India

 Gods own country

Land rights and their divine connection

Publication Date: 
14/03/2006
Down to Earth
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20060315
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Tags:
Land Ownership, Land Reforms, Himachal Pradesh
India

 Holy Hex

Divine wrath could put ski resort deal on ice

Publication Date: 
14/03/2006
Vibha Varshney
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Ecotourism, Religious Places, Land Resources, Religious Beliefs, Himachal Pradesh, Kulu (D), Hotels
Industry

 Risky neighbourhood

Blast in illegal drug unit in Solan

Publication Date: 
27/02/2006
Down to Earth
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20060228
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Tags:
Drug Industry, Himachal Pradesh
Environment

Democratizing nature: politics, conservation, and development in India

This book explores two principal contradictions in environmental politics in India--between conservation and large-scale development projects, and between short-term electoral politics and long-term imperatives of environmental conservation. The Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) in Himachal Pradesh, north-western India, is home to the western Tragopan--an endangered pheasant. It shares its habitat with the local population living on the park's fringes. This book demonstrates that both conservation and development are inter-related and inherently political.

Publication Date: 
Dec 2005
Ashwini Chhatre, Vasant K Saberwal
Oxford University Press
Tags:
Environment, Forests, Development, Flora, Fauna, Environment Politics, Economic Development, India, Himachal Pradesh, Great Himalayan NP
Industry

 Dam blocked

Himachal project runs into widespread protests

Publication Date: 
30/12/2005
Kushal P S Yadav
Down to Earth
Tags:
Dams, Hydroelectricity, Legislation, Himachal Pradesh
Industry

 Who s hitting jackpot?

It's not every day that an innocuous email from a geophysicist leads you to a prime ministerial residence that is big time real estate. And we aren't talking 7 Race Course Road. I had to check out the villages of Prini and Jagatsukh near Manali, Himachal Pradesh, which had complaints against a proposed 192-megawatt hydro power project costing Rs 992 crore on the Allain and Duhangan rivers. Its proponent: the lng Bhilwara group, better known for the

Publication Date: 
30/12/2005
Sourav Mishra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Rice, Dams, Hydroelectricity, World Bank, Himachal Pradesh
India

 Poorly nursed

Most Himachal mothers breastfeed for just two weeks

Publication Date: 
30/10/2005
Carey L Biron
Down to Earth
Tags:
Breast Feeding, India, Himachal Pradesh
India

 Discontent

This is a story about the environmental clearance mechanism in India. Arguably legally strong, it fails in implementation. The project proponent looks upon the mechanism as a hurdle; for the administrator, it is mere routine. For affected communities, the

Publication Date: 
14/09/2005
Down to Earth
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20050915
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Tags:
Pollution, Mining, Ravi, Health Effects, Hydroelectricity, Industry, Public Participation, India, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jaisalmer (D)
Forests

 Just monetise it

An empirical measure of the value of forests

Publication Date: 
30/07/2005
Down to Earth
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20050731
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Tags:
Environment Economics, Forests, Forest Resources, Forest Conservation, Public Participation, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Ecosystem Services
India

 Too cut & dried

Does the style of conserving forests currently dominant in India require an overhaul? Yes, say state governments and affected people. ruksan bose examines an alternative a notion and a practice slowly gaining ground in the

Publication Date: 
30/07/2005
Down to Earth
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20050731
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Tags:
Land Use, Himalaya, Western Ghats, Forest Resources, Forest Conservation, Timber Smuggling, Trade, Exports, Imports, Industry, Supreme Court, India, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Statistics

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