Monday, January 26
Jyoti Parikh
"Millennium Development Goals: Energy, Water, and Sanitation in Rural India"
415 William and June Warren Hall, Amsterdam Avenue and 115th Street
12:00 to 1:30
Are the
Millennium Development Goals (MDG) mere rhetoric? Are they
ambitious enough? Does one wait to get richer before one
embarks on the goals of MDG? This seminar attempts to answer
these questions by linking them with the results of an integrated
survey covering 15,293 rural households from 148 villages in four
states of India. This is among the largest multipurpose surveys
ever undertaken, and its results have significant implications
for many areas of environmental policy and economic development,
including particularly for India's progress towards the Millennium
Development Goals. The study addresses inter-related issues of
energy, water, sanitation and health, with data on household and
individuals' use of various fuels, access to safe drinking water,
sanitation facilities, symptoms of diseases related to both air
and water pollution, expenditure on health and person-days lost
as well as demographic and socio-economic status.
Jyoti K Parikh is the Executive Director at Integrated
Research and Action for Development at New Delhi. She was a Senior
Professor at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)
from 1986 to 2003. She worked at the International Institute for
Applied Systems Analysis for nearly eight years on energy and
environment problems of the developing countries. She has served
as energy consultant to the World Bank, the U.S. Department of
Energy, European Economic Community, Brussels and UN agencies
such as UNIDO, FAO, UNU, and UNESCO, and as an Environment Consultant
to UNDP and the World Bank. She obtained her M.Sc. from University
of California, Berkeley, in 1964 and Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics
from University of Maryland, College Park in 1967.
For more information about Integrated Research and Action for Development, please visit: http://www.irade.res.in/jp/
Please contact Ben Cahill with any questions about this seminar.
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