MMA MANAGEMENT CENTER Seminar Thursday, 6:00 pm 7:30 pm SEPT 2022 29 WATER FUTURES, TAMIL NADU Pathways for Sustainable Development Prof S Janakarajan, Ph.D Dr V Thiruppugazh, Ph.D., IAS (Retd) Seminar CLICK TO JOIN
Synopsis
In addition, frequent occurrences of droughts and floods raise the key issue of disaster preparedness and the need for mainstreaming disaster risk reduction strategies. At the same time, countries are driven by development paradigms and competitive growth models.
While climate change continues to wrought havoc across geographies and the world over, Tamil Nadu, beginning with capital Chennai, is not exempt from its ill effects. The faster the urbanization in the state, worse has been the plight. Indeed, rising climate risks, climate mitigation and adaptation, vulnerability analysis, disaster management and livelihood resilience that are key scientific phrases the world over, are as much applicable to describe Tamil Nadu’s condition.
All this keep reopening simultaneous and at times overlapping domestic discourses on Tamil Nadu’s Water Futures and Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction.
5:15 PM Registration & High Tea
Prof S Janakarajan, Ph.D
Q & A
6:00 PM Welcome Address
Theme: Biosphere and Water Futures: Pathways for Sustainable Development in Tamil Nadu Address by the Speakers:
6:10 PM
Former Additional Secretary, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Government of India
Vote of 7Thanks :35 PM
Mr N Sathiya Moorthy
Theme: Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies: Challenges and Opportunities
Convenor, Policy Matters Chennai
Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director, Madras Management Association
Dr V Thiruppugazh, Ph.D., IAS (Retd)
6Overview :05 PM
President, South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERs), Hyderabad
Programme
Dr Janakarajan has written several books and presented scores of papers on these and other related subjects. At present, he is a Member of the Chennai Metro Flood Management Committee, appointed by the Government of Tamil Nadu, in 2021.
Prof S Janakarajan, Ph.D
Dr V Thiruppugazh, Ph.D., IAS (Retd)
At present President, SaciWATERs, Hyderabad, Dr Janakarajan holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Madras, obtained through MDS, where he was a past Director. He did a post doctoral at Cornell University and was a Visiting Professor, International Development Centre, QEH, Oxford University.
Holding a PhD from Australian National University, Canberra, Dr Thiruppugazh retired as a senior member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), as Additional Secretary, NDMA. He played an important role in fixing major gaps in the Disaster Management Bill 2005, and also served at the Centre and earlier in the native Gujarat cadre, in matters of disaster.
Profiles
His key areas of research include urban and rural water, water markets, water conflicts, trans boundary water disputes, climate changes and adaptation, among others. He is also the Convenor of the ‘Cauvery Family’, which he started in 2003, for farmer to farmer dialogue, to address the river water dispute, especially between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
At present, Dr Thiruppugazh heads the Chennai Metro Flood Management Committee, appointed by the Government of Tamil Nadu, in 2021.
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