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PERSONAL DATA:

Name: Hari Srinivas

Current Address:
Global Development Research Center
1-5-1-1013, Mori Minami Machi,
Higashi-Nada-ku, Kobe 658-0011, Japan
Tel / Fax: +(81-78) 452-8414
Skype: hari-srinivas
Email: hsrinivas@gdrc.org

Current position: Coordinator

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1. Degrees:

Degree Date of Graduation Institution
Ph.D. September, 1996 Department of Social Engineering
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tokyo, Japan
Ph.D. thesis: Development of Housing Finance Triangle Linking People's Organizations, NGOs, and Commercial Banks in Developing Countries.
M.Sc.
(Urban Planning and Development) 		December, 1991 Division of Human Settlements Development,
Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
Master's degree thesis: Viability of Urban Informal Credit to Finance Low Income-Housing: A Case Study of Three Squatter Settlements in Bangalore, India
B.Arch. July, 1987 Department of Architecture,
Manipal Institute of Technology,
Manipal, India
Bachelor's degree thesis: Squatter Relocation: Comprehensive Community Development Plan for Relocated Squatters

2. Scholastic Awards and Honours:

  1. First Rank with a First class with Distinction in I, II, IV & V years of Architecture, 1982-87.
  2. Dr.T.M.A. Pai Prize for Best Out-Going Student in Architecture in 1987
  3. Mangalore University Gold Medal in Architecture, 1987.
  4. Recipient of Canadian International Development Agency Scholarship for research and study at AIT, Bangkok, 1990-91.
  5. Recipient of Japanese Government (MONBUSHO) Scholarship for research and study at Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1993-1996
  6. Manipal Institute of Technology - Distinguished Alumni Award, 2007

3. Membership in Professional Organizations:

  1. Member, Council of Architecture, New Delhi, India
  2. Member, Indian Institute of Architects, Karnataka Chapter, India.
  3. Member, International Society of City and Regional Planners, The Hague.
  4. Member, Japan Association for Planning Administration
  5. Member, Urban Planning and Environment Association
  6. Member, Regional Planning Association, Japan
  7. Member, Regional Science Association International

EMPLOYMENT RECORD:

Position Employer Period Duties and Responsibilities
Asst. Professor Dept. of Social Engineering, TITech, Tokyo, Japan April 1997 - On-going Teaching masters students in urban planning topics; research in infomation systems, urban planning and other issues.
Researcher Global Environment Information Centre, Tokyo, Japan October 1996 - March 1997 Research and development of projects related to the Environment, NGOs, networking and information systems.
Consultant United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan September 1995 to November 1996 Setting up information resources for the Small Islands Network.
Program Associate Canadian Universities Consortium , Asian Institute of Technology, Bangko, Thailand May 1993 to July 1993 Research Project Design and Implementation; Development of Coursework; formulation of research reports and course contents etc.
Research Associate Div. of Human Settlements Development, Asian Institute of Tech. Bangkok, Thailand December December 1991 to April 1993 Research and development for various projects; organization of short courses; assistance in teaching; preperation of research reports etc.
Research Associate Centre for Development Studies and Activities (CDSA), Pune, India. August 1989 to April 1990 Researcher in various projects; teaching a course in Development Planning (Environmental and Community Development Lab); conceptualizing, and publishing of manuals in community development; field research and community participation exercises in squatter settlements etc.
Lecturer Department of Architecture Manipal Institute of Technology Manipal, India July 1987 to July 1989 Teaching B.Arch. degree students (Basic and Architectural Design, Architectural Graphics, Acoustics, Building Construction, History of Architecture and Photography); architectural consultancy work etc.
Associate Architect M/s Rewathkar and Associates Manipal, India June 1985 to July 1989 Conceptualization, design and drafting of various architectural projects.

Other positions and work experiences:

Position Organization Duties and Responsibilities
Member Working Group on Trade and Communications Network Technology International Cooperative Alliance, Geneva, Switzerland
Collection and dissemination of info on advances in networking technology for cooperatives, preperation of background papers on technology for coops, testing model technology etc.
Editorial Team member EARTHWRAP Newsletter (Information systems) Global Environment Information Centre, Tokyo, Japan
Editorial team for "Earthwrap" newsletter of GEIC. Gather, process and package information on environmental issues and initiatives at the global, national and local levels - linked to Agenda 21.
Consultant, Information Technology Committee United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan
Setting up online information resources, developing information management structures within UNU, setting up multimedia resources etc.
Coordinator, ISoCaRP Intl. Planning Network for Information Systems in Urban Management International Society for City & Regional Planners, The Hague, Netherlands.
Coordinate an international network for information systems among planning professionals and academicians; activities include publication, research, field visits, teleconferencing etc.
Research Partner, UNCTAD Project on Financing Emerging Sectors UN Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva, Switzerland
Member of Research Committee set up for the UNCTAD Project on Non-conventional Financing: developing a rating mechanism adapted to non-conventional lending institutions and proposing techncal solutions for resource mobilization.

PUBLICATIONS

    Architecture and Conservation

  1. "Human Settlements and the Deep Blue Sea" Invited paper presented at the OCEANS'98 Conference, Nice, France 28 September - 1 October 1998 (with Franklin Wayne Poley)
  2. "Mediation for Urban Conservation: The Case of Imai-Ch , Japan" Paper presented at the 32th World Congress of ISOCARP at Sydney, Australia, 7-14 September 1995.
  3. "The Architecture of India" Kenchiku Sicho-Architectural Forum, Volume 3 Annual Issue. Kyoto: Dept. of Architecture, Kyoto University, 1994
  4. "Manual on Appropriate Building Materials and Construction Techniques", Pune, India: Centre for Development Studies and Activities, 1989
  5. "Homelessness - an issue", National Association of Students of Architecture Magazine, NASA-1987.

    Planning and Urban Development

    1. "Mediation for Urban Conservation: The Case of Imai-Cho, Japan" Paper presented at the 32th World Congress of ISOCARP at Sydney, Australia, 7-14 September 1995.
    2. "A City is not a City: Reflections on a New Language for Megacities". Paper presented at the Pre-Habitat II Tokyo Conference on The World Cities and the Urban Future, 23 - 25 August, 1995 (with Yoshinobu Kumata, Sachihiko Harashina and Tatsuro Sakano).
    3. "Limits to Urban Growth and Urbanization: A case study of Bangkok Problems" Paper presented at the International System Dynamics Conference 29 July-3 August, 1995, Tokyo Japan (with Orasa Suksawang).
    4. "The Architecture of India" Kenchiku Sicho-Architectural Forum, Volume 3 Annual Issue. Kyoto: Dept. of Architecture, Kyoto University, 1994
    5. "Manual on Appropriate Building Materials and Construction Techniques", Pune, India: Centre for Development Studies and Activities, 1989
    6. "Homelessness - an issue", National Association of Students of Architecture Magazine, NASA-1987.
    7. "Amenity Migration or Why-do-such-highly-qualified-professionals-come-to-a-small-town-like-Manipal" Paper presented at the International ISoCaRP Congress in Jerusalem, Israel, 13-16 October, 1996
    8. "The Virtual Planning Lab: Concepts and Prospects" Discussion Paper prepared for the Ogaki Symposium on Revitalization of the Local Economy using Information Technology. September 2-4, 1996, Ogaki Japan. (With Yoshinobu Kumata and Hiroyuki Matsui)
    9. "Planning Practice: Japan" in Derek Lyddon and Adriana Dal Cin (eds.) International Manual of Planning Practice 3rd Edition. The Hague: International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP). (With Yoshinobu Kumata and Tatsuro Sakano)
    10. "Urban Planning in Japan" Bulletin - 33rd Congress Special Issue 1997/2. The Hague: International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP). (Editorial Team member with Yoshinobu Kumata and Tatsuro Sakano)
    11. "Human Settlements and the Deep Blue Sea" Invited paper to be presented at the OCEANS'98 Conference, Nice, France 28 September ? 1 October 1998 (with Franklin Wayne Poley)
    12. "The Future of Indian Cities: GET URBAN" Paper presented during the Forum on City Planning organized by the City of Fukuoka and the Asia-Pacific Center, 24-28 September, 1999
    13. "Rethinking Port Areas: Japan's Minato Mirai 21" Paper presented at the 35th International Congress of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) on the theme, The Future of Industrial Regions, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 17-20 September 1999.
    14. "Prioritizing Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region: Role of Urban Governments" Asia-Urbs Journal. Third Quarter 1999. (with Bernadia Irawati Tjandradewi)
    15. "Cities as Brands: Osaka City in Japan Reinvents itself" in Zeynep M. Enlil and Pablo Vaggione (eds), Cities Between Integration and Disintegration: Opportunities and Challenges. The Hague: International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP), 2007.

    Global and Urban Environmental Management

    1. "Information Systems in Urban Environmental Management" Paper presented at the Second International Symposium on Urban Planning and Environment - Strategies and Methods for Improving Environmental Quality in Compact Cities. 11-14 March, 1997, Groningen, The Netherlands.
    2. "Networking for Urban Environments: The Urban Environmental Management Research Initiative" in HSD 20/200: Planning Education, Research and Practice in Asia into the Year 2000. Human Settlements Development Programme, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, 10-13 December, 1997.
    3. "Coastal Area Management: The need for a continuum of Actors and Actions" Summary of Proceedings. ISOCARP-IAIA Joint Seminar on Coastal Area Management: Integrating Environmental Objectives into Regional Planning, 25 ? 29 March 1998, Antalya, Turkey
    4. "Managing information: Urban environments and the Internet" in Donald Miller and Gert de Roo (eds) Integrating Environmental Management and Urban Planning. Hampshire: Avebury, 1998.
    5. "Urban Environmental Management: A Partnership Continuum" Chapter in Inoguchi et al. (Eds.) Cities and the Environment: New Approaches for Eco-Societies. Tokyo: The United Nations University Press, 1999.
    6. "Compact Cities in the Asia-Pacific Region: Choice or Necessity?" in Mike Jenks and Rod Burgess (Eds) The Compact City: A Sustainable Urban Form for Developing Countries? Forthcoming - Routledge Co., December 1999.
    7. "Use of Internet for Citizen's Participation in Urban Management" in Decision-making Processes for Environmental Management Alleviating the Environmental Burden on Earth. Tokyo: Science Council of Japan, December 1998.
    8. "Ecological and Material Balance in Japan" in Usui and Paoletto (eds). Kankyo Japan. Tokyo: Diamond Publishers (translated to Japanese)
    9. "Multilateral Environment Agreements (MEAs) and the Urban Arena: Implications for Industrial Transformation" Paper presented at the Open Science Meeting on Industrial Transformation Session on "Cities and Industrial Transformation", February 25-26, 1999, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
    10. "The Role of Local Governments in Fostering Business Partnerships for Environmental Sustainability" Background Paper prepared for the CITYNET Conference on Fostering Business Partnerships, Katmandu, Nepal, 3-5 November 1999.
    11. "Cities, Environmental Management Systems and ISO 14001: A View from Japan" Paper prepared for the International Symposium on Sustainable City Development, Seoul, South Korea, 6 and 7 October 1999 (with Makiko Yashiro)
    12. Leveling the Playing Field: ISO 14001 and Local Governments in Japan. Discussion Paper Series 2000-2001 Series. Tokyo: United Nations University, September 2000. (with Makiko Yashiro)
    13. "Multilateral Environment Agreements (MEAs) and the Urban & Rural Arena: Localizing the Global Environmental Agenda" Journal of Rural Planning Association, Vol. 21, No.3,
    14. December 2002, p. 240-248
    15. "Focusing on the Real Environmental Culprits - Urban Areas" Global Environmental Change 10 (200) p. 233-236
    16. "Environmental Management and Community Participation: Enhancing Local Programmes" Urban Environmental Management Series. Osaka: United Nations Environment Programme, 2002
    17. "Green and Sustainable Businesses from a Local Government Perspective: Fostering Business Partnerships for Environmental Sustainability" Urban Environmental Management Series. Osaka: United Nations Environment Programme, 2002
    18. "Waste Management in Agenda 21" Urban Environmental Management Series. Osaka: United Nations Environment Programme, 2002
    19. "Strengthening Partnerships between Cities in Japan and the Asia-Pacific Region" Urban Environmental Management Series. Osaka: United Nations Environment Programme, 2002
    20. "Integrated Urban Resources Management Strategy: Water" Urban Environmental Management Series. Osaka: United Nations Environment Programme, 2002
    21. "Innovative Communities: Community Centered Approaches to Sustainable Environmental Management" Urban Environmental Management Series. Osaka: United Nations Environment Programme, 2002
    22. "The Ecosystems Approach to Urban Environmental Management" Urban Environmental Management Series. Osaka: United Nations Environment Programme, 2002
    23. "Environmental Education: Creating an Environment to Educate about the Environment" Urban Environmental Management Series. Osaka: United Nations Environment Programme, 2002
    24. "Cities and Environmental Management Systems" Paper presented at the Mayor's Caucus, EAROPH Congress, 7-11 September 2002, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    25. "Japan: The Eco-Town Strategy" in Judith Ryser and Waikeen Ng (Eds), Making Spaces for the Creative Economy. Madrid: Metropolis Inc., 2006
    26. "Building an Environment for the Built Environments" in Brkovic, Milica, Innovation and Creative Spaces in Sustainable Cities. Belgrade: Holcim Foundation, February 2008

    Environment and Disaster Management

    1. Urban Risk Reduction: An Asian Perspective. London: Springer Publications, 2008 (co-edited with Shaw, Rajib and Sharma, Anshu).
    2. "Environmental Vulnerability and Disaster Risk Reduction" in Rajib Shaw, Ramasamy Krishnamurthy Disaster Management: Global Challenges and Local Solutions Madras: Universities Press India Limited, 2008
    3. "Environmental implications for disaster preparedness: Lessons Learnt from the Indian Ocean Tsunami" Journal of Environmental Management, September 2007 (with Yuko Nakagawa)
    4. Environmental Management and Disaster Preparedness: Lessons Learnt from the Tokage Typhoon (Typhoon 23 of 2004) in Japan. Osaka: United Nations Environment Programme, 2007
    5. "Environmental Management and Disaster Reduction" Concept Paper for WCDR Thematic Session on "Environmental Management and Disaster Reduction: Building a Multi-Stakeholder Partnership" World Conference on Disaster Reduction, Kobe Japan, 18-22 January 2005
    6. "Understanding the Environmental Impacts of Disasters" Training Kit for the Training Programme on Mitigation Strategy for Mega-Urban Earthquake Disaster. Kobe: Kobe University, 2007
    7. "Island Vulnerability: An Assessment of the Indian Ocean Tsunami on Maldives" in Singh, K.K. and Jha, Madan, Disaster Management in Developing Countries. Kharagpur: Indian Institute of Technology, 2008 (forthcoming).

    Microfinance and Community Economics

    1. "Understanding Urban Squatter Settlement Development Processes: Some Evidence from Bangalore, India" in Stig Toft Madesen (ed), From Wild Pigs to Foreign Trees: South Asian Environments in a State-Society Perspective. Lund, Sweden: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), 1996.
    2. Towards a Credit Delivery Model for Low-income Housing: Lessons from Urban Informal Credit Markets. HSD Monograph Series No. 35. Bangkok: Asian Institute of Technology (with A.T.M. Nurul Amin and Yoichiro Higuchi).
    3. "The Financial Triads: Linkages between Banks, NGOs and People's Organizations" in D. Rajshekar et al., Dependence or Autonomy? Development Paths for Indian NGOs, forthcoming.
    4. "A Desire to Improve: Lessons in Community Activity for Credit Mobilization" Paper presented at the on-line Seminar on The History of Community Organizing and Community-based Housing, University of Illinois, Spring 1996.
    5. "A Continuum of Informality of Credit: What can Informal Lenders Teach Us?" Savings and Development. Vol. XX, No.2, 1996 (with Yoichiro Higuchi).
    6. "The Co-option of Low-Income Borrowers by Informal Credit Suppliers" Third World Planning Review. Vol. 18, No.2, 1996. (with Barbara Igel).
    7. "14 Reasons why the Informal Credit Market has to be supported: Policy Implications for Low-Income Housing Finance" - Paper presented at the XXIII IAHS World Congress 25-29 September, 1995, Singapore.
    8. "People?centered Credit Systems in Developing Countries: The Need for Regional Networks" Colloqui - Cornell Journal of Planing and Urban Issues, Spring 1995.
    9. "The Continuum of Informality of Credit: Lessons for Formal Sector Lending" Paper presented at the 2nd Symposium: Housing for the Urban Poor, Birmingham, UK, April, 1994.
    10. "Community Groups and Planning Action: The Need for Citizen's Participation" Paper presented at the 30th World Congress of ISOCARP at Prague, Czech Republic, 4-10 September, 1994.
    11. Development Plan for the Upgradation of Inner-city Squatter Settlements. Second Prize entry. Development Plan Competition, Tokyo: Sapla Neer, 1994.
    12. "Community Participation in Low-Income Housing and Its Role in Mobilization of Informal Financial Resources" Paper presented at the 29th World Congress of ISOCARP at Glasgow. UK, September, 1993.
    13. "Micro-ODA and Mircocredit: New Directions for Japan's ODA" Paper presented at the International Leaders Symposium '96. 27-29 August, 1996.
    14. "Information Dissemination of Microfinance Issues: The Virtual Library on Microcredit". Presentation paper at the Meet the Challenge Session II, Microcredit Summit, Washington DC, February 2-4, 1997.
    15. "Microcredit in Developing Countries: Facilitative Roles of NGOs" Planning Administration. Volume 21, Number 2, June 1998.
    16. "Microcredit: Small Solutions to Big problems." Invited paper prepared for the regional seminar on Supporting effective and equitable financial services for the urban poor. 1-3 April 1998, Bangkok, Thailand.
    17. "Financing Mechanisms: Microfinance" in Jerry Velasquez et al., Inter-Linkages in Financing Sustainable Development. Tokyo: United Nations University, August 2002, p.24-26
    18. "Microfinance in the Urban Environmental Development Perspective" Urban Environmental Management Series. Osaka: United Nations Environment Programme, 2002

    International Development and Non-Governmental Organizations

    1. "Sustainable Partnerships for the Habitat Agenda: New Roles for Professional NGOs" Paper presented at HABITAT II's NGO Forum, Istanbul, Turkey - 3-14 June 1996.
    2. "NGOs and the Internet" in Dana Fisher and German Velasquez, (eds.) International Organizations and the Internet: The Role of the United Nations in the Next Century. Tokyo: The United Nations University Press, 1998.
    3. "Building Professionalism in NGOs/NPOs: Key Issues for Capacity Building" Urban Environmental Management Series. Osaka: United Nations Environment Programme, 2002.
    4. "Local Environmental Management and the Role of NPOs" Economic Science Issue no. 32, 2002. (Nihon University, College of Economics). - with Yoshinobu Kumata
    5. "Fund Raising Realities and Strategies: Lessons learnt at the NGO Cafe" Volunteer Service Journal, Volume 5, No.1, 2004.

    Information Management and the Internet

    1. Hiroyuki Matsui, Yoshinobu Kumata, Hari Srinivas "Information Networks and Urban Planning Process The Virtual Planning Lab" 3rd International Symposium GLOBAL VILLAGE Global Networking and local Development, 16 February 1995, Vienna, Austria
    2. "Urban Planning and the Internet: Boon or Bane?" Paper presented at the Virtual Planning Laboratory Symposium, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 28 August, 1996.
    3. "Advances in Information Technology - Issues for Development: India Country Report" AusAID Initiated Research Programme. Adelaide: Centre for Telecommunications and Information Networking, University of Adelaide, 1996
    4. "Retrieval and Assessment of Information from the Internet" Background Paper for Training Sessions prepared for the UNU Series on the Internet. Tokyo: United Nations University, 11-12 and 18-19, November 1997.

    Globalization and Development Patterns

    1. "New Development Patterns in India". Paper presented at the Workshop on New Development Patterns, 29-30 January 1999, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Kanagawa, Japan
    2. "Green Business Practices: A Policy And Programme Framework" Paper presented at the IGES-IeF-UNU Training Workshop on Environmental Leadership12-13 June, 1999.
    3. "Managing the World's Oceans" SGI Quarterly Number 27, January 2002

    Gender and Development

    1. "Online Technology and Networking: Some Gender Perspectives" Paper presented at the AIT-GASAT Regional Conference on Gender and Technology in Asia, Bangkok: Asian Institute of Technology, 4-7 August 1998.
    2. "Towards a Gender Analysis Framework to assist the application, adoption and use of Environmentally Sound Technologies" Urban Environmental Management Series, United Nations Environment Programme, 2003

    International Technology Transfer and Environment

    1. "Japan and Bilateral Cooperation on the Internet: The JITNet, JVNet and JASANet Initiatives" Paper presented at the Multinational Symposium on Management of Technology and Innovation at Hangzhou, China, 24-26 October 1995.
    2. "International Cooperation for Trade and Development: The Japan-South Africa Network (JASANet)" Paper presented at International Conference on Science and Technology in Reconstruction, University of Natal, Petermaritzburg, South Africa, 23-26 September 1996.
    Internet/World Wide Web

    Information Depositories

  6. Virtual Library on Microcredit, 1994
    http://www.gdrc.org/icm/
  7. Urban Environmental Management, 1996
    http://www.gdrc.org/uem/
  8. The NGO Cafe, 1995
    http://www.soc.titech.ac.jp/ngo/
  9. Information Systems for Development, 1997
    http://www.gdrc.org/info-sys/

    Bilateral cooperation networks

  10. Japan-India Technology Network (JITNet), 1995
    http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/asia/india/jitnet
  11. Japan Venezuela Network (JVNet), 1995
    http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/venemb/
  12. Japan South Africa Network (JASANet), 1995
    http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/embassy/jasanet/

    Organizational Homepages

  13. The International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP), 1995
    http://www.isocarp.org/
  14. The Japan Association for Planning Administration, 1996
    http://www.soc.titech.ac.jp/japa
  15. The Virtual Planning Lab,1996
    http://www.soc.titech.ac.jp/japa/vpl
  16. The United Nations University, 1996
    http://www.unu.edu/
  17. Global Environment Information Centre, 1996
    http://www.geic.or.jp/

    Programme Homepages

  18. Creative Development Training Programme for Children, 1995
    http://www.ku.ac.th/social/kids/index.html
  19. Small Islands Network (United Nations University), 1995
    http://www.geic.or.jp/island/
Hari Srinivas
hsrinivas@gdrc.org

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