India and Environment
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New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
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- The BLDS environment collection
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Search for the latest environment-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Integration of biodiversity into national forestry sector
- United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2002
- This report is one of eight thematic reviews prepared for the Biodiversity Planning Support Programme (BPSP), a programme created to help countries strengthen national capacity to prepare and implement National Biodiversity Strategies...
- Using common property systems to manage forests
- J. E. M. Arnold / Forestry Department, FAO, 1998
- This comprehensive study brings together available information about the role of common property as a system of governance and its current relevance to forest management and use. A review of indigenous common property systems t...
- How sustainable livelihoods helps understand access by the poor to assets and entitlements
- P. Baumann; S. Sinha / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2001
- This paper examines how far Sustainable Livelihoods analysis helps in understanding the complex power relations influencing the rightful access by the poor to assets and entitlements. Paper asserts that these power relations a...
- Community groups see participatory development as undermining their contol over institions and livelihood resources
- L. Lohmann / The Corner House, UK, 1998
- Deals with the politics of participation in the Western Ghats Forestry Project (India). The author indicates that many community groups see the new vogue among development agencies for forms of participatory development as attempts to...
- Removing ropes, attaching strings : institutional arrangements to provide water
- Arun Agrawal / Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1993
- The case of Dodopani (India) illustrates that governments often attempt sweeping technically oriented changes to improve standards of living without paying adequate attention to the political and institutional context that defines rur...
- Integrating development and environmental protection: can ecodevelopment work?
- R. Badola / Unasylva, FAO, 1999
- The author critically examines recent participatory ecodevelopment approaches to the management of Protected Areas in India. This article highlights weaknesses and offers recommendations for ways forward. Weaknesses of ecodevel...
- Becoming a mediator rather than a regulator: the case of industrial pollution control in India
- G.S. Haripriya; V. Kathuria / Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2000
- This paper indicates that command and control regulation and standard enforcement has failed to control the problem of industrial pollution in India. Concludes: Regulators must decide which pollution sources to t...
- Inspections and emissions in India : puzzling survey evidence on industrial water pollution
- Sheoli Pargal; Muthukumara Mani; Mainul Huq / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- In a sample of industrial plants in India, direct community pressure on plants does not appear to play a major role in reducing emissions. Nor do formal inspections, possibly because of the low probability of enforcement and the low p...
- Improving the operation of urban water supply systems in India: a discussion of unaccounted for water
- US Agency for International Development, 2000
- Project report from the Indo-US FIRE(D) project which aims to institutionalise the delivery of commercially viable urban infrastructure and services at the state, regional and national levels. Looks at the problem of unaccounted for w...
- Transparency, communication and long-term commitment needed to support the forestry institutional environment
- M. Hobley; D. Shields / Overseas Development Institute, 2000
- What are the key constraints to improving forest based livelihoods within the forest sector? What are the key relationships that provide the institutional context in which forest based livelihoods operate? Hobley and Shields focus on ...
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- Institute of Green Economy (IGREC)
- Institute of Green Economy (IGREC), based in India, has been set up with the aim of helping evolve a path of economic development that leaves as little negative impact on the earth and its environment as possible.
- Current Conservation
- Current Conservation is published by an informal alliance of natural and social scientists to promote interdisciplinary research in conservation and to foster communication among scientists, resource managers, educators and policy makers. Current Conservation is an open access journal, published and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
- Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research (PUKAR)
- Globalisation in an urbanised world
- Kerala Research Programme on Local Development
- Developing scientific research capability in Kerala
- Applied Environmental Research Foundation, Pune, India (AERF)
- Research NGO concerned with conservation and sustainable development
- Winrock International India, New Delhi (WII)
- Environmental research and capacity building organisation
- Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad, India
- University conducting research on law-related issues
- The Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS)
- Indian centre for social science research in media and governance
- Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS)
- Indian research and training organisation specialising on social science research
