Concurrent Sessions

Forty minute sessions covering thirty minutes of presentation or workshop time followed by ten minutes of facilitated question time. Sessions will be streamed to align with the key themes of Gloss 2008.

Twenty minute sessions comprising fifteen minutes of presentation time followed by five minutes of facilitated question time. Sessions will be streamed to align with the key themes of Gloss 2008.

TECHNICAL SESSION-I
SUSTAINABLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Chairman: Dr. Wolfgang Amann
Universität St. Gallen, Switzerland, Europe
Institut für Wirtschaft und Ökologie (Institute for Economy and Ecology)
Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

• Concepts of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Scope and perspectives
  
• Case Studies of best practices in sustainable entrepreneurship: Critical Appraisal
  
• Linking Sustainable entrepreneurship, sustainable enterprise and Sustainable Development: Actionable initiative
  
• The ethics of sustainable entrepreneurship: Case study analysis
  
• Indigenous knowledge and sustainability to natural environment: Correlation & Linkage
  
• Issues of human adoption to technical environment: Appraisal of indigenous communities.
  
• Traditional knowledge and its impact on cultural change, environment and health
  
• Measuring links between environment and health: Critical Appraisal
  
• Ecology and Health: Indigenous and local perspectives.
  
• Drivers of Sustainable Development: Eco sanitation, composting and water treatment
  
• Sustainable Development: Issues of environmental monitoring, auditing and assessment
  

TECHNICAL SESSION-II
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION OF INDUSTRIALIZATION

• The globalization of industrialization and the need for a legal framework on a global base: Critical Analysis
  
• Threats and challenges of globalization in labour law and environmental law: An appraisal
  
• Sustainability Management in Corporate culture and corporate practice: An analysis
  
• Economic, ecological and social challenges concerning the implementation of Sustainable Development on a global scale
  
• The economic and ecological effects of emission trade in industrial enterprises
  
• Sustainable Strategies in Supply Chain Management
  
• Sustainable development and globalization of industrialization and its inclusion in the Syllabus of schools and universities
  
• Globalization of industrialization and the rights of indigenous people
  
• Globalization of industrialization and the role of banks: Promotion of viable mechanism
  
• The impact of Sustainability and Environmental Management on the global job market
  
• The globalization of industrialization and sustainable generation of energy
  
• Implementation of ROHS and IMDS in global enterprises
  
• The role of information technology by exploring Sustainable solutions on a global scale
  
• Technology and Sustainable Development: Complementation or contradiction
  
• Technological and commercial challenges of the fuel cell
  
• Technological and commercial challenges of the electric drive
  

TECHNICAL SESSION -III
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND POPULATION EXPLOSION

• Challenges of population explosion as correlated with sustainable Development
  
• Population explosion, food security and the availability of resources: challenges of globalisation.
  
• Population explosion and Sustainable livelihood for a sustainable future
  
• Ensuring the balance between preservation of endangered indigenous peoples and population reduction on a global base
  
• Possible expansion of living space and resources by exploring possibilities in the outer space: An assessment
  
• Ethical and religious problems in combating population explosion in favour of a Sustainable Future
  
• Population explosion and the future of Sustainable Development based on the models of Raskin et al.
  
• Ethical problems of birth control and euthanasia with view to population explosion
  
• Biodiversity and population explosion: A critical Review
  
• Population explosion and the global job market; An assessment
  
• Ethical and cultural issues of birth control measures: case study of abortion, infant foeticide and skewed sex ratio.
  
• Ethical problems of population reduction by gender-specific abortion: An overview
  
• Ecological, social and economic consequences of population explosion: An assessment
  
• The impact of population explosion on global warming: A review
  
• Population explosion and social security issues of aged people: A critical review
  
• Population explosion and environmental destruction : An empirical assessment
  

TECHNICAL SESSION-IV
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM RECOGNITION OF FOREST RIGHTS AND CONSERVATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS

Chairman: Professor Dr. R.N. Pati
IK Foundation of India, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
Co-Chairman: Dr. Chandra Prakash Kala
Asst. Professor
Ecosystem & Environment Management
Indian Institute of Forest Managent
Bhopal

• Policies , programmes and opportunities for convergence between traditional medicine practitioners and modern health care practitioners : critical appraisal
  
• Challenges, success and failures of ethno healing practice : Empirical assessment
  
• Linking local health tradition with biodiversity conservation and sustainable development : Scope, issues and opportunities
  
• Sustainable agriculture : challenges and promising practices
  
• Biopiracy : Issues of protection of rights of local innovators relating to medicinal and biological diversity
  
• Promising practices of use, management and conservation of natural resources for ensuring clean environment and sustainable development : critical assessment
  
• The promising practices for use of traditional medicine in treatment of HIV/AIDS : case studies
  
• Health tourism : promising practices of natural medicine therapy for treatment of endemic diseases, bone setting, treatment of cancer, diabetics etc : empirical assessment
  
• Success stories of large scale cultivation of medicinal scale cultivation of medicinal plants: An Appraisal
• Medicinal plants: issues for financing, conservation, collection and cultivation
• Case study on medicinal plant research : Prior informed consent, focused benefit sharing and compliance with convention on biological diversity
• Medicinal plants: role, health, economic and policy issues, and scope
• Valuing wild plants with economics and participatory methods: an overview of hidden harvest methodology
• Biological diversity, indigenous knowledge, drug discovery and intellectual property rights: creating reciprocity and maintaining relationships
• Valuation of medicinal plants for pharmaceutical uses
• Bio-prospecting with prior ecological information
• Commercialization of indigenous genetic resources
• Establishing Multi-stakeholder index in medicinal plants
• Unraveling the commercial market for medicinal plants and plant parts.
• Non-Timber forest products: promising practices on their income generation potential for rural poor and biodiversity conservation
• Policy and legislative enactment on forest rights of tribal and traditional forest dwellers: critical appraisal
• Challenges and threats to responsibilities and authority of forest dwellers for sustainable use, conservation of biodiversity and maintenance of ecological balance
• Implication of Biological Diversity Act, 2002in India for conservation of biological diversity: critical appraisal
• Role of National and State Biodiversity Authorities in India: An Appraisal

TECHNICAL SESSION -V
SUSTAINABILITY COMMUNICATION IN MEDIA, LITERATURE AND THE ARTS :
APPLICATIONS TO CORPORATE, EDUCATIONAL, AND HEALTH SETTINGS
ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES

• Promoting ecological literacy: promising practices
  
• Sustainability across media forms: reports from companies, universities, and health settings
  
• Communication practices regarding globalisation and corporate sustainability reporting in companies of the developing countries
  
• Governance communication and sustainability in action: Issues and Perspectives
  
• Dissemination of resolutions passed in CBD and other international conventions among stakeholders: Success stories
  
• The role of the arts and creativity in generating new methods of sustainability communication
  
• The implications of new communication, media, and arts practices for new pedagogies in community organizations, universities, health settings, and corporations
  
• Art, Media and Sustainability
  
• Eco art practices or any relevant form of cultural or folk art practices that link to sustainable entrepreneurship: Case studies
  
• Eco art practices or any relevant form of cultural or folk art practices that link to sustaining indigenous mechanisms for biodiversity: Case studies.
  

TECHNICAL SESSION -VI
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM : PROMISING PRACTICES

• The promising practices of eco tourism in moutain regions : case study
  
• Biodiversity conservation and eco tourism : Critical Appraisal
  
• Empowerment of local communities thorugh eco tourism : An appraisal
  
• Success stories of sustainable tourism : Case study assessment
  
• Public and Private partenrship in promoting sustainable tourism : Promising practices
  

TECHNICAL SESSION -VII
Sustainable Consumption: Conceptual issues

Chairman:Sukumar Pattjoshi
Advocate
Supreme Court of India
New Delhi

• Sustainable Consumption: Conceptual issues
• Sustainable Consumption and quality of life
  
• Sustainable Consumption and greenhouse gas mitigation: Issues and perspectives
  
• Policies for Sustainable Consumption
• Sustainable Consumption: Legal and Environmental Policy Perspectives
• Human Values and the emergence of a sustainable consumption pattern
• Impact of Globalisation on the potential for Sustainable Consumption
• Sustainable Consumption and Production: opportunities and challenges
• Efficient Food Safety regulation in the Food Manufacturing Sector
• Implementing Sustainable Development strategies and Initiatives in high Consumption societies
• Gender and Sustainable Consumption
• Socio- economic dimensions of Sustainable Consumption
• Sustainable Consumption within an area of global environmental change: Social and legal dimensions
• Towards Sustainable Consumption: An Indian Perspective
• Sustainable Consumption of natural resources: Issues and challenges.
• Livelihoods, chronic conflicts and Humanitarian response: overview of legal issues
• Critical Consumption trends and Implications: Degrading Earth's Ecosystem
• Environmentally significant consumption: conceptual issues
• Role of Public Policy in providing sustainable consumption
• Sustainable Consumption and Climatic Change; Legal Dimensions
• Population, Consumption and Environment: Envisioning a Sustainable Society
• Sustainable Consumption in cities: Dimensions of integrated environmental management
• Bridging the gap between different issues and dimensions of Sustainable Consumption
• Impact of legal globalisation on national legal system: Challenges to sustainable Consumption
• Sustainable Consumption of water: Issues of Human Resource Development

TECHNICAL SESSION -VIII
REGIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT : PROMISING PRACTICES

• Promising practices of sustainable development: case study analysis
  
• Best practices in Sustainable entrepreneurship: local experience
  
• Conservation and development opportunities for sustainable use of biological diversity in forest regions: Critical Assessment
  
• Promising practices of community based natural resource management: An appraisal
  
• Role of NGO in experimenting micro level projects on successful biodiversity conservation: Promising practices
  

TECHNICAL SESSION -IX
SUSTAINABLE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT : PROMISING PRACTICES

• Promoting partnership among government, civil society organisations and stakeholders for promoting sustainable solid waste management: An appraisal
  
• Community based initiatives for solid waste management: Promising practices
  
• Role of women in recycling of domestic waste: Scope for sustainability
  
• Role of civil society in promoting sustainable waste management: Scope & perspectives
  
• Promising practices in household soild waste management: An assessment

TECHNICAL SESSION -X
CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY

• Sustainability at work place: Issues and perspectives
  
• Corporate Sustainability: Challenges in globalisation era
  
• Strategic planning for corporate sustainability: An appraisal
  
• Success stories of corporate sustainability: Case study analysis
  

TECHNICAL SESSION XI
SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION OF THE FUTURE :
INNOVATIVE APPROACHES AND CHALLENGES

• The contribution of ecological vehicles to the reduction of greenhouse gazes
  
• Optimization of the battery weight in electric cars
  
• Technological and commercial challenges of electric drives
  
• The role of electric vehicles on the global car market
  
• The ecological and commercial optimization of electric drives
  
• The ecological and commercial optimization of alternative drives
  
• Marketing Strategies for ecological vehicles: An Appraisal
  
• Hybrid vehicles: launching a new product line in an international enterprise
  
• The role of hybrid vehicles on the global car market
  
• The role of ecological vehicles for innovation management
  
• Technological and commercial challenges of alternative drives: a comparison
• Technological and commercial challenges of the fuel cell
• The role of politics for the commercial viability of ecological vehicles
• Biodiesel and its impact on the CO2-balance
• Marketing Strategies for the electric drive: An Appraisal
• Electric cars and their efficiency at the current state of development

TECHNICAL SESSION -XII
OPPORTUNITIES AND OBSTACLES FOR USING ELECTRIC DRIVE IN SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION

• Implementations of Electric Drive and their contribution to sustainability
  
• Cooperation of industry and government to advance the electric drive
  
• The role of trade associations in the promotion of electric drive technologies
  
• The impact of the electric drive on job creation
  
• Electric Drive and its impact on energy security
  
• Reducing emissions using Electric Drive
  
• Electric vehicles and their role in public transit
  
• The necessity of education in the field of the electric drive
• Industry networking and international conferences as efficient means to promote the electric drive
• The necessity of public policy advocacy to advance the electric drive
• Electric vehicles and their eco-balance: A benchmark

TECHNICAL SESSION XIII
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE ENERGY SECTOR

• Limited resources and the role of renewable energies
  
• The role of the government in the promotion of renewable energy sources: An assessment
  
• Management of Solar energy, wind energy, biomass for a sustainable future
  
• Renewable energies and their potential for the reduction of greenhouse gazes
  
• Nuclear energy: a "clean" solution for a sustainable future?
  
• Renewable Energies and their impact on the national/ international job market
  
• Ecological and commercial challenges of solar energy
  
• Wind energy: How to minimize unpleasant side effects?
  
• The commercialization of bio energy and its importance for developing and take-off countries
  
• Energy providers: an ecological benchmark in your home town
  

TECHNICAL SESSION -XIV
INVOLVING CIVIL SOCIETIES, NGOS AND LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENTS
IN CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Chairman
Dr. R. Shankar
Head of the Department, Sociology
Syndicate Member
Bharathidasan University
Tamil Nadu

• Perspectives of Bali Meet on Climate Change convened by UN: A critical Appraisal
• Exploring Support from UN Adaption Fund towards implementation of various climate change projects in poor countries of the world: An assessment
• Involvement of Corporate Sector in checking deforestation in the tropic regions: Needs, Issues and Perspectives
• Setting up a viable mechanism for chanalising fund towards technology transfer and climate change project in developing countries: An Appraisal
• Promotion of networking among civil society organizations towards experimentation on public and private partnership championing viable implementation of micro scale interventions on Biodiversity Issues..
• Assessment of various interventions such as setting up seawalls to guard against expending oceans, improved water supplies for drought areas, transfer of new technology to agriculture sector through training, linking afforestation with cultural values and indigenous mechanism of Conservation etc.
• Critical Appraisal of Case studies of interventions by Civil Society Organisations.
• Donor Agencies, their policies, programmes for supporting micro projects on environmental issues in poor and developing countries: Critical Appraisal

TECHNICAL SESSION- XV
EMPOWERING THE COMMUNITY FOR PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT:
ISSUES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT AND BIOPIRACY

• International Conventions on Protection of Intellectual Property Rights and prevention of biopiracy and translating the global level resolutions into national and regional level legislations, policies and programmes: Critical Appraisal.
• Sui Generation legislation for protection of Intellectual Property Rights and Cultural Property Right of indigenous innovators: Issues and Perspectives
• Development of medicinal plants for domestic market: Issues of scientific validation of traditional medicinal practices
• Indigenous Capacity Enhancement through Exploration of indigenous knowledge and national resource management: Appraisal of legislative framework, policies and programmes
• Indigenous knowledge and Intellectual Property Right: Critical Appraisal of legislative measures, policies and programmes
• Sustainable agriculture and threats from Biopiracy: Case studies
• Plant Variety Protection and Farmers Rights Act in India: A critical Appraisal
• Adverse impact of Patents on biological resources and indigenous knowledge: An Appraisal
• Policies and Programmes facilitated in developing countries through recommendation of the International Union for Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV): Critical Assessment
• An Assessment of Biodiversity Act implemented in different developing countries of Asia and Africa as a follow up initiative of CBD.

TECHNICAL SESSION -XVI
VALEDICTORY SESION

Chairman: Dr. R.N. Pati
Senior Social Anthropologist
IK Foundation of India
Bhubaneswar, India