Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi
Dr. Nimish Gupta (Ph.D.) is currently the Deputy Programme Manager at Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi. With a background in Environmental Science and Technology, Dr. Gupta has extensive experience in researching and forecasting land surface temperature responses to altering urban landscapes. Dr. Nimish has also worked as a Research Scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Additionally, Dr. Nimish has a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Amrita School of Engineering in Bangalore.
Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable. The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival. The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities. On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth. Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications. We call this knowledge-based activism. We hope we will make a difference.