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 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
Kamal Dutta
Down to Earth
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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
Down to Earth
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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
Robert Wilkinson
Down to Earth
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Environment, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Wildlife, Bustard, Pakistan
Environment

 Will liberalisation destroy the environment?

Get eight economists to discuss an issue and you"ll get nine opinions. Down to Earth did precisely that. Eight noted economists were invited, along with a scientist-activist, an industrialist, a bureaucrat and two educationists, to analyse the impact

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
Down to Earth
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Environment, Economic Development, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Textile Industry
Environment

 The unipolar world goes green

An excerpt from State of the World 1992

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
Down to Earth
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Environment, Nuclear Wastes, GATT, United States Of America (US), Sustainable Development, Pollution
Environment

 MEF"s environment conditionalities

The dam's safety and design parameters must be cleared by the MEF. Environmental management plans must be formulated and clearance obtained from the MEF. Catchment area treatment: THDC will

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Tehri, Aid, Russia
Environment

 Emissions trading

THE Chicago Board of Trade, one of the biggest markets for grain, meat, money, bullion and Fortune 500 scrips among others, is shortly to start listing an unusual commodity -the

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, United States Of America (US)
Environment

 In Rio, try thinking of Kalavati Devi

HUMANITY never needed a global social contract more than it does today. With the nations of the world jointly facing a global ecological crisis but sharply divided in economic terms, there never

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
Down to Earth
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Environment, Rio Summit, Pollution, Global Warming, Ecology, Developing Countries, Global
Environment

The fight for survival: people's action for environment

The main purpose of this book is to bring to the reader an idea of the nature of the struggles being waged to individuals and voluntary groups across the world, and especially in India, to protect the environment.

Publication Date: 
Dec 1986
Anil Agarwal, Darryl Demonte, Ujwala Samarth
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Environment, Forests, Mining, Dams, Government Of India (GOI), Asia, Europe, South America, India, Sustainable Development, Pollution
Environment

The state of India's environment: the second citizen's report

This book describes major environmental changes in India. It's a balance sheet of India's resources and focuses attention on the effect of ecological degradation on the poor. The interesting thing in the second report is the information that is provides on the linkages that operate on what can be called the interface areas: at the interfaces between different ecological spaces like croplands, grazing lands and forests; between the people and their environment; between economies of towns and villages, and so on.

Publication Date: 
Dec 1984
Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Environment, Grazing Lands, Land Resources, Soil Erosion, Mining, Tanks, Groundwater, Dams, Inland Fisheries, Health, Habitat, Energy, India, Forests

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