Environment

Project stalled

THE SUBANSIRI hydel project in Arunachal Pradesh may not take off as the ministry of environment and forests feels it will cause irreparable damage to the biodiversity of the region. This contrasts

Publication Date:

29/06/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment, India, Arunachal

Environment

MEF under fire

THE UNION minister of environment and forests was under fire at the last National Development Council (NDC) meeting both from a section of central ministers as well as chief ministers who

Publication Date:

29/06/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment, Energy, Industry, Government Of India (GOI)

Environment

Next time a report on people, please!

BY coincidence, I happened to read two recent reports together. They were UNFPA's State of the World Population 1992 and Towards a Green World by Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain. Both are lucidly

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Author(s): Ashish Bose

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920615

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Sustainable Development, Developing Countries, Population Trends

India

Conserving biodiversity and generosity

An offer of desi ber by a village lad came as a sharp comment on the global politics of biodiversity

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Author(s): Vinod Raina

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920615

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, India, Madhya Pradesh, Developing Countries, Biodiversity

India

The utopian trap

ROY, Tisdell and Sen"s book on economic development and the environment is certainly timely, having come out only months before the June UNCED summit at Rio. Interest in the subject is therefore at

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Author(s): Prem Shankar Jha

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920615

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Economic Development, India, Irrigation

Environment

Passing USA's laugh test

Helping George Bush gain political mileage seemed to be the overriding concern at the recent climate convention negotiations in New York. India stood alone on the issue of apportioning global sinks

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Author(s): Anjani Khanna

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920615

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Ozone Layer, UN, Europe, United States Of America (US), Developing Countries, Rio Summit

Environment

Naseeruddin does better than Streep

The puckish wit of the actor turned anchorperson in Turning Point has contributed to the popularity of the programme

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Author(s): Sevanti Ninan

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920615

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Radiation, Science, Information, TV, Health Effects

India

Several Worlds, one vision

Satyajit Ray"s films showed an extreme sensitivity to the natural world. Yet he was no naturalist. The people he portrayed were carefully situated in their environment

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Author(s): Kamal Dutta

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920615

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Cinema, India, Urban Environment

India

Saving Chilka

TWENTY-ONE members of Parliament have petitioned the Prime Minister to save Chilka Lake, a major wetland in the country. They have protested against the state government giving advance

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment, Chilka, Fish, Aquaculture, Endangered Species, India

Wildlife

While Pakistan angers Arabs for its bustard...

IN Pakistan, environmentalists have gone to court to save the houbara bustard from being hunted by wealthy Arabs. The bustard case has not only angered the Gulf states, it has also provoked a surge

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Author(s): Robert Wilkinson

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Wildlife, Bustard, Pakistan