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Finalist Evaluation
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Proposal: Sustainable habitat assessment planning evaluation &Design: Development criteria
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Comment 1:
The simultaneous use and integration of sociological and biochemical research is innovative and potentially very powerful. The area to be studied is apparently being subjected to increasing industrial impacts with inadequate evaluation of consequences and potential alternatives. The most interesting aspects of this proposal are cross-disciplinary. Given the potential impacts of tracking the relatively invisible chemical human footprint across a large territory, the investment of upwards of half a million dollars to create a laboratory and documentary capacity seems well-considered. The most crucial aspects of the project will be revealed during the publication phase. Unfortunately, most of this activity is several years out, with many hurdles to be overcome in the early years. The project's promoters must develop more direct and clear language to convey the importance of tracking these hidden markers of human development. I would like to see an accessible and popular narrative developed along with the scientific data so that a sense of the historic importance of current changes can be readily grasped. As Udupi town is located at an elevation of only 10m above sea level, it seems likely that climate-induced sea level rises and storms will have a major impact during this century, but the project does not make much reference to them.
The links with climate-driven changes in environment are less well developed in this proposal than would seem to be warranted by the contest challenge.
Comment 2:
Strengths: Adopts an intergrative approach to enable better scientific knowledge to support rural resilience. Additional benefits from improving technical resources in the locality and create opportunities for supplementary commercial activity.
The proposal could more clearly explain how the various scientific studies will lead to social and policy actions that increase rural resilience. The proposal is ambitious organizationally and technically, which increases risks of non-delivery.
Semi-Finalist Evaluation
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Semi-Finalist - Advance
SUBJECT: Your proposal has been selected as a Semi-Finalist!
Congratulations! Your proposal, Sustainable habitat assessment planning evaluation &Design: Development criteria in the Rural resilience contest, has been selected to advance to the Semi-Finalists round.
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2015 Climate CoLab Judges
This is a strong and detailed proposal that would harness scientific research and analysis to support resource management and sustainable development. The proposal is generally very clearly presented and is well prepared and researched. As such, I am persuaded of its feasibility though I have some questions about the accommodation to house the equipment and training for technicians and managers. The volume of work to be untaken is also unclear, and as such it might be possible that the analyses required could be sub-contracted commercially for less than the cost of investing in an ICP-MS and other resources. However, although not directly stated in the proposal, purchase of an ICP-MS could itself offer benefits in creating good quality scientific resources and could itself be used for commercial work earning an income that could help to sustain this project in the long term. The analysis of local habitats in this way has been undertaken in a number of western countries, but could be especially valuable in a context such as India. Moreover, the use of this knowledge of the habitat to guide subsequent development plans is consistent with current ideas of sustainable development.
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 Deepika Shetty Jul 14, 2015 12:10  | Proposal creator
The judges’ comments have been very encouraging. I have added the map of the area to be surveyed and population distribution as the icon of the project to explain the extent of the work involved. Also this set up would be developed through the project as an independent research and consultancy lab with the support of the university to do such works and will have independent identity. This set up would relate to regional appraisal as well as defining related design proposal master-plans. The university has around 50 academicians with architecture, planning and product design background and over 750-800 students of graduate and post graduate studies in architecture and urban design. The constant interaction between academics and research would be mutually beneficial and practical. This would also make the consultancy politically neutral, fair and socially beneficial.
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Deepika Shetty Jul 14, 2015 12:37 | Proposal creator
the ICP-MS set-up and the GIS evaluation set-up would be doing independent consultancy for other projects and there are trained personnels already in the faculty of architecture in Manipal university. There are Geo-scientists from civil department and IT professionals from it department of the university for any help regarding this subject.
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