Environment

 Our environment, our decision

WITH THE collapse of the Soviet Union and the ongoing changes in communist China and Vietnam, the market today rules supreme. Entrepreneurs mobilise resources -- finance, raw materials, knowledge and

Publication Date: 
29/09/1993
Down to Earth
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19930930
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Tags:
Environment, Waste Disposal, Biosphere Reserves, Industry, Pollution
India

 Twice cursed

The ministry of environment and forests (MEF) has asked for an urgent clarification from its Nepalese counterpart on a Sino-Nepalese proposal to set up a natural reserve around the highest

Publication Date: 
29/06/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Himalaya, National Parks, Biosphere Reserves, India
India

 Atmospheric implications of burning forests

MOTIVATED by the need for a holistic understanding of the impact of human activity on the earth's natural phenomena, scientists in the last decade have been studying the earth as an entire system,

Publication Date: 
29/04/1993
Bhanusingha Ghosh
Down to Earth
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19930430
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Forest Fires, Atmosphere, Climate Change, Global Warming, Biosphere Reserves, Global, Climate
India

 A very summary preparation

THE SUB-CONTINENT, judging by these three reports, went prepared to Rio. In fact, the first report, prepared by a Sri Lankan NGO, chides UNCED for trying to save the earth without even consulting

Publication Date: 
14/07/1992
Down to Earth
1
19920715
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Tags:
Water Resources, Biosphere Reserves, NGO, Pakistan, India
Wildlife

Conserving India's natural heritage

This book is essential to all those concerned with nature conservation and contain knowledge valuable in those involved in this field in their own countries.

Publication Date: 
Jan 1986
Samar Singh
Natraj Publishers
Tags:
Forest Management, Wildlife, Protected Area Conservation, Biosphere Reserves, Project Tiger, Legislation, India
Forests

Structural attributes of lantana-invaded forest plots in AchanakmarAmarkantak Biosphere Reserve, Central India

Vegetation of lantana-invaded forest plots in the Achanakmar

Publication Date: 
25/02/2008
P. K. Sahu, J. S. Singh
Current Science
94
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494
Tags:
Forests, Lantana, Biosphere Reserves, Invasive Alien Species, India, Chhattisgarh, Statistics
Agriculture

 Stop gatecrashing

PepsiCo endangers biodiversity hotspot in Gulf of Mannar

Publication Date: 
14/10/2003
E Vijayalakshmi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Marine Ecosystems, Agriculture, Weeds, PepsiCo, Biosphere Reserves, India
Biodiversity

 Managing biodiversity

TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE FOR MANAGING BIOSPHERE RESERVES IN SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA, EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . Edited by PS Ramakrishnan, RK Rai, RPS Katwal and S Mehndiratta . Oxford & IBH

Publication Date: 
29/11/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Biosphere Reserves, Biodiversity, Public Participation, Developing Countries
Environment

 Silence broken, again

The Kerala government makes yet another attempt to destroy the tranquillity of the Silent Valley

Publication Date: 
14/08/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Dams, Hydroelectricity, Electricity, Silent Valley HP, Biosphere Reserves, Biodiversity
Environment

 South korea

A plan to conduct an environmental survey in the demilitarised zone (dmz) between North and South Korea is on the anvil. "We are discussing the plan with North Korea,' said Park Yeon-jae, a

Publication Date: 
29/06/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Biosphere Reserves, UNESCO, South Korea

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