Jawaharlal Nehru University
SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Organizing a talk on
“Hydro Power & Water Waves”
Speaker: Dr. BHARAT JHUNJHUNWALA
DATE : 10th May, 2018 (Thursday)
TIME : 11:15 AM
VENUE : AMRITA DEVI BISHNOI SEMINAR HALL, SES, JNU.
Brief Biosketch: He acquired his Bachelors Degree in Science (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) from Kanpur University and Doctoral Degree in Food and Resource Economics from University of Florida in 1973 at the age of 23.
He was Assistant Professor of Economics at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He was consultant to donors and NGOs like Oxfam, Care, Swedish International Development Agency, and Swiss Development Cooperation in the nineties.
He has undertaken extensive studies of economic impacts of hydropower dams. He has published three books on the topic: (1) Economics of Hydropower; and (2) Economics of River Flows: Lessons from Dam Removals in America; and (3) Water: Impact of Dams on its Qualities.
He has been involved in many court cases relating to construction of dams on the rivers. A study on Cumulative Impact Assessment of dams on the Ganga River was commissioned by MOEF pursuant to his intervention. Two projects, namely, Kotlibhel 1B and Kotlibhel 2, on River Ganga have been cancelled or held up because of these litigations. He has argued personally in many cases before the Supreme Court, National Green Tribunal and High Court of Uttarakhand.
Some of his major books on other topics are:
- Welfare State and Globalization: A Critique of Amartya Sen (Rawat, Jaipur, India, 2000).
- Governance and Human Rights, edited (Kalpaz, New Delhi, 2002).
- Human Development, with R K Bhattacharya and V K Srivastava, co-editors (Kalpaz, New Delhi, 2003).
- Traditional Agricultural Technologies of the Thar (Gravis, Jodhpur, India, 2003).
He writes a weekly column on political economy which is published in about 20 papers in ten languages in India.
He was awarded the Nachiketa Award by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2002 for outstanding contribution to economic journalism.
You are cordially invited to the Talk