the 6th National Conference of the Australian Forest History Society Inc.

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Stephen Zavestoski
He teaches courses in the area of Environmental Sociology. Dr. Zavestoski's research areas include environmental sociology, social movements, and sociology of health and illness. His current research focuses on the strategies that disease sufferers take to demonstrate that their conditions are caused by environmental contamination. This work also looks at how citizens engage in the scientific process and policymaking in order to shape research and EDUCATION policy agendas. Ph.D., Washington State University ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS Sustainability Director, College of Arts and Sciences

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With Phil Brown, Dr. Zavestoski editedSocial Movements in Health, published in 2005 by Blackwell. With Dr. Brown and the Contested Illness Research Group at Brown University, Dr. Zavestoski has published numerous articles and book chapters focusing on environmental health activism in the U.S.

He hopes to understand how the legacy of Bhopal and the more recent trend of transnational social movement networks are shaping responses to environmental health threats in India.

Dr. Zavestoski's other line of research explores the use of Internet technology as a means of increasing public participation in environmental decision-making.

Environmental regulatory policy has always been extremely contentious. Dr. Zavestoski's research investigates whether allowing citizens to comment on 4/12/12 proposed regulations over the Internet lessens the contentiousness.

Larissa Larsen
She completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Guelph, Ontario. Larissa received her Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After completing her Ph.D., she worked as a landscape architect and urban planner for a private firm in Chicago, Illinois. She is a registered landscape architect and has a passion for native plants. Before coming to the University of Michigan, she taught at Arizona State University for two years. Teaching Areas: Environmental Planning Urban Design Theory Master's Capstone Projects

Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Natural Resources University of Michigan

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She regularly oversees graduate community-based capstone projects in Detroit neighborhoods. Larissa coordinates the physical planning and design concentration in the URP program and she also holds an appointment in the School of Natural Resources and Environment.

Larissa's research focuses on identifying environmental inequities in the built environment and advancing issues of urban sustainability and social justice. Some of her past research has examined urban heat islands, water consumption, and neighborhood mobilization against environmental problems.

In the past year, she worked with the US Green Building Council, contributed to a book on Detroit, and directed the food team in the University of Michigan Campus Sustainability Integrated Assessment. Her current research involves climate adaptation planning, community-based food initiatives, and the evaluation of 'more' sustainable urban neighborhoods.

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Paul Pholeros
Bachelor of Science Architecture (1974) University of Sydney, Australia

Bachelor of Architecture (1997 Hons Class 1) University of Sydney, Australia

Registered Architect, NSW Australia 4878 Director of Health habitat Pty Ltd

Health Habitat has received TheInternational Union of Architects (UIA) Vassilis Sgoutas prize(2008)

Principle of Paul Pholeros Architects since 1984

Adjunct Professor of Architecture, University of Sydney, Australia

The Australian Institute of Architects National Leadership in Sustainability prize (2011)

Vice President Emergency Architects Australia

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In October 2011 was presented with the UN World Habitat Award at the UN World Habitat

Architectural practice skills and 25 years experience in environmental health work with the other two founding directors of HealtHabitat.

Years involved with Housing for Health work (including R&D work).

25 years starting as a member of the Uwankara Palyanku Kanyintjaku (UPK) environmental health review in central Australia to the current times of a large national Housing for Health program and the spread of the work internationally.

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HE BELIEVES..

The work must be built around people. Those doing the work and those who we are working with. Technical skill and raising the technical standards of all aspects of the work is important. Assume nothing Good housing/ health policy ultimately comes from good work proven in the field not from government. Government may occasionally adopt the policy direction after it has been proven. Local indigenous people have the greatest interest in the principles and detail of the work as they have the greatest to gain by the work being successful. Complex problems linking health and the living environment require multi disciplinary teams of people to provide the best solutions.HH has assembled such a team of people

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Hari P. Dhungana
Dr. Dhungana is the Executive Director of South Asia Institute of Advanced Studies which is a recently established research institution based in Kathmandu. He leads SIAS-ASD fellowship program that seeks to nurture community of practice of young, mid-career policy researchers in Nepal. He is member-secretary of Nepal Policy Research Network, which coordinates exchanges amongst and between policy researchers and other stakeholders in Nepal through policy dialogues, policyrelevant social science research, journal publication and Nepal Policy Net webportal as a knowledge repository of public policy resources.

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Hari has PhD in International Development within which his research was concerned with social justice in relation to natural resources governance.

He teaches South Asia Regional Development and Politics in South Asia at the Masters in Development Studies course at College of Development Studies.

He is in the editing team of three journals: New Angle: Nepal Journal of Social Science and Public Policy; Journal ofForest and Livelihoods, andHamro Ban Sampada.

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Dr. Andrea Nightingale

RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Geography and the Lived Environment RESEARCH INTERESTS: Political ecology; nature-society; economic and social development in Scotland, South Asia and Latin America; feminist geography; subjectivity and environment; common property resources; rural studies.

BSc (Bates Coll), MA, PhD (Minnesota) Lecturer in Environmental Geography; Admissions Advisor (MA Geography) University of Edinburgh

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Global environmental change is projected to cause an increase in violent conflict due to a reduction in productive resources in areas of the world already coping with food security and resource degradation issues. Her work cuts through this debate with a political economy and social justice critique to suggest the drivers of conflict and environmental change are more complex. Following from statistical work that demonstrates there is no relationship between environmental change and civil wars in Africa, She takes an ethnographic look at how societies, violence and environments co-emerge. She seeks to understand how environmental change and societies are coconstituted, creating particular possibilities for conflict, peace and transformation of socio-natures.

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Journal Articles

Nightingale, A.J. (2011) Beyond Design Principles: subjectivity, emotion and the (ir)rational commons, Society and Natural Resources 24:2. Nightingale, A.J. (2010) Bounding Difference: the embodied production of gender, caste and space, Geoforum special issue on gender and environment 42:2

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Meghal Arya
AREAS OF INTEREST: Specialization Understanding the spatial concepts in traditional Indian architecture Architecture in transit Islamic architecture RESEARCH / PUBLICATIONS: Work on courtyards exhibited in several US universities under Feminist 4/12/12

Assistant Professor Faculty of Architecture, CEPT university Academic Qualifications 1998 M. Arch 1999 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA 1996 Dip. Arch (5 year degree level) School of Architecture 1997 CEPT 1998Ahmedabad, India

Practices

Prepared drawings of Fatehpur Sikri published in Fatehpur Sikri, where spaces touch perfection. VDG Publication, Germany Idea of Ideology - Research thesis for undergraduate degree, Aug 95 - Sept. 96; Every year two outstanding documents were published by School of Architecture, CEPT, Ahmedabad.

Books: Designing and production management

-Thematic Space in Indian architecture, Prof. Kulbhushan Jain ed. 2002

-Architecture of the Indian desert; Minakshi & Kulbhushan Jain 2000 4/12/12

Ajay Suri
Ajay Suri is an economist and an Urban Sector Expert, with extensive experience in developing need-based housing and urban sector programmes and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system in various states and cities in India, South Asia (Nepal and Maldives), Africa (Kenya), West Asia (Lebanon) and Central Asia (Iran). As Regional Adviser, South Asia, Cities Alliance, Ajay has developed a project portfolio in India to provide knowledge support on policy issues to ministries of urban development, and housing and urban poverty.

He has expertise in assessment of peoples economic and shelter conditions, income, savings and expenditure behavior, perception of development needs and their plans on development of shelter and income generation activities. These assessments provide inputs for formulation of need-based strategies and programmes mainly

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ORGANIZATION Cities Alliance JOB TITLE Regional Adviser, South Asia COUNTRY EXPERIENCE Developing slum upgrading approaches and housing plans SECTOR EXPERIENCE Government, Academic and Training Institutes, Non-Profit Sector, Donor Agency FOCUS AREAS Financing upgrading and affordable housing, Participation in Planning Implementation and Post-Occupation, Evidence-Based Urban Planning Innovation and Technologies in Slum Upgrading and Affordable Housing INTERESTED IN Learning and sharing knowledge on scaling up upgrading

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Colin McFarlane
Colin McFarlane is an urban geographer based at Durham University in the UK. His research focuses on the relations between learning, materiality and inequality.

There are two inter-related strands to this. First, to understand how sanitation is experienced within different informal settlements on an everyday basis, particularly in Mumbai, and to identify implications for policy and academic debate. Second, to understand the experience of learning in how residents cope with, advance their prospects in, and resist the city, and to use that as a basis for understanding everyday life and inequality.

Durham University, UK

He aims to develop this research through comparative work internationally that focuses on how housing and infrastructure within different informal settlements are materially produced. He is author of Learning the city: knowledge and 4/12/12 translocal assemblage (2011).

AMILIA MAXWELL
Amelia Maxwell is currently a law student at the University of Sydney with core interests in development, urban planning and poverty alleviation. Prior to undertaking law Amelia completed a Bachelor of Economics and a Masters of Urban and Regional Planning. In completing her masters she was awarded the Planning Institute of Australia award for most proficient student planner, the NSW Department of Planning Prize for the best student graduating in the course and the Planning Research Centre Prize. In 2009 Amelia spent two months in India working with Opportunity International Australia and researching microfinance plus as a poverty alleviation tool. This research formed part of her masters dissertation. Amilia has also spent time studying development, human rights and environment in Nepal.

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EDUCATION University of Sydney Bachelor of Laws 2006 2011 Activities and Societies: 2008 Sydney University Law Revue University of Sydney Masters of Urban and Regional Planning (Honors) 2009 2010 University of Sydney Bachelor of Economics 2006 2008

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EXPERIENCE Research Analyst, Hill PDA Property Consultancy Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry Currently holds this position Intern, EDAW Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Architecture & Planning industry 2009 2009 (less than a year) Student Placement - Contracting Standards and Governance NSW Procurement Department of Services, Technology & Administration Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry 2008 2009 (1 year) Paralegal Free hills Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Law Practice industry, 2007 2008 (1 year)

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CHRIS JOHNSON
Chris Johnson served as the NSW Government Architect for 10 years. He intitated the State Governments Houses for the Future 2004 project to explore more sustainable alternatives to suburban housing. Four full-size size houses, including a cardboard house, were built in downtown Sydney with the aim of getting the public to think differently about housing. Johnson subsequently became executive director in the NSW Department of Planning, and has been recently appointed CEO of the Urban Taskforce.

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Johnson has written or edited 14 books on urban planning and architecture. His edited books on Indian urbanism include the 2008 Connecting Cities: India (a research publication for the Metropolis Congress) and Indian Cities: Managing Urban Growth (2011) with NIUA and Metropolis. He is the recipient of a 2011 NSW Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship, and will study Indian urbanism. He has been an Adjunct Professor at three Sydney universities.Chris Johnson oversaw the transformation of the office from a bureaucracy to an office run on a fully commercial basis.

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During his term as Government Architect, Johnson strengthened the profile of the role in the public perception. During the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 he established a design review panel and a design directorate to oversee the design and procurement of the public domain for Sydney Olympic Park and other significant projects. A range of important projects were designed in the office, most noticeably the Conservatorium of Music (2002), the upgrade of Circular Quay (2002) and the upgrading of George Street and Railway Square(2000). Another major achievement was the "Houses of the Future Exhibition" during the Year of the Built

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ANUPAMA KUNDOO
The architecture practice began in 1990 with a strong focus on material research with the view of reducing the environmental impact of building technologies. An innovative approach to architecture is supported by intensive research and experimentation from the development of building technologies and integration of energy and water-efficient infrastructure solutions to building prototypes that are environmentally sound and socio-economically beneficial. EDUCATION 2005 - 2008 Doctoral Studies Thesis: Building with Fire. Baked-Insitu Mud Houses of India. Evolution and Analysis of Ray Meekers Experiments, Technische Universitt, Berlin 1996 - 1997 Vastu Shilpa Research Fellowship, Thesis: Urban EcoCommunity: Design and Analysis for Sustainability, Vastu Shilpa Foundation, Ahmedabad 1984 - 1989 Bachelor of Architecture degree with First Class Honours, Sir J.J. College of Architecture, 4/12/12 University of Bombay

AWARDS 2003 Architect of the Year Award, Category Group Housing, JK Cement, India 2001 Honorable Mention Young Enthused Architect Category, A+D Awards, India 2000 Architect of the Future, Indian Architect + Builder Award, India 1999 Architect of the Year Award, Category Young Architect, Focus State TN, India RELEVANT CONSULTANCIES AND POSTS 2002 - 2004 Sustainable Design Consultant to ICAEN, (Institute of energy, Catalunya, Spain), in partnership with the municipalities of London and the state of Haryana in India 2004 Associate, Indian Institute of Architects2004 2003 Jury Member, IIID Award for Interior Design, Indian Institute of Interior Design 2003 Jury Member, Louis Kahn Trophy, National Association of Students of Architecture at Chennai 1996 - 2006 Chief executive of Kolam, an Architectural Design and Construction Unit set up under the Auroville Foundation, Auroville, 4/12/12 India

SHEELA PATEL
Sheela Patel is the founder and Director of Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC), an NGO established in 1984 to address the problems of women pavement dwellers in Mumbai. She was a key figure in the building up of Mahila Milan, a decentralized network of collectives of women living on pavements and in slums in different parts of India, that brings women together around savings and credit activities while augmenting their capacities to interact with the larger world of government and formal institutions with regard to secure shelter and basic amenities in slums.

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The alliance of SPARC, Mahila Milan and the National Slum Dwellers Federation, another people's organization, collectively tackles urban poverty by strengthening grassroots groups of the poor themselves. Under Patels leadership, SPARC has catalyzed the construction of housing for over 8,500 families and over 500,000 toilets and latrines, with programs in 70 cities in India. Patel is also the Chair of Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI), an international network of poor people's organizations and the NGOs that support them, which emerged from the Indian experience and is now active in several countries in Asia and Africa. In September 2009, she received the prestigious 2009 David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award from the Synergos Institute in New York in recognition of her efforts to ameliorate urban poverty. 4/12/12

HEMANT OJHA
Position: Governance Specialist Organization: Forest Action Nepal Address: P O Box 12207, Kathmandu Nepal Website: My website Affiliation: Non-Governmental Highest Degree: PhD Interests: Community Forestry

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Dr Ojha has over 15 years of experience in research studies and development actions. He is the founder of Forest Action Nepal and continues to be its advisor. He has worked as researcher/specialist/consultant for several Nepal-based and international agencies. He did doctoral research in Development Studies (with a focus on Natural Resource Governance) from School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. His current research works include natural resource governance and social justice, deliberative processes in the context of environmental policy-making, community based forest governance, adaptive co-management of ecosystems, protected area and local people, participatory action research methodologies, and local and meso level forest governance. His research works span a wide range of geographic regions Nepal, South Asia, Himalayas, SouthEast Asia, and West Africa. He has written and edited over a dozen scientific papers, as well as several practitioner-oriented products such as manuals, guidebooks and policy briefs.

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He has published peer-reviewed papers and articles in various international journals such as Policy and Society, International Development Planning Review, International Journal of Social Economics, International Forestry Review, Forestry Chronicle, and Policy Matters on diverse topics, encompassing policy, institutions, knowledge systems, resource management, conflict, and livelihoods. He co-edited a book Knowledge Systems and Natural Resources: Management, Institutions and Policy in Nepal which is published (2007) by Cambridge University Press India in collaboration with International Development Research Center (IDRC) of Canada. He has written a book on Reframing Governance: Understanding Deliberative Politics in Nepals Terai Forestry (Adroit, India).

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SHAGUN MEHROTRA
Assistant Professor, the New School Director, Climate and Cities New York Shagun Mehrotra is an Assistant Professor at Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy. His research, teaching, and policy advice focus on climate change, infrastructure economics and finance, and poverty reduction in cities, particularly in large developing-country slums. Shagun established Climate and Cities, an international policy advisory facility jointly housed at The Earth Institute, Columbia University, and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Previously, he was on the staff of the World Bank, leading infrastructure reform of public utilities in Africa with a focus on expanding services to the urban poor. Shagun has a PhD in Infrastructure Economics and Urban Planning from Columbia University, New York. Over the last decade, his research and advice has been sought by national and local governments in Latin America, East Africa, SouthEast Asia, China, and India; as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has authored and co-authored articles and two books, 4/12/12 including Climate Change and Cities (Cambridge University Press,

GEETAM TIWARI
TRIPP Chair Professor, Department of Civil engineering, IIT Delhi Dr. Geetam Tiwari obtained her B. Arch form the IIT Roorkee and Master of Urban Planning and Policy, and Ph.D. in Transport Planning and Policy, from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Currently she is TRIPP Chair Professor for Transport Planning at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Adlerbretska Guest Professor for sustainable urban transport at the 4/12/12 Chalmers University of Technology,

She has extensive research experience in dealing with transportation issues of special relevance to low income countries. These include development of bus systems and road designs that would make transportation efficient and safer. She has been working in the area of traffic and transport planning focusing on pedestrians, bicycles and bus based public transport systems. Some of her projects include Development of a Bicycle Master plan for Delhi, analysis of traffic on Indian Highways, crash analysis on rural and urban roads, public transport planning. She has published over 70 research papers on transportation planning and safety in national and international journals, peer reviewed seminar proceedings and edited four books on transportation planning and road safety. Dr Tiwari received the International Velocity Falco Lecture Prize in Barcelona, the Stockholm Partnerships award for local impact, innovative thinking and a potential for replication or transferability, the Centre for excellence grant from Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF), and the Prince Michaels award for promoting road safety research. She is advisor to Urban Age series of conferences coordinated by London School of Economics 4/12/12 since 2005. She is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Injury Control

CHAWANAD (NAD) LUANSANG

Were the founder and director of the Bangkok-based Open space Community Architects, an organization of community architects who revolutionized the approach to rural and urban community revitalization by empowering villagers and slum-dwellers to lead, facilitate and expand their community activism beyond the revitalization process. An Ashoka Fellow in 2008 in the field of civic engagement he works for the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) and has been active in establishing ACCA (Asian Coalition for Community Action). ACCA is engaged in slum upgrading in 107 Asian cities in and has developed the Young Professionals Program. The YPP has been created to give opportunities to young professionals to work with urban poor communities. ACHR/ACCA is represented in Design

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MADHUSREE SEKHAR
Designation: Associate Professor, TISS Affiliation Centre for Study of Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policies, School of Social Sciences Qualification M.A. (Bhubaneswar) Ph.D. (Bangalore), Post Doctoral Research (World BankRobert McNamara Fellow) Areas of Interest: Institutions, resource use/access and inclusive growth, Local organizations, decentralization and participatory governance, Common Property Resources (CPRs) and environmental governance

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SUNIL DUBEY
Faculty Member, Architecture, Design & Planning Other Affiliations: Metropolis, Metropolis Advisor, India Lecturer & Research Associate RESEARCH AREA Governance and Management of Public Assets Competitive Urban Indicators for commonwealth countries Management of Government RE Assets PRACTICE AREA RE Asset Management Advisory - Urban Competiveness & Administrative RE frameworks for Public 4/12/12 Agencies