In this new review paper RPCB focuses on community-based management systems and provides justification for instituting local monitoring and enforcement systems for sustainable governance of India's forests.
This new tourism policy for Madhya Pradesh has been approved by the State Cabinet to promote balanced and sustainable tourism which enables socio-economic development. Developing new forms of tourism along side the traditional ones will be the focus of this new tourism policy.
This publication by Indian Meteorological Department, Pune contains studies with latest data on various aspects of important weather / climate systems viz. Monsoons, Cyclone, Drought, Floods and observational weather / climate mechanism in India.
Contrary to the claims made by Union Carbide Corporation — now The Dow Chemical Company — that the methyl isocyanate (MIC) which killed thousands of people in Bhopal in December, 1984, following a leak in its pesticide unit, was not highly poisonous, a report released by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has established that it caused not only “acute cyanide toxici
This paper seeks to critically examine the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Mahatma Gandhi NREGA) as a rights-based legal framework for guaranteeing basic livelihood security to rural households. The main concern of the paper is to examine the
This new UNDP report looks at how changing 21st Century expectations on roles and functions of protected areas are beginning to shape protected area management around the world & identifies emerging best practices under a new paradigm that views protected areas as part of a planetary life support system.
Countries in the Asia-Pacific are more prone to natural disasters than those in other parts of the world says this first of its kind regional disaster report launched at 4th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in South Korea.
This paper takes stock of developments in Asian and Pacific countries as they prepare to take advantage of emerging financial incentives for forest conservation created through the "REDD+" approach for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and other actions that conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks.
The main objectives of the this study in the four selected states are: To assess the social and economic situation of the tribal women; To study specific factors responsible for migration of tribal women from the tribal areas to various towns and cities in search of employment; To study the type of economic opportunities the migrant women are engaged in the areas where they migrate; To invest
Report by WWF-India highlights threat by proposed railway line expansion to crucial corridor linking tiger habitats. Kanha-Pench tiger corridor located in the Central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, the Kanha-Pench corridor is one of the most important forest corridors in India and facilitates tiger dispersal between Kanha and Pench Tiger Reserves.
