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CSRD organises a seminar by Prof Douglas Hill

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Centre for the Study of Regional Development,

School of Social Sciences

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Invites you all to a Seminar on 

Counting Carbon, Water, and Trees: Calculative Practices in Contemporary India

by

  Prof Douglas Hill  

 (University of Otago) 

Date : December 08, 2023 (Friday)

Time : 3.30 PM

Venue: Room No. 134, Carto Lab, CSRD, SSS III (Ist Floor)

Brief Profile of the Speaker: Dr Doug Hill is an Associate Professor of Development Studies in the School of Geography, University of Otago, New Zealand, where he also coordinates the Master of International Development and Planning degree. During his time at Otago, he has held visiting positions at universities and think tanks in the Japan, UK, the Netherlands, Germany and India. He has also undertaken work for a range of international institutions including the United Nations and the World Bank. Doug has been researching issues associated with environmental governance in South Asia for the past 20 years. 

 

Outside of academia, he works with a range of environment and development policy communities, including Intergovernmental organizations, NGOs, and Think Tanks.  For example, he is a former member of the Water Diplomacy consortium based in the Hague, which was a group of researchers and practitioners from 7 institutions that facilitated multi-stakeholder dialogues around transboundary river basins in South Asia.  Currently, he is the Chair of the Steering Committee of an intergovernmental organisation called the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research. In this capacity, he works with government-appointed scientists and policymakers from 22 countries, to provide support for research and science-based strategies and measures, with the aim of enhancing effective linkages between science and policy, and scientific capacity development