Habitat And Urbanisation

Encroachments over land recorded as pond removed in village Akodha Aurangzebpur, Haridwar after filing of petition in Uttarakhand High Court

Order of the Uttarakhand High Court in WPPIL No. 57 of 2023 regarding the encroachment and illegal construction over the public utility land, recorded as johar (pond) in village Akodha Aurangzebpur, pargana Manglaur, tehsil Laksar, district Haridwar.

Judgement Date: 
13/09/2023
Tags:
Land Encroachments, Haridwar (D), Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), High Court, Common Property Resources
Mining

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding a bauxite mine in village Dedhrota, tehsil Himmatnagar, district Sabarkantha, Gujarat, 11/06/2021

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dedharota Grampanchayat Vs Member Secretary, SLEIAA, Gujarat & Others dated 11/06/2021. An application was filed against the grant of Environmental Clearance (EC) by the SEIAA, Gujarat in March 15, 20217 for a bauxite mine in village Dedhrota, tehsil Himmatnagar, district Sabarkantha, Gujarat.

Judgement Date: 
11/06/2021
Tags:
Bauxite, Mining, Gujarat, Common Property Resources, Land Resources, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Gram Panchayat, Sabarmati
Environment

The importance of resource security for poverty eradication

As humanity’s demand on natural resources is increasingly exceeding Earth’s biological rate of regeneration, environmental deterioration such as greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere, ocean acidification and groundwater depletion is accelerating. As a result, the capacity of ecosystems to renew biomass, herein referred to as ‘biocapacity’, is becoming the material bottleneck for the human economy.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
26/04/2021
Mathis Wackernagel, Laurel Hanscom, Priyangi Jayasinghe & et al
Nature Sustainability
3237
1-8
Tags:
Environment, Common Property Resources, Poverty, Biomass, Biodiversity, Deforestation, Land Use, Developing Countries, Ecology, Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services
Land

Order of the Punjab-Haryana High Court regarding exchange of Shamlat land, village Drari, district Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab, 02/02/2021

Order of the Punjab-Haryana High Court in the matter of Baljit Singh Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 02/02/2021.

Judgement Date: 
02/02/2021
Tags:
Land Resources, Common Property Resources, Punjab, Gram Sabha, High Court, Panchayats, Land Ownership
Mining

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal laterite stone mining in Khurdha district, Odisha, 05/05/2020

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Bidu Bhusan Harichandan & Others Vs District Collector Khurdha & dated 05/05/2020 regarding illegal laterite stone mining at 40 different sites in the Khurdha District of Odisha to an extent of about 500 acres encompassing several villages including Tapanga, Anda and JhinkiJhari under Nijigarh Tapang Panchayat. The area involves amongst others cashew jungle, gramya jungle and gochar land. Neither Environmental Clearance nor Consent to Operate have been obtained from the respective authorities.

Judgement Date: 
05/05/2020
Tags:
Mining, Jharkhand, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Environment Clearance (EC), Forests, Common Property Resources

Tribal land, customary law, and the Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms Act

Tribal peoples in Manipur have been maintaining their commons under customary law. Interacting with outsiders has always led to the contestation of their customs, traditions, and beliefs. Tribal societies continue to administer their villages under customary law on the tenet of equity. Their law has even resisted the policies of Manipuri kings and the British administration. In the present day, tribal customary law stands challenged by the Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms Act, 1960.

Publication Date: 
12/05/2018
Richard Kamei
Economic and Political Weekly
53
19
52-56
Tags:
Tribals, Land Ownership, Manipur, Legislation, Kuki, Conflicts, Common Property Resources, Forests, North East
Dams/ Irrigation

Governing the commons ?: water and power in Pakistan's Indus basin

Surface irrigation is a common pool resource characterized by asymmetric appropriation opportunities across upstream and downstream water users. Large canal systems are also predominantly managed by the state. This paper studies water allocation under an irrigation bureaucracy subject to corruption and rent-seeking.

Publication Date: 
21/02/2018
Hanan G. Jacoby, Ghazala Mansuriy
The World Bank
Tags:
Irrigation, Indus, River Basin, Common Property Resources, Corruption, Pakistan, Groundwater
Fisheries

Taming the fishing blues - Reforming the marine fishery regulatory regime in India

Against the backdrop of a dwindling marine fisheries resource base, declining catch rates, and escalating conflicts about securing rights over oceanic resources, this paper emphasises the need to relook at the marine fisheries regulatory regime in the country with a view to better align it to address outstanding issues and emerging challenges.

Publication Date: 
11/11/2017
Shinoj Parappurathu, C Ramachandran
Economic and Political Weekly
52
45
Tags:
Marine Fisheries, India, Common Property Resources, Legislation, Marine Fisherfolk, Conflicts
Land

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding construction of a KVA sub-station on grazing land (4,900 square meters) in village Luna, Vadodara, Gujarat, 06/03/2017

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Luna Gram Panchayat & Other Vs State of Gujarat & Others dated 06/03/2017 regarding construction of a KVA sub-station on grazing land (4,900 square meters) in village Luna, Vadodara, Gujarat. According to the counsel for the petitioners, the action at the behest of the authorities is arbitrary, because there is substantial barren land available in the village, where the sub-station can be raised.

Judgement Date: 
06/03/2017
Tags:
Grazing Lands, Common Property Resources, Power Transmission, Supreme Court, Wastelands, Vadodara (D), Gujarat
Mining

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding stone crushing units in Rajasthan, 31/07/2015

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Ganpat Ram Mirdha Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors. dated 31/07/2015 regarding stone crushing units in Rajasthan.

Judgement Date: 
31/07/2015
Tags:
Stone Industry, Mining, Rajasthan, Court, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Common Property Resources

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