Centre for Environment & Social Concerns

Centre for Environment and Social Concerns [cesc] is a not-for-profit resource center initiated by a group of professionals from different disciplines. It recognizes the pressing need to seriously address the interdisciplinary concerns of diverse initiatives for placing development process on a sustainable trajectory. The mission of the center is to provide such knowledge-based services to the wide range of stakeholders in the development sector such as local communities government agencies non-government organizations and decision makers at different levels. It promotes studies and action research for responsible management of natural resources to meet institutional and policy challenges for addressing gender and equity concerns as a crosscutting theme for revitalizing the traditional/ indigenous knowledge systems and recasting developmental action as an environmentally sensitive enterprise that recognizes the livelihood-biodiversity linkages. It is mobilizing interdisciplinary contributions to the contemporary development dialogue from environmental sciences ecology and social sciences. It also supports initiatives involving Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for enabling disadvantaged communities overcome the digital divide.