Political
Soil endowments, production technologies and missing women in India - A World Bank working paper
Posted on 19 Mar, 2012 03:08 PMThe paper argues that in India, where 72 percent of the population is rural, there is a significant and important association between the geographical variation in exogenous soil texture and rural infant sex ratios. In agriculture, the depth of land and seedbed preparation are exogenously determined by the soil texture.
Impact report of watershed development programme in Ayyannapalem village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh
Posted on 19 Mar, 2012 11:59 AMAuthor : Kotikala Chandrasheakar
Name of the watershed: Ayyannapalem
Name of the Mandal: Bollapalli
District: Guntur
Maps, lakes and citizens: The use of surveys in lake conservation - An article in the Seminar magazine
Posted on 19 Mar, 2012 11:44 AMThis lake system is now decaying with lakes either taken over for urban uses, or choking due to neglect. ATREE and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) have been engaged in attempting to understand how to restore these lakes for urban use, while maintaining their ecological importance. This article in Seminar describes this attempt.
Basin-level impact assessment study of the Lohit river - A study by WAPCOS & Ministry of Environment and Forests (2011)
Posted on 19 Mar, 2012 11:29 AMCall for Papers: 'Realization of the Right to Sanitation in India–Challenges and Way Forward’, New Delhi - Apply by March 31, 2012
Posted on 19 Mar, 2012 11:00 AM
Environmental Law Research Society (ELRS), New Delhi is an independent, non-profit organization focusing on environmental law and policy research and capacity building advocacy.
Best meal of the day': Akshaya Patra's kitchen in Nathwara, Rajasthan is the newest of its high-technology ones across India
Posted on 19 Mar, 2012 10:23 AMArticle and Image Courtesy : One World South Asia
Author : Madhusmita Hazarika
Draft National Water Policy (2012) fails to take into account the multiple, complex problems and issues relating to water in India says M S Vani
Posted on 18 Mar, 2012 05:49 PMGuest post by: M S Vani
Perusing the draft, one comes across all the ‘right’ concepts, words liberally sprinkled throughout the document, describing the resource:-
- Natural resource
- Hydrological cycle
- Ecological needs of rivers
- Climate change
- Sources pollution
and our intended response to it :-
Peace by peace cotton project' is bucking the trend in chemical farming to revive cotton fields in Odisha
Posted on 17 Mar, 2012 11:02 PMArticle and Image Courtesy : One World South Asia
Author : Madhusmita Hazarika
Status of water supply in in class-I cities and class-II towns of Uttar Pradesh (UP)
Posted on 17 Mar, 2012 10:15 PMSource: Central Pollution Control Board’s 2009-10 Report
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Integrated water management for rural/urban India: Common effluent treatment plant can conserve fresh water in industrial estates
Posted on 17 Mar, 2012 11:02 AMAuthors : Vasudevan Rajaram and John R. Sheaffer