Internationalisation and standardisation of European Environmental Assessment. Relevance to India

Environmental Assessment and Management Related Master Level Degree Programmes in the Eu: Baseline, Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

“…These findings are not necessarily transferable to other countries outside the EU, like China, India or Pakistan, where EAM related higher degrees are still overly circumscribed within science and engineering (Fischer, 2012;Gazzola and Jha-Thakur, 2009;Sinha 2008;Wang et al, 2003). EU EAM-related degree programmes are flexible and allow for possible career changes, thereby enhancing attractiveness of these programmes for international students.…”

“…An upsurge in the interest of research on Environmental Assessment and Management (EAM) education has been observed over recent years (Stelmack et al, 2005;Fischer et al, 2008;Barker and Jones, 2008;Ramos et al, 2008;Gazzola, 2008;Cherp, 2008;Gazzola and Jha-Thakur, 2009;Sanchez et al, 2010;Fischer et al, 2010;Sanchez and Morrison-Saunders, 2010;Fischer et al, 2011;Fischer, 2012;Weiland, 2012). This is connected with a growing prominence of environmental issues in public and private policy, plan, programme and project decision making processes, internationally, nationally, regionally and locally (Jordan, 2005).…”

Editorial — Environmental Assessment in South Asia: Underrepresented in the International Academic Literature?

“…The discussions with fellow researchers, wider reading and personal experience further led to reflections as to why this maybe the case? Disciplinary focus: EA related higher education in Asia and especially within the Indian sub-continent is largely circumscribed within disciplines of engineering and natural science (Fischer et al, 2011;Gazzola and Jha-Thakur, 2009;Sinha, 2008). This is unlike Europe where EA is taught following a multidisciplinary approach (See Fischer and Jha-Thakur, 2013).…”