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Ecology and Environment
Importance of protecting and improving ecosystems for reducing disaster risk - A report by NIDM
Posted on 03 May, 2012 02:53 PMThe interception of ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approach manifests conflicting situations in ground despite of visible synergies in top level policies. ‘Sustainability quest’ is the emerging concern in disaster management as a consequence of improved understanding of ‘disasters’ as environmental processes or rather as ‘environmental extremes’.
Climate-change adaptation in rural areas of India
Posted on 03 May, 2012 02:33 PMThe report suggests that -
Environmental knowledge for hydro-meteorological disaster management: Capacity development in disaster risk management
Posted on 03 May, 2012 02:27 PMPoor understanding of the environment – its structure, function, resources, especially at the level of planners and policy makers, have resulted in increasing frequency and intensity of hazards in nature. Understanding of the environment, its processes and resources are important for the early detection of hydro-meteorological hazards, prediction of disaster risk and scenarios and in evolving m
Workshop in Mumbai, India Against Corruption, SANDRP, on May 4, 2012, Mumbai
Posted on 01 May, 2012 09:26 AMOrganiser: India Against Corruption, South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers, & People (SANDRP)
Venue: Karnataka Sangh Hall,
Vishweshwaraya Smarak Mandir,
Moghul lane, Station Road,
Matunga West,
Mumbai -400016
Adaptive sustainable agriculture: Crop system intensification in Andhra Pradesh
Posted on 30 Apr, 2012 07:01 PMWOTR has been extensively promoting sustainable agriculture practices as part of its adaptive sustainable development approach. The objective is to promote low external inputs, increase land productivity, use of indigenous seeds, and reduce cost of cultivation.
The original Jungle Book: A visit to Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh
Posted on 28 Apr, 2012 12:37 AMKanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh
Draft National Water Policy 2012 and mainstreaming climate change adaptation
Posted on 27 Apr, 2012 01:58 PMClimate change issue is being loudly debated on international level to reduce emission of various gases, and each nation’s responsibility to control the emission.
Accelerating agricultural development for inclusive growth: Strategic issues and policy options
Posted on 27 Apr, 2012 01:30 PMArticle Courtesy : Vikalpa, Volume 37, No 1, January-March 2012
Author: Vijay Paul Sharma
Microfinance institutions get away with farmer suicide abetment charges: Police close a third of the cases in Andhra Pradesh
Posted on 27 Apr, 2012 12:43 PMArticle Courtesy : Down to Earth
Author : M Suchitra
Sikkim’s organic farming to feature in Satyamev Jayate, Aamir Khan’s first television project on DD1
Posted on 27 Apr, 2012 11:36 AMArticle and Image Courtesy : iSikkim