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'''Claude Alphonso Alvares''' is an | '''Claude Alphonso Alvares''' is an Indian [[environmentalist]] based in [[Goa]]. Alvares is the editor of the [[Other India Press]]<ref name="About Us">{{cite web|date=2015|title=About Us|url=http://www.otherindiabookstore.com/about.jsp|publisher=Other India Book Store|accessdate=1 February 2015}}</ref> and Director of the [[Goa Foundation]], an environmental monitoring action group that has filed successful [[Public interest litigation in India|public interest litigation]] cases.<ref name="Goa Foundation">{{cite web|date=2015|title=Goa Foundation|url=http://goafoundation.org/|publisher=Goa Foundation|accessdate=1 February 2015}}</ref> | ||
Alvares is a member of the [[Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority]] of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).<ref name="India Inspires">{{cite web|date=2015|title=Speaker: Claude Alvares|url=http://www.indiainspires.org/speakers/7|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226212733/http://indiainspires.org/speakers/7|archive-date=26 February 2015|website=India Inspires|accessdate=1 February 2015}}</ref> He is also a member of the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee (SCMC) on [[Hazardous Wastes]] constituted by the [[Supreme Court of India]].<ref name="Green Goa Works">{{cite web|date=2015|title=Green Goa Works|url=http://www.greengoaworks.in/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119063934/http://www.greengoaworks.in/|archive-date=19 January 2015|publisher=Green Goa Works|accessdate=1 February 2015}}</ref> | Alvares is a member of the [[Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority]] of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).<ref name="India Inspires">{{cite web|date=2015|title=Speaker: Claude Alvares|url=http://www.indiainspires.org/speakers/7|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226212733/http://indiainspires.org/speakers/7|archive-date=26 February 2015|website=India Inspires|accessdate=1 February 2015}}</ref> He is also a member of the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee (SCMC) on [[Hazardous Wastes]] constituted by the [[Supreme Court of India]].<ref name="Green Goa Works">{{cite web|date=2015|title=Green Goa Works|url=http://www.greengoaworks.in/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119063934/http://www.greengoaworks.in/|archive-date=19 January 2015|publisher=Green Goa Works|accessdate=1 February 2015}}</ref> | ||
== Early life == | == Early life == | ||
Alvares was born in [[Mumbai|Bombay]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Alvares|first=Claude Alphonso|title=Homo Faber : Technology and Culture in India, China and the West 1500-1972|publisher=[[Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven]]|year=1976|location=Eindhoven|type=Thesis|doi=10.6100/IR68612|doi-access=free}}</ref> He grew up in [[Khotachiwadi]] and attended [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai|St. Xavier's College]], where he meet his future wife [[Norma Alvares|Norma]].<ref name="Livemint">{{cite web|last=Menezes|first=Vivek|date=9 August 2014|title=Norma Alvares & Claude Alvares {{!}} The power of two|url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/1P5V4SptPe1ZwGUQEi1zYL/Norma-Alvares--Claude-Alvares--The-power-of-two.html|url-status=live|website=Livemint|accessdate=1 February 2015}}</ref> In 1976, Alvares completed a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] from the School of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the [[Eindhoven University of Technology]].<ref name=":0" /> He and his family moved to [[Goa]] in 1977.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Alvares|first=Claude|date=November 2008|title=Ecological Traditions Of Goa|url=https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~damani/ctaraReading/ClaudeEcology.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> After starting a short-lived rural development project, Alvares began writing for [[The Illustrated Weekly of India]] while Norma studied law.<ref name="Livemint" /> She completed her degree in 1985.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Wangchuk|first=Rinchen Norbu|date=2019-05-21|title=30 Years, 100+ Legal Battles: Meet The Couple Standing Against Ecological Damage in Goa|url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/183016/goa-mining-mafia-supreme-court-ban-norma-claude-alvares-environment/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-23|website=The Better India|language=en-US}}</ref> | Alvares was born in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] to [[Mangalorean Catholic]] parents.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Alvares|first=Claude Alphonso|title=Homo Faber : Technology and Culture in India, China and the West 1500-1972|publisher=[[Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven]]|year=1976|location=Eindhoven|type=Thesis|doi=10.6100/IR68612|doi-access=free}}</ref> He grew up in [[Khotachiwadi]] and attended [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai|St. Xavier's College]], where he meet his future wife [[Norma Alvares|Norma]].<ref name="Livemint">{{cite web|last=Menezes|first=Vivek|date=9 August 2014|title=Norma Alvares & Claude Alvares {{!}} The power of two|url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/1P5V4SptPe1ZwGUQEi1zYL/Norma-Alvares--Claude-Alvares--The-power-of-two.html|url-status=live|website=Livemint|accessdate=1 February 2015}}</ref> In 1976, Alvares completed a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] from the School of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the [[Eindhoven University of Technology]].<ref name=":0" /> He and his family moved to [[Goa]] in 1977.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Alvares|first=Claude|date=November 2008|title=Ecological Traditions Of Goa|url=https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~damani/ctaraReading/ClaudeEcology.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> After starting a short-lived rural development project, Alvares began writing for [[The Illustrated Weekly of India]] while Norma studied law.<ref name="Livemint" /> She completed her degree in 1985.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Wangchuk|first=Rinchen Norbu|date=2019-05-21|title=30 Years, 100+ Legal Battles: Meet The Couple Standing Against Ecological Damage in Goa|url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/183016/goa-mining-mafia-supreme-court-ban-norma-claude-alvares-environment/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-23|website=The Better India|language=en-US}}</ref> | ||
== Goa Foundation == | == Goa Foundation == | ||
In 1986, the [[Parliament of India]] passed the Environmental Protection Act. Together with like-minded Goans, the Alvares founded the [[Goa Foundation]] in that same year to increase societal awareness and combat evasion of the new environmental standards. In 1987, the Foundation filed its first [[Public interest litigation in India|public interest litigation]] case against [[Sand mining|sand miners]] who were causing erosion of the local beaches; represented in court by Adv. [[Ferdino Rebello]], the Foundation was successful in halting this activity. The Foundation also filed cases against [[Ramada]] and other beach resort developers who were flouting building codes. <ref name=":1" /> | In 1986, the [[Parliament of India]] passed the Environmental Protection Act. Together with like-minded Goans, the Alvares founded the [[Goa Foundation]] in that same year to increase societal awareness and combat evasion of the new environmental standards. In 1987, the Foundation filed its first [[Public interest litigation in India|public interest litigation]] case against [[Sand mining|sand miners]] who were causing erosion of the local beaches; represented in court by Adv. [[Ferdino Rebello]], the Foundation was successful in halting this activity. The Foundation also filed cases against [[Ramada]] and other beach resort developers who were flouting building codes.<ref name=":1" /> | ||
== Other activism == | == Other activism == | ||