S.K.Balachander, Ph.D (Ecology)
Reader in Botany, Dept. Ag and RD, Loyola
Academy,
286C, Road 17, Nehrunagar,
Secunderabad 500 026 A.P.
Tel:
040-7808177
E-mail:
[email protected]
Life Vision
Be a eco-sustainable champion in the realms of Non-Equilibrium ecology(NEQ).
Achieve it through process knowledge of applied ecology, strategic partnerships, creative processes, eco-documentation and eco-interpretation for decision making and out reach activities.
Add value through capacity co-ordination, experience, and resource optimization.
Been a participatory Action Research Facilitator and NEQ Human Ecologist(Ph.D). Excellent innate Zeal and passion towards human-environment interrelationships, addressed to the current empasse’ of “Community Based Sustainable Development (CBSD),” livelihoods, and environmental change.
Good Team player and networker with leadership and creativity, with a good academic track record for the last seventeen years in Loyola Academy of the Osmania University, and passion for ecology are my strengths.
Outdoor Environmental Education and Outreach activities with embedded conceptual-decision making, teaching in Agricultural Botany, Genetics, Plant Biotechnology, Bio-diversity, Seed technology, Plant Protection, and Natural Resource Management are my speciality.
People shape environments to meet their ends in diverse ways and the emphasis is on dis-order and uncertainty, in the Human Ecology perspective. To bring in an adaptive, management strategy in the context of the current realities, the dynamics, the differences and the ecological variability in time and space and structuration of the landscape. In this embarkment of the unknown/emergent pathways and the trajectories of the environment change, we need to direct our energies to decentralized CBSD initiatives, beyond the prism of uniform perspective, and participatory fetish, in strategic alliances with the donors, developmental aid and alternatives.
I believe in the rising tide of creative change processes, environmentalism, and people centered sustainable paradigm, to generate a community of learning, for change, that will prepare us to lead humane and sustainable organizations, in the contemporary real world situations.
Leverage the learning and expertise to enhance participatory facilitation processes, co-analysis and networking.
Augument research and Training in Non-equilibrium Human Ecology.
Conceptual paradigm of NEQ-HE and participatory action research Environmental Entitlement Analysis of human Communities Livelihood and Institutional Analysis Social Sustainability issues-
Vulnerability and well-being Analysis Participatory Monitoring of change with Indices (Surrogative, experiential, grass root).
Applied human ecology and Anthropological methods, participatory Observations and focus groups.
Ecclectic, Qualitative, disaggregated, pluralistic methodological innovations in applied Human Ecology.
Community Forestry Tool Box, Revegetational Dynamics, Participatory Appraisal, Monitoring and Evaluation (PAME), Exploratory Rapid Appraisal, Bio-diversity and Local Knowledge Management Systems (LKMS), Conflict-resolution analysis, Stakeholder Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Herder’s mapping and Bio-resource flow mapping. Participatory facilitation of change processes (Insider-reflective methods, Strategic and communicative rationality)
Regenerative Eco-cities, Permaculture and NEQ Ecology, Ecotechnology
Bioremediation and reclamation of landscapes, Leisure and environment, Ecotourism and wilderness conservation
Training, Teaching and eco-interpretation of contemporary eco-issues, GM foods Vs Organic foods movements
Bioethics and Ecojournalism.