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Debate
Teesta dams: A recipe for disaster?
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2003
Take some sand in a glass container; fill it with water. Shake the container. The water and sand become a single fluid mass. Now imagine a highly populated town standing on this material. You can't even imagine what will happen when an earthquake strikes . Once you know this, how would you react if told that we are awaiting a similar fate in north West Bengal's sub-Himalayan ranges?
Where are the tapovans?
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2003
Recently, researcher P P Dhyani carried out a successful revival of part of a religious forest that existed at Badrinath. He undertook to rehabilitate the badrivan (sacred grove) around the holy shrine of Badrinath Dham by planting saplings of tree species that originally grew there. These include Bhojpatra (Betula utilis), Badri (Juniperus macropoda) and Badriphal (Hippophae salicifolia), a shrub.
Labour vs pollution
Issue Date: Oct 15, 1999
Roy: I would say there are three major issues on which people should focus the discussion. Firstly, is that it is easier to take decisions regarding labour than capital. Is it something that can be changed. Secondly, can the environmentalist and the labour movements work together? If they want to work together then the question is how can we move towards that situation. Thirdly, do we want to learn from history?
Are we ready to hand over on our life-forms?
Issue Date: Sep 30, 1999
Mashelkar: Traditional patent systems dealt with industrial products. There has now been a sudden shift from inanimate objects to animate ones like humans and plants. The issue has assumed importance all of a sudden because multinational pharmaceutical companies began picking up leads and developing new products without giving any credit to the local communities who initially possessed the particular knowledge.
Stressed woods
Issue Date: Dec 31, 1995
SANTOSH MOHANTY: Social Research Development Council, Mayurbhanj
BABA PANSARE: Parivartan Prabodhini, Pune
AVDESH KAUSHAL: Rural Entitlement Litigation Kendra, Dehradun
ALLAN WARNER: independant researcher, Dehradun
SUNITA NARAIN: Deputy Director, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi
NALIN JENA: Participatory Research in Asia, New Delhi
FARHAD VANIA: research scholar, Coirnbatore
Planters devils?
Issue Date: Aug 31, 1995
JULY 31 came and went, without the first meeting of the special
committee of ministers, set up to decide upon the fate of the
environment and forest ministry's (MEF) controversial captive
plantations proposal, taking place. The issue still hangs fire.
The committee of 7 Cabinet ministers was formed on July
3 by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs. It was the
fallout of the heated debate over the controversial proposal
that the MEF will lease out degraded forest lands to the paper
Paper chase
Issue Date: Aug 31, 1995
WALTER FERNANDES: Indian Social Institute, New Delhi
RAJIV BUDDHIRAJA: Secretary, Indian Paper Makers' Association
RAJ CHAURASIA: General Manager, Ballarpur Industries Ltd., in-charge of raw materials co-ordination
PIARELAL: Vice-president, (Plantations), iTc Bhadrachalam Paperboards Ltd; also, chairperson of the Raw Materials Subcommittee of the Indian Paper Makers'Association
UDAYAN BANERJEE: Chiefforestry Advisor, Titagarh Paper mills
A little "war" between the North and South
Issue Date: Jul 15, 1993
Moderator: I understand your centre was against the forest convention, which was presented in Brazil. For me it's amazing, because as an NGO, how can you possibly go against the convention?
Will imposition of green taxes be viable?
Issue Date: Feb 15, 1993
PARTICIPANTS: G D AGARWAL ADVISERENVIROTECH INSTRUMENTS PVT.
Will liberalisation destroy the environment?
Issue Date: May 31, 1992
PARTICIPANTS: Y K ALAGH PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, SARDAR PATEL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS T C ANANT READER, DELHI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS D BANDYOPADHYAY FORMER REVENUE SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA L C JAIN FORMER MEMBER, PLANNING COMMISSION PREM SHANKAR JHA FORMER EDITOR, 'BUSINESS AND POLITICAL OBSERVER' VEENA MAZUMDAR DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT STUDIES SUDIPTO MUNDLE PROFESSOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND POLICY V R PANCHAMUKHI DIRECTOR, RESEARCH & INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR NON-ALIGNED & OTHER DEVELOPING
