Industry

 Way out

So, is there any way the islands can be saved while maintaining the ecological balance of this unique mangrove system?

Publication Date: 
14/01/2007
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Islands, Mangroves, Habitat
Climate Change

 Rising sea levels and tidal erosion eating up Sunderbans

Rising sea levels are real. A trip to the Sunderbans, in the Bay of Bengal, shows how devastating it can be in tandem with insidious tidal erosion. One inhabited island has gone under and 7,000 people displaced in the past 30 years. This is just the tip o

Publication Date: 
14/01/2007
Down to Earth
15
20070115
0
Tags:
Land Use, Soil Erosion, Sundarbans, Islands, Mangroves, Bay Of Bengal, Climate Change, Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Displacement, Landless, Rehabilitation, India, West Bengal, Statistics
India

 Indus delta celebrates rains

ON September 22, around 50,000 people gathered at Kharo Chaan, 150 km southeast of Karachi in Pakistan, for quite an unprecedented festival

Publication Date: 
14/01/2007
Shahid Husain
Down to Earth
Tags:
Freshwater Ecosystems, Indus, Mangroves, Arabian Sea, Dams, Sedimentation, Riverine Ecology, Monsoons, Floods, Life Science, Pakistan, Rainfall
Natural Disasters

Mangrove regeneration suffers

Publication Date: 
06/01/2007
Tags:
Mangroves
Natural Disasters

Mangroves under threat by NGOs

Publication Date: 
05/01/2007
Tags:
Mangroves
Forests

The world's mangroves 1980-2005

The main aim of this study was to facilitate access to comprehensive and comparable information on the current and past extent of mangroves in the 124 countries and areas where mangroves are known to exist,

Publication Date: 
01/01/2007
FAO
Tags:
Mangroves, Forest Resources, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Africa, Asia, Oceania, South America
Forests

Fostering sustainable forest management in India through criteria and indicators: the country report

Sustainable forest management has become the necessity for any country to mitigate the environmental consequences and address the local concern. It has been an established fact that the sustainable development can be achieved through sustainable forest management. This country report is an attempt to compile and analyse the relevant data of the country on criteria and indicators of Bhopal-India process, which has semblance with the national working plan code and also with the C&I of ITTO process.

Publication Date: 
Dec 2006
P. C. Kotwal, M.D. Omprakash, D. Dugaya
Indian Institute of Forest Management
Tags:
Forests, Land Use, Mangroves, Forest Resources, Forest Management, Criteria & Indicator, India
Industry

Minutes of the 9th meeting of the Gujarat Coastal Zone Management Authority

Minutes of the 9th meeting of the Gujarat Coastal Zone Management Authority.

Publication Date: 
04/12/2006
Government of Gujarat
Tags:
Adani Port and SEZ Ltd, Kuchchh, Gujarat, Coastal Regulations, Surat (D), Jamnagar (D), Junagadh (D), Nirma, Dredging, Mangroves, World Bank, Environment Clearance (EC), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
Environment

The day the land tipped over

Indonesia's major earthquake last year (2005) tilted Nias Island like a seesaw, disrupting villagers' lives and pointing to future dangers.

Publication Date: 
20/10/2006
Richard Stone
Science
314
5798
406
Tags:
Islands, Mangroves, Earthquakes, Tsunami, Hydrology, Geology, Indonesia
Biodiversity

A rescue effort for tsunami-ravaged mangrove forests

At a 31 October gathering of tsunami donors at the United Nations, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the U.N. Development Programme are planning to unveil a 6-year, $62 million initiative called Mangroves for the Future (MFF). It's goal is to rehabilitate ecosystems in 12 tsunami hit nations.

Publication Date: 
20/10/2006
Richard Stone
Science
314
5798
404
Tags:
Marine Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, Mangroves, Tsunami, Benefit Sharing, Public Participation, Thailand

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