Costly sops

Green laws to be diluted

Riding the waves

Adaptive sampling, a new oceanographic technique, will provide an accurate picture of complicated coastal environments

Watered down?

The Union government plans to dilute the coastal regulation zone norms

COASTAL CURBS

A toy called CRZ

The original coastal regulation zone (CRZ) rules passed in February 1991 had seven sections. They have been amended nearly twice that many times …

PROTECT COASTLINE

Eco-sensitive regions could see flurry of construction activity as draft CRZ notification suggests

The new notification allows construction of hotels and beach resorts within 50 metres of the shorelines

Master plan ahoy

Washed away

The draft National Environment Policy has little on coast management

Root remedy

Bay watch!

COASTAL WATERS OF THE WORLD: TRENDS, THREATS, AND STRATEGIES·Don Hinrichsen· Island Press, Washington, 1997· 276 pages

COASTLINE CONSERVATION

Un'tidy' relocation

Tamil Nadu's post-tsunami coastal regulation bid is misdirected

Healthy dip

New legislation for bathing areas in Europe

Tajpur and Haldia: How coastal development is impacting fishing in West Bengal

A deep-sea port is to be constructed in Tajpur and eight more jetties are to come up in an already industrialised Haldia, but no official has …

COSTA RICA

Charting a new course

SOUTH AFRICA

PLEA DISMISSED

Fisherfolk to strike work

ECOLOGY PROTECTION

Follow Up

Political aftershock

Why Sri lanka's coastal regulations can't be effective

Jaya-baalu feud

UNITED NATIONS