0000-0002-7805-2842 About
Prof Dr A.K.A. Rathi (Arjun kumar Rathi) graduated in Chemical Engineering from BITS Pilani, post-graduated from IISc Bangaluru, and obtained PhD from MS University of Baroda, India. He is a former Professor at CEPT University, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, and Visiting faculty at several institutes. He previously served with Government of Gujarat as Director (Environment), and Chief Technical Advisor and with industries.
He conducted several short-term training courses on environmental impact assessment (EIA), assessed more than 70 EIA consultants for accreditation and reviewed more than 150 EIA reports. His fields of interest include environmental impact assessment, resource conservation, cleaner production, wastewater treatment, and hazardous waste management.
He authored the books “Environmental Management and Industrial Development”, “Environmental Impact Assessment: A Practical Guide for Professional Practice” and “Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment: Concepts and Practice”, contributed three chapters in two books, as well as more than 80 journal articles on environment and safety, industry, and management-related topics.
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Publications (26)
- Pursuing the Distilled Good Practices to Improve the Quality of Environmental Impact Assessment Reports and Hence Enhance the EIA Effectiveness and Help Address the Concerns of Project Proponents: An Indian Context Save
- Integration of the Standalone ‘Risk Assessment’ Section in Project Level Environmental Impact Assessment Reports for Value Addition: An Indian Case Analysis Save
- Precautionary Principles of Sustainability versus Promotion of the Ease of Doing Business in the Proposed EIA Regulation in India: A Critical Analysis and Application of an Ex-Ante Framework to Review the Regulation Save
- Do the Environmental Approval Conditions Enable the Best Practice EIA Follow-up and Hence Strengthen the EIA System? An Indian Case Study Analysis Save
- Is “consideration of alternatives” in project level environmental impact assessment studies in developing countries an eyewash: an Indian case-study Save
- Need for a Robust Review System to Improve the Quality of Environmental Impact Statements: An Indian Case Study Analysis Save
- Development of environmental management program in environmental impact assessment reports and evaluation of its robustness: an Indian case study Save
- How Robust is Executive Summary in an Environmental Impact Assessment Report for Decision-making: An Indian case-study Save
- Environmental Impact Assessment: Good Quality Report Preparation Save
- Evaluation of project-level environmental impact assessment and SWOT analysis of EIA process in India Save