Indira Gandhi's dream comes of age

SAFEGUARDING ENVIRONMENT Indira Gandhi Publisher: Wiley Eastern Ltd Price: Rs 160

A year of despair -- and hope

Coir better than synthetics for making geo-grids

ECO-TOURISM

ARGENTINA

Book Review: The Garden of their Dreams by Brian Griffith

More consumption, fewer beneficiaries

Unhealthy human consumption at odds with the environs and socio-equity

Sea walls opposed

Andaman's ecology will suffer

Green.tv on air

An island away

Larger forests can help control extinction, not epidemics

Male underdevelopment

STAYING ALIVE: WOMEN, ECOLOGY AND SURVIVAL IN INDIA by Vandana Shiva Publisher: Kali for Women Price: Rs 125

Looking beyond hype and nostalgia

To most modern Indian writers, the environment means trees, birds and animals -- and human beings, in aesthetic or metaphysical communion with them.

A school with an ecological curriculum

For 45 years, a school in Kausani has been inculcating ecological consciousness in hill women

Green peace in black curls

Traditional tea cultivation in China's Jinuoshan area, unlike in most other places, ensures ecological balance

Elephants pit

Scientist R SUKUMAR of the Centre for Ecological Studies, Bangalore, says that DTE correspondent Anju Sharma was slipshod in her homework on elephants

Let all have a say

ECOLOGY AND EQUITY. Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha. Pengiun Publications. Price Rs 150-1996

Exploring Japan ecologically

In just five years, the Centre for Ecological Research at Kyoto University in Japan has attained exemplary status and is doing pioneering work …

Relevance of history

History provides important lessons in the management of the environment for administrators, conservationists and their ideologues. But have we …

Coast is unclear

The official hostility to the most important instrument for safeguarding India's coastal ecology may prove disastrous

Blame it on the Raj?

ECOLOGY, CLIMATE AND EMPIRE: THE INDIAN LEGACY IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, 1400-1940·Richard H Grove·Oxford University Press, …

Everybody wants to be green

Politicians and businessmen appear concerned about the environment these days. Their speeches and interviews are laced with expressions like '…

Tracks to calamity

Heights of degradation

Himalayan conservation gets a start at a recent seminar in the Capital

Paper peril

Cleaning up Mt Everest