Land Use

Profiting from disaster

Zoramthanga , the chief minister of Mizoram, has many reasons to reminisce the birth of his party, the Mizo National Front, an insurgent group till 1986. About fifty years back, the famine that ensued the bamboo flowering led to

Publication Date:

14/09/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

10

Issue:

20010915

pp:

0

Tags:

Land Use, Soil Erosion, Cash Crops, Bamboo, Development, Economy, Private Sector, Legislation, Governance, Mizoram, Climate

Agriculture

Hot conversion

Use of forestland for agriculture causes climate change

Publication Date:

14/07/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Forests, Land Use, Agriculture, Climate Change, Environmental Science, Crops

Environment

Himalaya s human face

The magic of the Himalaya is heady. It has led many researchers and travelers to record their impression of this mountain range. Hima

Publication Date:

30/05/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

10

Issue:

20010531

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Ecosystems, Mountains, Land Use, Ecology, Himalaya, Deforestation, Economy, Geology, Research, Asia, India, Environment Management, Land Degradation

India

Zooming in

A photographer tries to educate Delhi about how important is the Western Ghats to India

Publication Date:

14/05/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

9

Issue:

20010515

pp:

0

Tags:

Forests, Land Use, Western Ghats, Trees, Habitat, Wildlife, National Parks, Kudremukh NP, Biodiversity, Audiovisuals, India, Delhi

Forests

Proceedings of the workshop on conflict resolution and natural resource management

Past experiences have shown that centralized management of natural resources, based on a culture of exclusion and rules, has not contributed to the sustainable management of natural resources.

Publication Date:

01/04/2001

Source: Indian Institute of Forest Management

Tags:

Forests, Land Use, Mining, Bharat Aluminium Company (BALCO), Forest Resources, Forest Management, Tribals, Gujjar, Rajaji NP, People - Animal Conflicts, Public Participation, India, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha), Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)

Water Resources

Mapping, monitoring and conservation of Harike wetland ecosystem, Punjab, India, through remote sensing

The Ramsar Convention of IUCN held in 1971 in Iran raised global

Publication Date:

01/01/2001

Author(s): P. K. Sharma, V. K. Verma, R. Chopra

Source: International Journal of Remote Sensing

Vol:

22

Issue:

1

pp:

89

Tags:

Lake Pollution, Ecosystems, Wetlands, Land Use, Water Resources, Lakes, Harike SA, Water Quality, Sedimentation, Hyacinth, Wetland Conservation, Remote Sensing, India, Punjab

Environment

Rising like the Phoenix

After suffering a spate of floods villagers regain environmental and economic vitality

Publication Date:

29/09/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

9

Issue:

20000930

pp:

0

Tags:

Land Use, Common Property Resources, Organic Farming, Watershed Development, Floods, Disaster Management, Women, Public Participation, NGO, Rajasthan, Jaipur (D), Sustainable Development

Climate Change

Climatic loophole

Sinks can now be potentially identified as the most dangerous loophole for the environmental integrity of the Kyoto Protocol

Publication Date:

14/07/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment Politics, UNFCCC, Forests, Land Use, Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol

Agriculture

Daunting numbers

Incredible but true: in the last 30 years rise in human population has been the same as in the 1,00,000 years prior to the mid-20th century. as a result, human encroachment on agricultural and

Publication Date:

Thursday, June 29, 2000

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

Issue:

pp:

Tags:

Lifestyles, Land Encroachments, Land Use, Urban Habitat, Urbanisation, Roads, Population

Industry