India

 Hacked heart

Why did they have to do it?

Publication Date: 
30/03/1994
Pallavi Chopra
Down to Earth
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Deforestation, Trees
India

 Saved from the axe

Spirited village women in Himachal Pradesh save a clump of deodar trees from being chopped by mercenary woodcutters.

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
Max Martin
Down to Earth
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19940315
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Tags:
Forest Resources, Deforestation, Trees, Deodar, Women, Himachal Pradesh
Environment

 Irangate replay across the Atlantic

A controversy is brewing in Britain over the linking of development aid to an arms deal

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Dams, Deforestation, Aid, War, Malaysia, United Kingdom (UK)
India

 Demystifying the deluge

There is growing evidence that deforestation in the hills does not always swell rivers

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rivers, Deforestation, Floods, Science And Technology, Research, Rainfall
Poverty

 The economics of empowerment

"For a long time now, we have been calculating the number of people below and above the poverty line. And, these numbers have become a hot political issue. But the important thing is to eradicate

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
Down to Earth
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19940315
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Tags:
Water Resources, Deforestation, Watershed Development, Economic Development, Poverty, CSE
Mining

 Wisdom from an obscure archipelago

In Down To Earth's first Country Report, ANIL AGARWAL and SUNITA NARAIN look at Papua New Guinea, its short but volatile transition to the market economy, its unique land tenure system and the mining and forestry sectors.

Publication Date: 
27/02/1994
Down to Earth
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19940228
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Tags:
Land Degradation, Mining, Deforestation, Economic Development, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), Papua New Guinea
India

 Save lakes from the sins of humanity

THERE is something very beautiful about lakes -- not just aesthetically, but also intellectually. Lakes do not just mirror their environment. They also mirror the society around them. Clean water

Publication Date: 
30/12/1993
Down to Earth
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19931231
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Tags:
Waterlogging, Lakes, Drainage, Deforestation, Floods, Urbanisation, India
Biodiversity

 Deforestation galore

DEFORESTATION in the Brazilian Amazon since the 1970s is lower than estimated, but its effect on biological diversity is greater. Estimates of deforestation ranged as high as 50,000 square kilometres

Publication Date: 
14/12/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Tropical Forests, Deforestation, Brazil
Poverty

 The new culprit of global warming

Though the world's attention is focussed on the degradation of tropical forests as a major contributor to global warming, the depletion of boreal forests may also be playing a role.

Publication Date: 
30/10/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Soil Erosion, Tropical Forests, Forest Fires, Deforestation, Global Warming
India

 Global lungs or firewood for the poor?

Indiscriminate felling of trees to meet human and animal needs is not only depleting India's forest wealth at an alarming rate, but also increasing global warming. But as India's share of global carbon dioxide emissions is minuscule, are not the interests

Publication Date: 
14/10/1993
A N Chaturvedi
Down to Earth
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19931015
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Tags:
Forest Management, Deforestation, Carbon Dioxide, Global Warming

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