Displacement

Environment

International body set up against golf

Representatives of environmental movements in Asia have formed a body to protest the spread of golf

Publication Date:

14/08/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment, Displacement, Asia, Global

Natural Disasters

The awakening of an ill tempered giant

Volcanic activity in the Zambales range, of which Mount Pinatubo is a part, started 7 million years ago and Pinatubo itself has been active for 1.1 million years. Pinatubo last erupted about 400 years ago.

Publication Date:

30/03/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19930331

pp:

0

Tags:

Health Effects, Natural Disasters, Volcanic Eruptions, Displacement, Tribals, Philippines

India

Tribals demand scrapping of proposed dam

Villagers assert a dam project to provide drinking water to Udaipur city would displace about 12,000 people, and they will oppose it firmly.

Publication Date:

30/03/1993

Author(s): Shailendra Kumar

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment, Displacement, Tribals, India, Rajasthan

Health

Another crisis

AS THE United Nations labours to clear the mess it has been accused of creating in providing refugee relief in Somalia and in the elections and peace process in Angola, World Health

Publication Date:

14/03/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health, Displacement, UN, WHO, War, Africa

India

Ousted by an IIT

IN 1987, the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi offered to set up an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Assam as one of the sops to quell the student agitation in the state. Five years later, the

Publication Date:

14/02/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Displacement, Compensation, India, Assam

India