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• Local governments and user groups plan and implement large water supply schemes: success story in Kerala

  This field note documents the evolution of three large, river-based schemes in Aliparamba Gram Panchayat near Kozhikode in the north of Kerala state, India. This success story is significant because the schemes are the first of their kind in Kerala to have been planned and implemented by the Gram Panchayat and User Groups, and to institute a management model that invests ownership and corporate oversight with a Scheme Level Committee representing participating User Groups, that is overseen by a

  • 01/05/2008

  • Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia
  • • Rural Water Supply
    • Panchayats
    • Kerala
    • Kozhikode (D)
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  Study on traffic and transportation policies in urban areas in India

  Traffic and Transportation Policies and Strategies in Urban Areas in India was conducted in 1994 to establish the urban transport scenario and forecast the anticipated issues that would most likely crop up in the future. Further to this, a National Urban Transport Policy was approved in 2006 to help in addressing the unprecedented increase in transport problems that the major cities in the country are facing.

  • 01/05/2008

  • Ministry of Urban Transport
  • • Transport
    • Public Transport
    • Urbanisation
    • Urban Transport
    • Cars
    • Finance
    • India
    • Vehicles
    • Two Wheelers

• Terms of reference for preparation of detailed project report of inter basin water transfer proposals

  The National Water Development Agency (NWDA) was set up in 1982 as an autonomous society under Ministry of Water Resources to give concrete shape to these proposals by carrying out the detailed studies, surveys and investigation work and to prepare feasibility reports of the links under the National Perspective Plan.

  • 01/05/2008

  • National Water Development Agency
  • • Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)
    • Water Resources
    • Water Distribution
    • Interstate Disputes
    • Hydrology
    • Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
    • India
    • River Linking
    • River Basin

• We stand by our report: CSE responds to Chhattisgarh governments criticism

  • 01/05/2008

  • Centre for Science and Environment
  • • Mining
    • CSE Study
    • India
    • Chhattisgarh

• Status report on integrated water resources management and water efficiency plans

  This report aims to illustrate progress made on meeting the target to "develop integrated water resources management and water efficiency plans by 2005, with support to developing countries, through actions at all levels' agreed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002, through the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPoI). The report is based on a survey covering 104 countries of which 77 are developing or countries in transition and 27 are developed (OECD and EU member states).

  • 01/05/2008

  • UN Water
  • • Water Resources
    • Water Management
    • Water Quality
    • Developing Countries

• Bad deal for the planet: why carbon offsets arent workingand how to create a fair global climate accord

  This report explains the failure of the world's biggest carbon offsets program to make a dent in greenhouse-gas emissions.

  • 01/05/2008

  • International Rivers
  • • Climate Change
    • Kyoto Protocol
    • Carbon Offset
    • Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
    • Global

• Improving municipal solid waste management in India

  Solid waste management (SWM) is a matter of great concern in the urban areas of developing countries. This report covers very lucidly the present scenario of SWM in urban areas, the system deficiencies that exist, and the steps that need to be taken to correct SWM practices in compliance with Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 2000 ratified by the Government of India.

  • 01/05/2008

  • The World Bank
  • • Solid Waste
    • Waste Disposal
    • Health Care
    • Hazardous Waste
    • Waste Management
    • Municipal Solid Waste Rules 2000
    • Private Sector
    • Public Participation
    • India

• Breaking the trend: visioning and backcasting for transport in India and Delhi

  The dramatic projected rise in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from Asian [and wider] cities poses a major challenge for the world. Population growth, increased urbanisation, the rise of megacities, increased average incomes and consumption mean that travel demand is rising rapidly. The supply of transport funding and infrastructure to meet these challenges lags behind

  • 01/05/2008

  • Asian Development Bank
  • • Carbon Dioxide
    • Fuel Economy Standards
    • Climate Change
    • Contraction And Convergence
    • Urban Transport
    • India
    • Delhi
    • Fuel Pricing
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  Key elements of a global deal on climate change

  The purpose of this report is not to prescribe specific instruments or technologies. Different technologies and different policy instruments can be applied to different sectors and countries. Indeed, the more differentiated the global strategy, the greater the scope for learning, so it is important not to be unduly prescriptive on the details of policy action.

  • 01/05/2008

  • The London School of Economics and Political Science
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Emissions Trading
    • Climate Adaptation
    • India
    • Global
    • Developing Countries

• Worldwide trends in private participation in roads

  Private participation in roads revived strongly in developing countries in 2005

  • 01/05/2008

  • Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF)
  • • Transport
    • Roads
    • Private Sector
    • Governance
    • Asia
    • South America
    • Developing Countries

• Soaring food prices: response to the crisis

  Soaring food grain prices in recent months have caused serious concern around the world. In Asia the estimated 1.2 billion poor people who spend on average 60% of their income on food have been hit hard. Food price inflation severely stresses the most vulnerable groups.

  • 01/05/2008

  • Asian Development Bank
  • • Food Policy
    • Food Prices
    • Economy
    • Poverty
    • Asian Development Bank (ADB)
    • Asia
    • Global

• State and trends of the carbon market 2008

  The global carbon market grew to a whopping US$64 billion (

  • 01/05/2008

  • The World Bank
  • • Carbon Dioxide
    • Green House Gases
    • Emissions Trading
    • Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
    • Joint Implementation
    • Australia
    • India
    • European Union (EU)
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  Common ground: solutions for reducing the human, economic and conservation costs of human wildlife conflict

  This report deals with the serious conflicts that occur between humans and wildlife. In today

  • 01/05/2008

  • WWF International
  • • Wildlife
    • Elephant
    • People - Animal Conflicts
    • Namibia
    • Indonesia
    • Nepal
• 

  Transport in China: energy consumption and emissions of different transport modes

  Transport volumes and structures in China change drastically as a result of economic and social development in the country. These changes are associated with increasing energy consumption and negative impacts on the environment, e.g. emissions of greenhouse gases and toxic air pollutants affecting not only the micro and macro climate but also health.

  • 01/05/2008

  • Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
  • • Carbon Dioxide
    • Fuel Quality
    • Green House Gases
    • Energy Efficiency
    • Transport
    • Public Transport
    • Urban Transport
    • Air Transport
    • Road Transport
    • Rail Transport
    • Electricity
    • China
    • Europe
    • Germany

• The genetic improvement of forage grasses and legumes to enhance adaptation of grasslands to climate change

  The anticipated impacts of climate change on grassland systems and appropriate management responses have been reviewed extensively, though the emphasis has been on European temperate and North American rangeland systems.

  • 01/05/2008

  • FAO
  • • Legumes
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Impacts
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Grasses
    • Europe
    • Crops

• The social and ecological market economy: a model for Asian development?

  The model of the social and ecological market economy can provide a perspective from which to approach the many unresolved questions in the region, and, after many discussions with the partners in government agencies and the private sector, have come to believe that Asian perceptions of the state, the economy, and social values potentially match the concepts of the social and ecological market eco

  • 01/05/2008

  • GTZ
  • • Economy
    • Economic Development
    • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
    • Asia

• Implications of bulk water transfer on local water management institutions

  To mitigate a drinking water crisis in Kathmandu valley, the Government of Nepal initiated the Melamchi Water Supply Project in 1997, which will divert water from the Melamchi River to Kathmandu city

  • 01/05/2008

  • International Food Policy Research Institute
  • • Water Management
    • Urban Water Supply
    • Water Supply
    • Nepal
    • Kathmandu
    • River Basin

• Conditional cash transfer programmes and their impact on poverty reduction: Lessons from Mexico and El Salvador

  <p>The uneven economic development undergone by Latin America throughout the last decades has had an impact on its political and social dynamics. Governments in the region have been looking for strategies to cope with the unstable economy and sharp inflation rates, trying to protect their most vulnerable population from the worst economic shocks. As a

  • 01/05/2008

  • GTZ
  • • Poverty
    • Anti-Poverty Programmes
    • Mexico
    • El Salvador
    • Finance
    • South America

• Resettlement and rehabilitation policy of Coal India Ltd 2008

  The purpose of this statement is to set out the basic principles for the resettlement and rehabilitation of people affected by coal mining projects (PAPs).

  • 01/05/2008

  • Coal India
  • • Mining
    • Coal
    • Rehabilitation
    • Compensation
    • Coal India

• ESG's PIL (W.P.No. 7107/2008) filed in the Karnataka High Court in May 2008 on tree felling in Bangalore due to road widening

  This Writ Petition arrays a range of legal concerns relating to the ongoing road widening programme in Bangalore and exposes that such actions are opposed to settled legal norms relating to management

  • 01/05/2008

  • High Court of Karnataka
  • • Urban Roads
    • Trees
    • Forests
    • Bangalore (T)
    • Karnataka
    • Green Spaces
    • Urban Transport
    • Metro
    • NGO