Sharanjeet Kaur

Sharanjeet Kaur is currently working as a Programme Officer at the Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi. Prior to this, Sharanjeet held positions as a Senior Research Associate at Delhi University and a GIS Consultant-Research & Documentation at GIZ India. Sharanjeet has experience in soil sampling, ecological niche modeling, GIS-based planning, air quality research, wildlife management, climate change impact studies, and quality management system implementation. Sharanjeet holds a Bachelor's degree in Botany/Plant Biology, a Master's degree in Environmental Science, and a Certificate Course in Geospatial Techniques.

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Delhi, India

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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.


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New Delhi, India

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51-200

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