Poverty

 Talking green

Participants at an international conference on forest management discuss ways to curb logging

Publication Date: 
14/10/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forest Management, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Wildlife Trade, Poaching, Indonesia
Health

 COMMUNITY PROTECTION

The management of about 423 plantations covering an area of 809 hectares have been handed over to district governments in Pakistan. The governments would be responsible for the management and

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Politics, Forest Management, Governance, Pakistan
Climate Change

 Rescued or doomed

Nations adopt a diluted agreement at Bonn on implementing the Kyoto Protocol. 180 countries finally reached an agreement on the rules to implement the international treaty to combat global warming giving away too many concessions to polluting countries

Publication Date: 
30/08/2001
Down to Earth
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UNFCCC, Forest Management, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol, Emissions Trading, Joint Implementation, European Union (EU), Developing Countries
Air Pollution

 Unkindest cuts

An amendment to the Orissa forest act gives sweeping powers to forest officials

Publication Date: 
30/08/2001
Ranjan Panda
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forest Management, Forest Act, Deforestation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Orissa (Odisha)
Water Pollution

 KENYA

The Kenyan government will soon hand over the management of some forest areas to local communities, under the trusteeship of civic authorities. The move is aimed at curbing illegal logging that

Publication Date: 
14/08/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forest Management, Kenya
India

 The relation between tanks and trees

For survival of the traditional water management structures, one must understand the linkages between the tanks and trees

Publication Date: 
14/08/2001
Deep Narayan Pandey
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Ecology, Tanks, Groundwater, Water Management, Water Harvesting, Deforestation, Trees, Economy, Traditional Knowledge, India, Madhya Pradesh, Forest Management
Climate Change

 Pact politics

High political drama marks climate negotiations as the European Union strives to ratify the Kyoto protocol without the US, world"s biggest polluter

Publication Date: 
30/07/2001
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Global Environmental Agreements, UNFCCC, Croplands, Soil Erosion, Forest Management, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Emissions Trading, China, United States Of America (US), India, Developing Countries, European Union (EU), Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol
India

  Seeking Solutions

ARNAB KUMAR HAZRA Decrease in forest cover not only results in declining timber output for industries but also threatens global reserves of biodiversity, damages the carbon sinks

Publication Date: 
29/06/2001
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Forest Management, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), India
India

 Case for CFM

History has seen the management of Indian forests change from being an instrument of regimented exploitation by the British to its present conservation-centered approach. This transition in forest

Publication Date: 
14/06/2001
Raman Kumar
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Forest Management, Forest Policy, Minor Forest Produce, Firewood, India, Orissa (Odisha)
Forests

 Protectors of the forest

Saara adivasis in Orissa have undertaken measures to conserve forest wealth

Publication Date: 
14/05/2001
S K Patanaik
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Forests, Forest Resources, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Tribals, Community Groups, Orissa (Odisha)

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