This publication aims at providing an improved understanding of sea-level rise and variability to reduce the uncertainties associated with projections for sea-level rise, and hence contribute to more effective coastal planning and management.
This paper attempts to give a spatial and temporal overview of water management in India. It traces how people and the successive regimes made choices across space and time from a wide range of water control and distribution technologies.
The Indian gas market is expected to be one of the fastest growing in the world over the next two decades. This paper analyses this market, highlighting the current challenges. It first looks at the industry structure, presents the main players from industry as well as government, and gives an overview of the regulatory framework.
A BILL to facilitate and ensure sustainable and adequate supply of
groundwater of prescribed quality, for various category of users,
through supply and demand management measures, protecting
public drinking water sources and to establish the State Groundwater Authority and District Level Authorities to manage and to regulate, with community participation, the exploitation
of groundwater within
The basic purpose of National Rural Livelihoods Mission is to put in place a dedicated and sensitive support structure from the national level to the sub-district level which will
focus on the poor, build and sustain their organizations at different levels.
There are only five years left to reach 2015 in achieving the MDGs. World leaders are once again gathering at the United Nations High-level Plenary Meeting on the MDGs in September 2010 in New York to assess some of the likely outcomes on present trends, identify some of the weakest areas of performance, and identify priorities for accelerated action.
This document is a contribution towards a renewed commitment to reverse the rate of loss of biodiversity. It is aimed at the companies and corporations who are either wholly or partly dependent on this key resource or whose activities can be a major impediment to its conservation.
Plant protection is very important for crop production and for sustainable
agriculture. Plant protection activities encompass plant quarantine, regulation of pesticides, minimizing crop loss due to pests including locust control in desert areas
and training and capacity building for plant protection.
Ecosystem decline and climate change together are altering the rules of development, bringing a new urgency to the MDG agenda. Because ecosystem services typically account for a substantial portion of the incomes of the rural poor, current trends in ecosystem decline threaten the very basis of their household economies.
