[Urbanstudy] Fwd: [invites] "The Living Natural Resource Site for the City" by Mr. Vikram Soni - 14.01.09 - 4.00 PM - 6.30 PM

Mon Jan 12 17:11:39 IST 2009

*CIVIC Bangalore
** &
Centre for Budget & Policy Studies (CBPS)
*
Invite you to a talk on

*The Living Natural Resource Site for the City:
A Ground Level Answer for Climate Change
*
by

*Mr. Vikram Soni
*
on 14th January 2009, from 4.00 PM to 6.30 PM

at Ashirwad, St. Mark's Road Cross,

Bangalore 560001

All are welcome
................................*
Programme Schedule*

4.00 PM  Tea

4.30 PM  Welcome and introduction

4.35  PM  Live on-line talk by Mr. Vikram Soni

6.00 PM   Open discussion

6.30  PM  Vote of thanks
.....................................*

Brief Bio-data of Mr. Vikram Soni
*
Vikram Soni is a physicist working on the particle physics of dense compact
stars like pulsars. He works equally on evolutionary networks and
particularly on issues concerned with biodiversity and humanly engineered
 extinction.

In the public domain he has worked on several campaigns to conserve the
Delhi Ridge and the Yamuna floodplains. His particular contribution is to
provide a knowledge base with creative and non invasive 'Preserve and Use '
schemes for these living natural resources.

*The Talk
*
The talk is on an on-line template to work on the living natural resource of
a city. It looks at creative 'Preserve and Use'  solutions for living
natural resources of a city that can yield billions of dollars of benefit
every year. It uses a knowledge base, video films and an ovative ground
level mapping as tools.

We will start with a film on the non-invasive scheme on the floodplains
of the Yamuna river for Delhi to show how this on-line site works and then
look at how we can develop such a site for Bangalore.

View Front Page at
http://www.naturalheritagefirst.org/ <http://www.naturalheritagefirst.org/>

*THE LIVING NATURAL RESOURCE SITE( DELHI)*
A practical guide to  reclaim and sustain nature

 www.ictp.it/~vsoni/ <http://www.ictp.it/%7Evsoni/>

According to the UN Millennium report, we have taken out a third of the
planet's species and close to half of the planet's living natural resources
in just 40 years. The loss of such natural resources, which were created
over aeons of evolution is immediate and irreversible and much of climate
change is due to this loss. Natural resource is tangible and on the ground –
it is felt immediately. Natural resource loss has yet to come to the fore in
the climate debate and to be clearly  seen for what it is on the early
warning radar.

Indeed, for the huge populations in the  developing world it is  the rapid
loss of living natural resource which will be more critical than climate
change. We know that just the loss of forests accounts for almost a quarter
of climate change in terms of sequestered carbon but what of the loss from
the lack of good water and the transport of such a vital element over large
distance, the loss of nutrients in soil , dust and pollution of the city air
where more and more people gather - and the health costs this will
bring?The surest way to avoid climate change on the ground, then, is
to preserve
such natural resource.

We have yet to learn the value of  the tropical rainforest that is cut or
our living waters that are polluted. Nature's production system has evolved
over aeons and we are its latest product. With a history of co-evolution,
nature has arranged all the right bacteria for digestion of natural food -
which is why organic food goes well with our digestive tracts whereas tech
food grown with fertilizer and genetic modification does not. Live natural
resource can never be substituted by technology. It is for this (main
reason)
reason that we simply have to conserve our fast vanishing natural resource
be it forest or water, tigers or elephants.

This site is about reforming our scheme of living to preserve and use such
natural resource.

This on-line site is one of a kind - a comprehensive site on urban  natural
resources.   It details and maps areas of great living natural resource
value and equips the citizen to understand. visualise and evaluate them. It
gives new, creative, perennial and non invasive solutions to secure the
water, air, and forest of cities, worth billions  of  U.S. 'dollars' per
year. All these resources could last forever,  but once lost are lost
forever.

This site provides a ground reality answer to climate change.

Section 1 is a knowledge
section<
http://mail.google.com/mail/public_html/public_html/section1/section1.htm
>which
gives creative solutions to preserve and use natural resources non
- invasively. It explains the resource and sets economic value on it. It
will equip citizens to have a knowledge base to start working on
preservation. It has material which has been published in reputed journals
on Delhi's natural resources.

Section 2 is a visual
knowledge<
http://mail.google.com/mail/public_html/public_html/section2/section2.htm
>section
which is more in the public domain. It has films and video clips on
the ridge and the floodplains. It has power point presentations on Integral
Heritage – which treats natural and built heritage on an equal and
complimentary footing. It has  also has power point presentations  on how to
put these issues into a political agenda and in an educational setting.

Section 3 is a detailed ground level mapping of  two major resources , the
Ridge Forest and the Yamuna River Floodplain using Google Earth maps with a
tool for computing area on the screen itself. The maps are :

1.         The Delhi Ridge

2.       The Yamuna Floodplain in Delhi

and are accessed by clicking on the Download Map Viewer Application of the
site.

 In the light of the violation of the protected areas of great natural
resource value, this equips citizens, schools , colleges, foundations,
organizations and individuals to mark out an area of these invaluable
resources they can adopt for protection from pollution and encroachments.
This also puts on record the status on the ground that cannot be disputed by
people, courts or government.

Though, this site and its preserve and use solutions are made for the Delhi
region it would be of great value to use it as a template for other cities
and districts on the planet. It is the one way – preserve and use this
resource- to secure a sustainable future for the cities and their citizens.

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