India

 Sea change

Dam construction facilitates

Publication Date: 
14/12/2004
T V Jayan
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Dams, Sedimentation, Displacement, Electricity, Environmental Science, Research, India, Andhra Pradesh
Wildlife

Managing people and landscapes: IUCNs protected area categories

The International Union for the Conversation of Nature (IUCN) is the lead organization in the selection, establishment and management of protected areas. In order to accomplish its advisory management function, IUCN maintains a worldwide list

Publication Date: 
01/12/2004
Pris Weeks, Shalina Mehta
Journal of Human Ecology
16
4
253
Tags:
Ecotourism, Displacement, Tribals, Conflicts, Wildlife, Protected Area Conservation, National Parks, Kanha NP, Wildlife And People, Benefit Sharing, Human Rights, India, Global
India

 Wither civil society?

Many have become even more marginalised after 25 years of Left Front rule in Bengal

Publication Date: 
14/11/2004
Abhijit Guha
Down to Earth
13
20041115
0
Tags:
Displacement, Tribals, NGO, India, West Bengal
Environment

A defective document

The draft National Environment Policy marks an advance from the past approaches but has basic flaws that would limit its effectiveness.

Publication Date: 
05/11/2004
Ashish Kothari
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Environment, Air Pollution, Forests, Land Use, Water Resources, Development, Displacement, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India, Extinct Species
Poverty

 Tehri on, regardless

Is the recent incident at the dam site an indication of things to come?

Publication Date: 
30/08/2004
Down to Earth
13
20040831
0
Tags:
Dams, Tehri, Dam Safety, Earthquakes, Displacement, Rehabilitation
India

 Righting wrongs

The Colombian government has seized more than 1,00,000 hectares from narco-traffickers and will hand it over to peasant farmers and displaced families as part of its new agrarian reform''. The

Publication Date: 
14/08/2004
Down to Earth
13
20040815
0
Tags:
Displacement, Legislation, Colombo
India

 As condescending as ever

The government s draft tribal policy is insensitive to most matters concerning tribals

Publication Date: 
14/07/2004
Walter Fernandes
Down to Earth
13
20040715
0
Tags:
Displacement, Tribals, Government Of India (GOI), India
India

 High and dry

Madhya Pradesh s amended rehabilitation policy may render dam affected tribals of 14 villages landless

Publication Date: 
14/07/2004
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Reforms, Narmada, Dams, Displacement, Tribals, Rehabilitation, Rural Development, Legislation, Madhya Pradesh
Wildlife

Livelihood, conservation and conflict over natural resources within protected areas (A case study of Kanha national park)

Conflicts over natural resource access goes back a long way in history ever since national parks became the best insitu method of protecting endangered biodiversity and received legal sanction all over the globe.

Publication Date: 
28/06/2004
Ananya Mukherjee
University of Reading
Tags:
Fodder, Forest Resources, Minor Forest Produce, Tendu, Firewood, Bamboo, Displacement, Wildlife, Protected Area Conservation, Kanha NP, People - Animal Conflicts, Madhya Pradesh
India

 A travesty of justice

The new rehabilitation policy for project displaced persons is official jargon mongering

Publication Date: 
29/04/2004
Walter Fernandes
Down to Earth
12
20040430
0
Tags:
Displacement, Tribals, Rehabilitation, Rural Development, Government Of India (GOI), India

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