Ecology and Environment

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December 16, 2022
Healthy soil critical to human health and for achieving SDGs
Soil research must focus both on technology development and implementation
The ability of soils to support soil functions or services is decreasing (Image: Katrin Park/International Food Policy Research Institute)
November 25, 2022
Categorising watersheds for freshwater ecosystem conservation in India
These maps at the watershed scales have been made to not only ensure inclusion of different freshwater ecosystems, their connectivity and hydrological processes, but can also provide a spatial context for conservation decisions.
A stream at Anini, Arunachal Pradesh (Image Source: Roshni Arora)
November 16, 2022
Improving community resilience in ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in India
Adoption of hybrid solutions - grey and green structures appropriate for resilience building
Healthy wetland ecosystems help in reducing disaster risks and managing climate risks (Image: Pxhere)
October 30, 2022
Slow disaster: Political ecology of hazards and everyday life in the Brahmaputra valley, Assam
This book by Dr. Mitul Baruah presents a fascinating, ethnographic account of the challenges faced by communities living in Majuli, India, one of the largest river islands in the world, which has experienced immense socio-environmental transformations over the years, processes that are emblematic of the Brahmaputra Valley as a whole. This is an excerpt from the book.
Floods are recurrent phenomena in Assam (Image: Mitul Baruah)
October 6, 2022
Deteriorating landscapes and threatened ecosystems of Jammu and Kashmir
Rapid urbanisation and faulty land use policies are rapidly destroying forests, grasslands and wetlands in Jammu and Kashmir, India and the ecosystem value services they provide. Can these valuable ecosystems be saved?
Deteriorating ecosystems of Jammu and Kashmir, India (Image Source: tkohli at Flickr via Wikimedia Commons)
July 14, 2022
Ichamati: River of poetry is dying a slow death
The river is faced with the dual problem of flood plain encroachment and growing levels of water pollution
Illegal transverse check dams (Badhals) built on Ichamati near a village in Basirhat (Image: Prithviraj Nath @ TheWaterChronicles)
Call for research proposals on Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation
Posted on 12 Jan, 2010 03:06 PM

Practical Action Consulting - Asia introduces the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) research programme.

We believe, given your important position in the development and environment management, policy, advocacy and research community in Asia that you may be interested in applying for the research programme.
Water, Environment and Media, Makhanlal Chaturvedi University, Bhopal
Posted on 05 Jan, 2010 11:08 AM

Water, Environment and Media

Organisers: Makhanlal Chaturvedi University of Journalism and Mass Communication and Hindi India Water Portal

Venue: Makhanlal Chaturvedi University, Bhopal, M.P. 

Date: 14th January 2010 at 9:00-4:00 PM

Contact: Minakshi Arora - water.community@gmail.com

Greenpeace is looking for a Campaigner - Sustainable Agriculture and Genetic Engineering
Posted on 16 Dec, 2009 01:30 PM

If you believe that India's agricultural sector needs a paradigm shift to ecological practices and if you want to influence agricultural policy using the power of the people to make this shift and do so NOW; please read on. <--break->

About Greenpeace
Jobs via DevNetJobsIndia.org
Posted on 15 Dec, 2009 05:39 PM

1. Vigyan Vijay Foundation (VVF) is looking for a Programme Coordinator
Location: North Delhi
Last Date: December 15, 2009
Email: asha.kumar@vigyanvijay.org
Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India) looking for a Manager- Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
Posted on 03 Dec, 2009 12:46 PM

 Manager- Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
 Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India)
 Location: Ahmedabad and intensive traveling

Findings of Basin Focal Project on the Indo-Gangetic basin
An article on the river Ganges that seems to be dying due to the glacier being endangered by human impact
Sachin Tewari
Posted on 02 Dec, 2009 02:34 PM

No! This title isn't mine. I borrowed it from Mahmoud Darwish's literary work of the same name.
"Dying Tigers, hidden numbers" : SVARAJ Newsletter, October 2009 ,SPLASH
An introduction on the content in the newsletter of SVARAJ
Society for Voluntary Action Revitalization and Justice (SVARAJ)
Posted on 02 Dec, 2009 12:06 PM

SVARAJ Newsletter October 2009 edition - SPLASH has the following contents:

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  • Dying Tigers, hidden numbers
  • Is Gen Next more environmentally conscious?
  • New Media and Development - Can we stand up to the challenge?
  • Tell us what you think - Youth in governance
  • The critical link between climate change and food, water and livelihood security
  • Water drops Global
Speakers and presentations of the WHSC 2009 Day 2 : Rajendra Singh emphasises the need for decentralized water management
A compilation of presentations during the WHSC 2009
Praveena Sridhar
Posted on 24 Nov, 2009 05:11 AM

Rajendra Singh

 

 
The 2010 Echoing Green Fellowship
Posted on 19 Nov, 2009 12:52 PM

The 2010 Echoing Green Fellowship is for those individuals which “the next big idea for social change, and also have what it takes to start your own groundbreaking organization.” Organizations both non-profit and for-profit from any part of the world can apply for the fellowship.
Industrial Green Chemistry Workshop (IGCW-2009), Mumbai
Posted on 12 Nov, 2009 04:12 PM

The Industrial Green Chemistry Workshop (IGCW-2009) is to be held in Mumbai from 4th to 6th December, 2009, its an initiative to address Industrial needs for creating a momentum in implementing Green Chemistry and Engineering Technologies at industrial scale and allow altering realities on the ground.
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