Hundreds of villagers from 15 gram panchayats assembled at Charba village near here on Wednesday and vowed not to allow the establishment of a Coca Cola unit there.

RANCHI: The Khunti district in the past has been feared for Red terror but there is a success story there too in which the conservation of biodiversity was done by roping the village community.

To reduce the widening gap between tribal community and city dwellers, Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti (GSDS) is hosting a three day event at Gandhi Darshan in Raj Ghat here beginning Wednesday.

Communities can conserve forests and make a living out of it. Then why is the government playing spoilsport?

This publication highlights the results and lessons learned in the past 20 years of the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (SGP) and reflects on the contributions of communities to sustainable development. It also includes valuable insight and testimonials on how SGP contributes to development issues and the UNDP mandate.

This document introduces an approach towards urban disaster risk reduction in which urbanization is believed to be both a cause and effect of economic growth, employment generation and overall development of a country.

This review examines the provisions in Nepal’s legal framework related to climate change and the local community’s rights.

This paper attempts to bring out the influence of governance systems on the water and sanitation service levels in rural Andhra Pradesh, India.

This document contains the presentation by Vivek Prasad, George Mason University, USA and Rajeev Ranjan, Lohardaga Gram Swarajya Sansthan, Jharkhand, on “The value of natural resource management in adaptation and building resilience to climate change ” during Second National Research Conference on Climate Change, organized by the Centre for

This document contains the presentation by Bhaskar Padigala et al, Center For Environmental Planning & Technology, Ahmedabad, on “Social Capital and Local Institutions- A Perspective to Assess Communities Adaptation Potential to Climate Change” during Second National Research Conference on Climate Change, organized by the Centre for Scien

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