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Madhav Gadgil, the Glossary

Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil (born 24 May 1942) is an Indian ecologist, academic, writer, columnist and the founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences, a research forum under the aegis of the Indian Institute of Science.^[1]

71 relations: Agharkar Research Institute, Alma mater, Bangalore, Biosphere, British Ecological Society, Central University of Odisha, Conservation biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil, E. O. Wilson, Ecosystem, Fergusson College, Gadgil formula, Goa University, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Government of India, Government of Karnataka, H. K. Firodia Awards, Harvard Centennial Medal, Harvard University, History of ecology, Human ecology, IBM, Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Indian National Science Academy, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Jane Lubchenco, M. S. Swaminathan, Maharashtra, Marathi language, Meteorologist, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Muhammad Yunus, Museum of Comparative Zoology, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India, National Advisory Council (India), National Biodiversity Authority, National Council of Educational Research and Training, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Nilgiri Mountains, Oregon State University, Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri, Population biology, Prime Minister of India, Pune, Rajyotsava Prashasti, ... Expand index (21 more) »
Indian ecologists
Recipients of the Rajyotsava Award 1983
Scientists from Pune

Agharkar Research Institute

The Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) is located in Pune, Maharashtra, India.

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Alma mater

Alma mater (almae matres) is an allegorical Latin phrase used to proclaim a school that a person has attended or, more usually, from which one has graduated.

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Bangalore

Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

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Biosphere

The biosphere, also called the ecosphere, is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems.

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British Ecological Society

The British Ecological Society is a learned society in the field of ecology that was founded in 1913.

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Central University of Odisha

Central University of Odisha (CUO), formerly Central University of Orissa, was established by parliament under the Central Universities Act, 2009 (No. 3C of 2009) by Government of India, situated at Sunabeda Town, Koraput District in the Indian state of Odisha.

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Conservation biology

Conservation biology is the study of the conservation of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions.

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Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR; IAST: vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada) is a research and development (R&D) organisation in India to promote scientific, industrial and economic growth.

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Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi

Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (31 July 1907 – 29 June 1966) was an Indian polymath with interests in mathematics, statistics, philology, history, and genetics. Madhav Gadgil and Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi are scientists from Pune.

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Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil

Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil (10 April 1901 – 3 May 1971), also known as D. R. Gadgil, was an Indian economist, institution builder and the vice-chairman of the Planning Commission of India.

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E. O. Wilson

Edward Osborne Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist known for developing the field of sociobiology.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.

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Fergusson College

Fergusson College is an autonomous public-private college offering various courses in the streams of arts and science in the city of Pune, India.

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Gadgil formula

The Gadgil formula is named after Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil, a social scientist and the first critic of Indian planning.

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Goa University

Goa University is a public state research university headquartered in the city of Panaji, in the Indian state of Goa.

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Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), commonly known as Gokhale Institute, is one of the oldest research and training institutes in economics in India.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.

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Government of Karnataka

The Government of Karnataka, abbreviated as GoK or GOKA, or simply Karnataka Government, formerly Government of Mysore or Government of Mysore State is a democratically elected state body with the governor as the ceremonial head to govern the Southwest Indian state of Karnataka.

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H. K. Firodia Awards

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Harvard Centennial Medal

The Harvard Centennial Medal is an honor given by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to recipients of graduate degrees from the School for their "contributions to society." The Medal was established in 1989 on the 100th anniversary of the Graduate School's founding.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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History of ecology

Ecology is a new science and considered as an important branch of biological science, having only become prominent during the second half of the 20th century.

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Human ecology

Human ecology is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of the relationship between humans and their natural, social, and built environments.

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IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.

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Indian Academy of Sciences

The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore was founded by Indian Physicist and Nobel Laureate C. V. Raman, and was registered as a society on 27 April 1934.

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Indian Institute of Science

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management.

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Indian National Science Academy

The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is a national academy in New Delhi for Indian scientists in all branches of science and technology.

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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay (popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar; lit; 26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891) was an Indian educator and social reformer of the nineteenth century.

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Jane Lubchenco

Jane Lubchenco (born December 4, 1947) is an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist who teaches and conducts research at Oregon State University.

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M. S. Swaminathan

Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (7 August 1925 – 28 September 2023) was an Indian agronomist, agricultural scientist, geneticist, administrator and humanitarian. Madhav Gadgil and M. S. Swaminathan are 20th-century Indian biologists, Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, recipients of the Padma Bhushan in science & engineering, recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Science and TWAS fellows.

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Maharashtra

Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.

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Marathi language

Marathi (मराठी) is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Meteorologist

A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and works in the field of meteorology aiming to understand or predict Earth's atmospheric phenomena including the weather.

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Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is an Indian government ministry.

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Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance.

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Museum of Comparative Zoology

The Museum of Comparative Zoology (formally the Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology and often abbreviated to MCZ) is a zoology museum located on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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National Academy of Sciences, India

The National Academy of Sciences, India, established in 1930, is the oldest science academy in India.

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National Advisory Council (India)

The National Advisory Council (NAC) was an advisory body set up by the first United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in 2004 to advise the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh.

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The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) is a statutory autonomous body under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India established in 2003 to implement the provisions under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, after India signed Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1992.

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National Council of Educational Research and Training

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) (राष्ट्रीय शैक्षिक अनुसंधान और प्रशिक्षण परिषद) is an autonomous organisation of Ministry of Education, the Government of India.

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National Tiger Conservation Authority

The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) was founded in India in December 2005, based on a recommendation put forth by the Tiger Task Force.

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Nilgiri Mountains

The Nilgiri Mountains form a part of the Western Ghats in northwestern Tamil Nadu, southern Karnataka and eastern Kerala in South India.

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Oregon State University

Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant research university based in Corvallis, Oregon.

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Padma Bhushan

The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri.

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Padma Shri

The Padma Shri (IAST: padma śrī), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan.

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Population biology

The term population biology has been used with different meanings.

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Prime Minister of India

The prime minister of India (ISO) is the head of government of the Republic of India.

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Pune

Pune, previously spelled in English as Poona (the official name until 1978), is a city in Maharashtra state in the Deccan plateau in Western India.

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Rajyotsava Prashasti

The Rajyotsava Prashasti or Rajyotsava Awards, the second highest civilian honor of the Karnataka state of India are conferred annually by the Karnataka Government on the occasion of the establishment of the state on November 1, celebrated as the Kannada Rajyotsava.

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Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra "Ram" Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history, and the field of economics. Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha are Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science.

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Sakal

Sakal (meaning "Morning") is a Marathi-language daily newspaper by Sakal Media Group, its headquarters established in Pune, Maharashtra, India.

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Savitribai Phule Pune University

Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), formerly the University of Pune, is a public state university located in the city of Pune, India.

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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology

The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, chemistry, environmental science, engineering, mathematics, medicine, and physics. Madhav Gadgil and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology are recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Science.

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Social entrepreneurship is an approach by individuals, groups, start-up companies or entrepreneurs, in which they develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues.

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Srishtidnyan

Srishtidnyan is a monthly science magazine published from Pune, India in Marathi language.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Sulochana Gadgil

Sulochana Gadgil is an Indian meteorologist who retired as Professor from the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS) in Bangalore, India. Madhav Gadgil and Sulochana Gadgil are Savitribai Phule Pune University alumni.

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Syro-Malabar Church

The Syro-Malabar Church, also known as the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic Church based in Kerala, India.

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The Energy and Resources Institute

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is a research institute in New Delhi that specializes in the fields of energy, environment and sustainable development.

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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The World Academy of Sciences

The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS) is a merit-based science academy established for developing countries, uniting more than 1,400 scientists in some 100 countries.

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This Fissured Land

This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India is a book by Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha on the ecological history of India.

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Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is an annual award for environmental science, environmental health, and energy.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Mumbai

The University of Mumbai (previously University of Bombay) is a public state university in Mumbai. Madhav Gadgil and university of Mumbai are university of Mumbai alumni.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC, SC, Southern Cal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Vikram Sarabhai

Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (12 August 1919 – 30 December 1971) was an Indian physicist and astronomer who initiated space research and helped to develop nuclear power in India. Madhav Gadgil and Vikram Sarabhai are recipients of the Padma Bhushan in science & engineering.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhav_Gadgil

, Ramachandra Guha, Sakal, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, Social entrepreneurship, Srishtidnyan, Stanford University, Sulochana Gadgil, Syro-Malabar Church, The Energy and Resources Institute, The Hindu, The World Academy of Sciences, This Fissured Land, Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, University of California, Berkeley, University of Mumbai, University of Southern California, Vikram Sarabhai, Volvo Environment Prize, Western Ghats, Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel.

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Indian ecologists

Recipients of the Rajyotsava Award 1983

Scientists from Pune

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