Sustainability - Science, Policy, and Practice in India: Challenges and Opportunities

Priyanka Ghosh is a Senior Assistant Professor of Geography at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)-AP, India. Her areas of interests are political ecology, biodiversity conservation, protected area management, and sustainable development. She has extensively worked in the Indian Sundarbans during her Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky and later extended her research by investigating the rural land use of Fayette County, Kentucky. She has served as an educational advisor at the IEC Kumamoto International College, Japan for five months. Dr Ghosh has published high-ranking peer-reviewed international and national journals such as Geographical Review, GeoJournal as well as contributed book chapters on several issues such as water shortage and water crisis in large cities of India, street and place name changes in Kolkata, and subsistence and biodiversity conservation in the Indian Sundarbans.

Venkatesh Dutta is Professor of Environmental Sciences in a Central University (Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow). He is trained as Environmental Management Specialist with specialization in Water Resources Management. His main research interests include River Restoration, Land-use planning along with zoning regulations, Environmental Impact Assessment, Urban Policies and Sustainable Cities. He is also interested in spatial patterns, process, cause and consequence of urban sprawl vis-a-vis environmental impacts.