Poverty

Up the gross natural product

High levels of ‘ecological poverty’ – defined as the lack of a healthy natural resource which is essential for human society’s survival and development – are a key cause of the economic poverty of the world’s rural poor.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2001
Anil Agarwal
Our Planet
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Poverty, Ecology, Environment Management, Rural Poverty, Developing Countries, Ecosystems, Water Management, Public Participation, Traditional Water Harvesting, Anil Agarwal, Common Property Resources
India

 AGAINST AQUACULTURE

The Andhra Pradesh high court has ordered that authorities concerned are duty-bound to interfere and stop activities such as aquaculture to prevent damages to the irrigation systems and common

Publication Date: 
14/04/2001
Down to Earth
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Common Property Resources, Irrigation, Aquaculture, High Court, Andhra Pradesh, Nellore (D)
Biodiversity

 Spreading root

THEORITICAL and empirical studies of collective management of natural resources have proved the efficacy of common property as an efficient institutional arrangement. In India, joint forest

Publication Date: 
14/02/2001
Arnab Kumar Hazra
Down to Earth
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Common Property Resources, Forest Management, Forest Policy, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Tribals, Public Participation, Community Groups, Andhra Pradesh
Environment

 Rising like the Phoenix

After suffering a spate of floods villagers regain environmental and economic vitality

Publication Date: 
29/09/2000
Down to Earth
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Land Use, Common Property Resources, Organic Farming, Watershed Development, Floods, Disaster Management, Women, Public Participation, NGO, Rajasthan, Jaipur (D), Sustainable Development
Industry

 Consolidation against commoners

After land consolidation was introduced, the landless poor and agricultural labourers, who depended on common resources, faced tremendous problems

Publication Date: 
14/02/2000
Down to Earth
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Land Resources, Land Ownership, Land Use, Common Property Resources, Landless, Agricultural Labourers, Conflicts, Uttar Pradesh
Air Pollution

 Forsaken forests

Economic growth and development are destroying Rajasthan's unique forest based religious system

Publication Date: 
29/06/1999
Down to Earth
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Common Property Resources, Forest Conservation, Religious Beliefs, Rajasthan
Forests

The price of forests: proceedings of a seminar on the economics of the sustainable use of forest resources

This book constitutes the proceedings of a seminar on the economics of the sustainable use of forests resources was held in New Delhi in 1990. To deal with the various aspects of forest use and management, the seminar was divided into five sessions. The first session dealt with natural resource accounting with special reference to forests. The second session dealt with certain basic issues of forest management. The third session focussed on the state of knowledge about forest products.

Publication Date: 
Dec 1991
Anil Agarwal
Centre for Science and Environment
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Environment Economics, Common Property Resources, Forest Resources, Forest Management, Afforestation, Forest Products, Agroecosystem Planning, India, Shifting Cultivation
Environment

Population growth and the decline of common property resources in Rajasthan, India

Using data from villages in three districts of Western Rajasthan, this paper describes the decline in area and deterioration in quality of common property resources over three decades. The decline of common property resources is associated with institutional changes in the villages.

Publication Date: 
01/06/1985
N. S. Jodha
Population And Development Review
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Common Property Resources, Environment, Grazing Lands, Jaisalmer (D), Jodhpur (D), Nagaur (D), Livestock, Forests, Firewood, Grasses, Minor Forest Produce, Population, Land Degradation, Land Ownership, Rajasthan
Environment

 Comanagement of natural resources Local learning for poverty education

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Publication Date: 
27/02/2007
Richard Mahapatra
Down to Earth
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Environment, Public Participation, Asia, Rural Poverty, Common Property Resources
Poverty

 Celebrating WSF 2004

When 80,000 people talk it makes noise. So it wasn t unusual for the fourth World Social Forum WSF in Mumbai to be snidely called a huge talking fair . There was also talk about WSF s need to introspect on its ability to impact globally. A good point.

Publication Date: 
14/02/2004
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Common Property Resources, Water Policy, Forest Policy, Poverty, Private Sector, Information, Public Participation, India, Globalisation

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