From t.chatterji at uq.edu.au Mon Sep 5 06:25:07 2011 From: t.chatterji at uq.edu.au (Tathagata Chatterji) Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 10:55:07 +1000 Subject: [Urbanstudy] Vacant Position - Visiting Fellow in Planning Message-ID: <5AEF5CC787678D41B2F5B14877DE935A0545B369FB@UQEXMB01.soe.uq.edu.au> If anybody is interested ---------- Thanks and regards Tathagata Chatterji School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management The University of Queensland | St Lucia Queensland 4072 | Australia Phone:+61 (0)7 3365 8340 | Fax +61 (0)7 3346 7667 | Email: t.chatterji at uq.edu.au Internet: http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/ CRICOS Provider Code 00025B [cid:image001.jpg at 01CC6BBA.4666E7E0] [cid:image002.jpg at 01CC6BBA.4666E7E0] [https://secure.pageuppeople.com/people/537/people/296756/header_academic.jpg] Visiting Fellow in Planning Job No.: 492385 Area: Faculty of Science Salary: Unpaid Academic Work type: Full Time - Fixed Term Location: St Lucia The School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management is a vibrant, multidisciplinary School and is part of the Faculty of Science, located on the St Lucia campus (Brisbane) of the University of Queensland. It has extensive teaching and research programs covering the fields of Geography, Environmental Management and Planning and has 37 academic staff, and 17 administrative and technical staff. The School has a strong research profile and enjoys an excellent success rate in nationally competitive grants and has a solid record of high quality publications. The Planning program has research and teaching strengths in human settlements, community resilience, urban planning policy and practice and environmental management. The program is particularly interested in building on its strengths in environmental, economic, community and governance aspects of sustainable human settlements. The Program seeks to emphasise application-related research and has close links to the Geography and Environmental Management programs within the School. The role This person will actively participate in the daily activities of the School and wider University community through established and emerging research and teaching programs, School seminar series and through a negotiated contribution to the teaching of first or second year urban planning courses. Opportunities also exist for the Fellow to participate in one of the practice-based urban planning courses that are available at all four undergraduate levels or to make a contribution to selected postgraduate courses. The person Applicants should have a PhD and an established track record in a relevant field of planning and a strong commitment to engaging with students and research collaborators. Remuneration The Fellowship will be offered for approximately 16 to 18 weeks in 2012 (February - June, or July - December) and will include an attractive stipend to cover living expenses and economy class return airfare via the most direct route for the appointee from their home institution. Enquiries To discuss this role please contact Associate Professor Greg Brown on +61 7 3365 56654 (email greg.brown at uq.edu.au). To submit an application for this role, use the Apply button below. All applicants must supply the following documents: Cover letter, Resume and response to the Selection Criteria. For information on completing the application process click here. Application closing date: 10 Oct 2011 11:55pm E. Australia Standard Time To apply for this job, visit University of Queensland. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 28297 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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At a meeting of officials held at the MCC Commissioner’s office this morning, MCC Commissioner K.S. Raikar said that the demolition had been stopped yesterday itself and a show-cause notice had been issued to MCC Assistant Commissioner Thimmappa for permitting to demolish the house. "There are many such assets in the city with heritage value that are in private ownership," he said and felt the need for resources to preserve them for posterity. "R.K. Narayan’s house has not yet been declared as a heritage monument," he said, adding that he had written to the Heritage Commissioner to officially demarcate such assets as "heritage" so that their sale or demolition can be checked by MCC. "If not, there is no provision in the law to prevent builders from buying and rebuilding on such properties," Raikar added. *Demolition stayed* Meanwhile, the MCC has stayed the demolition of the house where R.K. Narayan lived and penned his literary masterpieces for more than 20 years. The authorities concerned, reacting positively to the report published in Star of Mysore yesterday, halted the demolition work that had commenced yesterday morning. A builder who bought the House No. 15 on Vivekananda Road from R.K. Narayan's heirs — granddaughter Bhuvaneshwari aka Minni living in Chennai and grandson Srinivasa living in the US — intended to replace the two-storey house on a 120’x 80’ site with an eight-apartment building. The timely intervention of MCC Commissioner K.S. Raikar — based on the report in SOM which served as an eye-opener — prevented the building from being fully demolished by the workers. Following his orders, Chowdegowda, Joint Director of the Town Planning Wing, MCC, visited the spot in the evening and directed the contractor to stop the demolition work till further orders. The contractor told the officials that necessary clearance and permission had been secured from the MCC. However, the officials directed him to withdraw his workers from the site till further orders. Raikar told SOM this morning that a report about the house and the proposal to conserve it as a heritage monument will be sent to the Heritage Department. "I will also speak to the Heritage Commissioner about the proposal. The heritage department is exclusively set up to deal with such cases. MCC cannot take the ultimate decision in this regard. Besides, resources have to be mobilised," he said. The engineers at the spot said even if the MCC had issued permission to demolish the house, it could be withdrawn and the building license issued to construct the apartment cancelled. Prof. K.C. Belliappa, former VC of Rajiv Gandhi University, Itana-gar and a resident of Mysore, who knew Narayan personally, opined that the house should be preserved and converted into a museum. 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Hakim told members of real estate developers Credai Bengal he was aware that scrapping the act was one of the conditions laid down by the Centre to seek funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. “We need funds under the JNNURM and we know that (doing away with) the land ceiling act is linked to it. But we are a new government and we need more time to take such a critical decision,” the minister said. The act had been enacted with the aim of fixing ceilings and taking over excess land from rich landlords to build housing colonies. It had fixed a ceiling of 500sqm in metros and state capitals. The ceilings for B- and C-grade cities were 1,000sqm and 1,500sqm, respectively. Land held in excess of the ceiling became automatically vested with the government. But in 2000, the Centre recommended that state governments repeal the act so that large chunks of land could be freed for mass housing development. Almost all states scrapped the act by 2001 but the Left Front government refused to do so. For now, the Trinamul-led government seems to be in favour of maintaining status quo on the issue. “The legislation has lost its relevance and is the main deterrent to growth. It has created artificial shortage (of land), thus jacking up prices for consumers. We appeal to the government that the act be scrapped with immediate effect,” said Pradeep Sureka, the president of Credai Bengal. Industry had raised the same demand at a recent interactive session with chief minister Mamata Banerjee. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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While there are plenty of candidates, my vote goes not to the banks, the oil companies or the health insurers, but – wait for it – to academic publishers. Theirs might sound like a fusty and insignificant sector. It is anything but. Of all corporate scams, the racket they run is most urgently in need of referral to the competition authorities. Everyone claims to agree that people should be encouraged to understand science and other academic research. Without current knowledge, we cannot make coherent democratic decisions. But the publishers have slapped a padlock and a "keep out" sign on the gates. You might resent Murdoch's paywall policy, in which he charges £1 for 24 hours of access to the Times and Sunday Times. But at least in that period you can read and download as many articles as you like. Reading a single article published by one of Elsevier's journals will cost you $31.50. Springer charges €34.95, Wiley-Blackwell, $42. Read 10 and you pay 10 times. And the journals retain perpetual copyright. You want to read a letter printed in 1981? That'll be $31.50. Of course, you could go into the library (if it still exists). But they too have been hit by cosmic fees. The average cost of an annual subscription to a chemistry journal is $3,792. Some journals cost $10,000 a year or more to stock. The most expensive I've seen, Elsevier's Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, is $20,930. Though academic libraries have been frantically cutting subscriptions to make ends meet, journals now consume 65% of their budgets, which means they have had to reduce the number of books they buy. Journal fees account for a significant component of universities' costs, which are being passed to their students. Murdoch pays his journalists and editors, and his companies generate much of the content they use. But the academic publishers get their articles, their peer reviewing (vetting by other researchers) and even much of their editing for free. The material they publish was commissioned and funded not by them but by us, through government research grants and academic stipends. But to see it, we must pay again, and through the nose. The returns are astronomical: in the past financial year, for example, Elsevier's operating profit margin was 36% (£724m on revenues of £2bn). They result from a stranglehold on the market. Elsevier, Springer and Wiley, who have bought up many of their competitors, now publish 42% of journal articles. More importantly, universities are locked into buying their products. Academic papers are published in only one place, and they have to be read by researchers trying to keep up with their subject. Demand is inelastic and competition non-existent, because different journals can't publish the same material. In many cases the publishers oblige the libraries to buy a large package of journals, whether or not they want them all. Perhaps it's not surprising that one of the biggest crooks ever to have preyed upon the people of this country – Robert Maxwell – made much of his money through academic publishing. The publishers claim that they have to charge these fees as a result of the costs of production and distribution, and that they add value (in Springer's words) because they "develop journal brands and maintain and improve the digital infrastructure which has revolutionised scientific communication in the past 15 years". But an analysis by Deutsche Bank reaches different conclusions. "We believe the publisher adds relatively little value to the publishing process … if the process really were as complex, costly and value-added as the publishers protest that it is, 40% margins wouldn't be available." Far from assisting the dissemination of research, the big publishers impede it, as their long turnaround times can delay the release of findings by a year or more. What we see here is pure rentier capitalism: monopolising a public resource then charging exorbitant fees to use it. Another term for it is economic parasitism. To obtain the knowledge for which we have already paid, we must surrender our feu to the lairds of learning. It's bad enough for academics, it's worse for the laity. I refer readers to peer-reviewed papers, on the principle that claims should be followed to their sources. The readers tell me that they can't afford to judge for themselves whether or not I have represented the research fairly. Independent researchers who try to inform themselves about important scientific issues have to fork out thousands. This is a tax on education, a stifling of the public mind. It appears to contravene the universal declaration of human rights, which says that "everyone has the right freely to … share in scientific advancement and its benefits". Open-access publishing, despite its promise, and some excellent resources such as the Public Library of Science and the physics database arxiv.org, has failed to displace the monopolists. In 1998 the Economist, surveying the opportunities offered by electronic publishing, predicted that "the days of 40% profit margins may soon be as dead as Robert Maxwell". But in 2010 Elsevier's operating profit margins were the same (36%) as they were in 1998. The reason is that the big publishers have rounded up the journals with the highest academic impact factors, in which publication is essential for researchers trying to secure grants and advance their careers. You can start reading open-access journals, but you can't stop reading the closed ones. Government bodies, with a few exceptions, have failed to confront them. The National Institutes of Health in the US oblige anyone taking their grants to put their papers in an open-access archive. But Research Councils UK, whose statement on public access is a masterpiece of meaningless waffle, relies on "the assumption that publishers will maintain the spirit of their current policies". You bet they will. In the short term, governments should refer the academic publishers to their competition watchdogs, and insist that all papers arising from publicly funded research are placed in a free public database. In the longer term, they should work with researchers to cut out the middleman altogether, creating – along the lines proposed by Björn Brembs of Berlin's Freie Universität –a single global archive of academic literature and data. Peer-review would be overseen by an independent body. It could be funded by the library budgets which are currently being diverted into the hands of privateers. The knowledge monopoly is as unwarranted and anachronistic as the corn laws. 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Organizers: Joel Outtes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, email Outtes at uol.com.br and Betty Smith, Eastern Illinois University, email: besmith at eiu.edu Deadline: September 20, 2011 We invite paper proposals for a session on urban topics in developing areas and internationally to take place at the annual meeting of the AAG (www.aag.org) in New York City, February 24-28, 2012. Papers might explore, but not be limited to Economic restructuring and its spatial impacts Changing urban morphology Transnational linkages Urban hierarchies Historic city centers Urban historical geography Ethnic neighborhoods City planning in Latin America Criminality, urban gangs and the Geography of illegal territories The informal sector Intra-metropolitan mobility The politics of urban environmental problems Population Issues Informal transportation and social conflicts Participatory budget and urban social movements Urban social geography The International Planning Movement The Urban International: the spatiality of international institutions such as the IFHP-International Federation for Housing and Planning, UCLG-United Cities and Local Governments, IULA-International Union of Local Authorities and IHA-International Housing Association alone or in Comparative Perspective After registering for the conference at http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/ and submitting your abstract for a paper session, forward a copy of the abstract and your PIN to: Joel Outtes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, email Outtes at uol.com.br and Betty Smith, Eastern Illinois University, email: besmith at eiu.edu From leo at esgindia.org Thu Sep 8 21:35:05 2011 From: leo at esgindia.org (Leo Saldanha, ESG India) Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:35:05 +0530 Subject: [Urbanstudy] [ESG-LIST] Parliament told that Mahyco/Monsanto will be prosecuted for biopiracy in Bt Brinjal case In-Reply-To: <4E68E705.60904@esgindia.org> References: <4E68E705.60904@esgindia.org> Message-ID: <4E68E7B1.7070208@esgindia.org> Dear Friends: Smt. Jayanti Natarajan, Indian Minister of State for Environment and Forests (Independent Charge), has confirmed in a written reply to Parliament that the National Biodiversity Authority will "proceed as per law" against M/s Monsanto/Mahyco and their collaborators for promoting Bt Brinjal in patent violation of the Biological Diversity Act. The statement was made in the Rajya Sabha yesterday, and a copy of the PIB release is enclosed. As per the Act, criminal prosecution has to be initiated by NBA against all the violators. More details of this case may be accessed at www.esgindia.org. Thank you, Leo Saldanha Bhargavi S. Rao leo at esgindia.org bhargavi at esgindia.org Environment Support Group Bangalore Tel: 91-80-26713559~61 *Ministry of Environment and Forests*06-September, 2011 13:54 IST Funding of NBA on BT. BRINJAL National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) has received a complaint from M/s. Environment Support Group, an NGO on the alleged violation by M/s. Mahyco / M/s. Monsanto and their collaborators for accessing and using the local brinjal varieties for development of Bt Brinjal. NBA has decided to proceed as per law against the alleged violators on the basis of reports of the State Biodiversity Board for accessing and using the local brinjal varieties without prior approval of the competent authority. This information was given by the Minister of State for Environment and Forests (Independent Charge) Shrimati Jayanthi Natarajan in a written reply to a question by Shri M.P. Achuthan And Shri D. Raja in Rajya Sabha today. KP (Release ID :75626) http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=75626 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The statement was made in the Rajya Sabha yesterday, and a copy of the PIB release is enclosed. As per the Act, criminal prosecution has to be initiated by NBA against all the violators. More details of this case may be accessed at www.esgindia.org. Thank you, Leo Saldanha Bhargavi S. Rao leo at esgindia.org bhargavi at esgindia.org Environment Support Group Bangalore Tel: 91-80-26713559~61 *Ministry of Environment and Forests*06-September, 2011 13:54 IST Funding of NBA on BT. BRINJAL National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) has received a complaint from M/s. Environment Support Group, an NGO on the alleged violation by M/s. Mahyco / M/s. Monsanto and their collaborators for accessing and using the local brinjal varieties for development of Bt Brinjal. NBA has decided to proceed as per law against the alleged violators on the basis of reports of the State Biodiversity Board for accessing and using the local brinjal varieties without prior approval of the competent authority. This information was given by the Minister of State for Environment and Forests (Independent Charge) Shrimati Jayanthi Natarajan in a written reply to a question by Shri M.P. Achuthan And Shri D. Raja in Rajya Sabha today. KP (Release ID :75626) http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=75626 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Bangalore_issues mailing list Bangalore_issues at lists.esgindia.org http://lists.esgindia.org/mailman/listinfo/bangalore_issues From anivar.aravind at gmail.com Tue Sep 13 12:45:42 2011 From: anivar.aravind at gmail.com (Anivar Aravind) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:45:42 +0530 Subject: [Urbanstudy] Invite for UID Consultation. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: may be helpful for you Attaching UID For Dummies, a comprehensive documentation prepared by Delhi School of Economics students under the guidance of Reetika & Jean Dreaze On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Ramamurthy KV wrote: > iNVITATION > Dear All > There has been a lot of discussion on UID for the past few months. While > some of us are clear about it, some feel we need to know more about how it > will work, what are the positive and negative impacts of implementing it. > In this regard, the Centre for Advocacy and Research (CFAR) and CIVIC are > holding a half-day consultation on 16th September 2011 at 10:00 am at SCM > House. > Kindly confirm your participation. > We are looking forward to your participation. > Thanks and Regards > K. Sudha and Kathyayini Chamaraj > CFAR and CIVIC > 94820 50981 / 9731817177 > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: UID Primer (10 Sep, final).pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 158793 bytes Desc: not available URL: From kchamaraj at gmail.com Thu Sep 15 00:28:15 2011 From: kchamaraj at gmail.com (Kathyayini Chamaraj) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:28:15 +0530 Subject: [Urbanstudy] CIVIC-CFAR-Invitation: Panel discussion on "UID system: Pros and cons"-Fri, 16.9.11, 10 AM -1PM In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: CIVIC & CFAR have great pleasure in inviting you to a panel discussion on *Unique ID System: Pros and Cons * *Panelists* * * *Sri Ashok Dalwai* *Deputy Director, UIDAI* * * *Sri T. Prabhakar* *PRO, E-governance Dept., GoK* * * *Sri Somasekhar V.K.* *Managing Trustee, Grahak Shakti* * * *Sri Mathew Thomas* *Civic activist* * * *Date: Friday, 16th September 2011* *Time: 10.00 AM to 1.30 PM * *Venue: Students’ Christian Movement of India *** *(SCM House)* *29, 2nd Cross, CSI Mission Compound, Off Mission Road* *Opposite Mitralaya School, Near Subbaiah Circle,* *Bangalore 560027* * * *All are welcome*** * * *CIVIC Bangalore (Citizens' Voluntary Initiative for the City of Bangalore)* *# 6, Kasturi Apartments, 35/23 Langford Road Cross, Shanthinagar, Bengaluru 560025* *Tel: 22110584/Telefax: 41144126, (M) 97318 17177* *Web: www.civicspace.in / Email: **info at civicspace.in* * * * * *Centre for Advocacy and Research (CFAR)* *No.2, 6th Main, Narayanappa Block, R.T.Nagar, Bangalore-560032* *Tel: 080-41511821/41512949, (M) 9482050981* *Web: www.cfar.org.in/ Email ID: cfarupap at gmail.com * ** *Programme schedule* * * * * *Time* *Particulars* 10.00 AM – 10.15AM Tea and registration 10.15 AM - 10.30AM Welcome & objectives – CIVIC and CFAR 10.30 AM-12.00 noon *Presentation by Panelists* · Sri Somasekhar, V.K. · Sri Mathew Thomas · Sri T. Prabhakar · Sri Ashok Dalwai 12.00 noon-12.40PM Open discussion 12.40 PM- 01.00 PM Chairperson*’s remarks (*To be confirmed) 01.00 PM-01.30 PM Vote of thanks and lunch Kathyayini Chamaraj Executive Trustee 97318 17177 CIVIC Bangalore #6 Kasturi Apts. 35/23 Langford Road Cross Shanthinagar Bangalore 560025 Tel: 080-22110584 Telefax: 080-41144126 info at civicspace.in www.civicspace.in * * * * -- Kathyayini Chamaraj Executive Trustee 97318 17177 CIVIC Bangalore #6 Kasturi Apts. 35/23 Langford Road Cross Shanthinagar Bangalore 560025 Tel: 080-22110584 Telefax: 080-41144126 info at civicspace.in www.civicspace.in -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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As per the Water Audit Programme undertaken by NMC under JNNURM, the pilot project was to be completed by September 2009. The project was to cover just 20,000 consumers in a single zone. However, NMC and its operator - Veolia Water (India) Private Limited - have failed to complete the work till date. Now the project will be implemented in the rest of the city, comprising around four lakh consumers across nine zones. This project was to commence from April 2009 and completed by April 2012, so it is far behind schedule and the funds. One of the main motive of the scheme is improvement of public health by providing fresh water round the clock. Experts say this requires a two-pronged strategy - first there should be 24 hours water supply in the pipeline to prevent any seepage, and second, people should use water directly from the tap instead of storing it, since stored water is prone to contamination. Though NMC is apparently maintaining 24 hours water supply in pipelines in pilot project area, around 70% pipelines are old, says a report by the Administrative State College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad. Also, the people covered under the scheme are not using water directly from the tap and instead following the old practice of storage. Consumers have also expressed apprehensions about high bills and stoppage of water supply by closing the valves installed before the water meters. Under the scheme, NMC has installed a valve before the water meter, to stop water supply whenever anyone wants to undertake some cleaning or repair work. After protests by people, NMC directed the private operator to rectify the problem. A team of the private operator went to households that received high bills and asked them to replace internal water pipelines to stop leakage and prevent high bills. They also advised families to close the valve to prevent high bills till the repair work is done. Interestingly, very few consumers have actually replaced the internal pipelines. Most of them are happy to close the valve after storing water, as this automatically stops the water supply and the meter. Despite this, however, the issue of faulty or fast moving meters and high bills persists. Experts said that this warrants a new approach, instead of stopgap measures like turning off the valve. The ASCI report also confirms NMC is providing 24X7 water supply to only 50% consumers out of the targeted 20,000 consumers. NMC has also failed to meet the vital target of reducing water losses. As per Water Audit Programme, water losses were to be reduced from 50% to 25% after 24X7 implementation. The JNNURM norms says water losses should be below 15%. As per the ASCI report, water losses have come down to 38% from 50% in the 24X7 area, though this is almost 13 points more than the target and 23 points more than JNNURM norms. Without rectifying these shortcomings, it would not be wise to extend the 24X7 scheme to the entire city, experts and people feel. BOX NMC not testing new meters NMC has not followed the routine practice of check new meters at its meter testing centre at water works department's head office at Dharampeth before installing them as part of 24X7 water supply pilot project. If licensed plumbers are to be believed, every meter is tested before installation in other parts of the city, except in Dharampeth zone. The meters installed in the pilot project were imported and manufactured by Actaris Company. These meters have not been used in any other part of the city, and were installed in pilot project without testing, they allege. Irate over a number of problems in pilot project, various social organizations have demanded an audit of pilot project from reputed institutions like NEERI or VNIT. However, NMC has paid no attention to these demands. 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Today's Topics: 1. CFP AAG 2012: Cities and Urban Regions in LatinAmerica and/or International Urban Issues (Joel Outtes) 2. [ESG-LIST] Parliament told that Mahyco/Monsanto will be prosecuted for biopiracy in Bt Brinjal case (Leo Saldanha, ESG India) 3. [Blore/Regional Issues] Parliament told that Mahyco/Monsanto will be prosecuted for biopiracy in Bt Brinjal case (Leo Saldanha, ESG India) 4. Re: Invite for UID Consultation. (Anivar Aravind) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 18:01:47 -0300 From: "Joel Outtes" To: "Joel Outtes" Subject: [Urbanstudy] CFP AAG 2012: Cities and Urban Regions in LatinAmerica and/or International Urban Issues Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Call for Papers Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, www.aag.org, New York, USA, February 24-28, 2012. Sessions: 1) Cities and Urban Regions in Latin America; 2) International Institutions and/or Urban and Planning Issues. Organizers: Joel Outtes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, email Outtes at uol.com.br and Betty Smith, Eastern Illinois University, email: besmith at eiu.edu Deadline: September 20, 2011 We invite paper proposals for a session on urban topics in developing areas and internationally to take place at the annual meeting of the AAG (www.aag.org) in New York City, February 24-28, 2012. Papers might explore, but not be limited to Economic restructuring and its spatial impacts Changing urban morphology Transnational linkages Urban hierarchies Historic city centers Urban historical geography Ethnic neighborhoods City planning in Latin America Criminality, urban gangs and the Geography of illegal territories The informal sector Intra-metropolitan mobility The politics of urban environmental problems Population Issues Informal transportation and social conflicts Participatory budget and urban social movements Urban social geography The International Planning Movement The Urban International: the spatiality of international institutions such as the IFHP-International Federation for Housing and Planning, UCLG-United Cities and Local Governments, IULA-International Union of Local Authorities and IHA-International Housing Association alone or in Comparative Perspective After registering for the conference at http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/ and submitting your abstract for a paper session, forward a copy of the abstract and your PIN to: Joel Outtes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, email Outtes at uol.com.br and Betty Smith, Eastern Illinois University, email: besmith at eiu.edu ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:35:05 +0530 From: "Leo Saldanha, ESG India" To: esglist at lists.esgindia.org, bangalore_issues at lists.esgindia.org, india_research_institutes at lists.esgindia.org, corporate_list at lists.esgindia.org Subject: [Urbanstudy] [ESG-LIST] Parliament told that Mahyco/Monsanto will be prosecuted for biopiracy in Bt Brinjal case Message-ID: <4E68E7B1.7070208 at esgindia.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Dear Friends: Smt. Jayanti Natarajan, Indian Minister of State for Environment and Forests (Independent Charge), has confirmed in a written reply to Parliament that the National Biodiversity Authority will "proceed as per law" against M/s Monsanto/Mahyco and their collaborators for promoting Bt Brinjal in patent violation of the Biological Diversity Act. The statement was made in the Rajya Sabha yesterday, and a copy of the PIB release is enclosed. As per the Act, criminal prosecution has to be initiated by NBA against all the violators. More details of this case may be accessed at www.esgindia.org. Thank you, Leo Saldanha Bhargavi S. Rao leo at esgindia.org bhargavi at esgindia.org Environment Support Group Bangalore Tel: 91-80-26713559~61 *Ministry of Environment and Forests*06-September, 2011 13:54 IST Funding of NBA on BT. BRINJAL National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) has received a complaint from M/s. Environment Support Group, an NGO on the alleged violation by M/s. Mahyco / M/s. Monsanto and their collaborators for accessing and using the local brinjal varieties for development of Bt Brinjal. NBA has decided to proceed as per law against the alleged violators on the basis of reports of the State Biodiversity Board for accessing and using the local brinjal varieties without prior approval of the competent authority. This information was given by the Minister of State for Environment and Forests (Independent Charge) Shrimati Jayanthi Natarajan in a written reply to a question by Shri M.P. Achuthan And Shri D. Raja in Rajya Sabha today. KP (Release ID :75626) http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=75626 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Jayanti Natarajan, Minister of State for Environment and Forests (Independent Charge), has confirmed in a written reply to Parliament that the National Biodiversity Authority will "proceed as per law" against M/s Monsanto/Mahyco and their collaborators for promoting Bt Brinjal in patent violation of the Biological Diversity Act. The statement was made in the Rajya Sabha yesterday, and a copy of the PIB release is enclosed. As per the Act, criminal prosecution has to be initiated by NBA against all the violators. More details of this case may be accessed at www.esgindia.org. Thank you, Leo Saldanha Bhargavi S. Rao leo at esgindia.org bhargavi at esgindia.org Environment Support Group Bangalore Tel: 91-80-26713559~61 *Ministry of Environment and Forests*06-September, 2011 13:54 IST Funding of NBA on BT. BRINJAL National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) has received a complaint from M/s. Environment Support Group, an NGO on the alleged violation by M/s. Mahyco / M/s. Monsanto and their collaborators for accessing and using the local brinjal varieties for development of Bt Brinjal. NBA has decided to proceed as per law against the alleged violators on the basis of reports of the State Biodiversity Board for accessing and using the local brinjal varieties without prior approval of the competent authority. This information was given by the Minister of State for Environment and Forests (Independent Charge) Shrimati Jayanthi Natarajan in a written reply to a question by Shri M.P. Achuthan And Shri D. Raja in Rajya Sabha today. KP (Release ID :75626) http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=75626 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From mankabajaj at gmail.com Tue Sep 20 15:41:07 2011 From: mankabajaj at gmail.com (Manka Bajaj) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:41:07 +0530 Subject: [Urbanstudy] 20th Workshop CSH/CPR Message-ID: Dear All,**** ** ** As part of our CSH-CPR Urban Workshop Series, the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), Delhi invite you to a workshop titled **** * * *Politics and Protesting Publics in Urban India* *Reflections from the 2006 Sealing Drive and the world of New Delhi’s Traders* by Diya Mehra ** Date: Tuesday, 27 September, 2011 Time: 3:45 pm Venue: Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research, Dharma Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi Sincerely,**** ** ** Marie – Hélène Zérah and Partha Mukhopadhyay**** ** ** ** ** [image: cpr logo]**** *theindiancity.net***** * * *[image: logo-2009-05]** *** ** ** *Urban Workshop Series *** * * * Politics and Protesting Publics in Urban India Reflections from the 2006 Sealing Drive and the world of New Delhi’s Traders Diya Mehra Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi 3:45 pm Tuesday, 27 September, 2011 Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi In 2006, the Supreme Court ordered that anywhere between 50,000-500,000 shops in Delhi would have to close as they were illegal operating commercial establishments in residential areas. This paper examines the large oppositional campaign put up by Delhi’s traders in protest against the judgment, and what came to be known as the Sealing Drives. The paper uses this example to bring attention to a vast intermediate urban/economic world, betwixt and between the elite and the poor, that has largely been ignored in the existing urban literature on contemporary urban change. It shows how this intermediate world is both enmeshed in the development of a world class city and lifestyles, even as increasingly threatened by the arrival of larger and powerful capital. From the perspective of the traders, the Sealing Drive was a conspiracy between government and new capital; one cemented by high-level corruption and aimed at evicting smaller scale production from the city. In opposition and through their campaign the traders sought to defer the sealing order by deploying nationalist, and anti-colonial repertoires (symbols, discourses, practices) of performative street based politics, spread by harnessing urban memories, affective distress, vernacular understanding of state morality, media coverage, images and cinematic tropes, seeking to interpellate a vast and dispersed oppositional public. What the campaign makes apparent is that the contemporary Indian urban comprises a multitude of urban publics, articulated at the intersection of a number of different dynamics, and in a state of emergent and fluid political formation. Diya Mehra is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Urban Dynamics at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. Her research work focuses on the historical development of Delhi, and on the impact of contemporary economic reforms on the urban landscape, emphasizing the role of local histories, everyday meanings and practices, and politics, in metropolitan urbanization. Her work has appeared in numerous publications on urbanization in India. She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011. This is the twentieth in a series of Urban Workshops planned by the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi and Centre for Policy Research (CPR). These workshops seek to provoke public discussion on issues relating to the development of the city and try to address all its facets including its administration, culture, economy, society, and politics. For further information, please contact: Marie-Hélène Zerah at marie-helene.zerah at ird.fror Partha Mukhopadhyay at partha at cprindia.org * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This 5-day Short-Course is aimed at improving the capacity of private consultants and mid-career professionals from various public sector agencies/departments, non-governmental organisations at national and international level – to enable the integration of disaster risk reduction in urban practice through planning, design and management. The Short-Course will be conducted by an inter-disciplinary faculty of academics and practitioners for the selected 20 candidates. Application is open to candidates from all disciplines but individuals with backgrounds in architecture, planning, engineering, economics, finance, sociology, anthropology, geography, political science, environmental sciences, social work, law and management are encouraged to apply. The IIHS Short-Course is also open to professionals with experience in related fields. Students currently pursuing their undergraduate or postgraduate degrees from relevant fields can also apply. Faculty | Anup Karanth, Aromar Revi, B.R.Balachandran, Rohit Jigyasu, and Vinod Menon Eligibility | Application is open to candidates from all disciplines while individuals with backgrounds in architecture, planning, engineering, economics, finance, sociology, anthropology, geography, political science, environmental sciences, socialwork, law and management are encouraged to apply. It is open to all working professionals. Please note that the deadline for receiving applications is *26th September, 2011*. 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For further information, please contact: K.Sudha-09035761516, Praveen-09902804989, Ramamurthy-08892442931 Please forward this invitation to your known organization. We are, *Right to Food Campaign-Karnataka* No.2, 6th Main, Narayanappa Block, R.T.Nagar, Bangalore-3 Right To Food Campaign- Karnataka __._,_.___ Reply to sender| Reply to group| Reply via web post| Start a New Topic Messages in this topic( 1) Recent Activity: - New Members 2 Visit Your Group MARKETPLACE Stay on top of your group activity without leaving the page you're on - Get the Yahoo! Toolbar now. [image: Yahoo! 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Name: RFC-K -Memorandum_protest_23.9.11.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 26644 bytes Desc: not available URL: From yanivbin at gmail.com Sat Sep 24 10:38:17 2011 From: yanivbin at gmail.com (Vinay Baindur) Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:38:17 +0530 Subject: [Urbanstudy] Bangalore Citizens for trees Message-ID: http://business-standard.com/india/news/citizens-for-trees/450226/ Citizens for treesShilpa Pai Mizar / September 24, 2011, 0:21 IST Angry at the way rapid urbanisation has changed their city, Bangaloreans have taken to street protests to protect its green cover. If you were driving by Mekhri Circle in Bangalore on the rainy Saturday evening of August 20, you would have noticed a group of around 30 people huddled on a traffic island, holding banners and candles, and shouting slogans such as “Down, down BBMP” and “ Save trees, save our lives” in Kannada and in English. Among them was Srividya V B, who was worried about the court putting a stay order on tree-felling. She is all of 15. Fifty-one year old Yashodha Reddy, a photographer and make-up artist, was there because her octogenarian father had sent her out to be part of the good cause. It takes him up to 40 minutes to cross a road in Bangalore today. Narayan Manepally, a 47-year-old entrepreneur, was protesting the “terrible planning and haphazard growth. They’ve ruined the city and cut down hundreds of trees.” Over the last few years, Bangalore’s swift rise as the country’s IT capital has also meant a rapid loss of its cherished green cover to meet its growing infrastructure needs. But what has driven Bangalore’s green-minded denizens to anger now is the proposal to widen 216 roads. Ever since the the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) announced its plans in May 2010, protests like the one above have become common across the city. While many citizens are worried about the probable loss of property and livelihood due to road widening, some have taken to the streets to express their frustration at what is being done to their beloved trees. The two-day protest on Sankey Road, a well-loved boulevard, on June 30 and July 1, received national coverage. It had protestors lying down in front of trees, camping on them and courting arrest; but BBMP surreptitiously cut the trees in the wee hours of July 1. Says Shylaja Varma, one of the protestors, “Bangalore has reached a point where it is not our Bangalore anymore. Sometimes I even feel like leaving the city.” Why are the city’s tree-lovers so upset? According to a study conducted by Environment Support Group (ESG), a city-based NGO, just the first phase of the widening project on 91 roads will lead to the loss of 30,000 trees. Activists estimate that around 4,000 trees have been cut in recent widening works around the city. The fate of more than a thousand trees depends on the outcome of various legal tussles. Says a distressed Reddy, “How will my grandchildren deal with all this?” The citizens of Bangalore share a deep emotional bond with their trees. Various rulers and administrators are credited with greening the Garden City. Hyder Ali, who ruled Mysore (of which Bangalore was a part) in the late 1700s, gave the city one of its most famous gardens, Lalbagh. Another green lung, Cubbon Park, was laid out by the British in the late 19th century. Bangalore’s trademark green avenues — including those lined with sequentially flowering trees which burst into colour at different times of the year — are said to be conceived by German horticulturist Gustav Hermann Krumbiegel who was invited to the city in 1908 by Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV. The tradition of nurturing urban greenery continued over the years, and trees became a part of the city’s heritage. For many like Varma and Reddy, the erosion of the city’s green cover is about the passing of an era. As Bangalore struggles to become a modern metropolis, the city’s fast disappearing green avenues represent the passing of a way of life, of a gracious and calm pace of life. Many Bangaloreans, however, disagree and feel that this is a small price to pay for a new and better city. Notes Varma, “I’ve lost many of my friends. They think I’m stupid to fight all this.” But it is not just about pretty, shaded avenues. Trees have a greater role to play in the city. “Our studies have found that in many of the main roads in Bangalore, suspended particulate matter levels are much higher than permissible. But these decrease to within safe limits just by having tree cover on the roads. Tree cover on roads also reduces midday temperatures by as much as 3-5 degrees Celsius, and that of road surfaces by as much as 25 degrees Celsius,” points out Harini Nagendra, urban ecology coordinator at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), a Bangalore-based NGO, and Asia research coordinator, Centre for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change, Indiana University. “This is very important,” Nagendra continues, “as urban heat islands add to people’s discomfort. Hot areas also reduce the likelihood of people cycling, walking or using open buses — which creates greater problems of sustainability.” ** * * * ** Bangaloreans have always valued the trees in their city. Two decades ago, a young Gururaja Budhya and two of his friends barged in on a tree-planting ceremony in the city and handed over a letter to then Karnataka Governor Khurshid Alam Khan, protesting against the cutting down of trees lining Sampige Road in Malleswaram in north Bangalore. Budhya and his friends spent a few hours in the nearby police station, but the trees were saved. Budhya, who now runs an urban affairs research firm in the city, also recounts a protest march in 1991 to save a wooded avenue in south Bangalore. But it failed to block a road-widening project there. Seven years later, thousands of Bangaloreans participated in the Save Cubbon Park Campaign initiated by ESG, and succeeded in getting a stay from the High Court on a government order de-notifying areas of the park for building activities. Tree-loving Bangaloreans are also seeking other ways of protecting the city’s greenery. Smitha Cariappa, who has spent most of her forty-odd years in the city, admires fellow citizens who participate in group protests but says she prefers to do something on her own. Cariappa worked with BBMP’s Tree Officer in her area to save two trees from being cut, even taking on her neighbours for one of them. “We are always complaining about the system,” says Cariappa. “But if we draw the attention of the right authorities, something will be done.” Vijay Nishanth, an intern at ATREE, has worked on Bangalore trees for nearly a decade as a BBMP volunteer, and is now attempting a tree census using GPS technology. BBMP is also looking at the complex and expensive option of transplanting trees which will otherwise be axed. Citizens and corporations in the city regularly have tree-planting drives, and the civic body also has planting initiatives. Says BBMP Deputy Mayor S Harish, “We are planting saplings. They have a good survival rate. People say they do not want tree-felling. But they also complain about the traffic. IT and other multinatonal firms are moving out of the city because of this. We need to widen roads — but with minimum cutting of trees.” But concerns remain. Nagendra commends planting drives but cautions that “some of the trees that have been and are being felled on several major roads are the oldest and largest in the city. The ecological and environmental services they provide cannot be replaced by one, two or even 10 saplings for decades to come.” According to Nagendra, the cutting down of trees lining streets also affects urban fauna. Citizens and BBMP are attempting to deal with road congestion through solutions such as car pool and cycling. After the tree-felling on Sankey Road, 71 academicians from the city, including ecologists like Nagendra and experts in public policy and urban and traffic planning, submitted a public statement to BBMP pointing to studies worldwide that show that road widening only serves to bring more traffic on to the streets. The statement goes on to suggest that “demand side” measures such as congestion tax and tighter parking regulations may work better in getting private vehicles off the road. Over the last few years, the government has improved the city’s bus network. After many delays, the metro rail project, which too had many run-ins with the city’s green brigade, is finally set to launch soon. “Though I’m part of this struggle,” says Varma, “I can’t get over a feeling of helplessness.” But experts assert that citizens and the local government must continue to engage with each other. Says Ashwin Mahesh, who teaches at the Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and is an advisor to the Karnataka government on urban affairs, “Citizens should mobilise support for candidates based on what they need them to do, especially in civic elections. There are no techni -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yanivbin at gmail.com Sat Sep 24 23:26:36 2011 From: yanivbin at gmail.com (Vinay Baindur) Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:26:36 +0530 Subject: [Urbanstudy] Common portal for urban local bodies to be set up soon Message-ID: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/article2481813.ece Common portal for urban local bodies to be set up soonSPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SHARE · PRINT · T+ The portal will be accessible to common man The Union Ministry of Urban Development as part of the e-governance initiative has decided to establish a common portal where information pertaining to all urban local bodies can be accessed universally. The National Institute of Smart Governance (NISG) will be assisting the Ministry in putting the portal in place by dovetailing the national-level software architecture, State and the ULB architecture, announced Urban Development Secretary Sudhir Krishna to presspersons on Friday. Mr. Krishna was in the city for the review meeting on implementation of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) in the south attended by senior officials of Karnataka, Kerala, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. About Rs.6,450 crore has been released for 65 cities through the Mission. The portal, making use of the available software as well as developing new applications, would be accessible to the common man and would help in faster disseminating of information helping in quickening the process of allocation of funds. The Centre would provide necessary assistance for hardware and manpower, he said. “JNNURM is doing reasonably well but we have identified bottlenecks in waste management plants with land acquisition being a major issue. There are also issues of encroachments on storm water drains. However, there is not much difficulty in water supply schemes which form two-thirds of the Mission component,” Mr. Krishna explained. Progress of reforms proposed on accountancy practices and property tax collection utilising the GIP-Satellite based data and linking it with the available tax data in the ULBs has been notable features. It is successful in Bangalore and a pilot project is on in Hyderabad. Such precise data of properties would improve property tax collection which was the main source for the ULBs and ensure equity public participation. Yet, there were issues of “property titling” which has to be sorted out despite computerised records, he admitted. Similarly, a “viable solution” has to be worked out the issue of earmarking 20-25 per cent of developed land to economically weaker sections and the low income groups as it has remained a non-starter in many ULBs. “We are considering taking the city as a whole unit for the proposed Rajiv Awas Yojana,” he said. Ongoing housing schemes would continue while a solution is worked out. 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The top 3 teams also obtain a grant of Rs. 3 Lakh to implement their proposals in a project mode. We would like to invite students from all disciplines to participate in it. Detailed information is available at: http://www.transformurbanindia.com/**** We would like to request your support to garner the best participation. If you could advise us on any measures that you feel would support the formation of a team, interactions with faculty or students for instance - we would be happy to take this forward wherever possible.**** We look to your institute to play an active part in bringing together young people who can be change-makers in India’s urban transformation. Participation in san-kranti offers opportunities for students to be mentored by experts, to present their solutions to a distinguished panel at a national conference in November 2011 at Mysore and also includes Prize money. The deadline for team registrations is 1st October 2011. **** We do look forward to hearing from you. We can be reached via email at * sankranti at iihs.ac.in* and on the hotline no. at 080-41137705 from 10 am to 5 pm on weekdays.**** san-kranti Email ID: sankranti at iihs.ac.in**** san-kranti Website: www.transformurbanindia.com**** san-kranti on Facebook: www.facebook.com/transformurbanindia**** san-kranti on Twitter: www.twitter.com/#!/san_kranti**** ** *Garima Jain* Associate 803 & 808 Surya Kiran Tharangavana 19 Kasturba Gandhi Marg D/5, 12th Cross, RMV Extension New Delhi 110 001 India Bangalore 560 080 India p: +91-11-43602798 p: + 91-80-41137705 f: +91-11-2332-0477 www.iihs.co.in ______________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: