‘Challenge of the Balance’, a month long international summer school for students and young professionals to build a cadre of young environmentalists who will in future take the environmental movement and sensibilities forward.

In keeping with this mandate, this interdisciplinary summer school was held in colloboration with SUM,Centre for Development and the Environment. They were accompanied by their faculty Harold Whilte.

This for credit course had three distinct sections - classroom lecture, field visit and end of the course assignment.

Sunita Narain, Chandrabhushan, Gita Kavarana; Aditya Batra, Pratap Panday, Sharmila Sinha, Salahuddin Saiphy, Richard Mahapatra, Madhu Sarin, Dr. Devinder Sharma, Sopan Joshi, Anumita Roychowdhury, Geetam Tiwari, RK Srini, SV Suresh Babu, Kushal Pal Yadav, Ritwik Dutta, Supriya Singh, Neha Sakujha, Suparno Lahiri, Prof. P.S. Ramakrishnan, Monali Zeya-Hazra, Vijayan MV, Prof Syed Iqbal Husnain

India introduced
Governance & the administration of environment
Natural Resource Management: Water Management
Ecological rights & natural resource management regimes
Contemporary challenge:Urban growth
Contemporary challenge:Urban water & waste management
Towards Sustainable Industrialisation
Contemporary challenge:Toxins
Climate change & global environmental governance
Participants of this batch went for two field visit. The first field tour was to Chittor a fort in Central India which was constructed by the Mauryans during the 7th century AD. They visited the Gaumukh Reservoir, Vijay Stambh, Kirti Stambh and also walked around the fort to understand its ancient water engineering. They also saw community led water management systems of village Devgarh. After this they spent time at the Sita Mata Wildlife Sanctuary and Jhakam Dam in village Anooppura, Pratagarh Dist Rajasthan.