Not a bankable strategy

World Bank's forestry projects have not helped reduce poverty, says its own evaluator

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Goa village wins compensation for fields scarred by mining

Middle path of conservation

BOOK>> CONSERVATION AT THE CROSSROADS • by Ghazala Shahabuddin • Permanent Black • Rs 595

‘Forests can’t survive without communities’

Nepal’s Forest Act of 1993, which allows communities to manage their forests, is admired and emulated by governments and movements across …

We plan to involve panchayats in monitoring pollution levels

Sheila Rani Chunkat has recently been appointed chairperson of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB). She spoke to Binayak Das on how …

Close, or else

Protesters against Meta Strips in Goa threaten a civil disobedience movement

Farmers can only teach traditional knowledge

P S Ramakrishnan , former director of G B Pant University in Nainital, Uttar Pradesh and currently professor at the School of Environmental …

Talking about fluorosis

Participants failed to come up with workable solutions at a recent international conference on fluorosis

Tiger task force seeks people's participation

Lake conservation plan flawed

Spreading root

OLD ROOTS, NEW SHOOTS: A STUDY OF JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT IN ANDHRA PRADESH·C S Rangachari and S D Mukherji·Winrock International …

Rajasthan announces draft biofuel policy

Lithuania, Latvia ranked as world’s top environmental democracies

The index evaluated the availability of information and public participation related to environment matters in 70 countries

Interview: Popatrao Pawar, sarpanch, Hivre Bazar

Dengue - reality bites

The millions affected have many to curse -- the mosquitoes, officials and the scientific communityby Ritu Gupta

Controlling water

People in Andhra Pradesh now need official consent to sink new wells

Sikkim to delegate powers to local people to protect lakes

Turmoil in the park

Book>> Democratizing Nature: Politics, Conservation, and Development in India by Ashwini Chhatre and Vasant Saberwal OUP 2006

Tackling poverty

INDIA: REDUCING POVERTY, ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT, A WORLD BANK COUNTRY STUDY·Oxford University Press·New Delhi·260 pages

Fighting for a cause

K N Narayana Pillai, 75, is an ordinary citizen who has been suffering because of pollution from an industrial unit operating beside his house. …

Nobody's waste

Kerala's capital wants a solid waste treatment plant in a nearby village. This has created a rural-urban conflict

Two tribal villages get 2,349 hectares

Coastal management rules under review

Architect M N Sharma on why Chandigarh's beauty is becoming history

Le Corbusier Foundation, Paris, plans to put Chandigarh in UNESCO's modern heritage list. M N Sharma, the first architect to work with Le …