For a fistful of dollars
MR BUSH says he will go to Rio as he is now satisfied with the global agreement of climate. Nothing can be a sharper indictment of the climate convention. Whereas the world needs long-term
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How green is the dollar?
ADVANCE copies of the World Bank's prestigious World Development Report, 1992, duly printed on recycled paper, focusses on development and environment this year. It came bound with a paper seal
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Women build where others destroy
Why do women who attempt changes in local land use patterns meet with so much hostility?
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'Their capability to pay arises out of their high level of exploitation'
Union minister for environment and forests Kamal Nath's attitude to the UNCED summit is a curious mixture of pessimism and optimism. He is unhappy over what he feels is the "rigidity and inflexibility" of some of the greatest polluters in the world. Yet,
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Don't blame it, on, nature
THE misery caused by this year"s drought was unnecessary. Typical of India"s weather, rainfall in several parts dipped below the normal last year but these fluctuations were small. Yet we failed to
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Zooming in on three prize winners
A look at this year's award winning documentaries: an educational film on the Silent Valley, a campaign film on the Tehri dam project and a third on a fishing cooperative
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Sustainable paths versus sustainable freeways in an overgrazed globe
THE last thing you would get to know from the US-based World- watch Institute's State of the World 1992 is the state of America's own environment. Instead, you get an update on the rest of
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'Orangi is not unique, I am'
Akhtar Hameed Khan is one of Asia's foremost social organisers. The Orangi Pilot Proiect, Karachi's outstanding slum development programme, testifies to his innovative approach in empowering ordinary people to transform their environment
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Communitise natural resource management
PRIME Minister P V Narasimha Rao"s government has taken dramatic steps in less than a year of its existence towards a liberalised regime for the industrial sector. If the new policies
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Why this magazine?
THIS magazine is not the product of a desire to capture a share of the information market. It is the product of a need that we feel within us, of a desire to fill a critical information gap. In
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Contact, Contribute and Share on the India Environment Portal
<p><strong>Communicating and Networking for Change</strong></p> <p>Thank you for visiting the India Environment Portal. This is a people's portal. It aims to collate and exchange data, research and
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Promises broken
Dear Prime Minister Koirala we urge you not to learn from India
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Nuclear arms race will trigger nuclear terrorism
An interview with Tilman A Ruff, Australian head of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). At Jadugoda in East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, he observed a human settlement perilously close to the mines of Uranium Corporation of India.
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Facile material
Book>> Uranium, War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
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The World Bank sees money in emissions trading
<b><font class='UCASE'>Daphne Wysham</font></b> is the co author of a recent report, <i>The World Bank and the G 7: Changing the Earth s Climate for Business</i> . She is also the coordinator of the sustainable energy and economy network, a project of
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Malnourished Children
<font class='UCASE'><font color=red>S K Kabra</font></font> , associate professor in the paediatric pulmonology division of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi talks to <font class='UCASE'><font color=red>Nidhi Jamwal</font></font> about
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Carry on doctor
The city of Delhi needs a doctor to rid it of the demon of pollution. Unfortunately some doctors say pollution is not a problem
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