Ranjana Das
Dr. Ranjana Das is an Associate Professor in the Department of History in Ramjas College, University of Delhi. She specialises in Modern History and during her sixteen years of teaching experience, has taught various papers on Modern Indian History, European History, Skill Enhancement Courses on Heritage Conservation, Understanding of Popular Cultures and Museums and Museology. She has a doctoral degree from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and is the recipient of the prestigious Charles Wallace Fellowship in 2016. Recently, she has been part of a collaborative international project on the relevance of Climate Change Education in schools, a case study of India and Philippines. Her research and teaching interests pertain to the relevance of historiography in understanding history, oral history, social inclusion, migration, caste, gender, politics and environment.
Climate change is the ‘biggest modern threat that humans have ever faced’ (Eckstein et al. 2021). An apparently minor change in global temperatures, largely catapulted by human-industrial activities such as the acts of deforestation, burning fossil fuels and exploitation of natural resources, results in cataclysmic weather conditions, loss of biodiversity,...
Climate education for sustainable futures: A cross-country study of India and Philippines
This research project explores and critically analyses climate change education policies and their execution in two South Asian nations that are pronouncedly susceptible to the impacts of climate change, the Philippines and India.