{"id":41878,"date":"2021-03-24T11:21:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T05:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/?page_id=41878"},"modified":"2021-03-24T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T06:29:17","slug":"international-centre-for-polar-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/international-centre-for-polar-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"International Centre for Polar Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

About ICPS<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nThe International Centre for Polar Studies (ICPS) at the Mahatma Gandhi University,
\nKerala, is a Polar cooperation Centre of both science and social sciences. The
\nSchool of Environmental Sciences, The School of International Relations and
\nPolitics, and the Inter-University Centre for Social Science Research and Extension
\nform this interdisciplinary Centre. The ICPS research scientific and socially
\nsignificant aspects. ICPS supports a multilevel strategic approach for attaining
\nenvironmentally and socially responsible development. Also, the Centre act as a
\nconsultant in geopolitical policies and human ecological aspects for the Government
\nof India.
\nBroad Vision
\n\uf0a7 To develop appropriate technology and skilled human resource for Polar
\nstudies.
\nMission
\n\uf0b7 To facilitate human resource development in Polar studies through
\ninterdisciplinary education and research.
\n\uf0b7 To create advanced facilities for enhancing research on sustainable
\ndevelopment
\n\uf0b7 To become a knowledge bank on Polar studies
\nObjectives:
\nThe official policy on and polar research becomes particularly pertinent to work
\nsynergistically with when one factor in climate changes and the intricate determinant
\nroles these regions have in matters of global climatic systems. There are also the
\nhydrological cycles and the possibilities for perennial availability of freshwater that
\nneeds eco-sensitive vision that the centre works towards. There are of course the
\nstrategic dilemmas that open up with the opening up of sea corridors because of ice<\/p>\n

melting on the one hand and emergent commercial forays like the \u201cPolar Silk Road\u201d
\non the other. One has to have explorations with a rational and bio-strategic emphasis
\nthat the Centre seeks to work on also within the broad international frames like the
\nUNCLOS [United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea]. One of the major
\nemphases of the human ecological dimension of the ICPS will be to have an outlook
\nthat draws from the experience, insights and needs of the indigenous communities
\nscattered through the countries surrounding polar regions. This helps to have a
\ndemocratic and socially sensitive vision that informs insights. With the myriad
\ntrajectories through which environmental disasters and events like large floods may
\nbe understood, polar and Himalayan socio-hydrological work with human ecological
\nemphasis becomes ever more significant.
\nAs is evident from the multiple facets, objectives and emphasis in the policy draft,
\nthere is ever more understandings into the thinning of sea ice within the total surface
\nor the increase in navigation through ice free zones at alarming rates and the
\necological implications for life. This could very well be imagined holistically and
\nsituated socio-politically.
\nIn the context we suggest:
\n\uf0b7 Interdisciplinary understanding with a \u2018social scientific emphasis\u2019 on
\nexplorations of contemporaneity with a serious focus on multispecies and non
\nhuman life.
\n\uf0b7 Increasing emphasis on EBM (Ecosystem Based Management) as well as the
\ntransformations in the idea of \u2018sustainability\u2019. This will build upon the stated
\nobjectives; can be a point of serious engagement. There will be an emphasis
\non understandings that have to emerge along the lines.
\n\uf0b7 Explorations that can no more be discipline bound and we positively work
\ntowards that end.
\n\uf0b7 Significant frames of understanding as well as explorations along the human
\necological dimension. To develop a dynamic, spatially explicit, integrated,
\necological economic model one has to draw from multimodal enquiries that
\nwork synergistically with other field as well as draw from macro issues like
\ngeopolitics, global climatic impacts.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Institutional Collaborations, especially with states as well as institutions with
\npersonnel involved with overlapping work and work eventually in synergy with
\nthe broader \u2018 policies\u2019 laid out.
\n\uf0b7 It becomes significant that the Himalayan bio-ecological region comes into the
\nsustainability emphasis as well as ecological governance protocols with long
\nterm plans.<\/p>\n

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