CPREEC – EIACP PC RP
(Environmental Information Awareness Capacity Building and Livelihood Programme – EIACP)
C.P.R. Environmental EDUCATION CENTRE (CPREEC)
C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre (CPREEC) is a Centre of Excellence in Environmental Education. CPREEC was established jointly by the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India, and The C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation in the year 1989.
CPREEC has been a pioneer in environmental education efforts in South India and has conducted a variety of programmes to spread awareness and interest among the masses.
CPREEC EIACP
CPREEC hosts Programme Centre (PC) on EIACP Resource Partner (RP) on Conservation of Ecological Heritage and Sacred Sites of India funded by Ministry of Environmental, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India.
Environmental information plays a vital role not only in formulating environmental management policies but also in the decision making process aiming at environmental protection and improvement of environment for sustaining good quality of life for the living beings. Hence, management of environment is key component and thus plays an important role in effecting a balance between the demands and resources available for keeping the environmental quality at a satisfactory level. Realizing such need Ministry set up an Environmental Information System (ENVIS) in 1983 as a plan programme as a comprehensive network in environmental information collection, collation, storage, retrieval and dissemination to varying users, which include decision-makers, researchers, academicians, policy planners and research scientists, etc.
The EIACP Centre at CPREEC was established in April 2004 by the Environmental Information System (ENVIS) of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India and assigned the responsibility for being the focal point for the thematic area of Ecological Heritage and Sacred Sites of India.
Core Activities of the EIACP Centre at CPREEC:
• To collect information on the various aspects of India’s ecological traditions.
• To collate all the relevant information on ecological traditions in the form of books, booklets, research papers and article abstracts etc.
• To develop a database on “Ecological Tradition” using selected parameters.
• To provide easy access of all relevant information and data vide our main website which is updated regularly.
• To respond to user queries received vide email, post or telephone.
• To raise awareness among the masses about our ecological traditions.
• To develop a network with all National and International Sources on the subject area.
Modus Operandi
• Field surveys and research on the various aspects of ecological heritage have been conducted in the city of Chennai and in the rest of the state of Tamilnadu. This is to be extended to the southern states and later to the entire country.
• The Centre disseminates the collected information by organising seminars, workshops & conferences periodically and also with the help of newsletters / publications. This helps in a better understanding and appreciation of India’s ancient ecological traditions by the masses
CPREEC EIACP PC-RP Team
Dr. P. Sudhakar: Director & EIACP Coordinator
Dr. A. Abirami: Programme Officer
R. Sathyanarayanan: Information Officer
M. Vaithiyanathan: IT Officer
M. Lakshmi Sree: Data Entry Operator
Contact Us
C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre (CPREEC)
1, Eldams Road,
Alwarpet, Chennai – 600 018.
Tamilnadu, India.
Phone : 91- 44 – 48529990 / 42081758
Email : [email protected] / [email protected]
Websites : cpreec.org / cpreecenvis.nic.in