Ecology

Privatizing the governance of “green growth”

Published: 25 November 2012
Big transnational corporations do what they can to stick to and increase their power in the natural resources sector and promote that as “Green Growth”. How can civil society react to that? In their paper Nancy Alexander and Lili Fuhr analyse the state of the development and formulate questions for a debate.

A toolkit for participatory village energy planning

Published: 19 July 2012
Number of the organizations have been involved in community based energy initiatives in India. The basic characteristic of most of these initiatives is establishment of a community managed revenue model. The present toolkit on draws lesion from the practical experiences on community based renewable energy project.

Climate Change and Indian agriculture: Implications & way forward

Published: 19 July 2012
The current study is a small beginning for Action Aid India to understand the climate and agriculture from the perspective of small and marginal farmers. The study was conducted in three drought-prone regions of India-Anantapur of Andhra Pradesh, Balangir of Odisha and Bundelkhand regions of Uttar Pradesh.

Banking on forests: Assets for a climate cure?

Published: 16 September 2011
Strategies of valuation and compensation of forest loss are central to forest regulation in India. A new book by Kanchi Kohli and Manju Menon looks at the continuity between the domestic regulation on forests and the new abstractions created by the climate change discourse in the form of REDD and REDD+

HALF LIFE: Radioactive waste in India

Published: 7 April 2011
Nuclear Energy generation is slated to rise in the coming decades from the present 3 percent to upto 20 percent in the energy mix of India. With climate change concerns, nuclear energy is now being brought back and reconsidered as 'clean' and 'zero cost' energy. The amount of waste created will increase manifold

An India that can say yes: A climate-responsible development agenda for copenhagen and beyond

Published: 1 March 2010
The book analysis at environmental policy framing approaches within India, its priorities, challenges and opportunities. The climate change as an issue have been looked through in detail from all aspects like equity, poverty, diplomacy, policy framework, etc… The COP in Copenhagen was an important milestone in International climate Negotiations and weighing all the aspects of taking a decision, the author has proposed a way forward