India

 A meadow ruined by greed

Villagers near Udaipur fear that even if they get back their traditional grazing ground, which is at the centre of a mining lease dispute, things will never be the same for them

Publication Date: 
30/08/1993
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 Digging their own grave

Extracting minerals and ornamental stone in the Aravallis despit its environmental costs is such a flourishing economic activity that political parties are vying with each other to protect it. Because most mine workers have no other livelihood, they r

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30/08/1993
Uday Shankar
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 Goa greens oppose golf courses

Environmentalists in Goa are protesting the building of golf courses in the state, which they say will cause immense ecological degradation

Publication Date: 
14/08/1993
Christopher
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Ecology, Rural Habitat, Tourism, Goa
India

 Damming controversy

DESPITE continuing criticism from ecologists, work has started on the Three Gorges Dam along the Yangtze river in China, the world's largest hydroelectric project. The project includes a

Publication Date: 
14/08/1993
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Ecology, Rivers, Dams, Hydroelectricity, China
India

 Disappointing effort on ecological economics

This book is a collection of papers from the inaugural conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics held in 1990 in Washington. The society defines ecological economics as the

Publication Date: 
30/07/1993
Abhijit Sen
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 An obituary for "development"

MEDIEVAL theologians would have burned Wolfgang Sachs, the editor of The Development Dictionary, and his fellow contributors as heretics and proscribed the book. A second reading has convinced me of

Publication Date: 
14/05/1993
Nivedita Das
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 Curbing selfish sprawl in Tamil Nadu hills

New legislation enacted by the Jayalalitha ministry seeks to contain ecological degradation in the state's hill stations by controlling construction activity. Local residents, however, are doubtful if it will succeed.

Publication Date: 
14/05/1993
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Ecology, Mining, Legislation, India
Environment

 A year of despair -- and hope

PRODUCING a newspaper or a newsmagazine is something like an unending string of little miracles. As technologists designing new machines well know, "if anything can go wrong, it will." The same

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14/05/1993
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 Landmarks on the Chipko trail

1973 • Chipko is born when villagers of Mandal, near Gopeshwar, led by Chandi Prasad Bhatt and the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Mandal, stop contractors of an Allahabad-based sports goods company,

Publication Date: 
29/04/1993
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India

 Chipko: an unfinished mission

In 20 years, Chipko has acquired many facets, primarily as a conservation endeavour by the poor, a struggle for local control of natural resources and an effort by women to protect their environment. Chipko influenced the world, but have its local object

Publication Date: 
29/04/1993
Amit Mitra
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