The integration of climate change adaptation and adaptive capacity issues within development processes is now a central issue for development policy and practice. Climate Change adaptation is a dynamic field of activity, with lessons emerging all the time. Community based adaptation plan is prepared at local level by involving multi-stakeholder team including the vulnerable communities.
The performance of the Indian economy in 2009/10 greatly exceeded
expectations. The farm sector which was expected to contract showed resilience, growing by 0.2 per cent despite the weak South West monsoon. The non farm sector also did well. It is the assessment of the Council that the Indian economy would grow at 8.5 per cent in 2010/11 and 9.0 per cent in 2011/12.
This report aims guiding through next steps in achieving the goal of total sanitation for Hoshangabad. The report analyses various city-wide or Strategic level sanitation technical options available for Hoshangabad and lays down road map for achieving total sanitation.
Most countries require an environmental impact assessment (EIA) before giving the green light to a mining project. EIA processes provide a valuable opportunity for citizens to participate in decisions
about mines.
The Agro-Industrial Policy aims at value addition from agricultural produce by induction of modern technology into food processing, encouraging research and development, minimization of wastage across the food processing chain by development of infrastructure for storage, transportation and processing of agro-food produce to fill in the gaps of supply chain from farm to consumer, and promotion of
The Kerala Tourism (Conservation and Preservation of Areas) Amendment Ordinance, 2010 (Kerala Ordinance 2010) was promulgated by the Governor on 12th June 2010. It provided for amending the Kerala Tourism (Conservation and Preservation of Areas) Act, 2005.
An Act further to amend the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Act, 1964. This Act may be called the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage (Amendment) Act, 2010.
The World Bank has released the tenth edition of its Little Green Data Book,
which provides evidence of the last decade's achievements - or lack of progress
- on the road towards sustainable development. The Book reports, for example,
that urban air pollution declined in most countries between 2000 and 2006, with
the greatest progress in low-income and lower middle-income countries.
This report is a survey on the technical potential of biomass from current agriculture and forestry in the regions; Europe incl. Russia and Ukraine, USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, China and India. The report provides projections for agricultural residue production assuming availability of fertilizers, plant protection and mechanization.
