Environment

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

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

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920531

pp:

0

Tags:

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

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920531

pp:

0

Tags:

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

Source: 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

Source: 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

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920531

pp:

0

Tags:

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

Author(s): Anil Agarwal, Darryl Demonte, Ujwala Samarth

Source: Centre for Science and Environment

Tags:

Environment, Forests, Mining, Dams, Government Of India (GOI), Asia, Europe, South America, India, Sustainable Development, Pollution