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• The economics of biodiversity conservation: valuation in tropical forest ecosystems

  Economic valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services is possibly the most powerful tool for halting the loss of biodiversity while maintaining incomes and livelihoods. Yet rarely have such approaches been applied to tropical forest "hotspots", which house the vast majority of the planet's plant and animal species. This groundbreaking work is the most comprehensive and detailed examination of the economics of environmental valuation and biodiversity conservation to date.

  • 01/01/2007

  • Earthscan Publications
  • • Environment
    • Western Ghats
    • Agriculture
    • Coffee
    • Livestock
    • Forest Resources
    • Tropical Forests
    • Forest Products
    • Tribals
    • Wildlife
    • Nagarahole NP
    • Biodiversity
    • Kodagu
    • Uttar Kannad
    • Land Use

• A climate of injustice: global inequality, north-south politics, and climate policy

  The global debate over who should take action to address climate change is extremely precarious, as diametrically opposed perceptions of climate justice threaten the prospects for any long-term agreement. Poor nations fear limits on their efforts to grow economically and meet the needs of their own people, while powerful industrial nations, including the United States, refuse to curtail their own excesses unless developing countries make similar sacrifices.

  • 01/01/2007

  • The MIT Press
  • • Pollution
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Climate Change
    • Natural Disasters
    • Climate Equity
    • Economic Development
    • Global

• Negotiating the transfer and acquisition of project-based carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol

  This book concentrates on transactions involving forward carbon credits, in other words transactions where the parties to a contract agree to buy or sell carbon credits to be generated and delivered in the future. As a result, it does not deal either with transactions involving carbon credits already issued for immediate delivery on the spot market or with derivatives in the form of option contracts or future contracts through the developing exchange markets.

  • 01/01/2007

  • UNIDO
  • • UNFCCC
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • Global Warming
    • Kyoto Protocol
    • Emissions Trading
    • Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
    • Joint Implementation

• Biofuels and implications for agricultural water use: blue impacts of green energy

  Rising energy prices, geopolitics and concerns over the impacts of green house gas emissions on climate change are increasing the demand for biofuel production. This paper explores the land and water implications of increased biofuel production globally and with special focus on these two important countries, using the WATERSIM model. It concludes that, although of minor concern at global level, local and regional impacts could be substantial.

  • 01/01/2007

  • International Water Management Institute
  • • Agriculture
    • Water Management
    • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • Biomass
    • Biofuel
    • Energy
    • China
    • India
    • Global

• Drought-management considerations for climate-change adaptation: focus on the Mekong Region

  This study considers some aspects of the recent droughts in the Mekong region and tries to discover what could be the reasons behind them and how best they could be mitigated. The study has yielded valuable information about how communities perceive drought and climate change, and how local governments and NGOs could manage climatic disasters, particularly drought. It concludes that the drought impacts are in a real sense a reflection of developmental problems, and it provides policy options that could be implemented by communities, governments, and NGOs.

  • 01/01/2007

  • Oxfam International
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Drought Management
    • Vietnam

• Climate change and its implications: which way now?

  The impact of climate change on the world of today and the future is undeniable. Stipulated emission reduction targets for developed countries are still too modest under the Kyoto Protocol and the US, the world's largest polluter remains outside the agreement. The scientific community warns that a global coordinated response with participation of the major emitters and rapidly growing economies of China and India is the only way forward to avoid the worse predicted effects of global warming. This paper reviews the debates and attempts to trace the path to the future.

  • 31/12/2006

  • The Commonwealth Foundation
  • • Climate Change
    • Global Warming
    • Climate Impacts
    • Africa
    • Asia

• Environmental laws: implementation problems and perspectives - policy and process, role of courts, role of people and NGOs

  This book endeavours to provide a relatively complete, comprehensive and valid account and analysis of problems of implementation of environmental laws in India. The approach of the book is to look into the problems with the comprehensiveness of both substantive and procedural aspects of environmental laws. The book contains all major case laws in India having impact in the implementation process. The book is addressed to all with an interest in state of affairs of environmental laws in India.

  • 31/12/2006

  • Deep and Deep Publications
  • • Environment
    • Pollution
    • Climate Change
    • Legislation
    • Environment Court
    • NGO
    • India
    • Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD)

• Reducing carbon emissions through community-managed forests in the himalaya

  This book reports on the work carried out by the research project 'Kyoto: think global act local", which aims to bring local sustainable forest management projects under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol. The book draws on work carried since 2003 at three sites in India and Nepal. In India, the project sites were in Uttarakhand state, and in Nepal, in Ilam, Lalitpur, and Manang districts. The project gathered data to show that community-managed forests can play important roles in mitigating the adverse impacts of climate change by sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere.

  • 31/12/2006

  • ICIMOD
  • • Himalaya
    • Deforestation
    • Community Forest Management (CFM)
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • Kyoto Protocol
    • Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
    • Nepal
    • India
    • Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)

• Do trees grow on money? the implications of deforestation research for policies to promote REDD

  This report summarizes the key drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, and the key policy options available to reduce the resulting carbon emissions. It reviews current deforestation rates and the associated issues related to monitoring forest-based carbon emissions and establishing baselines. The findings of research into the direct and underlying causes of deforestation and degradation provide a basis for outlining REDD policy options, while highlighting the associated challenges.

  • 31/12/2006

  • Center for International Forestry Research
  • • Forest Policy
    • Forest Research
    • Deforestation
    • Climate Change
    • Carbon Sequestration
    • Africa
    • Asia
    • South America

• A report on international summit on climate change: we cause global warming

  In view of the far-reaching consequences of climate change in India, the festival, held by the Centre for Media Studies, has declared the theme for this year's festival as 'Climate Change' and will hold a one-day "International Summit on Climate Change" on 13 September.

  • 31/12/2006

  • CMS Environment
  • • Climate Change
    • Global Warming
    • Climate Impacts
    • India
• 

  The Anil Agarwal reader (3)

  The Anil Agarwal Reader collects in three volumes some of his writings on the environment. They range from the 1990s to the early years of this decade. The volumes showcase the intensity and acuity with which he engaged with the dominant concerns of the times. They are an essential introduction to environmental questions, moving seamlessly between local, national and international perspectives.

  • 31/12/2006

  • Centre for Science and Environment
  • • Environment
    • Anil Agarwal
    • Environmentalists
• 

  The Anil Agarwal reader (2)

  The Anil Agarwal Reader collects in three volumes some of his writings on the environment. They range from the 1990s to the early years of this decade. The volumes showcase the intensity and acuity with which he engaged with the dominant concerns of the times. They are an essential introduction to environmental questions, moving seamlessly between local, national and international perspectives.

  • 31/12/2006

  • Centre for Science and Environment
  • • Environment
    • Anil Agarwal
    • Environmentalists
• 

  The Anil Agarwal reader (1)

  The Anil Agarwal Reader collects in three volumes some of his writings on the environment. They range from the 1990s to the early years of this decade. The volumes showcase the intensity and acuity with which he engaged with the dominant concerns of the times. They are an essential introduction to environmental questions, moving seamlessly between local, national and international perspectives.

  • 31/12/2006

  • Centre for Science and Environment
  • • Environment
    • Anil Agarwal
    • Environmentalists

• Air pollution control in the transportation sector

  This report first introduces the background and objectives of the third phase research of the urban environment project on the transportation sector. It provides an overview of transport and environment in Asian cities. It illustrates the rationale of the scoping of focus policy areas and selection of case studies. It also consists of six case studies and one comparative analysis on policies related to transport and environment in Asian cities.

  • 31/12/2006

  • IGES
  • • Environment
    • Vehicular Pollution
    • Transport
    • Urban Transport
    • Asia
    • China
    • Japan
    • Thailand
    • India
    • Mumbai
    • Air Pollution Control
• 

  Shades of green

  This book contains case studies of selected Natural Resource Management projects implemented by the partners of Caritas India. Promotion of natural resource management is a proactive and long-term strategy of Caritas India. Caritas India evolved an environment policy that focuses on protection, preservation and conservation of natural resources like land, water and biomass.

  • 01/09/2006

  • Caritas India
  • • Water Resources
    • Water Management
    • Water Conservation
    • Roof Top Water Harvesting
    • Watershed Development
    • India
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • Karimnagar (D)
    • Karnataka
    • Kerala
    • Madhya Pradesh
    • Rajgarh (D)
    • Rajasthan
    • Tamil Nadu
    • Tripura
    • Diseases

• Integrated Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health

  The importance of food safety within human health has been widely recognized. The safety of foods of animal origin is particularly relevant because the large majority of foodborne diseases derive from

  • 01/05/2006

  • • Food Safety
    • Diseases
    • Health
    • Food Preservation
    • Food Process Industry

• Valuation of urban air pollution: a case study of Kanpur city in India

  This study estimates the monetary benefits to individuals from health damages avoided as a result on reductions in air pollution in the urban industrial city of Kanpur in India. A notable feature of this study is that it uses data from weekly health-diaries collected from three seasons. For measuring monetary benefits, the study considers two major components of health cost--the loss in wages due to workdays lost and the expenditure incurred on mitigating activities.

  • 02/01/2006

  • SANDEE
  • • Air Pollution
    • Health Effects
    • Urbanisation
    • Kanpur (D)

• India's dam shame: why polavaram dam must not be built

  Polavaram dam is an extravagant waste of public money that will provide little benefit to few people. It will set the state of Andhra Pradesh back for decades and may prevent Andhra Pradesh sharing in the economic prosperity experienced by the rest of India. This booklet argues that the Polavaram dam project should not go ahead because it will not deliver the benefits claimed for its, because it represents an extraordinary waste of public money, and it will have disastrous consequences for the people it displaces.

  • 01/01/2006

  • Gramya Resource Centre for Women
  • • Dams
    • Polavaram
    • Irrigation
    • Displacement
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • River Linking
    • River Basin
• 

  Interlinking of rivers in India: overview and ken-betwa link

  The programme of Interlinking of Rivers (ILR) in India has been one of the most ambitious ideas ever, of any government till date. It is an idea that has conjured up visions for the common Indian

  • 01/01/2006

  • Academic Foundation
  • • Environment
    • Water Resources
    • Betwa
    • Ken
    • Irrigation
    • Rehabilitation
    • India
    • River Linking
    • Ecosystems

• Environment and agriculture

  Agriculture plays a significant role in the Indian economy. Food production in India has increased from 51 MT in 1950-51 to 204.6 MT in 2004. While Green Revolution has been one of the greatest success stories of India with its dramatic impact on food security, environmental concerns have been growing rapidly all over the world.

  • 01/01/2006

  • Malhotra Publishing House
  • • Environment
    • Waterlogging
    • Agriculture
    • Agroforestry
    • Agricultural Inputs
    • Integrated Pest management (IPM)
    • Dams
    • Irrigation
    • Watershed Development
    • Climate Change
    • Biomass
    • Groundwater Quality
    • Biodiversity
    • India
    • Land Degradation