• Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Impact Assessment

• Natural Resource Management

• Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) with Botany, Zoology, Chemistry

• Master of Science (M.Sc) in Environmental Biology

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Chapters/ Papers in books

• “Evaluation of Environmental Laws and Proposals for Reforms – A Report” commissioned by Indira Gandhi Institute for Developmental Research, Mumbai, Under Capacity 21 Project. 1999.

• “Major Environmental Legislation” in Three volumes. Published by National Law School of India University, Bangalore. 1998.

• “Guide Book” for Children Science Congress, organised by National Council for Scientific and Technical Communication Network, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi. 1994

• Series of strategy briefs on environmental governance prepared by Indira Gandhi Institute of Developmental Research, Mumbai Under Capacity 21 Program;

• “Clean Water Environmental Governance - 1”

• “Sustainable Wetlands Environmental Governance – 2”

• “Sustainable Land & Forest Regeneration Environmental Governance – 3”

• “Clean Air Environmental Governance – 4”

Articles / Papers

• “Possible Enhanced Conflict Situations on Account of Climate Change and Water Sharing: A Case Study of Three States of India” 2004 K. Lenin Babu, Proceedings of International Workshop on Human Security and Climate Change’ organized by Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo to be held during 21–23 June 2005 at Oslo, Norway.  www.cicero.uio.no/humsec

• “Transportation sector in Bangalore City, India – Examining Existing and proposed Metro Project2004.”. Somashekar, R.K. and Lenin Babu, K
  http://web.hku.hk/~gin2004/pdf/timetable/ProgramBook_final.pdf

• “Changing Trends in the Environmental Law: A Critical Evaluation of Change in Environmental Laws in India from 1972 to 2002” 2003 K. Lenin Babu. Published in Materials of An International Scientific Conference on “Regional Tendencies of the Interaction of Human Beings and Nature in the process of the transition from Agrarian to Industrial Society” organized by Faculty of History, Tver State University, Russia. March 2003. Pp 53 - 57

• “Impact Globalization – A case study of Coffee Industry” 2003 K. Lenin Babu, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, R. K. Somashekar.
  http://www.wider.unu.edu/conference/conference-2003-3/conference-2003-3-papers/Babu-guha-khsanobis-somashekar-1208.pdf

• Governance and Natural Resources – Lessons from India,  2003 Babu, K.Lenin & Somashekar, R.K. Pp 102 
  http://www.iias.nl/host/icassecretariat/abstractofpapers.pdf

• “Evaluation of Vertical and Horizontal Influences and their Impact on Environmental Change Policies in India: A Case Study of Two Sectors—Pollution Control and Water Shed Management” Shoban Kumar Pattanayak and K. Lenin Babu, 2002 In: Frank Biermann, Rainer Brohm, Klaus Dingwerth, editors. 'Proceedings of the 2001 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Global Environmental Change and the Nation State'. PIK Report No. 80, Potsdam: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, December 2002. pp. 31-36

• “Examination of Policies and Legislations concerning with the Industrial hazardous waste Management” K. Lenin Babu and R.K. Somashekar, 2002In: Solid Waste Management, Ed R.K. Somashekar and M.A.R. Iyengar. Allied Publishers. pp 314-316.

• K. Lenin Babu, J. S. Chandrashekar, R. K. Somashekar, 2002.  in Proceedings of 11th International Water Symposium organized by Stockholm International Water Institute, Stockholm, Pp. 165.

Contributions to Research Reports

• K. Lenin Babu, S.K. Tyagi, S.D. Makhijani 1995. “Estimation of PAHs in Sewage and sludge using spectrofluorimetry” Seminar Proce. Central Pollution Control Board, New Delhi.

• S.K. Tyagi, K. Lenin Babu, S.D. Makhijani 1995. “Estimation of PAHs in Ambient Air particulate Matter using Gas Chromatographic Method” Proceeding of National Workshop organised by the Central Pollution Control Board, New Delhi.

• Environmental Impacts on Taj TrapeziumAs a team member Central Pollution Control Board, Constituted by Supreme Court of India, contributed to the technical report on Compliance of Court Orders regarding the environmental impacts in Taj Trapezium area in 1997.

• Environmental quality reports for the Annual Reports of Central Pollution Control Boards, with specific relation to the concentration of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Ambient Air.

Research Projects Ongoing

• Evaluation of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures of Uruguay Round on Supply Chain:    A study on Tea sector of Nilgiri region of South India

• Content Developing for Mobile Ecological Laboratory for Agastya Foundation International, Bangalore

• EIA for proposed Bangalore Metro Rail Project, commissioned by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, Delhi, 2002

• EIA for Proposed Kadur- Chikkamagalur Railway Line, commissioned by SW Railway, GoI, 2003

• Impacts on Socio-Economic- Environmental aspects of Tank Restoration in Warangel District, A.P, Commissioned by WWF- International, 2006

• Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment of Proposed Upper Bhadra Project, commissioned by Government of Karnataka, 2006

• Integrated Environmental and Social Impact Assessment of Proposed Irrigation Tank Restoration and Rennovation, Commissioned by Command Area Development Authority, Government of A.P.

• Social and Environmental Impact Assessment of Sujalam Suphalm Yojana, Commissioned by Irrigation Department, Government of Gujarat

• Quality Standards in International Tea Markets Challenges and Consequences for Smallholders and Tea Processors in Developing Countries in association with Department of Geography, Copenhagan University, Denmark

Assistant Professor
Center for Ecological Economics and Natural Resource
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