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 …

Washed away

The draft National Environment Policy has little on coast management

Net bill, gross disaster

The Aquaculture Authority Bill makes a mockery of the Supreme Court ruling on aquaculture firms

Playing with sea

Flouting laws, over 90 hotels have mushroomed on what once was a pristine beach in West Bengal

Eyeing the coastlines

Further dilution of the rules safeguarding the Indian coastal ecosystem has just been proposed. Under the guise of providing land to poor …

Eyeing the coastlines

Further dilution of the rules safeguarding the Indian coastal ecosystem has just been proposed. Under the guise of providing land to poor …

Bay in distress

A proposed shipyard threatens the rich biodiversity of a south Goa bay, but government is unmoved

Fishers at bay

When it was introduced in 1991, Coastal Regulation Zone was a blanket notification to protect India's coast and fisherfolk. In 17 years, it was …

Virtual coast guard

Non-profits develop web application to monitor haphazard development along Indian coastline

Deep waters

Puducherry's plans for a new port have prompted unprecedented protests. Allegations of a huge land grab facilitated by procedural violations and …

Goa must grow...but how?

On January 26, 2007, the government of Goa withdrew its newest blueprint for the development of the state, called the Regional Plan 2011. …

What the debate on Singur hasn't touched

The word is management

A divided house

The CMZ notification

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

PROTECT COASTLINE

Master plan ahoy

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