Environment

 Working Group on Environment releases report in Kerala

The Kerala Planning Board, for the first time, has taken up

Publication Date: 
14/04/2007
P N VENUGOPAL
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Pollution, Pollution Control, Land Use, Public Participation, Panchayats, India, Kerala, Environment Management
Environment

 Comanagement of natural resources Local learning for poverty education

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Publication Date: 
27/02/2007
Richard Mahapatra
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Environment, Public Participation, Asia, Rural Poverty, Common Property Resources
Solid Waste

 Sikkim to delegate powers to local people to protect lakes

the Sikkim government has come out with a notification delegating power to local communities for the protection of lakes in the state. But doubts have been raised about its legality. "The rising

Publication Date: 
30/10/2006
Archi Rastogi
Down to Earth
Tags:
North East, Lakes, Solid Waste, Waste Disposal, Benefit Sharing, Public Participation, Sikkim
Forests

 Long overdue

Major tenets of the bill

Publication Date: 
30/05/2005
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Tags:
Forests, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Forest Act 1980, Tribals, Biodiversity Conservation, Public Participation
Poverty

 Celebrating WSF 2004

When 80,000 people talk it makes noise. So it wasn t unusual for the fourth World Social Forum WSF in Mumbai to be snidely called a huge talking fair . There was also talk about WSF s need to introspect on its ability to impact globally. A good point.

Publication Date: 
14/02/2004
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Common Property Resources, Water Policy, Forest Policy, Poverty, Private Sector, Information, Public Participation, India, Globalisation
Environment

 Public verdict

Cement packing unit stalled

Publication Date: 
30/12/2002
Nidhi Jamwal
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Tags:
Environment, Pollution Control, Noise Pollution, Fisheries, Trade, Coal, Emissions Trading, Cement Industry, Public Participation, Ireland, Gujarat, Kerala
Biodiversity

 Managing biodiversity

TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE FOR MANAGING BIOSPHERE RESERVES IN SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA, EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . Edited by PS Ramakrishnan, RK Rai, RPS Katwal and S Mehndiratta . Oxford & IBH

Publication Date: 
29/11/2002
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Tags:
Environment, Biosphere Reserves, Biodiversity, Public Participation, Developing Countries
Health

 In Brief

PILE OF PERIL: Toxic waste from piles of unused pesticides in Africa is threatening people's health and the environment. Despite several clean-up measures by the Rome-based Food and Agriculture

Publication Date: 
30/10/2002
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Environment, Trade, Health, Malaria, Workers, Medical Research, Homeopathy, Hazardous Products, Public Participation, Awards, Nuclear Weapons, Africa, India, Assam, Toxic Wastes
Environment

 www.gristmagazine.com

Gloom and doom with a sense of humour is how this website describes itself, and it couldn't have been said better. Packed with interactive features, this is one web magazine that knows how to hold

Publication Date: 
30/05/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Public Participation, Internet
Mining

 AT CROSSROADS

The villagers of Papua New Guinea (PNG) are caught in a legal tangle. They would invite prosecution from their own country's courts if they continue to demand compensation for environmental

Publication Date: 
27/02/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Copper, Public Participation, Papua New Guinea

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