Second Conference (C2)

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Title: 2nd German-Indian Conference on Research for Sustainability: Science and Technology - Drivers for a Common Future
Venue: UN Campus, Back-to-back with the IHDP Open Meeting 2009, Bonn / Germany
Date: 27 and 28 April 2009

Programme

List of Participants

Photos (zip file)

Presentations and Abstracts: (Table of content)

Proceedings (pdf file for download) 
(accessible)

Foreword and Introduction

• Foreword (abstract)
  Prof. Dr. J. Bogardi
  United Nations University, Bonn, Germany
• Introducing Germany and India - Drivers for a Sustainable Future (abstract)
  Dr. W. Junker
  BMBF, Bonn, Germany 
• Bilateral Cooperation in Science and Technology between the Governments of Germany and India
  (abstract), (presentation)
  Dr. C. Stienen
  BMBF, Bonn, Germany
• Foreword of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (abstract)
  Dr. T. Ramasami, Secretary to the Government of India,
  R.K. Sharma, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India  

Land Use

Sector Review:

• Research on Sustainable Land Use in Germany and India - Future Tasks (abstract)
  Prof. Dr. H. Kächele*, Dr. P. S. Ramakrishnan**, T. Kutter*, K. Specht*
  *Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) Institute of Socio-Economics,
  Eberswalder Str. 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany
  **School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India 
• Land use R&D Policy and Funding by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (abstract), (presentation)
  Dr. R. Müssner
  BMBF, Bonn, Germany

Cluster 1: Land Use Governance, Food Safety

• Land System and Land Use Mapping for Sustainability Planning:
  A case study of desertified region in the agricultural land use systems (presentation)
  Dr. R. Jaganathan
  University of Madras, Chennai, India
• Land Use Change Implications on Forest and Agro-Ecosystems: Indian Perspective (abstract), (presentation)
  Dr. B. C. Nagaraja
  Department of Environmental Sciences, Bangalore University, India
• A Review of Water and Health in India: Towards Risk Governance in Complex Societies (abstract), (presentation) 
  PD Dr. P. Mollinga and Dr.V.S. Saravanan
  Centre for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany
• Cities Adaptation for Climate Change - Issues, Challenges and Opportunities (abstract), (presentation)
  Dr. D. Sharma and Dr. Sanjay Tomar
  The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India
• Introduction to Georg-August University Göttingen (presentation)
  Dr. U. Muuss
  The University of Göttingen, Germany

Cluster 2: Land Use Changes: Biodiversity, Sustainable Forest Management, Sustainable Agriculture

• Ecosystem Research for Sustainable Development in Biodiversity Hotspots of India (presentation)
  Prof. Dr. H. Kächele, Dr. S. Nautiyal, T. Kutter
  Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e. V., Germany
• Development trends and sustainable land use in the Indian Himalaya (presentation)
  Prof. Dr. M. Nüsser
  South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany
• Science for Sustainability - Driver for a Common Future (presentation)
  Prof. Dr. J. Pretzsch
  Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
• Land Use Change in Meghalaya (abstract)
  B. S. Mipun
  North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India
• Revitalizing Indian Farming Sector Revitalizing Indian Farming Sector -
  Measures for Rainfed Agriculture Measures for Rainfed Agriculture (presentation)
  Multifunctional Land Use in Semiarid Ecosystems in India - Development of Integrated Sustainability Evaluation Tools (abstract)
  Dr. K. Ramachandran
  Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Council of Agriculture Research, Santoshnagar, India
• International Master Programme at Cologne University of Applied Sciences (presentation)
  Integrated Land and Water Management under Changing Climatic Conditions in the Ecologically Fragile Mountain Region of North India (abstract)
  Dr. U. Nehren
  Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ITT), Cologne, Germany
• Land Use Changes due to Coal Mining Activities: A Case Study of Singrauli Coalfield, Central India (abstract)
  A. Javed
  Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
  

Cluster 3: Efficiency in Water Use in Agriculture

• Development Pathways of Rice Dominated Landscapes in East India under Climate Change (RICELAND) (presentation)
  Dr. H. Kunstmann & the prospective RICELAND research consortium
  Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research IMK-IFU, Research Center Karlsruhe, Germany
• Land Use and Watershed Management for Sustainable Development Using Geoinformatics (abstract), (presentation)
  Dr. R. B. Singh and D. Kumar
  Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India
• Steering Mechanisms for Sustainable Land Use and Protection of Groundwater Resources (abstract), (presentation)
  Prof. Dr. R. Azzam
  Department of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, RWTH Aachen, Germany
• Lower than Expected Risks of Wastewater Irrigated Agriculture along the Musi River, India (abstract)
  P. Weckenbrock*, Prof. Dr. A. Drescher*, Dr. P. Amerasinghe**, Dr. R. W. Simmons***, J. Jacobi*
  *Section on Applied Geography of the Tropics and Subtropics, Department of Physical Geography, Freiburg University, Germany.
  **International Water Management Institute, South Asia Regional Office, Patancheru, India
  ***School of Applied Sciences, Department of Natural Resources, Cranfield University, UK
• Land Use Changes and Conservation of Water Resources in Himalayan Headwaters (abstract)
  Prof. Prakash C. Tiwari
  Department of Geography, Kumaon University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India

Cluster 4: Securing Food Supply and Income in Rural Areas

• Agricultural Sustainability - Securing Food Supply and Income in Rural Areas (abstract), (presentation)
  Prof. Dr. B. Moerschbacher
  Department of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Münster, Germany
  

Energy

Sector Review

• Research on Sustainability Related to Energy - Challenges Related to International Cooperation (presentation)
  Dr. L. Srivastava
  The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India
• Challenges for R&D in the Indian Energy Sector (abstract)
  Dr. L. Srivastava* and PD Dr. L. Mennicken**
  *The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India
  **International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (IB), Bonn, Germany
• Energy Research Funding by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (abstract), (presentation)
  K. Wollin
  BMBF, Bonn, Germany
• Indo-German Energy Forum - History, Objectives and Outlook (abstract)
  Wolfdieter Böhler
  Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology (BMWi), Berlin, Germany

Energy Efficiency, New and Renewable Energy Resources

• Energy and Resource Efficiency and Effectiveness in Industrial Manufacturing (abstract), (presentation)
  PD Dr.-Ing. C. Herrmann
  Technical University of  Braunschweig, Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology, Germany
• Science for Affordable and Sustainable Energy for India (abstract), (presentation)
  Work on Biomass Energy at Indian Institute of Science (abstract)
  Prof. H. S. Mukunda
  The Combustion, Gasification and Propulsion Laboratory (CGPL), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India 
• Recovery of Energy from Wastes (abstract), (presentation)
  S. V. Srinivasan
  Environmental Technology Division, Central Leather Research Institute, India
• Sustainable bio energy production a.) land management b.) biomass and organic wastes recovery (presentation)
  Dipl.-Ing. S. Meier, Dr.-Ing. D. Weichgrebe
  Institute for Water Quality and Waste Management-ISAH, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
• Climate and Energy in a Complex Transition Process towards Sustainable Hyderabad (presentation)
  Dr. R. Chennamaneni
  Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
• Gas Hydrate and CCS Research: An Interface between CH-Exploration Industry, Science and Climate Change
  (abstract),  (presentation)
  Dr. J. Bialas
  Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, IFM-GEOMAR, Germany
• Renewable Energy Supply for Rural Areas - RESRA Introduction & Current Status (presentation)
  J. Burgtorf
  Indo-German Energy Forum (IGEN), German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Germany
• Globalising Western Lifestyles, Energy Consumption and Policy Innovations
  (abstract), (presentation)
  Prof. Dr. H. Lange
  artec-Center for Sustainability Studies, University of Bremen, Germany
• Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Options in the Future Megacity of Hyderabad/India: Scenario Development and Leverage Points on Influence Networks (abstract)
  Dr. Diana Reckien, Dr. Matthias K.B. Lüdeke, Dr. habil. Fritz Reusswig, Oleksandr Kit, Sonja Hofmann, Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf, Ulrike Anders, Martin Budde, Antje Otto
  Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany 
• Research and Education on Efficient Energy Technologies and Systems at TU Dresden (presentation)
  Prof. Dr.-Ing. U. Gampe
  Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Power Engineering, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
• Life Cycle Assessment of Wind Energy Converter (abstract)
  H.-J. Wagner*, J. Mathur**
  *Chair for Energy Systems and Energy Economics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
  **Department of Mechanical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, India
• Status of Planar SOFC Technology Development at CGCRI, Kolkata, India (abstract)
  Dr. Rajendra Nath Basu
  Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Kolkata, India
• Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) - Highly Efficient Future Energy Converters (abstract), (presentation)
  Dr. S. Uhlenbruck
  Institute of Energy Research (IEF-1), Research Center Juelich, Germany
• Embedding Corporate Social Responsibility in Engineering - Education through Project-Oriented Courses
  (abstract), (presentation)
  Dipl.-Ing. A. Postawa, M. Eisenberg
  Technical University of Berlin, Production Technology Center (PTZ) Berlin, Germany
• Energy Generation: Needs a New Model of Development (abstract), (presentation)
  Dr. M. K. Slariya
  Government Post-Graduate College Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, India
• The Limits to the Application of Science and Technology for Sustainability (abstract)
  M. Mukunda Rao
  M.S. Ramiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India