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Keynote Presentations from the 5th ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 5 - 14 September 2010
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Speaker: Simron Jit Singh Simron.Singh -at- uni-klu.ac.at Institute for Social Ecology, IFF - Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, Klagenfurt University, Schottenfeldgasse 29, A-1070 Vienna, Austria http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/ |
Title of the talk: A scientist´s dilemma after the tsunami - Challenges for sustainability science
Biosketch
Simron Jit Singh (Ph.D. Human Ecology) researches and teaches at the Institute for Social Ecology, University of Klagenfurt, Austria. His main scientific interests are in understanding local and regional (non-industrial) socio-ecological systems within the framework of sustainability science. This includes an empirical examination of the altering patterns of society-nature interactions using indicators such as material and energy flows, human appropriation of net primary production, and time-use variables. He has worked extensively among the pastoral nomads of the Indian Himalayas, and has spent more than ten years researching the Nicobarese in the Bay of Bengal. His books are: In the Sea of Influence: A World System Perspective of the Nicobar Islands (2003), The Nicobar Islands: Cultural Choices in the Aftermath of the Tsunami (2006), Humanitarian aid and ecological consequences: The Nicobar Islands as a case for Complex disaster (forthcoming, Springer). He has been awarded an International Fellowship from the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, the START Fellowship within the framework of the IHDP-IT global environmental change research, and very recently, the Royal Anthropological Fellowship in Urgent Anthropology, attached to Kent University, U.K.
