Climate change - A challenge to India's economy
Briefing paper on climate change for members of Parliament by Anil Agarwal - Calling upon policy makers to recognise India's stake in the international climate change negotiations.
Anil Agarwal
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I am quite sure that if local democratic institutions are strengthened this country, with the ongoing strengthening of the civil society, India too will witness increased vibrancy and numerous innovations
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Plagueing policies
Since rats cannot be totally exterminated, keeping a watch on wild and domestic rodernt plays a critical role in plague control, and this can be easily done by making rodent watch a part of the regular studies of zoology students in
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Water - It's in our hands
India's Waterbodies all facing a slow death and revealing signs of an equally sick and dying civilisation. I say 'civilisation' and not society because, Indin civilisation always respected its water resources
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Power to the people
I am convinced that the best way to move towards liberalisation is not just to empower entrepreneurs, but also empower local communities, this will fail in fewer cases than the present governance system does
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The enemy within
India's environment will be ravaged not just by the likes of Enron, Pepsi, Coca Cola, Hitachi or BMW but, equally and more so, by Rahul Bajaj, Ratan Tata, K K Birla and the petroleum minister who runs
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Global democracy tilts at the axis
Are the "forces of freedom" in the West muscular enough to deepen democracy at the global level?
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Gimme eat!
In America today, the revolutionary question is not how to get food to eat -- it"s what and how much
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All the lights are green
Over the past 30 years, the environmental movement in the West has grown dramatically and moved from strength to strength. But little has been written about how this movement has been organised.
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Grasping the roots
Environmental literature plays an important role in moulding innocent minds to think and understand green.
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Blending green concerns into market economy
GERMAN environment minister Klaus Topfer has come under fire for his tough green laws such as the one against packaging. Environmental ministries, he says, are like end of the pipe treatment plants: They are responsible for cleaning up the mess made by ot