18-22 May, 1995
Kolbotn, Norway

THE THIRD CONFERENCE OF THE NORDIC ASSOCIATION FOR SOUTH ASIAN
STUDIES: RURAL AND URBAN ENVIRONMENT IN SOUTH ASIA

South Asian human and natural environments will be the topic
of a three and a half day conference to be held near Oslo from
the evening of May 18 to the morning of May 22, 1995. The
meeting will bring together people from several disciplines to
present their ideas and experiences to colleagues from Nordic
and other countries.
The conference will provide a forum for discussion of
political, social, cultural and material dimensions of "the
environment." It will have themes contemplating natural and
the human-made environments, the sustainable and unsustainable
practices of villagers, industries, and government
departments, as well as local, trans-local and international
patterns of co-operation and conflict characterizing
environmental issues in South Asia.
Keynote speakers will include Tushaar Shah of the Institute of
Rural Management, Gujarat, Radha D'souza of Bombay, a lawyer
dealing environmental issues; Ann Grodzins Gold of Syracuse
University; and Ronald Herring of Cornell University.
The conference organizers have decided to combine Nordic and
North American models in organizing the conference. This means
that we plan participation through workshops with panels.
Persons attending the conference, then, will not necessarily
devote their time to one workshop which meets regularly
throughout the conference. Workshops will contain panels of
three or more person each. Panel sessions will be timed to
enable participants to join successive sessions of their
choice.

THEMES
The politics of natural resource management in dry areas; the
politics of natural resource management in wet areas; urban
environments; environmentalism; environmental perceptions;
state-society relationships in terms of natural resource
management.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
NASA Conference
c/o Pamela Price
Department of History
University of Oslo
Blindern Pb. 1008
0315 Oslo
Norway
Tel: +47-2-2856877
Fax: +47-2-2855278
E-mail: pamela.price@iks.uio.no