Wetlands

Building plan irks MEF

The Calcutta Port Trust (CPT) has jumped onto the bandwagon of real-estate developers that are grabbing the few urban green spaces left in the city. CPT, which claims ownership of land on the banks

Publication Date:

30/07/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Wetlands, Green Spaces, Legislation, Calcutta (D)

India

Wetlands get protection

The West Bengal Assembly has adopted legislation barring the filling up of wetlands that exceed 0.035 ha in the state's notified urban areas. The ecological importance of these wetlands

Publication Date:

14/04/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Wetlands, Urban Habitat, Legislation, India

India

Participatory efforts can douse the flames

DOWN TO EARTH has been consistently arguing that people"s self-management and control are the best ways to deal with the critical problems facing India, namely, declining productivity and the steady

Publication Date:

27/02/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19930228

pp:

0

Tags:

Ecology, Grasslands, Forests, Wetlands, India

India

Extended lease

Calcutta's wetlands (bheris) have got a new lease of life. The Calcutta High Court has ordered the West Bengal government to stop reclaiming the wetlands. The court also directed the Calcutta

Publication Date:

30/10/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Wetlands, Land Encroachments, Private Sector, India, Calcutta (D)

India

Lessons to be learnt from Chilika

EVERYONE recognises the importance of forests. We have over the years set up several structures and evolved policies to try and conserve them. How effective these are is, of course, another question.

Publication Date:

30/08/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920831

pp:

0

Tags:

Wetlands, Chilka, Crustaceans, Flood Control, Fisherfolk, India, Orissa (Odisha)

India

Fishing for money

FISH TRADERS of Andhra Pradesh have a good market in far away Assam. Even after paying transportation charges of upto Rs 8 per kg of fish taken to Assam, the traders get to put away a tidy sum for

Publication Date:

14/08/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Wetlands, Fish, Trade, India, Andhra Pradesh, Assam

Water Resources

Rough weather ahead for wetlands committee

The newly-formed combined committee on wetlands, mangroves and coral reefs faces a big challenge from heavy encroachments and popular opposition

Publication Date:

29/06/1992

Author(s): Uday Shankar

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Ecosystems, Wetlands, Chilka, Mangroves, Corals, Aquaculture

Climate Change

Carbon sinks in mangroves and their implications to carbon budget of tropical coastal ecosystems

Nearly 50% of terrigenous materials delivered to the world's oceans are delivered through just twenty-one major river systems. These river-dominated coastal margins (including estuarine and shelf ecosystems) are thus important both to the regional enhancement of productivity and to the global flux of C that is observed in land-margin ecosystems. The tropical regions of the biosphere are the most biogeochemically active coastal regions and represent potentially important sinks of C in the biosphere.

Publication Date:

01/01/1992

Author(s): R. R. Twilley, R. H. Chen, T. Hargis

Source: Water, Water Air & Soil Pollution

Vol:

64

Issue:

1-2

pp:

265-288

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