India

India

Demystifying the deluge

There is growing evidence that deforestation in the hills does not always swell rivers

Publication Date:

14/03/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Rivers, Deforestation, Floods, Science And Technology, Research, Rainfall

India

The case of pollution control offenders

GIVEN the state of pollution in Indian cities and rivers, most people would conclude that nothing is being done to control pollution. But figures have an unusual knack of belying common thinking.

Publication Date:

Monday, March 14, 1994

Source: Down to Earth

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Pollution Control, River Pollution, Air Pollution, Industry, India, Statistics

India

Community enterprise unlimited

Environmental management invariably raises complex and difficult issues. Economists usually tend to differ with environmentalists. While economists tend to look at the short-term, environmentalists

Publication Date:

14/03/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940315

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Water Harvesting, CSE, Philippines, India, Sustainable Development, Water Management

Wildlife

Tiger conservation through ecodevelopment: a conceptual framework

Protection of the tiger has become an international slogan, especially with the initiation of the Global Tiger Forum, in New Delhi, in 1993. However, the apathy of most governments towards nature and natural resources, and the machinations of various commercial and industrial interest groups are major obstacles to the protection of the tiger.

Publication Date:

Mar 1994

Author(s): Shekhar Singh

Source: Indian Institute of Public Administration

Tags:

Wildlife, Tiger, Tiger Conservation, India

India

India will soon play a major role

SIRPA Pietikainen, Finland's environment minister, says the world has quite a few things to learn from India, especially when it comes to environment and more specifically, forests. Eloquent on issues on which there are strong perceptional differences bet

Publication Date:

27/02/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940228

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Forest Conservation, Finland, Developing Countries

India

Reinterpreting Darwin

DID CHARLES Darwin see evolution as "progressive", as being singlemindedly directed toward producing ever more advanced forms of life? Most contemporary scholars say no. But in this daring challenge

Publication Date:

27/02/1994

Author(s): Amit Mitra

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940228

pp:

0

Tags:

Life Science, Zoology, Scientists

India

Sunpower is for free

A new plan to popularise solar photovoltaic products has recently been launched in India

Publication Date:

27/02/1994

Author(s): Koshy Cherail

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Solar Energy, Solar Cells, Aid, World Bank, India

India

Bicycles race ahead of automobiles

GLOBAL bicycle production rose by more than 5 million in 1992 but world automobile production remained almost stagnant at the 1991 level of 35 million. In 1992, 100 million bicycles were produced the

Publication Date:

Sunday, February 27, 1994

Source: Down to Earth

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Pollution Control, Cycles, China, India, Statistics

India

Lured by money, rewarded with respect

Middle aged Munni, a Tharu tribal of Panchpera village in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh, was one of the area's first women to be trained as a handpump mechanic in 1990. Considered the best in the area, she is responsible for 41 pumps, thre

Publication Date:

27/02/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940228

pp:

0

Tags:

Tubewells, Tribals, Women, India

India