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CHENNAI, APRIL 7. A team of professors and research scholars from German Universities are in Chennai for a week, visiting various institutions to gather information in the areas of environment and human health. Hans-G. Bohle, Professor of the Department of Geography from the University of Bonn, today visited the Exnora International office. His team was briefed about the various projects of the non- governmental organisation on solid waste management, wastewater recycling and community development. Talking to the media, Prof. Bohle said one part of the project dealt with how vulnerable groups in urban areas coped with stress caused by environmental change. A key hypothesis was that human health was considered an integrative indicator for social and physical environment. The group included Rudiger Glaser, R. Sauerborn, Jochen Mistelbacher, Valerie Louis, Patrick Sakdapolrak and Moritz Nestle, representing the Universities of Bonn, Heidelberg, Mannheim and Freiburg. Prof. Bohle said the professors and research scholars were here to study the impact of human health in Chennai metropolitan area. "Human health is a solid indicator for ecological and social environment of a country," he said. After the study, the team would submit a proposal back in Germany for possible funding to come back for a three-year study of the health-environment link in Chennai. The team will also visit academic institutions including the IIT-Madras and the University of Madras. Members of Exnora International, including its founder-chairman, M.B. Nirmal, president, Sulochana Ramaseshan, principal adviser T.K. Ramkumar and vice-president, Naina Shah, were present. Exnora extended its co-operation to the team for a study on the pollution of the dense industrial areas of north Chennai.
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