Islam and environment specialist
Ms Rianne C. ten Veen is a humanitarian aidworker with research and environment specialisms. After a decade at Islamic Relief Worldwide, from January 2013 - '16 she focused fully on Osman Consulting and is also an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, teaching on interdisciplinary modules around environment, ethics and development; she taught on several presentations of a further international development module and the final presentation of 'Islam in the West - the politics of coexistence'.
She focuses on faith & environment projects: she is a member of the management team of Islamic Foundation for Ecology & Environment Sciences (IFEES), and co-founded 'Faith and Climate Change' (a Birmingham Friends of the Earth project; this project was a finalist in NESTA's Big Green Challenge and won The Guardian's Community Hero award - now being replaced by wider EARTH: Environment And Religions Transformation Hub) and was the Environment lead on the Committee of the Birmingham Council of Faiths. In 2009, she self-published a 'save cash& planet' style book from Islamic perspective: '199 ways to please God, how to (re-)align your daily life with your duty of care to Creation' (ISBN: 978-1844266296) and set up Green Creation. She is a former Trustee at TreeAid and Board Member at Groundwork W-Midlands.
She has an LLM, an MA in International Politics, an MSc in Development Management, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Environmental Policy and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Online and Distance Learning. Finances permitting, she would love to spend more time on a PhD on Islam & Environment: comparing the humanitarian aid principle of 'do no harm' with the Islamic principle of 'la darar' (do no harm) with regards to sustainable development.
Specialties: faith & environment; islam & environment; poverty & environment; Creation care; ecoaudit; sustainable development; ethics; human rights
Joined 2011
Organisation
Location
Netherlands
Work
Green Creation