Lahore School of Economics Delegation Engages with Punjab Green Development Program on Environmental Sustainability
January 31, 2025
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A delegation from the Lahore School of Economics, led by Associate Professor Ms. Theresa Chaudhary, visited the Strategic Planning and Implementation Unit to engage in discussions on environmental sustainability initiatives. The delegation, which included faculty members Dr. Mehreen Khan and Natasha Moeen, was welcomed by the team from the Punjab Green Development Program, headed by Project Director Ms. Samia Saleem.
During the visit, the PGDP team provided a comprehensive briefing on their ongoing efforts to promote clean air and water, enhance information disclosure, and implement effective plastic management strategies. The discussion facilitated an exchange of ideas on sustainable development and environmental policy. As part of the engagement, the Project Director also presented the Punjab State of the Environment Report 2023 to the Lahore School faculty, offering valuable insights into the region's environmental landscape.
Labels: Environment, Green Punjab, Lahore School, Punjab
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 1/31/2025 03:28:00 PM,
Challenges and Possibilities for Environmental Sustainability with a Focus on Pakistan
May 14, 2024
Status of water quality and quantity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Dr. Bushra Khan
The Swat and Kabul rivers of northern Pakistan are within an important regional watershed that supports river-based livelihoods and is impacted by untreated effluent discharges and municipal solid waste. Evidence indicates that fish populations are decreasing in these rivers. One potential cause of poor aquatic health is pollution; therefore, we investigated the presence of several contaminants in the river systems and local fish species of both rivers. Total 25 spots on River Swat and 21 on River Kabul were identified as contamination hotspots. Water samples were collected during seasons of high (summer) and low (winter) river flow. CECs (Agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, plasticizers, chemicals in personal care products, and hormones); Heavy Metals (Pb, Cr, Cd and Zn) and Microplastics were quantified. In the Swat River, caffeine, N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET), butachlor and plasticizers were detected at all sites. In the Kabul River, caffeine and several lasticizers and DEET were detected at all sites. Pharmaceuticals (analgesics and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs) were quantified in both rivers. Microplastic of various nature and sizes in 100% water, sediments and fish samples were detected in Rivers Swat and Kabul.
Read more »Labels: Environment, Environmental Science and Policy, Research
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 5/14/2024 08:00:00 AM,
PRODUCTION OF NATURE
December 15, 2016
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT
PRODUCTION OF NATURE
15– 16 December, 2016
(Abstracts)
Keynote Address
Un-natural resources
Barbara Harriss-White
While natural resources are substances that can be exploited by society, the term un-natural resources draws attention to natural resources that are exploited – and landscapes created – through the criminal violation of laws intended to regulate the economic processes of extraction. The propositions that these crimes may be unpunished – and even incentivised – because they supply the financial preconditions for electoral democracy and because political immunity protects criminal accumulation, are explored in this paper. Four case studies: illegal coal mining and un-doused subterranean fires in Jharkhand, illegal sand-mining in Tamil Nadu and hydro-criminality in Arunachal Pradesh, India, reveal social relations of criminality in the extraction of resources for the energy and construction sectors, the relations between criminal accumulation and party political funding and behaviour. They also alter the orthodox narratives of local politics in the states studied in ways examined in the paper.
Read more »Labels: Environment, Environmental Science and Policy
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 12/15/2016 01:54:00 PM,
MPhil in Environmental Science and Policy
September 03, 2014
Admission to MPhil in Environmental Science and Policy is open in Lahore School of Economics. Students with BSc in Environmental Science (CGPA 3.00 and above) may apply at the admission office in City Campus. It should be noted that MPhil in Environmental Science and Policy is a full scholarship programme.
Labels: Environment, Lahore Journal of Economics, Mphil, Programs
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9/03/2014 10:52:00 AM,
With peacocks
January 16, 2011
Lahore School Main Campus!
Labels: Environment, Lahore School
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 1/16/2011 01:35:00 PM,
Lahore School of Economics - Eco Friendly and Green Campus
May 16, 2009
Labels: Environment, Images, Lahore School
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 5/16/2009 10:28:00 AM,
Lahore School Main Campus Green Galore
July 10, 2008
Image by Fahad (BBA)
Labels: Environment
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 7/10/2008 12:52:00 PM,
Socio-Economic Analysis of Kasur Tannery Pollution Control Project
October 04, 2006
Research paper written by Dr. Mohammad Rafiq Khan was presented by him in the in Third Renvoi, the International Case Competition held by Amity Business School, Amity University NOIDA, India, on September 22-23, 2006.
Extract:
Tanning in Pakistan is the second largest export industry that contributes 7 % towards the Country’s export earnings and provides living to 100,000 souls1. It was started in Pakistan about 100 years ago, it received big boost in 1971. The Province of the Punjab has played a major role in the development of tanning industry in Pakistan. Presently, most of the sites where the industry is installed in the Province are located in Sialkot, Lahore, Multan, Gujranwala and Kasur. The tanneries in Pakistan discharge large quantities of wastewater that contains highly injurious pollutants and thus the tannery clusters not only a threat to the human and animal health but also render the land they flood with wastewater useless for cultivation and residential purposes. Here, Kasur and its suburbs are the focus of discussion with reference to the control of liquid pollution spread by the jumbo of tanneries in operation over there.
Socio-economic analysis of the Common Effluent Pre-Treatment Plant (CEPTP) installed by KTWMA at Kasur Tanneries Complex was carried out. The data were collected from KTWMA by paying visits to the Office of the General Manager Tanneries Water Pretreatment Plant Kasur for general information and having the round of the plant under study to see the work-in progress. The General Manager, Engineers, Plant Supervisor and Plant Operators were comprehensively interviewed to dig out the information. The detailed information pertaining to CEPTP and Chromium Recovery Pilot Plant was also supplied by the Plant Supervisor and Plant Operators by answering a comprehensive questionnaire provided to them for filling the information and answering the questions. The data were, subsequently, analyzed to determine the B/C Ratio and NPV of the Project with and without social benefits.
The full text of the paper will appear in the “Book of Cases” that will be published by Amity Business School in November 2006. Labels: Environment, Research
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10/04/2006 12:28:00 PM,
Techno-Economic Disposal of Hospital Wastes in Pakistan
September 14, 2006
Research paper titled Techno-Economic Disposal of Hospital Wastes in Pakistan written by Dr. Mohammad Rafiq Khan, Prof. Fareed Fareedi and Beenish Rashid of Lahore School of Economics has appeared in Pakistan Journal of Medical Research, Volume 45 No 2, 2006.
The findings suggest that there is no efficient system of disposal of solid hospital wastes in Pakistan. The workforce engaged in its disposal is ignorant and is in the worst socio-economic state and the employees are carrying out jobs as their socio-economic need as hereditary business and thus don’t have any job satisfaction in this business.
In spite of unfavorable socio-economic conditions, the turnover of employees for the disposal job is high, which can be due to attractive medical benefits and involvement in illegal practices that are source of some extra income for them.
Labels: Environment, Research
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9/14/2006 01:45:00 PM,
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