Go Green It S Work

Academic Programme

National Seminar on

MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT IN INDIA

October 23-24, 2010

Venue

Conference hall of Guru Nanak Auditorium

Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar-143005

Day I: Saturday the 23rd day of October, 2010

Inaugural Session

Registration 0900 hrs

Welcome Speech

Dr Rajinder Singh Bawa 0930 hrs Chairman, Advisory Council

IntroductoryRemarks

Dr. Gursharan Singh Kainth 0940 hrs

Director, GAD Institute of Development Studies

Inaugural Address 0950hrs

Dr K. Kasturirangan

Member, Planning Commission,

New Delhi

Guest of Honour

Mr. S C Kaushiak, 1140 hrs

Chief General Manager

NABARD

Chandigarh

Symposium/Key Note Address

Dr. Katar Singh 1030hrs

Chairman

Indian Natural Resource Economics and Management Foundation

Anand

Presidential Address

Professor Jyoti Parikh 1115 hrs

Executive Director

Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe)

New Delhi

Release of Publication 1130 hrs

Vote of Thank 1200 hrs

Dr M S Gill,

GAD Trustee

Day I: Saturday the 23rd day of October, 2010

Technical Sessions-I

SUSTAINABILITY OF WATER RESOURCES

Chairman: Dr R P S Malik Rapporteurs: Dr D C Sharma International Water Management Institute National Bank for Agricultural and New Delhi Rural Development, Chandigarh

1. Vishwa Ballabh and Shikha Pandey(Key paper)

Challenges of Water Governancein India: Experience of two Decades of Reform

2. K Palanisami(Key paper)

Micro Irrigation Adoption in India: Economics and Constraints

3. B K Sahu

Sectoral Allocation and Pricing Policy for Groundwater Resources

4. Aftab Zaman

Integrated Water Resources Management for Agricultural Sustainability

5. Om Prakash, Dev Narayan and H Biswas

Participatory Watershed management for food security and resource conservation in Bundelkhand region – a case study

6. Bibhu Datta Nayak

Participatory Watershed Development: Critical Areas for Sustainability

A case study of Murumkheda Watershed

7. K V Devi Prasad and Susan Varghese

Groundwater Markets in the Veedur Dam Command Area

8. Amarjit Singh Bhullar

Food Security and Climate Change Induced Stress on Water Demand and Adaption Measures in Foodgrain Region of India

9. Nibedita Ghosh, Madhuri Rishi, Kamaldeep, Renu, Parul Virk

Management of Groundwater through Artificial Recharge of Ghanaur Block,

10. Kamaldeep kaur, Madhuri Rishi,Ranjna Sharma, Renu Lata,Nibedita Ghosh and Parul Virk

Impact of industrialization on Ground water quality in Parts of District Solan, Himachal Pradesh

11 Malik Dharampal

Optimization of Natural Resources for Sustainable Crop Production

12. Venu and Madhuri S Rishi

Groundwater Salinity in Barnala Block of Sangrur: A Case Study

13. K Palanisami

Social Rate of Investment in well investment and watershed programme in India

14. Kadir Mohan

Irrigation Subsidies in canal Irrigation; How to distribute among multiple uses

15. Anup Das

Water management techniques of hill regions of India

16. Ms Ramesh Vidya

Capacity Building of the farmers in water Management: Success Stories from States.

17. Deepak Das, M.Sankaranarayanan and R.Udhayakumar

Impact of Dry Season and Tillage Practices on Soil Moisture in Kigali, Rwanda, Africa

18. Jharna Pathak

Poverty Reduction and the Community Management of Natural Resources in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh

19. A Baskarn, S Balasubramanyan, S Parthiban and N Ramamoorthi

Assessment of Growth mechanismset by induction of water stress and application of growth regulators in Acid Lime (Citrus aurantifolia Swingle)

20. A Baskarn,S Balasubramanyan, S Parthiban and N Ramamoorthi

Regulation of Flowering and fruit set by induction of water stress and spraying of growth regulators on acid lime (Citrus aurantifolia Swimngle)

21. M Thilagavathui and M Chandrasekaran

Impact Assessment of Sodic soils on crop productivity changes in Southern Tamil Nadu

Technical Session-II

DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY

Chairman: Dr K S Verma Rapporteurs: Sh. N J S Randhawa

Head, Department of Environmental Sciences Divisional Forest Officer

Dr Y S Parmar University of Forestry &Horticulture Amritsar Solan

1 S P Vasudeva (Key paper)

Natural Resource Management for Faster and Inclusive Growth

2. L K Jha

Sustainable land use in North East mountainous areas (foot hills and hills/mountains) vis a vis modern technology

3. Gursharan Singh Kainth

Towards An Economic Approach to Sustainable Forest Development

4. Vidhyavathi A and C Sekhar

Valuing Intangible Benefits of Forest Resources: Application of Stated and Revealed Preference method

5. David Lehar, Nir Becker and Pua Bar

The Economic Impact of the Invasion of Acacia Saligna in Israel and the Optimal Management Strategy

6. Manish Mishra

Climate Change and Its Impact on Forest and Dependent Local Communities: A Case ofTwo Tribal Communities of Central India.

7. Rajamannar Ragupathy and V Rama Koti Reddy

Studies on Citrus Based Agro Forestry System in Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu

8. Yenneti Komalirani and Joshi Gauravkumar

Carbon Sequestration Potential of Mangroves in India: A Case of Kachchh District in Gujarat

9. Ipsita Chatterjee

Present and Future of Mangrove Forests and Sunder Ban Delta: An Environmental Study

10. Nayak Dipti,V Upadhayay and B Puri

Economic Valuation of Mangrove Wetland

11. Shreyas Shrivastava

Common Property and State Property: effective management of forest land and othet resources

12. Digambar Abaji Chimankar

Management of Common Property Resources in India

13. Ashish Agnihotri and Sabiha Alam

Natural Resources and Gender Responsive Participatory Watershed managements

14. L K Jha

Pernicious system of shifting cultivation in Meghalaya: eco-restoration measures for its management on sustainable basis

15. Gursharan Singh Kainth

Status and Institutional Arrangement of Bamboo Production in India

16. S N Megeri and R Veena

Statistical Model for Height of Different Tree Species and the Field Crop in the Agro Forestry System

17. R B Naik and H S Anil Kumar

Evaluation of Statistical Models for Timber Cost Forecasting: A Case Study of Dandeli, Karnataka

Day II:Sunday the 24th October 2010

Technical Session-III

ENVIRONMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Chairman: Dr B K Sahu Rapporteurs:Dr M S Gill

Department of Earth Science Department of Sociology

Indian Institute of Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University

Mumbai Amritsar

1. M N Murty (Key paper)

Design of Economic Instruments and Participatory Institutions for Environmental Management in India

2. Gursharan Singh Kainth

Environment and Education:A Pathway to Sustainability

3. Anil Kumar Gupta

Strategic and Analytical instruments for Natural Resource Management and Their Interpretation with Disaster Management and Development.

4. Surya Parkash

Towards Safer Sustainable Environment through Management of Natural Resources Disasters And Development

5. Mahima Jain

Indian’s Response to India’s Disaster

6. S P Singh

Sustainable Development and Management of Natural Resources and Environment

7. Subhash Chandra

World Peace and Sustainable Development: A Spiritual Dimensions

8. Noor Mohammad

Human Rights and Environment Interface: A Close Look for Sustainable Development

9. Nidhi Nagabhatla, Shalini Mishra, Max Finlayson, Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu and Martin Van Brakel

A Case Study Approach to Demonstrate Challenges in Participatory Environmental Governance in Multiple Resource Systems

10. Anjali Dewan

Environment and Sustainable Development- New Challenges, Paradigm Shift With a Vision for Future

11. Swami Prakash Srivastava

Role of Natural Resources Management in Sustainability of India’s Environment

12. Amarjit Singh Sethi and Navpreet Kaur

Environmental Degradation: A Case Study of Ambient Air Quality in Punjab

13.S K Chauhan and H R Sharma

Socio-Cultural, Ecological and Indigenous Practices Affecting Management of Natural Resources and Life Styles In Spiti Valley of Trans Himalayan Region

14. B L Gagga and R S Mertia

Management of Natural resources for Sustainable agricultural Production in Arid Region of Rajasthan

15. A V Ramanjaneyulu,T L Neelima, S Ravi Kumar, C N Reddy and T V K Singh

Indian Agriculture Dependence on Agro Chemicals: Consequences and Abatement Strategies

16. Asmita Bhatatcharyya

Environmental Dimension of Respiratory Problems: A Case Study of North Kolkata

17. Bhola Nath Ghosh

Consequences of Industrialization Efforts in Singur

18. Kuldep Singh Dhingra and Vinod Kumar Garg

Biomedical Waste Management

19. Renu lata, Madhuri Rishi, Nibedita Ghosh, kamaldeep and Venu

Environmental Impact of Satluj based Hydroelectric Power projects

20 Ron Ton

Why MTBE should be banned in petrol or gasoline?

21Thomas George and Alfred Santa Molison

Peoples Biodiversity Register – A Case Study of Kumily Grama Panchayat, Idukki District, Kerala State

22. Amandeep Bhatti

Go Green Build Green

Day II: Sunday the 24th October 2010

Technical Session-IV

CLIMATIC CHANGE: CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES

Chairperson: Dr Veena Khanduri Rapporteurs: Dr P S Raikhy

Adviser, India Water Partnership, Punjab School of Economics

New Delhi Guru Nanak Dev University,Amritsar

1. Vinod Kumar Sharma (Key paper)

Climate Change Adaption and Mitigation-Role of Academic Institutions in India

2.Sheikh Md. Monzural Huq

Climate change, vulnerability and community resilience: a study on community based adaption to climate change in Bangladesh

3.S. Suresh Kumar

Climate Change – Scope for Studies through Statistical Methods

4. Sandeep Singh and P S Raikhy

Economics of Climatic Change: Indian Perspective

5. Anjula Gurtoo

Climate Change Imperatives and Indian Rural Development

6. Gursharan Singh Kainth

Role of ICT to Combat Climate Change

7. A R S Bhat and K M Chikkesh Kumar

Development of an Agro Meteorological Models for the Estimation of Crop Yield

8. Aashish Verma and Anjani Singh Tomar

Climate Change in India and Its Effect on Agriculture

9.Krisshna G Saraswat and Priyawansh S Depawat

Concept of New Strapping Mechanism of Climate Finance

10. Ashalatha K V and Kavitha B

Effect of weather parameters on Soyabean Yield in Dharwad

11. Swati Rao and Juhi Souran

Climate Change- From Effect to Adaption: Experience of Developing Countries

12. Ahmad, Jamil

Climate Change and its Impact on Indian economy

13. Ganapati Mukri, B D Biradar, G M Sajjanar, D S Uppar and P M Salimath

Influence of Dates of Sowing on Different Phenotypic Characters in Rabi Sorghum

14. Shambu Ghatak

Revisiting Malthus and His Critiques

15. Saad Ullah Khan

Role of Strategic Climate Policy in Confronting Climate Change

16. Suwa Lal Jangu and Sumitra Choudhary

Sustainable Agriculture Development and Climate Change: Perspective and Prospects

Valedictory Session

Convenor: Dr Rampartap Singh Chairman: ProfN. K. Singh

Former Vice Chancellor Former-Chairman

Maha Rana Pratap University International Airport Authority of India of Agriculture and Technology New Delhi