India

 Community forest management is the future

It has been 10 years since the Joint Forest Management jfm was officially started in India. Ajit Banerjee, who first experimented with the concept of jfm , today wants this programme to be replaced by community forest management.

Publication Date: 
30/10/2000
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Tags:
Forest Resources, Forest Management, Public Participation, Governance, Community Groups, India
Environment

 Stones unto stones

Will Uttarakhand, Chattisgarh and Jharkhand be anything more than a few new stones?

Publication Date: 
14/10/2000
Anil Agarwal
Down to Earth
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20001015
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Tags:
Forest Management, Forest Policy, Urban Development, Governance, Anil Agarwal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Sustainable Development
Industry

 Bone of contention

Neither Project Tiger nor the eco development project can end the conflicts between the forest officials and the villagers in Ranthambhore

Publication Date: 
30/08/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Forest Personnel, Conflicts, Protected Area Conservation, Ranthambore NP, Governance, Rajasthan, Animal Menace
Industry

 Patches of green

Even after 10 years, the joint forest management programme has made little headway

Publication Date: 
30/07/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forest Management, Forest Policy, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Benefit Sharing, Public Participation, Governance, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Sustainable Development
India

 Forest rights and wrongs

India's forests have been a site of conflict for centuries. But it is only over the last decade that their history has become the subject of serious enquiry. The first wave of work focussed on the

Publication Date: 
14/07/2000
Mahesh Rangarajan
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Forest Policy, Forest Products, Tribals, Governance, India
Climate Change

Global review of forest fires

The forest fires of 1997 and 1998 created enormous ecological damage and human suffering and helped focus world attention on what is an increasing problem.

Publication Date: 
30/06/2000
Andy Rowell, Peter F. Moore
WWF International
Tags:
Forests, Amazon, Tropical Forests, Forest Management, Forest Fires, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, WWF, Brazil, Switzerland, WWF International, Andy Rowell, Peter F. Moore
Agriculture

 Wise use of forests

Experts discuss sustainable ways to utilise forest products

Publication Date: 
29/06/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Forest Products, Kerala, Sustainable Development
India

 And forests shall follow

The minister thinks it is time to formulate an integrated forest policy

Publication Date: 
30/05/2000
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Tags:
Forest Management, Forest Policy, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Rural Habitat, Governance, India
India

 Future of our forests

Experts discuss ways to improve forest policies in India

Publication Date: 
14/05/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forest Resources, Forest Management, Forest Policy, Deforestation, Governance, India
India

 Precious time is being wasted in formulating a forest convention

Ola Ullsten , former prime minister of Sweden and co chairperson of the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development, spoke to Amit Shanker o

Publication Date: 
29/04/2000
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Forest Resources, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Governance, Global, Sustainable Development

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