Environment Management

Worthy winners Goldman prize

Julia Bonds, a grandmother living in the state of West Virginia, usa, has been awarded the 2003 Goldman environmental prize for her fearless campaigning against the hazardous practice of mountaintop coal mining. Bonds, the director of the protest group Co

Publication Date:

14/05/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Mining, Awards, Environment Management

Environment

Why bother about environment?

The us administration's proposed budget has raised the hackles of the country's environmentalists. To be sure, a sum of us $30.4 billion

Publication Date:

14/03/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030315

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, United States Of America (US), Environment Management, Finance

Air Pollution

Devolution has to happen. It will

It has been a year since Anil Agarwal, the founder editor of Down To Earth, passed away. We remember him every moment. We work as his proxies. We work his dreams; they have become ours, too. His

Publication Date:

30/01/2003

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030131

pp:

17

Tags:

Forest Conservation, Forest Act 1988, Economy, Biomass, Biomass Trade, Poverty, Anil Agarwal, Sustainable Development, Environment Management

Mining

Sweeping directive

SC toughens stand on mining in Aravalli hill range

Publication Date:

30/12/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Aravalli Range, Mining, Legislation, Supreme Court, Haryana, Rajasthan, Environment Management

Industry

Environmental rating of Indian caustic-chlorine sector

An exhaustive life cycle analysis of players in the Indian caustic chlorine sector and its impact on environment. Deals extensively with the alarming issue of mercy pollution, its deadly effects. A comparative study with the global scenario.

Publication Date:

Jan 2002

Author(s): Sunita Narain, Chandra Bhushan

Source: Centre for Science and Environment

Tags:

Pollution, Chemical Industry, Waste Disposal, Mercury, Awards, India, Waste Recycling, Environment Management

Industry

Twin Pistons

A clean environment always makes for good economics

Publication Date:

29/11/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

10

Issue:

20011130

pp:

0

Tags:

Pollution Control, Automobiles, Industry, Hero Puch, Research, Statistics, Environment Management

Poverty

Sinha's trick

Sinha will make life even more miserable for Indians. Wealth will come about but at the cost of the environment

Publication Date:

30/03/2001

Author(s): Anil Agarwal

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

9

Issue:

20010331

pp:

21

Tags:

Environment, CNG, Diesel, Transport, Economic Development, Finance, Governance, Government Of India (GOI), Anil Agarwal, Politics, India, Sustainable Development, Corruption, Environment Management, Vehicular Pollution

Biodiversity

Himalayan upheavals

it is difficult to categorise Natural Premises: Ecology and Peasant Life in the Wes

Publication Date:

14/12/2000

Author(s): Arnab Kumar Hazra

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

9

Issue:

20001215

pp:

0

Tags:

Ecology, Western Himalaya, Habitat, Pastoral Nomads, Biodiversity, Environment Management, Sustainable Development

Wildlife

Shawls, an antelope and the law

The question is not just of farming chiru. It is about the policy that a country should have towards wildlife conservation, forest dwelling people and the elite

Publication Date:

14/11/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

9

Issue:

20001115

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment Politics, Wool, Endangered Species, Wildlife, Antelope, Legislation, Governance, Jammu & Kashmir, Environment Management, Public Participation

Industry

FOLLOW UP

The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has drawn up a comprehensive environmental management plan for Panipat. The board, however, has compromised on its standards in the very beginning.

Publication Date:

29/09/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pollution Control, Planning, Industry, HI Relocation, Government Of India (GOI), Haryana, Panipat, Sustainable Development, Environment Management